By my reckoning, this song dates from Bob Dylan's fourth self-reinvention, in 1968. Since that was forty years ago, there have been several since.
Listening to it a few minutes ago, I realized that the musical hook is in Charlie McCoy's bass line, which is more than a little unusual, but the unusual is what you expect from Dylan at his best (yes, that hook was probably McCoy's idea, but it's Dylan's album -- it made it onto the record because Dylan wanted it there).
I will award an old-fashioned Marvel Comics no-prize to anyone who can tell me what the song is about, and why American founding father Tom Paine is in it.
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