Thank You Daniel Ellsberg

Annotation

Hard rock group, formed in 1969 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, they disbanded in 1975. The song "Thank You Daniel Ellsberg" (Capitol Records # 3451), released on the 1972 album Passage (Capitol Records # SW-11109), of course praised Ellsberg as suggested in the title, whom they refer to casually as "Danny boy", for "all the notes that came from you" and for "scheming out all the schemers". The lyrics reference a "Louis Packwood" - but unable to find any information on this.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: I wanna thank you Daniel Ellsberg / For all the notes that came from you / I said I wanna thank you Daniel Ellsberg / And maybe Louis Packwood too / For scheming out all the schemers / You now have set a trend for you / I wanna thank you Danny boy / For what you said / For what you said and done / I said I wanna thank you Danny boy / For what you said and done / You've stricken from all the pages / But you don't know that you're the one

Notes

Capitol 3451 (S45-78890), ℗ 1972 Capitol Records, Inc.; "Thank You Daniel Ellsberg" (Cobb-Hill), intro :10, 3:12, Bloodrock Music, BMI; "Produced by Peter Granet & Ed Grundy for Bloodrock Productions"; "From the LP 'Passage' SW-11109"; red-and-orange label in Capitol company sleeve (Hollywood and Vine; factories Scranton, Los Angeles, Jacksonville). [From the record sleeve and labels]

About the artist

American hard rock band formed in the late 1960s in Fort Worth, Texas. [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War · Nixon · McNamara · Pentagon Papers

In collections

Ellsberg & Pentagon Papers Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]