Kao even heard college students singing it while he was incarcerated at the Orchid Island prison farm. Ironically, it was the ideals that had given rise to the song that put him in shackles, doing hard labor on the Orchid Island Airport and the highway around the island.
高子洋在蘭嶼農場接受管訓期間，也聽到大專生傳唱這首歌，諷刺的是，創作者卻因為這首歌的理念，正拖著數公斤重的腳鐐在烈日下做苦工，參與闢建蘭嶼機場、環島公路的勞動管訓。