A sweet remembrance of a childhood moment told in song. Loretta recalls sitting in her daddy's lap looking at a picture of a beautiful young woman. He tells her how this young woman was the most beautiful girl in town and how every man wanted to make her his wife. He talks about the poor young man who was teased and derided by all the other men who told him that he didn't stand a chance with her. Finally he talks about how that poor boy won her heart and then reveals that the woman in the picture is Loretta's mother and he is the poor young man. Jack White of the White Stripes did a tremendous job putting the music together on this song and indeed on the whole album Van Lear Rose that is not to be missed!

Full Title: Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males

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Self-described left-leaning liberal hippie pothead troubadour Todd Snider muses about the people he considers the root of the world's problems. He's not a mean-spirited man, the liner notes for this song even mention that he loves everyone, even the conservatives he's singing about in this song.

Nancy Sinatra joined the Attack Records family with the 2004 self-titled release, "Nancy Sinatra". She contacted artists that she and her daughters admire such as Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, and Thurston Moore among others and found that these artists were also fans of hers and were eager to collaborate with her on the new album.

This song is U2's contribution to the album. Bono and The Edge wrote the song and Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen provided bass and drums on the recording.

The song is a beautiful slow jazzy ballad in which the lyrics compare the good things in life as shots of "happy" and the harsh moments as shots of "sad".