@mattalac By the way this is almost certainly inspired by one of the "Winnipeg Rangers" groupies, who'd left home because of just such an incident with her own father.
For those of you who might not know, Howard, who co-wrote the music (it started life as a setting of a Tolkien poem!) improvised the "father's monolog" part every time they played it - compare the Carnegie Hall and Montreux versions!
@mattalac By the way this is almost certainly inspired by one of the "Winnipeg Rangers" groupies, who'd left home because of just such an incident with her own father. For those of you who might not know, Howard, who co-wrote the music (it started life as a setting of a Tolkien poem!) improvised the "father's monolog" part every time they played it - compare the Carnegie Hall and Montreux versions!