This song is about a long-distance relationship where the guy is really frustrated. His girl never seems to have time for him, and he wonders if she even cares.
There is a telephone motif in this song. It starts with a dial tone before John McCrea comes in with the first lines: I need your arms around me I need to feel your touch His voice is processed to narrow his frequency, similar to what a telephone call sounds like, implying that he is talking over the phone, possibly after the girl hung up on him. The touchtones that sound when dialing also show up in a few spots during the song, which could indicate he's making repeated calls, hoping she'll answer. It's probably a drunk dial.
In the video, McCrea plays a cuckolded cowboy who hires a private detective to tell him what we already know: his girl is with another guy. Of course, she may never have been his to begin with.
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