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Originally Posted by spoot388
how about the fact that Dave himself said several times that he was playing around with the guitar riff for AP and Stella came up to him and said to him "Daddy, when are you going to put ME in a song?" he said he kept what she said in mind and worked in into the song. theres no metaphor, theres no double or hidden meaning to it. he is directly quoting his daughter. thats it.
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From the front page of antsmarching.org
Alligator Pie
Dave: “There’s banjo all over this record, though it’s not as obvious in some places as it is here. But it started on the National guitar. I sing about grace—a state of grace or the lack of it—quite often. I have a daughter named Grace. I also have a daughter named Stella. So I was at home in Seattle, noodling on my National guitar, and my daughter came up and said, ‘You always have Grace in songs.’ I said, ‘Well, it’s not really her, it’s just the word grace.’ So she said, ‘When are you gonna put me in a song?’ So that’s where that line ‘Daddy, when you gonna put me in a song?’ came from.
That’s the only line I had. Then being down in New Orleans made me put it inside a story that I imagined from talking to people down there. Hopefully people will be singing about how this country neglected New Orleans for a long time. Hopefully those songs will start bubbling up, and hopefully that history will tell the story of how criminally negligent we were about that city. It’s got this resilience and hospitality and warmth and celebration. But, man, if you go down there and you just look at the bad, there’s enough bad there for a lifetime.”
I think that the line is actually a product placement that RCA got paid for from the beer Stella Artois.