Its a ballad to remind people that hardship and heartache are often the incentive that thrust people into new lives, and new countries...
I agree, overplayed the song wears, but the message is consistent and if you dont listen to it for a while so that its fresh....its not because you forgot the story...
I wish people today would write ballads to their sons...and daughters
to their families...to remind them and the nation of what it takes
and has taken to keep our Nation of varied cultural parents alive...
To remind them that war without moral conviction, is a painful shore on which we strand a generation. And that sometimes it is the price
we pay for the right to sing, and listen to "dreary" songs of a fathers love for his far away son.....