Slipping Through My Fingers

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"Slipping Through My Fingers" is a reflective ABBA song, prominently featured in the musical and film *Mamma Mia!*, in which Donna Sheridan poignantly expresses the bittersweet experience of watching her daughter grow up.

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Slipping Through My Fingers canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf single
song
album The Visitors NERFINISHED
artist ABBA NERFINISHED
characterPerspective Donna Sheridan NERFINISHED
chronology ABBA songs
composer Benny Andersson NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Sweden
featuredIn Mamma Mia! (2008 film) NERFINISHED
Mamma Mia! (stage musical) NERFINISHED
genre pop
soft rock
hasInstrumentation bass
drums
guitars
keyboards
vocals
hasMood melancholic
nostalgic
hasNotableCover Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried version
hasType ballad
show tune
includedIn Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack NERFINISHED
includedOn ABBA compilation albums
language English
lyricist Björn Ulvaeus NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus Donna Sheridan watching her daughter grow up
originalMedium studio album recording
partOf The Visitors NERFINISHED
performer ABBA NERFINISHED
Amanda Seyfried NERFINISHED
Meryl Streep NERFINISHED
producer Benny Andersson NERFINISHED
Björn Ulvaeus NERFINISHED
recordLabel Polar Music NERFINISHED
releaseYear 1981
theme growing up
mother–daughter relationship
parental nostalgia
passage of time
usedIn wedding preparation scene in Mamma Mia! (film)
vocalist Agnetha Fältskog NERFINISHED
Anni-Frid Lyngstad NERFINISHED
writer Benny Andersson NERFINISHED
Björn Ulvaeus NERFINISHED

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Donna Sheridan sings Slipping Through My Fingers
Sophie Sheridan in Mamma Mia! singsSong Slipping Through My Fingers
subject surface form: Sophie Sheridan
The Visitors hasTrack Slipping Through My Fingers