The song is about a boy who grows up estranged from his father. He struggles with feelings of homosexuality, but loses the struggle and commits suicide. John Prine offers to have slept with him if that is what it would have taken to prevent the suicide.
The song is about a boy who grows up estranged from his father. He struggles with feelings of homosexuality, but loses the struggle and commits suicide. John Prine offers to have slept with him if that is what it would have taken to prevent the suicide.