Viet Nam
Green Mountain GM-101 · USA
- Artist
- Pat Bohlman & Edwin Maderia
- Title
- Viet Nam
- Release
- Viet Nam / St. Ann's
- Label
- Green Mountain # GM-101
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Pat Bohlman, Edwin Maderia
- Genre
- Country · Country Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The country anti-war track "Viet Nam" (Green Mountain # GM-101), by the obscure artists Pat Bohlman and Edwin Maderia, expressed the view that the war was harming the US, but it also noted the ongoing peace negotiations in Paris, which the song described as "doing well". The negotiations started in Paris in 1968, and were mainly conducted by Henry Kissinger (National Security Adviser to President Richard Nixon, 1969-1974) and his North Vietnamese counterpart Lê Ðức Thọ.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: The war in Vietnam is doing us a lot of harm / For if you see the enemy, it's going to hurt lots like me / We've been fighting oh so long / Fooling around with the Vietcong / We don't know whose on our side / Walking through the jungle is suicide / The peace talks in Paris are doing well / Whose going to win the war? Nobody can tell / The captain said that we can get beat / Trying to get the demonstrators off the street... / The war in Vietnam is doing...a lot of harm
Notes
Green Mountain GM-101 (SoN 80581), green label; "Viet Nam", time 3:53, written by Pat Bohlman & Edwin Maderia; credited to Pat Bohlman and Edwin Maderia. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Duo credited as "Pat Bohlman And Edwin Maderia", who issued "Viet Nam" b/w "St. Ann's" on Green Mountain Records (GM-101, 1969), pressed by Sound Of Nashville (matrix SoN 8058-1/2). [Source: Discogs]