Joybell: I have tried in vain to make contact with Scott Balfour who wrote and recorded "Play "Something We Know, Mate" with his band Bloodwood. He is somewhere in Alice Springs as far as I know. Do you have a contact?
OK, threadcreep, but not as far as U.S. Civil War motives.
I also get rather a kick out of deciphering, "play the one that you were riding the bus and had to get your guitar" (Summer in Dublin) and "whale make strike" (Greenland Whale Fisheries).