That Crazy War
Rural Rhythm RRDU 45-714 · USA
- Artist
- Dick Unteed
- Title
- That Crazy War
- Release
- That Crazy War / 11 More Months & 10 More Days
- Label
- Rural Rhythm # RRDU 45-714
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Country · Bluegrass
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song That Crazy War (Unteed, Dick) bluegrass. anti-war. reference to first and second world wars.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Now over there across the seas they've got another war / But oh I wonder if they know what they're fighting for / In that war, that crazy war / In 1917 you know we helped them win their fight / But all we got was a lesson of what German's said was right / I was a simple country lad, I lived out on a farm / I never even killed a man or done anybody harm / Until that war, that crazy war / One day the sheriff caught me and said come along son / Your Uncle Sam is needing you to help him tow the gun / They took me down the court house, my head was in whirl / And when the doctors passed me, I wish I'd been a girl / They took me out to the rifle range to hear the bullets ring / I shot the whole day long and never hit a thing... / And when we got to sunny France I looked around... / A cannon ball flew overhead, a started home right then... / Now over there in Vietnam were in another war / And after 50 years we still no what we're fighting for / In that war, that crazy war / Now over there across the seas they've got another war / But oh I wonder if they know what they're fighting for / In that war, that crazy war / In 1917 you know we helped them win their fight / But all we got was a lesson of what German's said was right / I was a simple country lad, I lived out on a farm / I never even killed a man or done anybody harm / Until that war, that crazy war / One day the sheriff caught me and said come along son / Your Uncle Sam is needing you to help him tow the gun / They…
Notes
Rural Rhythm Presents RRDU 45-714, side one, 45 RPM; "That Crazy War" (arr. Uncle J. O'Neal), time 2:53, Sage Brush Music (BMI); Dick Unteed, "From RRDU 212 LP Album", "Produced by Lee Sutton". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Dick Unteed (born 23 December 1916, Trinway, Ohio) was an American country and bluegrass musician who led the Pine Mountain Boys. 'That Crazy War' was issued on Rural Rhythm RRDU 714 in 1969. [Source: Discogs; RCS (Rockin' Country Style); Rural Rhythm label discography]