I keep trying to find words for this song, I mean, my own words, to write down, but it's tough sometimes. I'll just fumble through it as best I can.

In 1960, Buddy Holly had been dead for a year and the record company was churning out posthumous releases and on the second one there was this song. I can't get exact data on when it was recorded (a page online says 1958), but it always floors me at how ahead of his time Buddy Holly was. I mean, this is a wimpy folk song on par with something you'd hear these days (or at least 10+ years later), though the lyrics are distinctly Buddy Holly, but he wrote this before The Beatles, before Bob Dylan, while Elvis was making his money playing other people's rock'n'roll. This was before Vietnam, before hippies, back when you could still drive 100mph on freeways without wearing your safety belt... But I guess the coolest thing is that in 1958, the Peace symbol was originally designed.

The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament. In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol.

I did not know that.