The lines "What dear daughter 'neath the sun could love a father so
To wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him no?" seem to me a pretty clear allusion to King Lear and his daughter Cordelia's refusal to flatter him. Indeed, one could interpret the whole song as a exegesis of King Lear.
The lines "What dear daughter 'neath the sun could love a father so To wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him no?" seem to me a pretty clear allusion to King Lear and his daughter Cordelia's refusal to flatter him. Indeed, one could interpret the whole song as a exegesis of King Lear.