This is what Fariña says on her own 1986 "Solo" album:

I was lonely performing in snowy Boulder, Colorado, attempting a new career move without my singing partner, Tom Jans. On a sleepless night I sat bolt upright in bed at 3:00 AM in the Boulderado Hotel and wrote this song that I now dedicate to Tom's memory, regretfully.

I couldn't find a date when Fariña wrote the song, but Baez recorded it in 1973.
I think I read somewhere that Mimi Fariña was suffering from some kind of cancer. Can anybody confirm that? There was a Bread and Roses concert in San Francisco last month, but I skipped it because the tickets were very pricey. sounds like it was a good concert, but somehow it doesn't seem right to listen to folk music at the San Francisco Opera House (Fariña is the founder of Bread and Roses, which provides free concerts for prisoners and others).
-Joe Offer-