There in Viet Nam
Bubbie 1003 · USA
- Artist
- Faith Willow
- Title
- There in Viet Nam
- Release
- There in Viet Nam / Ashes & Embers
- Label
- Bubbie # 1003
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- B. Willow
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "There in Viet Nam" (Bubbie Records # 1003) - a country music track that took an anti-war position. It placed a strong emphasis on the contrast between the voting age and the draft age. The narrator also expressed moral and religious opposition to the war, quoting the bible: "thou shall not kill". Yet, she also defended the previous generation's conflict as a just war for freedom: "his daddy fought in World War Two so that we can live in peace". Released in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Written by B. Willow. Produced by Frank Dell.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Back home they say he's not a man until he's old enough to vote / Yet he's old enough to fight in Vietnam so he's been told / He went to school and church so that he would be a better man / But who needs an education just to kill another / Man, back home he was a clean cut kid / And never did get into fights / But now he's learned he is a man / Without no rights, he never had a chance to vote / So he's really not a man / But he faces the enemy over there in Vietnam... / The bible tells that thou shall not kill / And that we should live in peace / But the world is filled with hate / One prays down on his knees / No one seems to think they're wrong / Everybody thinks they are right / That's why he's there in Vietnam / In those jungles he must fight / Cause it's wrong to take a life... / If he did it while at home, then he would be in prison for lifetime / Their babies cry, they starve and die / The bullets fill the air / He's over there to spread more hate / There is destruction everywhere / Men have died before there time / And more will die today... / His daddy fought in World War Two so that we can live in peace / And we know his heart was broken when they sent him overseas / I hope that one day that men will learn the meaning of true hell / He's old enough to fight they say, but too young to vote
Notes
Bubbie Records 1003-A, P. O. Box 10806, Midwest City, Oklahoma; "There in Viet Nam" (B. Willow), 4:00, Albin Dell Music Co., BMI; produced by Frank Dell. [From the record sleeve and labels]