This song is about a man who enjoys the simple pleasures of life, and shuns the fancy, expensive things that "glitter and shine". The classic blue-collar man who loves his family and works hard to put food on the table, clothes on their back, and a roof over their heads. It's a song that makes you really think about how money, while it does buy many things, can never buy love and true happiness. Cadillacs have always been known as "fancy" cars, and by Danny Shirley singing that his father was not the Cadillac kind, he was basically saying his father was not a man of material things, but a man who knew where his real treasures lay.
This song is about a man who enjoys the simple pleasures of life, and shuns the fancy, expensive things that "glitter and shine". The classic blue-collar man who loves his family and works hard to put food on the table, clothes on their back, and a roof over their heads. It's a song that makes you really think about how money, while it does buy many things, can never buy love and true happiness. Cadillacs have always been known as "fancy" cars, and by Danny Shirley singing that his father was not the Cadillac kind, he was basically saying his father was not a man of material things, but a man who knew where his real treasures lay.