What Does My Papa's Waltz Mean

My Papa’s Waltz was a interesting poem. There are several different meanings it could have. For instance, before I looked into the poem I thought it was about a father abusing his child, But after I read and studied it I realized what it was about. It took me a few times of reading it to understand that it was actually talking about a little boy that didn’t want to go to bed so his father danced with him.
Before annotating it I thought it was talking about a little boy that maybe didn’t want to go to bed and the father had drunk a little too much and started hitting him or something. The little boy could have been so scared that he hung on to his father as if he might die. The little boy could smell the whiskey on his papa’s breath. They went