Martin Scorsese's 2019 documentary film about the tour includes footage of Mitchell performing the song at Gordon Lightfoot's house, with Dylan and Roger McGuinn accompanying her on acoustic guitar.

In the summers of 1972 and 1973, Shepard resided in a waterside cottage in West Advocate, Nova Scotia, located on a strip of land which extends into the Bay of Fundy.

In an article accompanying the list, critic Douglas Wolk noted that it possesses "long, tricky, rattling verses that chronicle a romance with a womanizing man whose life is very different from the narrator's" and that it had been a "highlight" of her live repertoire for several years before she recorded it for Hejira.

[11] Bob Dylan played Mitchell's original studio-album version on the "Noah's Ark Part 2" episode of the third season of his Theme Time Radio Hour show in 2009, introducing it as a song by a "strong-willed woman, and I mean that in the best possible way".

Like the original, it features Jaco Pastorius on bass, but with Pat Metheny as a second guitarist and Don Alias replacing Bobbye Hall on percussion.