Christmas '65 (Draft Cards)
1965 · Rhino Handmade RHM2 7891 · Los Angeles, California
- Artist
- Allan Sherman
- Title
- Christmas '65 (Draft Cards)
- Release
- My Son The Box (Disc 5)
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Rhino Handmade # RHM2 7891
- Format
- CD · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Allan Sherman
- Genre
- Novelty · Novelty · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Christmas Songs
The song "Christmas '65 (The Draft)" (Rhino Handmade) was not released at the time, but was recorded in 1965. A comedy piece, it represents the prominence of the draft and the expansion of the Vietnam War in 1965, with references to "draft cards burning...protesters marching...rock and rolling silent night".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Draft cards burning on a burning fire / Protesters marching everywhere / Living costs getting higher and higher / Air pollution fills the air / Kids with too much hair.... / Rock and rolling silent night / And of course there is that old Ku Klux Klan / They're hoping that Christmas will be white / Dear old red China has the bomb / There is also Castro, John Birch, and Vietnam... / Before we are blown away there is still time to say Merry Christmas to you
About the artist
Born 30 November 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 20 November 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
Themes
Christmas · Draft Card Burning · Demonstration · Atomic · China (Cold War) · Fidel Castro · LBJ · De Gaulle · Draft · KKK · John Birch Society