This Land
1967 · Accent AC 1234 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Shane Dominic
- Title
- This Land
- Release
- Going Home / This Land
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Accent # AC 1234
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Shane Dominic
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Garage Rock Songs
- Going Home (Dominic, Shane) - This Land (Dominic, Shane) - Both sides. Folk garage - A-side: soldier's perspective, fighting for? Combat - Done my job well, going home. Why did they send me? - Gave me a gun, fight, freedom must be won they said - I was very young, war is cruel and cold. - Young men die - I've been lucky, through hell - B-side: Anti-war, but anti-protest - In a bad state, why send young men to fight on foreign lands? - Riots and demonstrations go on - don't care about damage done - Must stop these awful wars
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation
Going Home (Dominic, Shane) This Land (Dominic, Shane) Both sides. Folk garage A-side: soldier's perspective, fighting for? Combat Done my job well, going home. Why did they send me? Gave me a gun, fight, freedom must be won they said I was very young, war is cruel and cold. Young men die - I've been lucky, through hell B-side: Anti-war, but anti-protest In a bad state, why send young men to fight on foreign lands? Riots and demonstrations go on - don't care about damage done Must stop these awful wars
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer