Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Still, with the lyrics describing a secret bar hiding behind a green door where ‘a happy crowd’ play piano, smoke and ‘laugh a lot’, I can kind of see why people would imagine the song was about a queer bar. Nevermind that the song was written more than a decade before the film was made, or that the song’s writers were American and likely would never have even heard of a lesbian bar on the other side of the world.