yeh its about a bloke called Johnny. They hardly knew him.

No use asking me, I cetainly never knew him.

with his guns and drums - the neighbours never liked him. a bit noisy. he came back from the wars - all bits missing.

Its really relevant. as we have people coming back from the war with bits missing.

however as this particular piece of folk art has failed to ignite universal indgnation at the way our leaders lead us into war - perhaps we should knock it on the head.

300 years is a fair sort of trial at communicating this idea. All that is left is your desire to sing it - quite devoid of any desire to communicate the writers thoughts.