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
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
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: 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
Notes
Pearce No. 5837, Side Two, orange and olive label; "My Lai (In Remembrance of Polynices)" (G. Davis), time 1:33, Limestone Pub. Co., BMI; "A Division of Cavern Sound Corp., 16400 E. Truman Rd., Indep., Mo." [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]