And this verse, purpose written although by who, to "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye":

They're rolling out the guns again;
Huroo, huroo.
They're rolling out the guns again;
Huroo, huroo.
They're rolling out the guns again,
But they'll never take our sons again:
Johnny, I swear it to ye!"

How often we've been forsworn.
How many sons, and daughters, too, these days,
Hapless draftees or ambitious volunteers,
have been taken since then.

I am adamently against war, but I have lost the arrogance
that let me feel I could condemn the warriors.