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Has a pecial meaning in Vietnam. Marcus Miller, an infantryman in the Mekong Delta during the war, said the song referred to the military “chain of command.”
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This song uses Biblical analogies and the story of Moses freeing the Jews from Egypt as an analogy for Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement.
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“Before I’ll be a slave, I’ll be buried in my grave, and go home to my Lord and be free,” inspiring the call for freedom in the Civil Rights movement.
