* Carter recorded this song at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The previous year, four of the FAME musicians who played on Carter's previous work left to form Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, so Carter did this song with their replacements, which included Junior Lowe on guitar, Jesse Boyce on bass, and Freeman Brown on drums.
* While Carter didn't write this song, he claimed that he could certainly associate with it, since he came from a poor family and knew kids who had to support their families through farm work. Carter's grandfather died when his mother was still in high school, which also helped him relate to the song.
* It was FAME Studios owner Rick Hall who asked Carter to record this song. Carter didn't want to do it, but Hall convinced him. According to Carter, when he recorded it, he didn't even know the lyrics, so some stood behind him and whispered them to him when he did his vocal.