 The song was about a young farmboy who leaves his father's farm for the enticements of the city, only to become worn down and disillusioned.The version that was released did not contain all the lyrics on his original demo; the next-to-last verse in which Maw and Paw are "really gonna lay down the law" was missing, emphasizing in a way that Hank himself never made it back from the honky-tonks to pappy's farm.Williams' version reached #2 on the "Billboard magazine" country best-sellers chart.