This is a World War I song World War I fascinates me because it was such a shock to the world Nothing before or since has come close It was a horrible, horrible event It was modern weaponry and cavalry and then tanks They fought for four years over a hundred yards, some ridiculously small amount of ground It's the stupidest event in history
This is one of those songs that I just can't sing - it's right in one of the cracks in my range So we did it to approximate what a recording of that era would sound like I know Mitchell's going to get blamed in some review for using all these effects, but we did it because I simply can't sing the thing