Catspaw, You asked: "Did your audience get it, like it, whatever"?

Only if I set it up right. Then the audiences got it.

It was usually part of a medley of designed to show the many terrible faces of (the) war:

"If I Were Free To speak My Mind" (I'd tell a tale to all mankind, 'Bout how the flowers do bloom and fade, 'Bout how we fought and the price we paid.)JUST THE CHORUS, TO TIE THE SONGS TOGETHER.

"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" by Mel Tillis

"Franklin Roosevelt Told The People How He Felt" from the Almanac Singers--Pete leading.(We damn near believed what he said, He said, "I hate war and so does Elanore, But we won't be safe 'til everybody's dead."-----an interesting anti-war song from WW2.

Then the above song---"The Canadian Traveler"

Ended with the chorus to "If I Were Free To Speak My Mind".

This medley did vary. Generally, "The 4th Day Of May" by Thom Bishop (posted by moi in this thread earlier) was in the medley---depending on how the audience seemed to be reacting. Sometimes Ed McCurdy's song "Strangest Dream" was included too... I did variations of this until the war was "over". And then for another year or two on occasion...

Art