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Unfortunately, the original song was not about war and love. The young man wasn't a soldier who died in a war. In fact, he broke up with his lover and did not want to take her back. But, in any rate, it's a beautiful song. I love it. Thanks.

The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.