The Last Ballad for Vietnam
1970 · Tin Pan Alley TPA 70-660 · Sarasota, Florida
- Artist
- Mike Thomas
- Title
- The Last Ballad for Vietnam
- Release
- The Last Ballad for Vietnam
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Tin Pan Alley # TPA 70-660
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Sarasota, Florida, USA
- Songwriter
- David Webster
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Last Ballad for Vietnam, The (Thomas, Mike)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
Last Ballad for Vietnam, The (Thomas, Mike) Song poem, leans anti-war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "The Last Ballad for Vietnam" - Label: Tin Pan Alley # TPA 70-660 - Songwriter: David Webster - Sarasota, Florida - Both patriotic and protest content - Are we slave being forced to fight in a war? - But we fight for a cause - People are dying because "they lied" - anti-govt, anti-military (although who lied not specified) - Overall, lean protest song for primary theme.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Houses they are blue and grey / Like soldiers who move as dawn of day / I realise now why people die / Is it because they have all lied / Or is it since they have picked up arms / And been to war with lucky charms / They say slaves shall be free / But are we not slaves to have to fight / They are right, though we are right / Like the day turns into night / And went on and on ? / Rainy day, the war was done / What will we say but that's all there is / Will we fight for a cause, of course we will / All the world will stand for still
Notes
Tin Pan Alley Records TPA 70-660A, light-blue label; "The Last Ballad for Vietnam" (David Webster), 3:06, Juke Box Alley, ASCAP; Mike Thomas; Tin Pan Alley, Inc., Sarasota, Florida 33578. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
American song-poem vocalist: house singer for the New York-based Tin Pan Alley song-poem label in the 1960s, credited with recording thousands of song-poems, including many Vietnam-themed titles; 'A Fearless Soldier' (1967) was anthologised on Bear Family's 'Next Stop Is Vietnam' (2010). [Source: Bear Family 'Next Stop Is Vietnam' / song-poem collector archives]