Glen apparently wrote this song after seeing some of his Grandmother's photographs, taking during the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916, of the handsome soldiers swimming in her local water tower to wash away the gunsmoke, the dust and the blood of the revolution.
Glen apparently wrote this song after seeing some of his Grandmother's photographs, taking during the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916, of the handsome soldiers swimming in her local water tower to wash away the gunsmoke, the dust and the blood of the revolution.