Christy Moore's sleeve notes from "Prosperous" (1972)- "This was written by Dave Cartwright and Bill Caddick from Wolverhampton who play a lot of their material at their club in Halesowen each week". There is no reference to the song in Christy's book "One Voice", one of the few omissions of all the songs he has recorded. Sounds like a general anti-war song, but why Syracuse is a mystery to me!