Kris Kristofferson was a helicopter pilot stationed in Morgan City Louisiana flying crews back and forth to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico when he wrote it
These characters are very, very weak... They are too young to put it into context. BTW, Chris Christopherson was a graduate of a service academy who dropped out of the service and went on to Nashville and worked as a janitor. These two guys are totally unworthy of the history they are trying to convey... 👎
and yet I learned something from their video, that Jerry Lee Lewis covered this song. We can all learn something, also the spelling of the song's author is Kris Kristofferson 😉