[3] The song also makes a reference to the Wolverine rail service, which stopped at Rhinecliff, New York, near to Bard College, the alma mater of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.
The incident happened while both Fagen and Becker were students there, and the song recounts how a female acquaintance betrayed them to "Daddy Gee" (G. Gordon Liddy), then a local assistant district attorney.
[6] A contemporary newspaper article mentioned the arrest of Donald Fagan [sic] for "the sale of a dangerous drug" with bail set at $5,000.
[7] Cash Box described the song as a "departure from the group’s usual fare, but definitely a track that’s going to have programmers and listeners buzzing.
Fagen reneged on his promise of never going back, when he returned to Bard College to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree in 1985.