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The song is entirely, to my knowledge, fictional. What it is about is a young man who is non-violent, his father having died in prison ( it is not stated if this was natural causes or execution) the man"s pacifist tendencies are retained until a violent assault ( it could have been worse) on the Coward"s wife - called Becky causes him to change from dove to Hawk and negates the peace message. the song, as far as I know is entirely fictional. Some people have read into the unrelated by tragic song ( Honey) the possibility that the title character was raped and murdered by a Motorcycle Gang, The Hells Angels. This is not so, but if you add Hell"s to the line, the Angels came it is possible. Based on the evidence in Coward- the girl was the wife of the title character and was named Becky. Curiously enough Becky ( Rebecca) was the wife of pioneer frontiersman Daniel Boone!

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