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I think the elephant riders comes from the myth that the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln some war elephants to assist the Union in the Civil War. This would make this song kind of an alternate-history version of the war that might have been.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/443418-the-truth-about-thai-elephants-in-the-american-civil-war/
I think the elephant riders comes from the myth that the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln some war elephants to assist the Union in the Civil War. This would make this song kind of an alternate-history version of the war that might have been.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/443418-the-truth-about-thai-elephants-in-the-american-civil-war/