War Song

Annotation

Also on the album is the track "War Song", which referred to the chemical weapon Napalm B and the burn wounds that they caused - the US used this weapons extensively in Indochina, dropping 388,000 tons between 1963 and 1973.2 The weapons, largely supplied by Dow Chemical, became a target of the anti-war movement.3 See the song "The Fires of Napalm" below for further details.Sources2Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩3The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam (Tom Wells, 2005)↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — Garage Rock Songs

Also on the album Tenderness Junction is the track "War Song", which referred to the chemical weapon Napalm B and the burn wounds that they caused - the US used this weapons extensively in Indochina, dropping 388,000 tons between 1963 and 1973.1 The weapons, largely supplied by Dow Chemical, became a target of the anti-war movement.2Sources1Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩2The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam (Tom Wells, 2005)↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Is true what they say about Ho Chi Minh?... / Burn my belly with napalm jelly / Rape my brain with a torch full of fire / Burn mother burn, burn mother burn

About the artist

Satirical rock band formed in 1964 on the Lower East Side, New York City, by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg; their antiwar songs include Kill for Peace (1966). [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War · Napalm · Ho Chi Minh

In collections

Garage Rock Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]