Ian refers to buying a special train ticket with a discounted return fare that he uses to go and see his Dad who is gravely ill in the hospital. He is concerned whether his caretaker nurse is treating him well & finds it funny in a sadly ironic way that the nurse brings him a cuppa tea & asks for his autograph, never mind that he's here & logically quite taken with his father being at death's door.more »
WordPress.com has to me the best analysis of this great & moving song, setting it side-by-side with one of C. S. Lewis's best sermons, "The Weight of Glory," ck it out.
I don't know who writes the content for lyrics.com "10 Facts About the Song," but they're way off base, Ray Thomas did NOT write Gypsy, it was written, as they write elsewhere here, by Justin Hayward. I wonder too where they found that the song was inspired by the fictitious, hoaxed Apollo moon landing.more »
Though Hank, Jr is a great & very talented country music artist, not enough attention & appreciation has been shown to the man who wrote & recorded this song initially, Steve Young. According to Waylon Jennings, "Steve didn't know how great he really was," & sadly he died in 2017 w/o much fanfare for his pioneering work in the movement & genre of outlaw country.more »
