[2] It was his biggest hit after making into the Top 40 one other time, with "The Last Game of the Season (A Blind Man in the Bleachers)".

[3] The song opens with a brief snippet of wordless choral a cappella singing, then abruptly cuts to the voice of a woman pleading with her father: Daddy, please don't!

We're going to get married; just you wait and see.Geddes sings from first person narrative in the character of the titular young man.

Though not explicitly stated in the lyrics, her father's desire for Joey to "pay for what we've done" and her promise of marriage implies that the couple have had sex and Julie has become pregnant.

Joey holds her in his arms; she quietly repeats her pleas to her father as her last words but loses consciousness as she again says "we're gonna get married".

Geddes flew to New York City to record the vocals for the song (with Julie's lines sung by Vance's daughter Paula) and then returned to Detroit to begin his third year of law school.

[14] Billed as Jan and Joey, Tony Burrows recorded the song as a duet in late 1975.