I lived in the Cambridgeshire Fens through most of the 1950s and learnt a little bit about 'fenland tigers' as the rebels were known. many villages and towns were once islands (eg Isle of Ely) before the draining so today are higher than the died out land as are many of the streams and rivers which have to have raised banks to keep them in! The history of rebellion goes back way before the Dutch engineers ... it was in the fens that Hereward the Wake led a guerrilla band against the Norman invaders, legend has the chain mail wearing Norman soldiers being led a dance through the fenland maze of footpaths and disappearing into the foggy fens

Jim I'm sorry you don't like Peggy's Obama song ... the fate of many topical songs I'm afraid! But sometimes they make great glimpses of history when you get to look back on them!