Odetta

Album: Human (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • The seventh track from Human, this song is about how a man's life was transformed when he became a father.

    Odetta, don't you know
    That you saved this young man's soul?
    And he can watch you getting wise
    And you go watch him growing old


    Rag'n' Bone Man told Q magazine the song was written about "one of my best friends in Brighton, who had long-term issues with drugs. When his daughter was born, it just changed him so dramatically, I knew I had to write about it."
  • Rag'n'Bone Man premiered the song on December 7, 2016 during a session at Abbey Road Studios for the BRITs 2017 Critics' Choice (for which he received the award).

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