Lyrics of song about the war in Vietnam
Elad
I need lyrics to songs about the war in Vietnam.
Thanx
~ELAD~
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Joerg Schenk
> > I need lyrics to songs about the war in Vietnam.
> > Thanx
>
> Some titles that might get you started:
>
> "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)"/Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
>
> "Feel like I'm fixin' to die rag"/Country Joe & The Fish
>
> For the following, all I remember is the title:
>
> "Draft morning"/Byrds
One of the most famous is : 19 by Paul Hardcastle (1985)
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Childuf60s
geez, didn't I just post this about 2 weeks ago?
Here are some titles of peace and protest songs from that era....pick one and
I'll send you the lyrics.. excuse caps please...don't mean to shout but I had
them in macros and didn't feel like retyping them again.
FOR WHAT ITS WORTH - BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
I-FEEL-LIKE-I'M-FIXIN'-TO-DIE-RAG - COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH
EVE OF DESTRUCTION - BARRY MCGUIRE
GET TOGETHER, THE YOUNGBLOODS
OHIO - CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG
THE CRUEL WAR - PETER PAUL AND MARY
PEACE TRAIN - CAT STEVENS
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE - THE BEATLES
SCARBOROUGH FAIR / CANTICLE - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
ALICE'S RESTAURANT - ARLO GUTHRIE
SWEET CHERRY WINE - TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS
TURN TURN TURN - THE BYRDS
ABRAHAM MARTIN AND JOHN - DION
WAR - EDWIN STARR (UGH! GOOD GOD Y'ALL!)
FORTUNATE SON - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND - BOB DYLAN, PETER PAUL & MARY AND OTHERS!
WHAT'S GOING ON - MARVIN GAYE
BALL OF CONFUSION - THE TEMPTATIONS
PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE - RASCALS
LAY DOWN - MELANIE (AND THE EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS)
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - DONOVAN
SKY PILOT - ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS
YELLOW RIVER - CHRISTIE
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING - BOB DYLAN
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER - THE DOORS
ONE TIN SOLDIER (BILLY JACK) - COVEN OR ORIGINAL CASTE
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE - KINGSTON TRIO AND OTHERS
DAY IS DONE - PETER PAUL AND MARY, JUDY COLLINS AND OTHERS
REVOLUTION - THE BEATLES
REQUIEM FOR THE MASSES - THE ASSOCIATION
THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE - PHIL OCHS
LOVE TRAIN
SAN FRANCISCAN NIGHTS - ERIC BURDEN AND THE ANIMALS
WOODEN SHIPS - CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG
IMAGINE - JOHN LENNON
Lacrymosa6
"Drive On" by Johnny Cash is a good one.
"I got a friend named Whisky Sam
He was my boony red (?) buddy for a year in 'Nam
He said, 'I think my country got a little off track'
It took him 25 years to welcome me back
But its better than not coming back at all
Many a good man I saw fall
And even now, everytime I dream
I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream
(chorus)
Drive on, it don't mean nothing
My children love me but they don't understand
And I got a woman who knows a man
Drive on, it don't mean nothing
it don't mean nothing, drive on
(end of chorus)
I remember one night when Tex and me
Rappled in on a hot LZ
We had our 16's on rock-and-roll
And with all of that fire I was scared and cold
We've been crazy, and we've been wild
And I had seen the tiger smile
I spit in a bamboo viper's face
And I'd be dead but by God's grace
(Chorus)
It was a long walk in a sad rain
And nobody tried to be John Wayne
I came home, but Tex did not
And I can't talk about the hit he got
Now I got a little limp when I walk
And I got a little tremolo when I talk
But the letter I got from Whisky Sam
Said, 'you're a walking, talking miracle from Vietnam.'
(Chorus)"
I just recently saw Johnny Cash perform this song on "VH1 Storytellers" and
since it was "Storytellers", he told a little bit about how he came to write
the song. The cd of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson on VH1 Storytellers is
available in stores now, if you're interested in hearing the song.
Tiny Dancer
And so the word went out from Neil Koomen <neilk...@NOSPAMearthlink.net>:
Child of the 60's offered:
>> SCARBOROUGH FAIR / CANTICLE - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Neil writes:
>Think the above was an old British folk song adapter by S&G.
Yes, the "Scarborough Fair" part of the song was an oldie, but
I do believe "Canticle" rates as an anti-war song, and Vietnam
was definitely on everyone's mind when the album came out.
Here's the lyrics for the whole thing, for those that care, with
"Canticle" in brackets:
Scarborough Fair/Canticle
Are you going to Scarborough Fair:
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt:
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams or needle work,
(Or blankets or bedclothes, the child of a mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
(Sleeps unaware of a clarion call)
Tell her to find me an acre of land:
(On the side of a hill or a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
(Washes the grave with silvery tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand,
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather:
(War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And gather it all in a bunch of heather,
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Are you going to Scarborough Fair:
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.
Cheers,
TD
Webmistress of The Sesame Street Lyric & Sound Archives
http://www.globalserve.net/~rhonda/sesame1.html
well somebody had to do it!
Joerg Schenk
Another Vietnam song: Camouflage by Stan Ridgeway (singer of Wall of Voodoo)
1986
--
Andy Blunden
Joerg Schenk wrote:
Another truly Vietnam song
'He was only 19' by Redgum (Australia)
and yet another one
'And the band played Waltzing Matilda'
(maybe same band)
missewon
Childuf60s wrote:
>
> geez, didn't I just post this about 2 weeks ago?
>
> Here are some titles of peace and protest songs from that era....pick one and
> I'll send you the lyrics.. excuse caps please...don't mean to shout but I had
> them in macros and didn't feel like retyping them again.
>
> FOR WHAT ITS WORTH - BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
> I-FEEL-LIKE-I'M-FIXIN'-TO-DIE-RAG - COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH
> EVE OF DESTRUCTION - BARRY MCGUIRE
> GET TOGETHER, THE YOUNGBLOODS
> OHIO - CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG
> THE CRUEL WAR - PETER PAUL AND MARY
> PEACE TRAIN - CAT STEVENS
> GIVE PEACE A CHANCE - THE BEATLES
hey... childuf, ltns!
even though For What It's Worth sounds like a protest about war, I've
seen it said many times that the song is really about a protest by
youths that hung out at the Sunset Strip in the sixties and how they had
a curfew or somethin'.
It says on The Rough Guide to Rock website
(http://www.roughguides.com/rock/index.html)
<< in early 1967 the group entered the US Top 10 with
Stills' "For What It's Worth", inspired by teenage
riots on LA's Sunset Strip. One of the best protest
songs of the 60s, it remains the band's most famous
recording. >>
other than the buffalo springfield thang... the only thing else i'd like
to say is:
> GIVE PEACE A CHANCE - THE BEATLES
shouldn't that really be John Lennon?
> ONE TIN SOLDIER (BILLY JACK) - COVEN OR ORIGINAL CASTE
caste is something entirely different than cast.
well... now that i've nit-picked your list... i think i'll mosey on.
Luv,
MissE
Dennis Jacques
Bob Seger wrote two great songs you might be
interested in: "2+2=?", which is definitely about the
Vietnam war, and "Looking Back," which alludes to
it.
Dennis Jacques
Palmdale, Ca.
Harold Groot
>Another truly Vietnam song
>'He was only 19' by Redgum (Australia)
>and yet another one
>'And the band played Waltzing Matilda'
>(maybe same band)
Ummm.... "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" dealt with events in
World War I. Perhaps you meant it was a good "Anti-War" song rather
than a "truly Vietnam" song? Written by Eric Bogle, it's been covered
by many bands. Eric's "No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green
Fields of France") also falls into this category - the victim was a
World War I soldier, but the song is a blanket condemnation of war.
If you want something by Eric dealing specifically with Vietnam, try
"Welcome Home".
rm...@my-dejanews.com
In article <357eace9...@news.netvision.net.il>,
"Sam Stone" by John Prine, is another of those songs that spins a tale about
the mental anguish suffered by some of the vets, and the resulting drug
problem suffered by many.
Sam Stone came home to his wife and family
after serving in the conflict over seas.
And the time that he served had shattered all his nerves
and left a little schrapnel in his knees.
but the morphine eased the pain
and the grass grew around his brain
and gave him all the confidence he lacked.
with a purple heart and a monkee on his back.
(Chorus)
there's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes.
and Jesus Christ died for nothin' i suppose.
little pictures have big ears, don't stop to count the years
sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
(skip to last verse, a good one)
Sam Stone was alone when he popped his last balloon
climbing walls while sittin' in a chair.
Well he played his last request, while the room smelled just like death
with an overdose hoverin' in the air.
But life had lost it's fun.
Now there's nothin' to be done
but trade his house that he bought on the GI bill,
for a flag draped casket on a local heros hill.
Chorus
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 rm...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:01:11 GMT
> From: rm...@my-dejanews.com
> Newsgroups: alt.music.lyrics
> Subject: Re: Lyrics of song about the war in Vietnam
>
> In article <357eace9...@news.netvision.net.il>,
> e...@netvision.net.il (Elad) wrote:
> >
> > I need lyrics to songs about the war in Vietnam.
> > Thanx
> >
>
Where can I get the complete song? (And some other ones by Prine?)
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>Where can I get the complete song? (And some other ones by Prine?)
There's a very good John Prine lyrics archive at
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1985/lyrics/lyrics.htm
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.980629085411.1823D-100000@comp>,
>
> Where can I get the complete song? (And some other ones by Prine?)
I've searched and haven't found a dedicated Prine site. Too bad, because he
really has some good acoustic/folk tunes. If you find a site, look for words
to Dear Abby, Souvenirs, Illegal Smile, Hello in There, My Old Man etc. Good
Luck
Here's the missing, 2nd, verse:
Sam Stone's welcome home didn't last too long.
He wen't to work when he'd spent his last dime.
And Sammy went to stealin'when he got that empty feelin'
For a hundred dollar habit, without overtime.
And the gold ran thru his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains
and eased his mind in the hours that he chose.
While his kids ran around wearin' other people's clothes.
nicholas vavro
cont...@webtv.net (Dennis Jacques) wrote:
>Dennis Jacques
>Palmdale, Ca.
I remember one with spoken text called The Ballad Of Two Brothers but
forgot who sung it?
Also don't forget The Ballad of the Green Berets by Sgt. Barry
Sandler. Nick
Gary Lee
I don`t know if it`s been mentioned yet, but there is a Donovan song
called "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting".
BHawkes926
How about STILL IN SAIGON by Charlie Daniels. I also have an album recorded
on 7" reel tape that is all about Vietnam. I can't remember the names of any
of them at the time but can look them up if you're interested.
Bruce.