Rufus wrote this song about his father, the singer Loudon Wainwright III, after a row they had over dinner. In 1976, when Rufus was just 3 years old, his parents split. His mother, the singer Kate McGarrigle, took Rufus and his younger sister Martha and moved them Bedford, New York to Montreal in a U-Haul van, which Rufus sings about in the line, "In the drifting white snow you left me." Rufus' father says he wasn't offended by this song - he was actually proud of his son as he considered it some of his best work.

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