Peace Frog
1970s · Elektra EKS-75007 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- The Doors
- Title
- Peace Frog
- Release
- Morrison Hotel
- Year
- 1970s
- Label
- Elektra # EKS-75007
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Rock · Psychedelic Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Psychedelic rock group, formed in July 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA, featuring Robby Krieger (guitar), John Densmore (drums), Ray Manzarek (keyboards, bass pedals, vocals), and Jim Morrison (vocals, 1965-71). The song "Peace Frog" (Elektra Records # EKS-75007) contained a potentially minor reference to Chicago 1968 with the line "blood in the street, the town of Chicago, blood on the rise, it's followin' me". Also note that the group also released the Vietnam War-related song "Universal Soldier" on their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun..
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — 1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs
Psychedelic rock group, formed in July 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA, featuring Robby Krieger (guitar), John Densmore (drums), Ray Manzarek (keyboards, bass pedals, vocals), and Jim Morrison (vocals, 1965-71). The song "Peace Frog" (Elektra Records # EKS-75007) contained a potentially minor reference to Chicago 1968 with the line "blood in the street, the town of Chicago, blood on the rise, it's followin' me". Also note that the group also released the Vietnam War-related song "Universal Soldier" on their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: There's blood in the streets / It's up to my ankles / There's blood in the streets / It's up to my knees / Blood in the street / The town of Chicago / Blood on the rise / It's followin' me / Just about the break of day / She came in / And she drove away / Sunlight in her hair / Blood on the streets / Runs a river of sadness / Blood in the streets / It's up to my thighs / The river runs down / The leg of the city / The women are crying / Red rivers of weeping / She came in town / And then she drove away / Sunlight in her hair / Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding / Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile / Egg-shell mind / Blood in the streets / In the town of New Haven / Blood stains the roofs / And the palm tress of Venice / Blood in my love / In the terrible summer / Bloody red sun of / Fantastic L.A. / Blood screams her brain / As they chop off her fingers / Blood will be born / In the birth of a nation / Blood is the rose of / Mysterious union / There's blood in the streets / It's up to my ankles / Blood in the streets / It's up to my knees / Blood in the street / The town of Chicago / Blood on the rise / It's followin' me
About the artist
formed in July 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA, featuring Robby Krieger (guitar), John Densmore (drums), Ray Manzarek (keyboards, bass pedals, vocals), and Jim Morrison (vocals, 1965-71).
Themes
In collections
1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]