Freedoms We've Been Fighting For
1967 · Broadside BR 306 · USA
- Artist
- Tom Parrott
- Title
- Freedoms We've Been Fighting For
- Release
- Broadside Ballads, Vol. 4: The Time Will Come and Other Song
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Broadside # BR 306
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Tom Parrott
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Tom Parrott, born in Washington D.C., USA, in 1944, a prominent member of the contemporary folk scene in the 1960s, wrote many political songs addressing the Vietnam War, such as the song "The Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" (1967), the song "Hole in the Ground" (1968), and two songs about the My Lai massacre: "The Massacres of My Lai (Song My) and Truong An" (1969) and "Pinkville Helicopter" (1971). He frequently appeared in Broadside, with eleven songs published. (1) This was a mimeographed publication founded in 1962 by Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen, that promoted contemporary folk and protest songs. It also had a music label: Broadside Records. It usually published both lyrics and notations of songs, as well as articles and interviews about folk music, and newspaper clippings of current events. While many of the songs would have been played at the folk clubs and festivals, not all of them were recorded.The contemporary folk song song "The Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" by Tom Parrott of course took an anti-war / peace perspective, highlighting the hypocrisy in American foreign policy, running through a series of historical events. This included Indigenous Americans…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born 1944, Washington, DC, USA.