Hell No, We Won't Go
New Vista Arts NVA 801 · USA
- Artist
- Naomi Cohen
- Title
- Hell No, We Won't Go
- Release
- Hell No, We Won't Go / Saigon Waitress
- Label
- New Vista Arts # NVA 801
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- P. Wilayto
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Draft Songs
- contemporary folk, peace / anti-war, draft, Nixon - no date, but post the collapse of Saigon, referenced in the b-side - released New York City - A-side: we won't go, dodge the draft - Need to demonstrate and grow the movement - It's a racist war - Wall Street benefiting - Reference to "woman's liberation" movement - Maybe written during war but released later in the 70s?? - B-side: At a Saigon bar, US generals and South Vietnamese planning war - Waitress is a secret spy for North Vietnam - Innocent man accused and executed - Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Label: NVA 801, stereo, 45 RPM, side 1, with Jack Rosalia on guitar; written by P. Wilayto; produced by Pat Rosalia for New Vista Arts; © ℗ New Vista Arts, ASCAP; 46 W. 21st St., N.Y., N.Y. 10010. [From the record labels]
Themes
Draft Dodger · Demonstration · Anti-War · Racism · Nixon · Feminism