I wonder (I am sorry I keep pushing this, it is probably, no certainly morbid curiosity, and I should drop it, but I am interested in how people write songs out of personal/political struggle, and how far they distance things into art....) if these were the two people in the original song, that Sands gave different names to to protect them, or were they new people, who fit the model again? maybe the former, as I guess 1973 is long enough ago.
Thanks, Wolfgang, for all. The tears of the people flow together.
yours, Peter T.