Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?)
1986 · Cherry Mountain Music CMM 01 · Port Chester, New York
- Artist
- John Denver
- Title
- Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?)
- Release
- Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?) / Flying for Me
- Year
- 1986
- Label
- Cherry Mountain Music # CMM 01
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Port Chester, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- John Denver
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Notes
Cherry Mountain Music CMM 01, Side A, © 1986 Cherry Mountain Music ASCAP; Box 430, Port Chester, NY. [From the record label] Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?) (Denver, John) Post-war 80s, anti-war, reference to Korea and Vietnam. "I am the son of a grassland farmer, western Oklahoma, nineteen forty-three. I always felt grateful to live in the land of the free. I gave up my father to South Korea, the mind of my brother to Vietnam, Now there's a banker who says I must give up my land". [From Justin A. Brummer notes from RYM]
About the artist
John Denver born in Roswell, New Mexico, USA