Hi Art! The lyrics you post are almost wor-for-word as I remember Len's singing of it (I've done it a few times, meself, but not for a while). Only question I have is your time-periood setting. Len was writing as an African-American activist in the turbulent 1960s. While I never asked him (and don't recall his liner notes - lazy... they're in another bldg.) I've always assumed that he was thinking in anticolonial terms. After all, the same album also contains "Missionary Stew #2 "! The new album 'All Our Brave Tars: Songs from the age of Fighting Sail' is period material about the great frigate actions during (mostly) the War of 1812. I'd love to trade. Long time, no hear. Send me a snail address, to Mulesong@aol.com. -George ::-.--O