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It's hard to touch Peter Paul and Mary's version but John actually wrote the song. Here he is on The Midnight Special 1972 with Momma Cass's extraordinarily beautiful harmony vocals. This song still brings me to tears 46 years later. John wrote the song about a girl and their relationship etc. but the song was unofficially adopted as the anthem for anyone sending a loved one off to fight in the Vietnam war. Cass would die 2 yrs later due to a heart attack and John would die 25 yrs later in a...

It's hard to touch Peter Paul and Mary's version but John actually wrote the song. Here he is on The Midnight Special 1972 with Momma Cass's extraordinarily beautiful harmony vocals. This song still brings me to tears 46 years later. John wrote the song about a girl and their relationship etc. but the song was unofficially adopted as the anthem for anyone sending a loved one off to fight in the Vietnam war. Cass would die 2 yrs later due to a heart attack and John would die 25 yrs later in a plane crash.