This song surely references both the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the follow-up TV series Alice (1976-1985); both feature a mother of a young son whose husband dies in a traffic accident. She then moves from New Mexico to Tucson (New Jersey to Phoenix in the series) to take a waitressing job and establish a new life.
"Thumbelina" is a story by Hans Christian Anderson about a woman the size of an adult person's thumb (based on the older English story of "Tom Thumb.") The titular character is threatened less by larger creatures than by prospective partnerships/marriages to a toad, stag beetle, and mole, all of whom are unappealing mates from whom she must escape.
This song surely references both the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the follow-up TV series Alice (1976-1985); both feature a mother of a young son whose husband dies in a traffic accident. She then moves from New Mexico to Tucson (New Jersey to Phoenix in the series) to take a waitressing job and establish a new life.
"Thumbelina" is a story by Hans Christian Anderson about a woman the size of an adult person's thumb (based on the older English story of "Tom Thumb.") The titular character is threatened less by larger creatures than by prospective partnerships/marriages to a toad, stag beetle, and mole, all of whom are unappealing mates from whom she must escape.