It doesn't take an idiot or a loyalist to know there are many damn fine Orange songs. All conflicts begat good songs and great songs, mediocre songs and bad songs.

This one falls under the final category--bad songs. Not because of it's content or ideology, but it's bloody awful attempt at writing a lyric and making sense.

I also have my doubts this song is a Vietnam era song. But apparently, verifying those sorts of details isn't part of the "folklore research" being done by this fellow. Rather, there seems to be a presumption by people here that if this guy has it on his website, it must be authentic and he must be a genuine folklore scholar.

I fear Kenny Goldstein may be spinning in his grave over the claims of "legitimate scholarly research" being tossed around so cavalierly in this forum. People here wouldn't know legitimate scholarly folklore research methodology if it bit them in the ass.