Thank God the War Is Over
1970 · Canyon [Hollywood] 33 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Tiffany Bolling
- Title
- Thank God the War Is Over
- Release
- Let It Be / Thank God the War Is Over
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Canyon [Hollywood] # 33
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Peter Tevis
- Genre
- Easy Listening · Sunshine Pop · Easy Listening
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Tiffany Bolling, from Santa Monica, California, is an American actress and singer, known for starring in several 70s cult B-movies, such as The Candy Snatchers. She released an album in 1970 called Tiffany. The easy listening lounge pop song "Thank God the War Is Over" (Canyon Records # 33) imagined the end of the Vietnam conflict. It emotionally recalled the many deaths of "our boys", the sacrifices made, and its impact on those left home, asking the question: "how many times will they take our men away saying peace must be secured". Therefore, this song took an anti-war perspective, and it contained a degree of skepticism regarding the government's justification for the war. Peter Tevis composed, arranged, conducted, and produced this single. The Dave Pell Singers also released a version of this song on the 1969 album Mah-Na-Mah-Na (Liberty Records # LST 7631).1Sources1Billboard, 11 July 1970↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Thank god the war is over / Thank god our boys are coming home / I'll sing it loud and clear so everyone can hear / Cause I want my man at home / I woke up this morning there was a man on the moon / Television say peace was coming soon / As I drove to town a graveyard passed me by / Where a thousand soldier's crosses stood pale against the sky.... / How many times will they take our men away / Saying peace must be secured / And then leaving us to pray / We've lived our lonely hours while our lives passed us by / Now's the time to end the fear that our young man will die
Notes
Canyon Records Inc., Hollywood, Calif., #33, side 33-B; "Thank God the War Is Over" (Peter Tevis), 4:20, Wally Roker Music/Figgy Music (BMI), "From her album" on Canyon; Tiffany Bolling, "Arranged & Conducted by Peter Tevis", "A Peter Tevis Production"; black-and-silver label. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 6 February 1946, Santa Monica, California, USA