Porter wondered whether Clark Gable would object to his name being used in the song, in which it is implied that Gable is one of Lois's lovers ("Mister Gable, I mean Clark / Wants me on his boat to park").
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It is based on a similarly ironic poem by the English Decadent poet Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), with its popular chorus Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae ('I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.').
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