I haven’t asked Tim Carroll if he meant “Ted Sweatt” as an anti-war song, but it absolutely meets my high standards of a protest song. As a songwriter myself, I’d prefer not to know what he meant because everything you need is in the song and you, the listener, can decide whether this is just a tribute to a man from the same Indiana county as Tim, or whether there’s something more. Personally, I think this ranks up there with “Copperhead Road” on the list of great songs with social messages.
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