"Subject: RE: Draft Dodging Songs?
From: Jim McLean
Date: 28 Nov 02 - 04:42 PM

This [Talking Conchie Blues] is a song I wrote after being imprisoned in Barlinnie Gaol, Glasgow, in 1957 after registering as a concientous objector. I didn't agree with the British involvement in Egypt at the time or much else, come to think about it."

A little background to the song.