I was 4 in 1978. This song is a tribute to my favorite place in the world at the time, a pizza joint in my hometown.

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This track is tribute to George’s Pizza, my favorite Greek-style pizza place in my small hometown. I still remember vividly the mood of the place when I was a kid. Dimly lit, courtesy of orange stained-glass wall sconces, with a giant stuffed swordfish on the wall above a jukebox. I remember my dad taking me over to that jukebox one time and listing off the songs for me to pick one. I chose “Stayin’ Alive.” I also remember that George’s was my introduction to the concept of a pun. The backs of their checks had a cartoon drawing of George, with the caption “Seven days without pizza makes one weak.” Classic. I’ve since learned that this was actually the slogan of a famous New York pizza place, and it makes sense that Austin, Minnesota was not the birthplace of such a clever and iconic phrase (although we did manage to come up with Spam).

George was the man with the pizza place and
That was the place to be back in the '70s
Any night of the week, down on Second Street
Swordfish on the wall, that place had it all
And I was four years old and three feet tall