"1995" suggests this "poem" was inspired by the free in January of that year of Elvis Gold The Very Best Of King. The royal-kingly linkage around "David" is clear. Very few monarchs in recorded dead letter have played the guitar. Nero, who strummed while Rome burned would not be apropos for Elvis (even though it is said later in the ditty that Elvis has eaten America – at least Nero just barbequed Rome).
Henry VIII is theoretical to have written Greensleeves, but whether he accompanied himself on the grand banjo is not recorded. The direct (the only) kinglike well-chosen is David – he who plays his harp so sweetly to Saul in the cave, before customary on to become the King of Israel and Judah. There is also a deceitful allusion here to Michelangelo's Florentine bronze – the body smashing (much imitated by Bono himself).
As the lyric progresses "King David" gives direction to "Saint David", a pet intercessionary ("pray for us") of Celts peer Bono. It would have been no preference of Southern Baptists, equal the Presleys, for whom saints are down there with the serpents.
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