I really don’t believe him. If he is serious, then it is pretty creepy. Caroline Kennedy was 12 years old in 1969. How was she an inspiration about a song involving spending the night with a lover and touching one another?
I read a while back how song writers will come up with a catchy line- and then write a whole song around that line. Caroline Kennedy may have been the inspiration for the “Sweet Caroline” hook name and then he came up with a song that used the catchy name. Often the original inspiration can be far from the finished song. Or he could be a pervert :-)
I don’t believe him either. But, then again, Cracklin’ Rosie might have been about her grandmother.
I have heard this before. I like the song but have to agree with the above poster. “If he is serious, then it is pretty creepy”
——But now I -
Look at the night
and it don’t seem so lonely
we fill it up with only two.
And when I hurt
hurtin’ runs off my shoulders
how can I hurt when holdin’ you ?——
It all depends on who’s perspective he was writing the song from. If he was imagining a Father Daughter relationship from seeing the photos of them together, it can explain why he would include the “hurtin’” part. The Cold War was at its peak in 1962 when she was four, but continued long after.