His widow notes that he was proven right twenty years later
and bitter, for other surviving lost, like the narrator who asks his dead friend, "if your eyes could cut through that black stone, tell me would they recognize me?" Echoing "Straight Time," he adds, "For the living time it must be served, the day goes on." The bottle of beer should probably be one supplied to troops, but that was likely to be a mass produced lager or Pilsner, not craft and not the dark and heavy beer here, aesthetically appropriate for the song
Here is the breakdown: Market Share in FY2024: 3-Year Market Share Trend from FY2021 to FY2024: 5-Year Market Share Trend from FY2019 to FY2024: Cigarette Market Share in Poland and Spain The definition of PMIs cigarette market share is available here: cigarette market share
Of the total tobacco taxes collected in 2011 by all states and localities of $17.65 billion, the net importing states lost an estimated $2.95 billion in state cigarette excise taxes
