Military Madness
1971 · Atlantic 45-2827 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Graham Nash
- Title
- Military Madness
- Release
- Military Madness / Sleep Song
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Atlantic # 45-2827
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, UK: England
- Songwriter
- Graham Nash
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Singer Songwriter
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Military Madness (Nash, Graham) Born 2 February 1942, Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom Vietnam-era: song about WW2 in England, which contained a contemporary anti-war verse. Cover by Five Man Cargo - Military Madness / If a Song Is Enough "In an upstairs room in Blackpool / By the side of a northern sea / The army had my father / And my mother was having me / Military Madness was killing my country / Solitary Sadness comes over me / After the school was over and I moved / To the other side / I found a different country but I never / Lost my pride / Military Madness was killing the country / Solitary sadness creeps over me / And after the wars are over / And the body count is finally filed / I hope that The Man discovers / What's driving the people wild"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
born 2 February 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, and currently based in Manhattan, New York, USA.