This song might be nearly 50-year-old, but every stanza of these lyrics can modulate to present day; or in the case of staff and rod, back to Moses. Just replace red dictators with Saddam and Osama, the guerillas with the Syrian rebels, harbors of Nicaragua with the Strait of Hormuz... afraid to say any more lest the A-men look my way.
This song might be nearly 50-year-old, but every stanza of these lyrics can modulate to present day; or in the case of staff and rod, back to Moses. Just replace red dictators with Saddam and Osama, the guerillas with the Syrian rebels, harbors of Nicaragua with the Strait of Hormuz... afraid to say any more lest the A-men look my way.