My-Laï
1995 · Not On Label REF 7778777.2 · France
- Artist
- My-Laï
- Title
- My-Laï
- Release
- Attila's Horses
- Year
- 1995
- Label
- Not On Label # REF 7778777.2
- Format
- CD · Album
- Country
- France
- Genre
- Metal · Heavy Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Heavy Metal group, formed in 1991, Reims, France, slow the music up for the song "My-Laï" (# REF 7778777.2) - also the name of the band - in which the lyrics recalled the event of the My Lai massacre - the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in the South Vietnamese area known as "Pinkville", containing the hamlets, known as My Lai 4 and My Khe 4, and throughout the area of Song My, by US forces on 16 March 1968 - "it was in 1968...in a Sunday morning...let us put a life away". The narrated "wanted to know the truth" of why Calley committed the crime.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: It was in 1968 / Half seven, in a Sunday morning / Let us put a life away... near the end / My Lai... faces proud, tell me why... / I can tell who is right... / They came away... / Started to fire... / Started to shout, to kill... / The murderous Calley had a right to plea insanity... / I want to know the truth...
About the artist
Heavy Metal group, formed in 1991 in Reims, France; named after the My Lai massacre.
Themes
In collections
European Songs · Metal Songs · My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs