"Oh Sister" may have been about Joan, but I think more likely about Sarah Dylan. However, I am not sure on this one. Joan once made a smart crack to Bob while touring on the Rolling Thunder Review that the song "Diamonds and Rust" was about her husband, David, but she was just playing mind games with him...as the context in her book makes plain...the song was most definitely about her and Dylan.

Bob may have later retaliated for that little jab in the song "Sarah" where he asserts that "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is about Sarah, and not Joan...or maybe it really is about Sarah...but I think that "your matchbook songs and your gypsy hymns" and "your mercury mouth in the missionary times" are phrases that fit the young Joan to a "T". I figure it was at least partly about her.

Many songs were written about Sarah. One of the early ones is "Love Minus Zero - No Limit".

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- LH