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Thread #166391   Message #4000864
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
15-Jul-19 - 03:14 PM
Thread Name: saddest lines in song
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song
A very good description of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Tom Paxton's song, My Son John": the term probably hadn't even been invented then, though there was "shell shock" after WW1.
"He went up to his room and he closed the door,
My son John, my son John"