I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread, but the best version of Roll Turn Spin that I have ever heard was done by Steve Gillette (even tons better than Len Chandler himself sang it on his To Be A Man album), but Steve Gillette would not record the song because he had not written it. Anyway, that was all back in the mid 60's. If I remember correctly on the liner notes on the To Be A Man album, Len Chandler said it was written by him after seeing three WWII movies in three successive days. Although I have now forgotten the titles of the movies, I remember that it listed them as part of the liner notes. The subject of the song is about a French girl during WWII who was secretively working with the French underground as an informer. The song takes place on the last night that she has to spend with the Nazi officer whose secrets she has been divulging to the French underground movement. Everything else about the song is contained in the lyrics.