I'm sorry, I keep forgetting to add my name!

On the recording I heard of Billy Faier doing it, he said he got into an argument with a good friend of his about it, who said it was a terrible song. He said that it was true that the song bordered on hopelessly trite melodrama, but the fact that the only reason the girl left home was to find adventure, not to save her mama from prison or her dear old daddy from prison, made him like it very much.