Dylan song has set two Irish counties?

Subject: Dylan song has set two Irish counties?
From: BTMP
Date: 02 May 20 - 10:32 AM

My brother alerted me to a column by Frank McNally in the Irish Times about Dylan’s song ‘I Contain Multitudes’ that has 2 Irish counties allegedly set against each other over the lyrics. Is there any truth or merit to this story? Just wondering ...

Subject: RE: Dylan song has set two Irish counties?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 20 - 11:03 AM

dunnu

1. Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.
2. Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.
3. Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.
4. Oh the First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.
5. When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.
6. I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.
7. But now we got weapons
Of biological dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.
8. Through isolation days
I've heard old war cries
between the blues and greys
Reds say $ is above lives
Some blame it on the yellow
You'll have to decide
Who rings most hollow
Had God on his side.
9. So now as I'm coughin'
I'm weary as hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

Subject: RE: Dylan song has set two Irish counties?
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 02 May 20 - 11:16 AM

Here's the song and lyrics are with it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%98I+Contain+Multitudes%E2%80%99&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA846CA846&oq=%E2%80%98I+Contain+Multitudes

Subject: RE: Dylan song has set two Irish counties?
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 02 May 20 - 11:33 AM

You can access Frank McNally's column at

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary