My Lai (In Remembrance of Polynices)
1970 · Pearce 5837 · Independence, Missouri
- Artist
- Gary Davis
- Title
- My Lai (In Remembrance of Polynices)
- Release
- Janis and Jimi / My Lai (In Remembrance of Polynices)
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Pearce # 5837
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Independence, Missouri, USA
- Songwriter
- G. Davis
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
My Lai (In Remembrance of Polynices) (Davis, Gary) Calley / My Lai song. Folk rock. Anti-war. Anti-Calley From Independence, MO. Pearce (# 5837). Sub-label of Cavern Records "Sure good to see, glad to have you back from the war But do you hold life as sacred as you held it before Did the smell and death change your life in any way Or are you the boy I knew yesterday Don't let them justify it, you heard their cries A smile can't erase what's there in your eyes And compassion for man, how absurd it all seems To have taken a life and still be in your teens It sad you discovered another horrible truth Yet lucky you found it so early in youth A war to end war, though it really can't be True peace is a dream the world shall never see And now that you killed a man do you give a damn"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
- My Lai (In Remembrance of Polynices) (Davis, Gary) - Calley / My Lai song. Folk rock. Anti-war. Anti-Calley - From Independence, Missouri - Pearce (# 5837). Sub-label of Cavern Records "Sure good to see, glad to have you back from the war / But do you hold life as sacred as you held it before / Did the smell and death change your life in any way / Or are you the boy I knew yesterday / Don't let them justify it, you heard their cries / A smile can't erase what's there in your eyes / And compassion for man, how absurd it all seems / To have taken a life and still be in your teens / It sad you discovered another horrible truth / Yet lucky you found it so early in youth / A war to end war, though it really can't be / True peace is a dream the world shall never see / And now that you killed a man do you give a damn"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - no admissible source documents this record. 'My Lai (In Remembrance of Polynices)' appears in no record database; the subtitle refers to the unburied brother in Sophocles' Antigone, which suggests a concert or theatre work rather than a commercial release, and would explain its absence from discographies. [Source: Discogs, AllMusic and Smithsonian Folkways (negative searches)]
Themes
In collections
My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs