“Tucker's Daughter” by Ian Moss

"Tucker's Daughter" was Ian Moss's first single on his own, out on Mushroom in November 1988, nearly five years after Cold Chisel had first called it quits, and it led off his debut album Matchbook the following year. The Australian singer and guitarist wrote the music less than a fortnight before the album sessions were due to begin, and he was sure he had a hit, whooping around the house and clicking his heels.

He wrote it with his old Cold Chisel bandmate Don Walker. As Walker told it in 2005, Moss airmailed him the melody on a cassette from Los Angeles, with a few phrases he wanted worked in and one crude placeholder line standing in for the words. The finished song tells of a farmhand who catches the eye of his boss's daughter and doesn't return her feelings.

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