"far too trigger-happy for a folk song, glorifying war as such"?   I wasn't aware that folk songs weren't allowed to glorify war; quite a few of them (like "Twa recruiting sargeants") certainly glorify soldiering as a way of escaping social responsibility. ("Laddie if ye've got a sweetheart or a bairn, ye'll easy get rid of that ill spun yairn . ..)   And what about "Johnny I hardly knew you" ? Did that song only become a "folk song" as it became an anti-war song? (There was a thread on this a while back.)   Antway, let's open our minds a bit to the possibility that "folk" can contain all sorts of thinking, and it's not all warm and fuzzy --