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Bob Dylan wrote this following his split from Suze Rotolo, who he dated between 1961 and 1964. The song details what was the pair's initial courting: "I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze/With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn/I courted her proudly, but now she is gone/Gone as the season she's taken." Dylan goes on to admit he was a poor partner to Rotolo, who he once cheated on with folk singer, Joan Baez: "Myself, for what I did