In this song Elton sings about fond memories of a girl he once knew. The Tumbleweed Connection album has a prairie theme, which shows up in this song with images of cattle, cornfields and hay.
The wife of Ray Williams, who was managing Elton John and Bernie Taupin, was pregnant when they were writing this song, and Taupin suggested that Amoreena would be a delightful name for a little girl. The baby was a girl, and she was named Amoreena. This story does not have a happy ending. Williams ended up parting ways with John and Taupin soon after Amoreena was born in a bitter dispute that involved their publisher, Dick James. In liner notes to the Tumbleweed Connection album, it says that Elton is the girl's godfather, but they never formed a relationship.
This plays in the opening scene of the 1975 Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon.
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