"On the Road Again" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan for his album Bringing It All Back Home.
The song appears on the album's electric A-side, between "Outlaw Blues" and "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream".
Like the rest of Bringing It All Back Home, "On the Road Again" was recorded in January, 1965 and produced by Tom Wilson.
[1] Musically, "On the Road Again" is a simple rhythm & blues rock number with a twelve-bar structure.
[5] The narrator wakes up in the morning and has to face a surreal world where his mother-in-law hides in the refrigerator, his father-in-law wears a mask of Napoleon and the grandfather-in-law's cane turns into a sword, the grandmother-in-law prays to pictures and an uncle-in-law steals from the narrator's pockets, in lyrics such as:[5] Your mama, she's a-hidin' Inside the icebox Your daddy walks in wearin' Napoleon Bonaparte mask[6] Frogs live in the narrator's socks, his food is covered in dirt, and deliverymen and servants have a sinister presence.