<P> Secor's verses tell "the story of a man who travels from New England, through Philadelphia, PA and Roanoke, VA, down the eastern coast of the United States, ending up in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hopes to see his lover ." They contain a geographic impossibility: heading "west from the Cumberland Gap" to Johnson City, Tennessee "you'd have to go east ." Secor explains: "I got some geography wrong, but I still sing it that way . I just wanted the word' west' in there .' West' has got more power than' east ."' Jason Lee Wilson's 2010 cover gets the geography correct, still keeping the word "west", but switching the words "from" and "to", thus changing the lyric to the more accurate "heading west to the Cumberland Gap from Johnson City, Tennessee ." Secor has yet to adopt this change, however . </P> <P> The Dylan outtake, generally titled "Rock Me, Mama", came out of recording sessions for the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid movie soundtrack (1973) in Burbank, California . </P> <P> Secor saw the Dylan contribution as "an outtake of something he had mumbled out on one of those tapes . I sang it all around the country from about 17 to 26, before I ever even thought,' Oh, I better look into this ."' When Secor sought copyright on the song in 2003 to release it on O.C.M.S. in (2004), he discovered Dylan credited the phrase "Rock me, mama" to bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who likely got it from a Big Bill Broonzy recording . As Secor says: "In a way, it's taken something like 85 years to get completed ." Secor and Dylan signed a co-writing agreement, and share copyright on the song; agreeing to a "50--50 split in authorship ." </P> <P> Secor recalls that, "I met (Dylan's son) Jakob, and Jakob said it made sense that I was a teenager when I did that, because no one in their 30s would have the guts to try to write a Bob Dylan song ." </P>

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