Set Calley Free Part I
1971 · Triangle Sound TR 001 · USA
- Artist
- Free Blue
- Title
- Set Calley Free Part I
- Release
- Set Calley Free Part I / Part II
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Triangle Sound # TR 001
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Dave Hall
- Genre
- Easy Listening · Easy Listening
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
The song "Set Calley Free Part I" (Triangle Sound Inc. # TR 001) - a pro-Calley track, which sounded like a presidential campaign song.. Released by the obscure group Free Blue - unknown location and biography - the narrator argued that Calley "kills the way" the government / military "taught him", yet they "call him a murderer". At the end of the song, they posed the question: "is this the freedom we are all fighting for?" Thus it took the position that Calley did not bear responsibility for the massacre.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
The song "Set Calley Free Part I" (Triangle Sound Inc. # TR 001) - a pro-Calley track, which sounded like a presidential campaign song. Released by the obscure group Free Blue - unknown location and biography - the narrator argued that Calley "kills the way" the government / military "taught him", yet they "call him a murderer". At the end of the song, they posed the question: "is this the freedom we are all fighting for?" Thus it took the position that Calley did not bear responsibility for the massacre.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: You sent him off to battle to take...a life / And the reason he don't understand / You take his life and use it as you want to / And you say that's the way its got to be / He kills the way you taught him / And you call him a murderer / You better stop and think and set him free / Set him free... / Remember he didn't start the war... / Is this the freedom we are all fighting for? This man has been crucified in a Columbus, Georgia army court room / Nailed to a cross of forgetfulness... / What did he do but obey as he should... / If this is the only wrong, then America, you have condemned..the entire system for democratic government, set him free
Notes
Triangle Sound Inc. TR 001, white label with microphone logo; Free Blue; Purple Rooster Music BMI; producer Bob Riley. Side A: "Set Calley Free Part I" (Dave Hall), 2:40. Side B: "Set Calley Free Part II" (Dave Hall - Robert Riley), 2:00. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
Patriotic · My Lai · Pro-Calley · Calley-Jesus · Calley-Justice · Calley-Order · Pro-Soldier
In collections
My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]