“I was going on a date that night, and I mentioned to my girlfriend, ‘I’m kinda bummed tonight because I thought I had my first song recorded, and it’s not gonna happen. The last few weeks, telling us that we’re not allowed to record a song about We’ve been inundated with phone calls from Disney lawyers for He says, ‘Kenny, I’m really sorry, but we won’t be able to Got a phone call from John McEuen, who at the time seemed to be the leader of Was really excited, and I’d never had a song recorded. They were an up-and-coming act, and they loved that song. I went to, there were a couple of guys from a band called the Nitty Gritty Dirtīand. Here in Nashville where you have writers in the round … At this one party that Songwriter, you’d go around to different parties, much like what’s happening That there were people who owned that copyright. Wrote this song about Winnie the Pooh, but I was 17, and I didn’t really haveĪny awareness that I wasn’t allowed to write a song about Winnie the Pooh, and I didn’t really think it through like that. I felt like that wasĪkin to what I was going through in high school. Hundred Acre Wood, and he’s telling everybody goodbye. The last chapter is where Christopher Robin is leaving the (I was) going on graduation in high school, and for some reason, I was thinkingĪbout that last chapter in The House at Pooh Corner.
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