“In 1943, 44 volunteer oil workers from Oklahoma and Texas - known as 'roughnecks' - travelled to England to help increase production from the oilfield near Nottingham. The work was hard, as were the rigours of wartime Britain. One Texan, Hermann Douthit, was killed and is the only civilian to be buried in the US military cemetery in Cambridgeshire. The 'oil warrior' statue in Dukes Wood now commemorates the team.

“I wanted to write a song about this little known and once top-secret wartime episode. Since I think the team would have known the 'cowboy jazz' sound of western swing this would be the musical style for the song. The 'Homer' of the song is purely imaginary.”
Mark Tindle February 2004

MUSICIANS:-
MARK TINDLE - VOCALS, MANDOLIN
DAVE PROCTOR - STEEL GUITAR
PETE CHRISTIAN - DOUBLE BASS
STEVE BAILEY - ACOUSTIC GUITAR