Dan Fogelberg's song Old Tennessee is about some friends of mine

When the song "Old Tennessee" was released I had just left Atlanta, Georgia and moved to San Francisco. I was living in a building with some friends from Georgia who moved to San Francisco with me. One of my friends was a woman named Shirley who was pregnant with twins. Her husband Skip was still living back in Georgia doing some construction work. One day Shirley's sister Jo came to San Francisco from Tennessee and moved into Shirley's apartment. I met Jo and we struck up a friendship. She told me she had just broken up with Dan Fogelberg and he was extremely upset about her leaving him. She told me his recent song called "Old Tennessee" was about her leaving him and how he wanted her to come back to Tennessee to live with him. I believed Jo and when I listened to the song I heard the verse where Dan sings, "I hear you're in San Francisco living with your sister who's a mother to be and her husband's way down in Georgia and I'm still in old Tennessee wishing you'd come home to me."

After hearing the song I realized that Dan was lamenting about Jo leaving him and wanting her to come back to Tennessee and live with him. I asked Jo if she was going to go back to Tennessee and live with Dan but Jo explained to me why she wasn't going back to Tennessee to live with Dan.

Now everytime I hear the song "Old Tennessee" I think of Jo.