[1] The song is a mid-tempo ballad about a young blonde girl, featuring allusions to the iconic Da Vinci painting.
This version is the most eclectic of the four, featuring the same Tom Waits-like piano bar introduction found in the first two instalments, before giving way to a saxophone-drenched R&B section, which fades into a just over a minute of unaccompanied banjo diddling.
In keeping with the theme, the songs on Down Side are grim weepers, like “He’s Taking It Hard (She’s Taking It Easy),” which explores the contrasting worlds in the aftermath of a failed relationship, and the western swing-tinged “Thief in My Bedroom.” The folksy “Sweet Angeline” is a plea from a father to his daughter on the cusp of womanhood not to “let anybody get inside your mind until you get too blind to see.” The Up Side of the record kicks off with the ironic title track, which tells the story of a recently divorced man (a subject Coe knew very well) who scrawls “Just Divorced” on the window of his car, rather than “Just Married” associated with weddings, and attaches beer can paper streamers to the back.
About halfway through, the song briefly breaks into the hook from Vern Gosdin's “If You’re Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right),” which hit #5 the previous year.
Coe ends the album with Jerry Butler’s “For Your Precious Love,” which is carried off convincingly as a country song - complete with first-person confessional as an intro.