I raised my kids to believe it is merely an event for greeting card companies. Seems that Randy Newman doesn’t have a lot of sentiment for his dad either.
I was in my 40s when I went from feeling I was the child in this song to being the father. I love the line, “You want to stay I know you do/But it ain’t no use to try/’Cause I’ll be here-and I’m just like you/Goodbye, old man, goodbye.”
converselyspeaking 