Guitar Learning Journey: Abba's "Slipping Through My Fingers" cover - instrumental

Guitar Learning Journey: Abba's "Slipping Through My Fingers" cover - instrumental

Released: June 1981
Studio: Polar Music
Genre: Europop
Length: 3:51
Label: Discomate (Japan), RCA (South America)
Songwriter(s):
Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus

"Slipping Through My Fingers" is a song written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, with lead vocals by Agnetha Fältskog. It was released on their 1981 album The Visitors. The song is about a mother's regret at how quickly her daughter is growing up, and the lack of time they have spent together, as the girl goes to school.

The inspiration for the song was Ulvaeus' and Fältskog's daughter, Linda Ulvaeus, who was seven at the time the song was written.

The song was released as a single only in Japan, where it was a red vinyl promo single for The Coca-Cola Company with nothing on the B-side except a printed picture of the group. An album with the same name and a similar-looking cover was also released in Japan.