Solomon Burke - MAGGIES FARM. Tin Machine - Maggie's Farm (Live '89) Rage Against the Machine - Maggie's Farm (original versin) Bob Dylan | Maggie's Farm. Maggie's Farm. "Maggie's Farm" is a song written by Bob Dylan, recorded on January 15, 1965, and released on the album Bringing It All Back Home on March 22 of that year. Like many other Dylan songs of the 1965–66 period, "Maggie's Farm" is based in electric blues. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on June 4, 1965, and peaked at #22 on the chart. Lyrics[edit] The lyrics of the song follow a straightforward blues structure, with the opening line of each verse ("I ain't gonna work... ") sung twice, then reiterated at the end of the verse. "Maggie's Farm" is frequently interpreted as Dylan's declaration of independence from the protest folk movement.[1] Punning on Silas McGee's Farm, where he had performed "Only a Pawn in Their Game" at a civil rights protest in 1963 (featured in the film Dont Look Back), Maggie's Farm recasts Dylan as the pawn and the folk music scene as the oppressor.
In fact this theme of capitalist exploitation came to be seen by some as the major theme of the song.