I've Been Told

Annotation

The song "I've Been Told" by Paul Kaplan Oh I don't know, but I've been told".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — Civil Rights Songs

The record booklet described the artist: "Paul Kaplan is 18, from Chicago, was raised on Pete Seeger, Weaver, and Almanac records. He began writing and singing his own songs two years ago". The song "I've Been Told" by Paul Kaplan

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: They tell me let them supervise the fight / There's no one but the expert knows what's right / There's no one fighting here upon our shore / So you see you needn't worry any more / Oh I don't know, but I've been told... / They say we've got to fight to keep men free / We're saving all the world from slavery / The people all are fighting to be slaves / That's just the way those foreigners behave / Oh I don't know, but I've been told... / They say put down your picket sign, my son / The battles you were fighting all are won / The Test Ban Treaty outlawed World War III / The Bills of Civil Rights made all men free / Oh I don't know, but I've been told

Notes

Broadside Records BR 306, "The Time Will Come and other songs from Broadside Magazine", © 1967 Broadside Records, 701 Seventh Ave., New York, New York 10036; Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. R67-4140. The cover drawing, of the Kitchen Sing, O'Farrell Street, San Francisco (a heart on the wall reads "Love one another, the time is at hand"), is by Agnes Friesen; the cover lists Elaine White, Will McLean, Teatro Campesino, Chris Gaylord, Blind Girl Grunt, Paul Kaplan, Tom Parrott, Zachary 2 and Matthew Jones. Side II, Band 3 is "I've Been Told" by Paul Kaplan (Kaplan), and Band 4 "Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" by Tom Parrott, with John Mackiewicz on 2nd guitar (Parrott). The eight-page "Broadside Vol. 4" booklet in the pocket opens with a note by Gordon Friesen describing this as the fourth in a series of records of performer/songwriters singing songs first printed in Broadside…

About the artist

The record booklet described the artist: "Paul Kaplan is 18, from Chicago, was raised on Pete Seeger, Weaver, and Almanac records. He began writing and singing his own songs two years ago".

Themes

Anti-War · Civil Rights

In collections

Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]