Hvordan er dine drømme, Nixon?

Annotation

Danish political / musical collective, formed in 1971. The name of the group, Slumstormerne, is taken from the term used to describe those who occupied empty and condemned properties from the 1960s to the early 1970s in Denmark.12 This album contained the song "Hvordan er dine drømme, Nixon?" ("How Are Your Dreams, Nixon?") (Demos # Demos 4), which took an anti-war perspective, condemning the actions of the US president Richard Nixon. The opening line references the My Lai Massacre, the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in the South Vietnamese villages of My Lai and Song My by US forces on 16 March 1968, took place during the Vietnam War, let by platoon leader, Second Lieutenant William Calley: "do they mark the stench of corpses from Mai Lai".Sources1Wikipedia: Slumstormer↩2blaagaardskvarter.dk (archived copy)↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs

Danish political / musical collective, formed in 1971. The name of the group, Slumstormerne, is taken from the term used to describe those who occupied empty and condemned properties from the 1960s to the early 1970s in Denmark.12 This album contained the song "Hvordan er dine drømme, Nixon?" ("How Are Your Dreams, Nixon?") (Demos # Demos 4), which took an anti-war perspective, condemning the actions of the US president Richard Nixon. The opening line references the My Lai Massacre: "do they mark the stench of corpses from Mai Lai".Sources1Wikipedia: Slumstormer↩2blaagaardskvarter.dk (archived copy)↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Do they notice the stench of corpses from My Lai / Do they remember the bombs on the people's road / In your head the sound of the 1000 migate / How are your dreams, Nixon?... / Vietnam becomes Vietnamese / How are your dreams, Nixon? / Do you know what you are shooting / It's all about to collapse / Everywhere you are... __________ Danish: Marker de stanken af lig fra Mai Lai / Husker de bomberne pd folkets vej / I dit hoved Lyden of 1000 migaten / Hvordan er dine drømme, Nixon?... / Vietnam bliver vietnamsik / Hvordan er dine drømme, Nixon? / Ved du hvai du skud / Det hele er ved at ramle / Overalt du ver...

Notes

"How Are Your Dreams, Nixon?" Opening line references the corpses of My Lai. Collective writing credit.

About the artist

Danish political music collective formed in 1971 out of Copenhagen's "slumstormer" squatting movement (the occupation of Jægersborggade 3); the group ran a café and childcare, and a core later helped found DKP/ML. Their only LP was recorded at ASA studios, Lyngby, in September 1971 and reissued in 2013. [Source: Discogs; KPnet]

Themes

Anti-War · Nixon · My Lai · Anti-Calley

In collections

European Songs · My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]