Cecil grew up in Northern Ireland. One day I heard him performing in a pub and singing a song called Hold Your Head. It is a simple but incredibly powerful song. I asked him if I could have the words. A few days later, he sent them to me, with the annotation: "If people like it, tell them I wrote it; if they don't, say you wrote it!" I have always introduced the song with this story.
I have played it throughout Europe. It is about the futility of war and about the common attributes of humanity. The third and final verse goes as follows: "Your blood runs red as mine runs red, our tears fall just the same, the only difference is our creed, our colour and our name." The chorus shifts from watching those people die to watching our people die.
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