Henry Flynt & The Insurrections
Go Down
1966 · Locust locust 39 cd · USA
- Artist
- Henry Flynt & The Insurrections
- Title
- Go Down
- Release
- I Don't Wanna
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Locust # locust 39 cd
- Format
- CD · Archival
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Henry Flynt & The Insurrections
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Draft Songs
The album also included the song "Go Down" about the protest movement in the US. Flynt called on people to head down to Washington to oppose President Johnson's Vietnam war policy. He wanted people to tell LBJ that they would refuse the draft call, because they did not want to "burn a peasant" with a "napalm bomb". Also note the reference to prostitution in Saigon: "girls in the bars of Saigon".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Go down to the picket line and let Johnson know / You won't fight his dirty wars no more / You won't burn a peasant, napalm bomb / You won't find girls in the bars of Saigon / You don't want to see the hatred.... / They're sending folks away, and you have to pay / The draft board call up and you have to die / Go down to Washington and let Johnson know
Notes
Although released in 2004, the group recorded this album in 1966
About the artist
Born 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina
Themes
From the release I Don't Wanna
In collections
Draft Songs · Garage Rock Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]