People took it as a protest song against the South African rulers in '68. The composer said it was about a mine worker telling his boss he was going elsewhere. Maybe he meant both things. When she sings it, neither situation is what first comes to mind.
If you can describe even a small human experience just right, it echoes in many others.
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I remember it, but I don't think I ever attended to the words. I couldn't place it to a year in school, so I had to look it up. Feb 1968. Freshman year for me.
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