Anti-Vietnam Song ⎢ Music Through Time

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for social studies we started a new topic about Woodstock which was similar was connected to the previous topic we did, Beatlemania. Woodstock is a musical festival held in America, the festival went on for 3 days, many people attended this event. The people that attended the event were against the war. Our blogging task for this unit was to do a blog on one of the songs that went against the Vietnam War. 

I chose to do the song 'Vietnam' by Jimmy Cliff. 

Vietnam

Hey, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

Yesterday I got a letter from my friend fighting in Vietnam
And this is what he had to say
“Tell all my friends that I’ll be coming home soon
My time’ll be up some time in June
Don’t forget”, he said, “To tell my sweet Mary
Her golden lips are sweet as cherry”

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

It was just the next day, his mother got a telegram
It was addressed from Vietnam
Now Mistress Brown, she lives in the USA
And this is what she wrote and said
“Don’t be alarmed”, she told me the telegram said
“But Mistress Brown your son is dead.”

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, hey, Vietnam
Somebody please stop that war now

Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, oh Vietnam
Vietnam, oh Vietnam, oh oh, oh oh
Somebody please stop it

Vietnam, Vietnam, oh Vietnam
Vietnam oh oh, oh oh Vietnam
Hey Vietnam, aha Vietnam, oh oh, yeah
I wanna say now somebody stop that war

The lyrics of the song portrays a soldier writing a diary to his friends and family about his return home. But instead, his family were notified about his son's death. Though the song wasn't as popular as some, it was considered the most effective of the anti-Vietnam songs.