The song tells of a lover whose love, by the name of Johnny, has gone off to become a soldier. This refers to how the men from the colonies left their wife and family at home in order to fight for freedom in the American Revolution. What this song can teach us is about the Revolutionary War and the life of those whose sons and fathers joined the resistance to fight the British. The impact was very hard on those who they left behind, both socially and economically (the men of the family were the ones who worked the jobs while the females typically stayed at home tending to the kids).
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