| Tom Petty – Ankle Deep Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I love this song but could never make out the meaning. But I just found an article in which TP was interviewed about it. https://americansongwriter.com/tom-pettys-highway-companion-part-3/ TP: It’s a story about a daughter that steals her dad’s prize racehorse. And it’s got a little bit of humor in it. Interviewer: I love that line, when the girl says, “Daddy, you’ve been a mother to me. . .” TP: [Laughs] Yeah, that was a good way to tie it up. I don’t know where that came from. That just came into my head, and I followed the story to see where it would go. It’s like I’ve said, you don’t have a lot of room to write a story in a song. So you have to be economical with your lines. But I like that one because I was able to do it, and get a chuckle out of some of the lines. This girl runs off with a field- hand, and they steal a prize racehorse from her father. So you kind of get the picture that the father’s wealthy. And the field-hand isn’t. “Found her hiding high in the family tree.” I liked that one. |
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