Its amazing really all these Vietnam era songs so aptly protray modern day america. Maybe the US hasn’t changed or learned from the lessons of Vietnam. Of course i am ignoring a great many other songs by just mentioning these 3. Led Zepplin had some as did alot of the “classic rockers”.
I guess history does come full circle.
For those who have no clue what i am talking about:
Seminole i now realise that i am the very meaning of your life as you and OG are so pathetic that you my very posts set your bloody boiling. You are truly an inspiration to your family.
^hahaha. You never cease to amaze with your obsession and exaggeration of your wit, wisdom and worth. I do find your posts amusing because you are so full of yourself and yet usually get all the facts wrong. There is a difference between being intimated by your posts and laughing at them.
As an alumni of Kent State, the best Vietnam protest song ever created:
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Ohio
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down. Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down. Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio,
four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, how many more?
Four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, home many more?
OG - They mentioned that one in the link - a personal fav of mine
My mother played Lucky Man over and over and over in my childhood, lol, one of the reasons it popped there so quickly
I'm surprised that instead of posting what he thinks are the protest songs of the Vietnam Era, CM doesn't look into the roots of songs like Go Down Moses or Bread and Roses or We shall overcome. They would work better in his campaign to bait Americans. But orginality was never a strong suit of his I guess.
I spent the summer of 1974 in the Tehachapi mountains of California. There was a church group of 25 or so kids, working at La Paz, the headquarters of the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez. We all sang "We Shall Overcome" in Spanish. to this day I can't sing the song without singing it in Spanish in my head. That song really captured the struggle there.
Marched in every march there was in MA and RI (dinky states in the Equal Rights movement) and I remember a march I was in at 9 when the police were waving traffic into the middle of the parade even though we had a permit - my mother got it the week before. One cop roared up the strret on a motorcylcle and hooked the woman standing next to me's arm with his mirror and dragged her half a block before stopping long enough for her to fall.
Do you want to know what we were protesting? Irony.... WAVAW - Women Against Violence Against Women (ie domestic abuse and rape).
Ceasar Chavez was a bit before my time :) 74 - I was ten
I was at Kent State from 1975 to 1979, just a couple of years after the shootings there. On May fourth the campus would be filled with protesters bused in from Berkley, Columbia, and everywhere you could think of around the country. There was no school that day, and from every dorm "ohio" would be played from speakers hung out of the windows. At night there was always a candlelight vigil, with 5 to 10 thousand kids. Perfectly silent, and very eerie. There were so many kids packed in rooms that the dorms would just about burst.
One year they were going to expand the gym over one of the areas where the National Guard had marched. My roommate buried himself neck deep in the ground in front of a tree that was due to be leveled the next day. In the morning some hard hat drove a bulldozer to within an inch of his neck. My roomie, somewhat soiled, was dug up rather quickly. It was our little Tienanmen Square. Made the National news. The gym turned out well however and we all played racquetball there, even my roomie. He was later arrested in Florida on spring break with a Maytag dryer box full of dope. Those were the days.
