 According to Mitchell, Green wrote the words and Green and Hodges wrote the tune together.Green dedicated his performance on the record to "...Little Junior Parker, a cousin of mine, he's gone on but we'd like to kinda carry on in his name.." According to one writer, "Green's song squares the singer's early religious convictions with more earthly interests", but when the singer became a pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in 1976, he dropped the song from his repertoire.Writing in "The Independent" in 1994, Tim de Lisle wrote