Originally written in 2003 after watching a harrowing BBC documentary on the child soldiers of the Congo, I shelved it as "too dark for folk clubs" until Joe Dolce rightly shamed me into picking it up again. Ten years on, I find it is if anything even more relevant today than it was then.. I can't say that it is the song I am most proud of, "proud" would be inappropriate in this case; perhaps the correct expression is "the song I am most grateful that I wrote". Anyway, here is the linkā¦ Thieves Of Innocence
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