by Bonnie Koloc

I’ve played this song for a long time, and audiences always respond to it well. I’ve wanted to record it for a long time–I’m not aware of any other recording of it except Bonnie’s, which is from the early 1970s. This arrangement is the way my old friend Tom Dundee (a great songwriter from Chicago) did it–I’m not sure if he still performs it or not. There’s just something about the lyric that I connect with very deeply. I had a pretty happy and normal childhood myself, but have always appreciated the fact that children struggle with the blues as much as anyone.

The arrangement on the album is quite basic–I wanted to keep it close to how I perform the song live. I added bass and a little percussion to provide a more solid foundation, and then just a touch of keyboards to provide some color.