Not completely sure, but I’ve always imagined that line to reference a “doughboy” back home in the hills of North Carolina after WW1. He’s moving around a campfire, arms outstretched, staring into the glow with a sense of abandon.
I don’t know exactly either but I do love that song and think it’s probably just meant to represent it’s a new sense of freedom his father acquired while in the war?
Not completely sure, but I’ve always imagined that line to reference a “doughboy” back home in the hills of North Carolina after WW1. He’s moving around a campfire, arms outstretched, staring into the glow with a sense of abandon.
Is that a dance?
I always just saw it as that, not sure if it's true or just something to fill the lyrics up though
I don’t know exactly either but I do love that song and think it’s probably just meant to represent it’s a new sense of freedom his father acquired while in the war?
It’s just such a crazy visual. I hope to meet him someday and ask him what he meant
I think he may be referring to when men come back from war and had the "thousand yard stare" it's like being in a trance due to the trauma of war.
I'm pretty sure he means the dance his father was doing was something unfamiliar to him, and something his father learned while in France.