Well, there aren't any miners in the Rhonda these days. Though I think this is a song that is better without being rewritten in that way. It's a record of a time that was in many ways more hopeful - which is ironic, since we all half-expected to get blown to bits any day.

The thing was, there was a feeling that, if we managed to get through that particular time without being blown up (a big "if"), we could expect the future to keep getting better for the human race.