Is it confined to a war reference? It could equally apply to a picket line in an industrial dispute - with echoes of the UK miners strike 1984/85 and the Battle of Orgreave. It appeared on Funny Old World by Coope Boyes & Simpson, No Masters NMCD3 (CD, UK, 1993). Production: John Tams, Barry Coope with occasional interference from Jim Boyes and Lester Simpson. Only Remembered; words Horatius Bonar, John Tams, music Ira D. Sankey. Rev Dr Horatius Bonar DD (19 December 1808 – 31 July 1889), a contemporary and acquaintance of Robert Murray M'cheyne, was a Scottish churchman and poet. He is principally remembered as a prodigious hymnodist. Friends knew him as Horace Bonar.
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