Patriotic Flag Waver (Long Version)
1969 · Atco 45-6697 · New Orleans, Louisiana
- Artist
- Dr. John
- Title
- Patriotic Flag Waver (Long Version)
- Release
- The Patriotic Flag Waver
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Atco # 45-6697
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Songwriter
- Dr. John Creaux
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Funk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Patriotic Flag Waver (Dr. John) Blues rock. Anti-war, reference to Vietnam and draft card burning protests.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Civil Rights Songs
"My country, tis of thee / Sweet land of liberty / Of thee I sing" / I wear a ten gallon hat / And I carry a baseball bat / Down on the corner of the 6th and Main Street / Stick all the communists in one neighborhood / Terrorize their children, will make you feel real good / Down on the corner of 6th and Main Street / I belong to the KKK and the NAACP and the John Birch Society / A missile director, propaganda collector / A women's elector, Castro defector / A medical dissector, a states' rights protector / Professional soldier, a conscious objector..."
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born New Orleans, Louisiana.
Themes
Anti-War · Civil Rights · KKK · Black Panther · Cold War · Draft · Draft Card Burning · John Birch Society · Drugs
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Draft Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs