Napalm Sticks to Kids
1972 · Paredon P-1015 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- The Covered Wagon Musicians
- Title
- Napalm Sticks to Kids
- Release
- We Say No to Your War!
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Paredon # P-1015
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Another GI movement anti-war record (Paredon Records # P-1015), released on the label founded by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber - all the songs were written and sung by active-duty GIs at the Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The group, formed in the spring of 1971, started their own publication called "Helping Hand". (1) The most memorable and startling track is "Napalm Sticks to Kids", a vivid account of US forces indiscriminately dropping bombs on Vietnam, hitting pregnant women, children, and other civilians. The focus of the song is chemical weapon Napalm B - a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973. The record booklet credited the song to "Air Force and Army GIs attached to the 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam. Recited by Sgt. John Boychuk....a group of GIs sat down one night in a hootch in Vietnam to write these words. Each person made a verse about an incident in which he had taken part and the poem expresses their collective bitterness toward the military that had turned them into…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Group of active-duty US Air Force GIs based at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho (1971-72); recorded the antiwar album We Say No to Your War! (Paredon Records, 1972). [Source: Wikipedia / Discogs]
Themes
In collections
Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs · US Military & Veteran Songs