My father loves John Denver, and used to play this album frequently every Christmas. But when he re-married, he had to skip over this song, because my step sister (a k a, my evil step sister) had an alcoholic father, and put on a big show of getting upset when my father played it. (She was a manipulative bitch, and I suspect that she made such a scene just to create friction between my father and stepmother, as she did in many other instances.) When my father divorced her (1980), it gave him great satisfaction to again play the album through this song without objection. It's a great album all the way through, and this is actually my least favorite on the album. But personal experience gives me a bittersweet affection for it.
