I agree with the "allmusic" interpretation given in MANT's comment, which mostly seemed obvious, and that makes the song interesting to hear the first few times.(I didn't know that the "Indian girl" represented Rita Coolidge, but the rest was easy to figure out.) The instrumental support from the Dead band, fairly spare, sounds good, too. But it's a long song with a repetitive humdrum melody and while Crosby's vocal starts out well enough, by the last couple of verses it's raspy and hard to listen to. So I consider this track the weakest cut on the album.
I agree with the "allmusic" interpretation given in MANT's comment, which mostly seemed obvious, and that makes the song interesting to hear the first few times.(I didn't know that the "Indian girl" represented Rita Coolidge, but the rest was easy to figure out.) The instrumental support from the Dead band, fairly spare, sounds good, too. But it's a long song with a repetitive humdrum melody and while Crosby's vocal starts out well enough, by the last couple of verses it's raspy and hard to listen to. So I consider this track the weakest cut on the album.