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by Anonymous on February 9th, 2007

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What does "Strawberry Wine," recorded by Deanna Carter, mean? Who is the man who's car she takes, and who are the woman and child? It never says the person singing has a child.

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  • by mike blair on February 10th, 2007

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    It's been a long time since I've heard this song. As best as I can remember, this is basically a coming of age song. The song is told in first person perspective. I went ahead and looked up the lyrics, and I'll go ahead and go verse by verse and give you my take on them.

    "He was working through college on my grandpa's farm
    I was thirsting for knowledge and he had a car
    I was caught somewhere between a woman and a child,
    When one restless summer we found love growing wild
    On the banks of the river on a well beaten path
    It's funny how those memories they last
    Like strawberry wine, and seventeen
    The hot July moon saw everything
    My first taste of love, oh, bittersweet
    Green on the vine
    Like strawberry wine"

    This first verse sets up the story of the narrator's first sexual experience with a boy. She was caught somewhere between a woman and a child (seventeen), thirsting for knowledge (not the kind they give you in school.) The July moon saw everything as they "found love" on the banks of the river.

    The rest of the song tells of how she reminisces about her experience that summer with this young man.

    "I still remember.. my biggest fear was September when he had to go...

    "A few cards and letters and one long distance call. We drifted away like the leaves in the fall
    But year after year I come back to this place
    Just to remember the taste.."

    Then in the final verse, a final retrospective many years later about why it is that she remembers this time in her life so fondly.

    "The fields have grown over now
    Years since they've seen the plow,
    There's nothing time hasn't touched"
    "Is it really him or the loss of my innocence
    I've been missing so much?"

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