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user-inactivated  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I just heard this song played on hammer dulcimer as a x-mas song is this traditional [nsfw]

I doubt it's traditional, from the title the war he came back from almost has to be the Franco-Thai war, and "mourn your dead, land of the free" doesn't sound very French. Also wikipedia says he wrote everything on the album it came from.





JakobVirgil  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you gave me the method for finding the answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luang_Prabang_(song)

    The song is based on the tune "Byker Hill", but with lyrics about the Vietnam war, and a refrain at the end of each verse of the song "now I'm a fuckin' hero".

I could have been hearing a instrumental version of "Byker Hill"

http://www.lyricsbay.com/byker_hill_lyrics-unknown.html

gone is my dream of subversive hammer dulcimer players.