Although often mistaken for a happy, sentimental pop song by those who don't listen past the first verse, this is a bitter song about Harry's feelings of abandonment after his own father left him as a small child.
At the end, he vows not to do the same to his own son, but of course (as predicted more accurately in the song 1941), he did in the end.
Although often mistaken for a happy, sentimental pop song by those who don't listen past the first verse, this is a bitter song about Harry's feelings of abandonment after his own father left him as a small child.
At the end, he vows not to do the same to his own son, but of course (as predicted more accurately in the song 1941), he did in the end.