@whofanray No one's 'freedom' was defended, but two million people were killed. Vietnam is still a communist country and the US is one of its biggest trading partners. Duded, just because the government tells your to pick up a gun doesn't make killing moral. Defend your own freedom--TO THINK.
times are repeating all,it is time to take heed of the elders such as this as me as many who support theories you "disagree with"Impossible times are coming fema camps are real,all that is unbeleivable is real!Study history!
batten down the hatches all,these times I remember well I know what I remember and remember what is coming as a major storm from these times unreconciled this goes back to 1913,it also goes back thousands of years ,learn history it is repeating itself!GLA!
The rerason for "character limits" is this..They do not want us communicating to say in one article what we want to say,then if you post too many within a timeframe you gotta decipher this jumbled crap.I am no sheep!I'm sure my writings have been see by the globalist google bastards that run this site!,I will use this site and all the others I go to while still somewhat free,and when I am not FREE I WISH TO DIE.Ancientmirrors1
This is like the Ron Paul censorship 500 characters!lol!I understand what the vets are going through,It is what we are all about to go through due to the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us of,we have not had a president with military experience for many years this needs to be a requirement to be "Commander in Cheif'"Military experience Required!oik i have 134 characters remaining lol!We need take control of our gov't our lives and how many characters we can have on this site
It is good to see this and alot of other awesome uploads,I am also glad to see a major awakening of America but on the other hand I see what is coming...
I was speaking of the golden dawn,aleister crowley heres an article i just found, but have seen a video interviewing her,Learn so you all may live,We are in serious danger.
Moby there is online many sites you can see where kissinger said"Men are usless dumb animals to be used as pawns of war"
infowars site has article about the skull and bones today
I have alotta sites to share if any of you want to add me as a friend,Better yet a Brother,I am also Cherokee I know much history
It's a shame men can't live as brothers,especially now with the globalist bastards trying to really accelerate what they started in 1913,another repetition of history.Greed and lust will never let the world acheive true peace.
I know human nature "Some men you just can't reach"is a fact we have in this century been closer and especially right now to total world chaos which is what they want,I know this I have studied it intensely,I know who they worship as I have studied that as well.
in 1970 we left Quebec City to go on summer holidays in N.J. I was 15 and in charge of the car radio,almost every station i tuned in played a Melanie song. Nice to hear her again.
It's been over 35 years since I heard this song of Melanie. All I could say then, and all I can say now is AWESOME!! It's like being reunited with an old friend: Joyous and exhilarating!
as an airborne ranger we laid it down for our country--we never asked why--we just did what we thought was right--unfortunately we are there again {meaning war}
p.s. all you fake poser hippies who never did anything in your pathetic lives. bank rolled by mommy +daddy. looking down your noses at the working people of this country. you jerks think that you're some kind of heros 'cuz you sleep in a donated tent. then u want the cops once the crooks get in on your thing. a big bunch hypocrites u are. the real heros are in afganistan and iraq and libya where o'jerkoff sent them. you don't even compare, they have integrity
@jojo42093 How the hell can you listen to a song like this and then spew your hate towards other human beings?You arent here to listen to this music. You think you have it all figured out. You even know the name of the unknown soldier.The real hypocrite is you.
@goodthing52 i think it is truly disgraceful for you to mock the tomb of the unkown soldiers, especialy after veterans day. those men died for your right to speak out openly and freely without fear of reprisal. have you no compassion for their loved ones they left behind. you're really uptight for a flower child. try practicing what you preach about spewing hate.
reconsider what position? that people are glorifying and pineing away for lost causes. if you had read my first post i wrote that a lot of people got on to this dreamy 60's groovey, peace thing. i said that was over simplifying things and that there were some whiners about the 60's. further more i said it is all about the MUSIC! you dopes should read and comprehend what the message being convayed here means. i'm surprised anyone wrote, i thought all you hippies be at occupy wall st.
@jojo42093 I'll put my response a different way then: Saying "the rebs think the same thing down south" is not a good statement to use to support your opinion.
In the mid 80s I participated in a protest fighting for religious freedom. The protest lasted for several months. At its peak it was 10,000 strong and comprised people from the world over. Melanie was there and performed this song among many. Being at that protest changed my life on so many levels. Those now protesting via Occupying one city or another will never be the same either. Taking part in something like OWS is a wonderful, wonderful gift for one to give to themself.
Love you Melanie. You have been part of my life for over 40 years. So sad about Peter. You were, and are, in my thoughts. Much love to you and yours xx
Melanie sounds so much like Buffy Saint-Marie who sang "Soldier Blue" she is very good but ruined her career by singing a Rolling Stones classic Ruby Tuesday in which she murdered it
nice song i was in grade school when it came out. i can't stand all this hippie shit that everyone gets so romantic about everytime some nit-wit brings up the 60's, nam,kennedy, kent state,yada yada yada. give it a break already. just shut up and enjoy the music instead of your sorry-ass flower-power clap-trap.
I got taken back by the vibes coming from your comment.You really may want to consider a more positive attitude and live and let live. Why should we care if a couple people have the desire to discuss something which is in their heart. and on their mind?Why be so critical and judgmental?
@Goldie32057 i wasn't being jugmental. my thing was about people romanticizing the whole " woodstroke" scene, hence the allusions i had made to kent state, the protesters, etc... it really seems to me that some think that the "movement" was some noble cause that was de-railed by the power men and that if they really had the chance they could change the world with a handful of granola. to me that seems very naive to such complex issues of the time. the rebs think the same down south.
Last of the draftee's 17 Kilo ( Ground surveilance Radar) and 11Brovo20(Armored Scout) never had to go to RVN only Arizona, Kansas, and Reforger exercises in Germany, and Melanie's voice helped keep us all sane, during and after, and yet have we learned that we are all "beautiful people"? I kinda doubt it, seeing where we seem to be going. It IS up to us what we leave for our children. A future with (or without) hope. Be Damned careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
i spent some time with melanie in ny city in 1968, @ the albert hotel on e14th near the village i was 17 she jammed with us for we were a rock band she thought could back her up.she wanted to go to play woodstock ,we stayed and played times squre oh what a managment mistake
It is a shame that messages that we heard and sung to have goten lost in the hetic pace of life. Take almost any song that taled about the worlds problems and I will bet you that the problem is still here. maybe even worse.
Qucksilver ask "What you gonna do about me" To many of us din't do enough so they didn't have to do anything but get older and act like they were.
I guess John Lennon said it best when he said that "life is what happens while you are busy making other plans"
I was too young to really appreciate what this song meant although I do recall the horror of listening to the draft being read out over the radio in Australia.
However, when I first heard it I was swept up in a wave of emotion which remains with me to this day. It reduces me to tears whenever I sing along, and a great singalong song it is too. It was probably my first taste of a gospel style which may explain why I also adore Madonna's Like a Prayer.
That's hilarious. In the context used, it is misspelled, as is "spelt". Spelt is a grain. The word you were attempting to use is "spelled." Good luck in your future gramatical endeavors.
AGAIN you fail! "Spelt" is also a simple past tense and past participle of spell. Stop being a "Spelling" Nazi and stop talking to me, have fun being a lonely old hippy reminiscing about your past.
@LadyHoopStar15 I don't think you're in any position to call someone lonely when you think the best way to spend your time is getting into fights on youtube over your political views and proper grammar . Just enjoy the music, if you don't like this song then what were you doing looking it up on youtube in the first place?
@PJHeim spelling? i'm pretty sure "there" is spelt correctly, but was just used in the wrong context. that would fall under grammar, not spelling. perhaps you shouldn't be a member of the spelling police, since you don't even understand its definition
during elections time I drive around in my car playing this song and WAR full blast anything about the 60's we weren't scared to make noise about it, not like today kids just tv games and learn how to kill more people this is the only solution the future generation will understand and do, what a waste of life, I hope that I have shown my children and grand children what life is all about.
My sister ran away from home during this era...to this day, she's still missing.. 40 years later, I still search for you Terry Ann Kelley.. xxoo you're sister.. Linda
I was ignoant to the wars going on at this point in my life, all I knew was that Melanie was so raw and so real and she touched me where no one else did. Saw her twice in concert as a teenager when none of my friends would join me because they thought she was od. But she defined me.
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I loved her then and love her more now. I managed to avoid the Viet Nam fiasco through some stealth maneuvers.But I never blamed those who were inducted and had to fight. I did my thing and they did the thing of the generals and the politicians. I feel for them.
Thank you, brother. They stopped drafting the year before I turned eighteen. I didn't know what I was going to do. Probably go to Canada. I ended up enlisting the fall of 1973, in a misguided impulse to help the State of Israel, which is nothing but a gangster state.
@brianallancobb I remember sitting on the grass at the Univ. of Houston smoking some good grass and listening to Melanie and other protest songs. As soon as a dropped a course, the draft board called me up, summer of 1969. After talking to me a while they said I was 5'4" tall and weighed 265. I was 6" tall and weighed 220. It was the Group W bench in Arlo Guthrie;s Alices Restaurant all over again. Peace out, Brother
Whatever got you out, brother, we've been in thrall to the National Security State ever snce Truman. Always liked Arlo, always thought the Group W bench was the place to be. Peace, love, fuck the Army, Brian
I recently came across a pic of my uncle from 1967 when he was serving in Vietnam.
i don't know if the war was right or right. but those who fought it faced the fear of it with a courage that you can only admire. i heard all the stories, know what they went through. may God bless them all.
melanie safka the high priestess to mankind! always was and will continue to be aas well as the queen of folk . She truly is one of a kind patent and hallmarked with of course the most beautiful singing voice on the planet earth ,as well as other planets.It's about her engenuis writings and her brilliant power and beyond beautiful voice .
I am a Namvet. I was in the infantry, '68-'69. No one "spat" on me or any other vet I knew when we returned. The anger for the pointless destruction wrought by that war should be turned on the cynical architects of the war: politicians who gained votes, manufacturers who made profits, generals who gained promotions. There is no sense being angry at the people who resisted the war and wanted our men HOME. Same goes for the Iraq War. Oh, and Melanie can flat out SING!
Oh, well the spitting must not have happened then. /sarcasm
It's not pointless to resist an ideology that killed 100 million or so people. You're the one who's the cynic.You slag the motives of a country that's willing to shed its own blood to resist tyranny in all forms all over the world.
We're not perfect but we're damn good, and we deserve better than to be slandered by a loser like you.
You hoped for defeat in Iraq but didn't get it. So you're mad. We get it.
@1Doz You think we WON in Iraq? Holy Herds of Sacred Cows! You think we WON after one trillion plus dollars blown away, no WMD's, lie upon lie upon lie, 5,000 plus American dead, 40,000 plus American wounded, 250,000 plus Iraqi dead, 2 million plus Iraqi refugees, and an entire nation laid waste? You call that VICTORY?! Wow.
@mobydoug I'm so glad you've written this. I was in the war against the war (and still am, against all wars). When y'all came home I heard all the nonsense and wondered where those people who spat were hiding. Probably paid by the warmongers or Hoover's FBI. My parents were marines. They were sent anonymous letters saying I was "under communist influence". Spent many nights with friends who came home thinking about life and where it takes us and how grand it is just to be alive. Peace!
@dlrice That's pretty funny, do you think "war" only means YOUR war.. Without war there never would have been world war IIhave another doobie. Blacks would never have been slaves at all if people with greed hadn't wanted to use them to do their dirty work.
@cfortnerXYZ The Jews were slaves under the Egyptians long before blacks were slaves in America...just sayin'...time to let go of that bad blood, it's been dry for too long
@mobydoug I was spat on in the LA bus station but NOT in the San Diego bus station. I was in civies but they can always tell you are a GI from your haircut and shoes. There was a clear effort by a small group of conservative, secretive Americans to promote war for profit. They killed JFK because he promoted peace. They lied about Vietnam like they lied about Iraq to start war. The Cold war could have ended in 1963.
Carrier Air Group Seven, USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Turner Joy
@mobydoug I'm an old grunt(11B10) like you who served in I Corps, 23rd(Americal) div in 69/70. When I went to school on the GI Bill in the early 70s, I sometimes had problems with professors and students who thought that we were either murderous moral degenerates or brainless dupes of the military machine. I tried to be honest with them that we were, for the most part, just ordinary people thrown into a bewildering and frightening situation, just trying to survive.
@videomaniac108 I can't understand why the soldiers were looked down upon by the people back in the states. We all lost some good freinds in the conflict and I disagreed with our politicians at the time for sending you guys there because I didn't buy into the communist threat. But for the life of me, I can't understand why you had so much pressure put on you when you came back. As if you didn't sacrifice enough already. Thank-you, from my heart, for your service.
@videomaniac108 I respect you with all my heart. I was artillery in 1970 but didn't go to Vietnam. Wish that I would have been there with you heroes. The professors were and still are clueless.
@videomaniac108 Thanks for your service. I'm very young, comparatively, and wasn't alive in the 1970s. But I'm sorry that you were thought of so negatively, and I'm glad you're still around to tell your story. It's a valuable piece of American history. Thank you.
@videomaniac108 Newsflash. You WERE murderers. Killing ANY human being is homicide, a morally neutral time. Don't give that BS explanation about being 'just porrdinary people.' Ordinary people do not kill others. Murderers do.
@whofanray That's what they say, isn't it. We had to go overseas to a tiny country that most people had never heard of to " defend freedom". After slaughtering a couple million people and burning and mining the country so that children still die almost everday, we left. Now we're good freinds with the country. Maybe being good freinds makes everyone safe and free. Not wars that make certain people very rich. Try to limit repeating Republican bumper stickers and think like a real man. Not a robot
I just lost my best friend to cancer. I don't know if it was agent orange, but he was in Nam for a full tour when they were spraying that stuff. He was 62, just sixty two and I am 7 years older, but I did not go to Nam.
No one in this day and age disputes the tragedy of war and the suffering it causes before during and after but this song reminds us that we cant give in to our politicians and fight for greed killing innocent people and destroying our Mother earth We have to stand up and let the goverments know its time tfo listen to the people and stop the maddness. This song is a testament to that and will forever be one. The candles will light the way to true peace on earth
@stanislowskichris Sorry for your loss. Thanks for your Dad's service. My brother is 63 and going through a lot of medical problems from Agent Orange. Peace to you and your family.
Awesome song, that still stands in time, love it, to pay homage to my family who fought in all the wars....and to spread peace on earth now and forever..xox
Melanie fans! Catch Melanie’s appearance on Dave’s Gone By, Sat, noon-3pm(ET) April 2, 2011 on UNC Radio (uncradio.c *m). If you miss the show, hear it in the archives at davesgoneby. c*m.
Hey @bostonsportslover - You suck! Now, for the meaning : you don't get it . You don't get it now. You didn't get it then. You won't get it when . . . . You and all those who are blind to the message and the wave and the light of Peace and Love and Light will not get it until you Listen and Learn and Hear and See. If you're not with us (Human Beans), you're against us (and thus, are robots our enemies). Play on....
It is only right to celebrate life as we remember those who have gone on. But remember that the celebration does not end here ,only the suffering! Please believe that they are waiting for us . True heros dont die and just live in our dreams ,they will be ther when our hour comes if you just believe. God Bless You All!
Great. Kids dying in the jungle and you think some hippies drinking and doing drugs and going to concerts MADE A DIFFERENCE??????? It made these musicians rich off the backs of those kids...
Powerful song that may be even more relevant today than it was during the Vietnam war. Many brave soldiers died during the Gulf war and the wars in Iraq and Afganistan in a similar way the soldiers died during the war in Vietnam. Much love to all those left behind while their loved ones died in the wars in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afganistan, (and all past World Wars and conflicts) and the present tensions in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
I don't know if my tears and the chills that this song brings are for my brothers or myself, but for all that are gone and those that remain, this is a song that we heard on the other side of the world while we were lost in a place where humanity did not exist. Some of us are still in that moment and choose not to return .............
@dogbig02 your words touch my very soul...I was a little girl watching my Daddy, a WW2 & Korean War Vet, die while the Vietnam War was on the tv news and the National Cemetery we knew he would be buried in was getting ever bigger as the brave young Soldiers who lost their lives were laid to rest there...it make a huge impact on the little girl and it still does for this grown Woman....Much love to you ~A Spirited Woman
Jesus said love everyone your enemy the orphans the widows! Pray for ignorance and God be with everyone who does what tey have to do or feel so! We are not judges juries or executioners. That will the Lords job! Peace be with you in your beliefs,Love your neighbor as much as you love yourselves! God bless
I remember hearing President Obama, early in his term, say that those fighting in our current two wars could hold their heads high, or some such, because they were FIGHTING UNDER HIS AUTHORITY!
Two criminal wars, but it's OK...because the Commander In Chief Says So.
I like this version much more than the shortened version you usually hear without the introduction, and I don't have any complaints about the record "pops" that are obvious at the beginning.
This piece moves me every time, I love it.
MisterTom1001 1 week ago
40+ years later & this song is still so beautiful!
geocoop60 2 weeks ago 2
BRILLIANT!
steeplepossum39 2 weeks ago
I do not know if there is only one scene where Melanie is presented in
Woodstock Festival in 1971 singing lay down. I tried, but
not found. It has a video in which she speaks of the festival with a French reporter and a few people comment on it.
But this video, it now older and fatter, does not sing as well as in the seventies, which is a shame.
378agra 2 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Melanie
@whofanray No one's 'freedom' was defended, but two million people were killed. Vietnam is still a communist country and the US is one of its biggest trading partners. Duded, just because the government tells your to pick up a gun doesn't make killing moral. Defend your own freedom--TO THINK.
tommerrigan1956 2 weeks ago
what a great singer and song, kids of today I hope they actually get .
KMD100100 3 weeks ago
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I think this is just beautiful!
steeplepossum39 1 month ago
I think this is just beautiful!
steeplepossum39 1 month ago
times are repeating all,it is time to take heed of the elders such as this as me as many who support theories you "disagree with"Impossible times are coming fema camps are real,all that is unbeleivable is real!Study history!
Ancientmirrors1 1 month ago
It is good to see a new following,thank you ninanwk 69!
Ancientmirrors1 1 month ago
batten down the hatches all,these times I remember well I know what I remember and remember what is coming as a major storm from these times unreconciled this goes back to 1913,it also goes back thousands of years ,learn history it is repeating itself!GLA!
Ancientmirrors1 1 month ago
This was an amazing time, while there was still freedom of the media for artist to express such views...
romatob 1 month ago
Lay it down again
brucencalifornia 1 month ago
Reminds me of college days, haven't heard this in years. Thanks.
verickson50 1 month ago
this is intense man!!!!!!!!!!
wingman572 1 month ago
one of my favorites
merr497 1 month ago
101st '66-67.missed the tet .don't live in the past,learn from it and keep your heads high
petereyg 1 month ago
with you brother 1/12 a battery 69-73
mothergrace1 2 months ago
anti war people have the dead in vietnam and cambodia on their conscience not me
rbrb1558 2 months ago
The rerason for "character limits" is this..They do not want us communicating to say in one article what we want to say,then if you post too many within a timeframe you gotta decipher this jumbled crap.I am no sheep!I'm sure my writings have been see by the globalist google bastards that run this site!,I will use this site and all the others I go to while still somewhat free,and when I am not FREE I WISH TO DIE.Ancientmirrors1
Ancientmirrors1 2 months ago
This is like the Ron Paul censorship 500 characters!lol!I understand what the vets are going through,It is what we are all about to go through due to the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us of,we have not had a president with military experience for many years this needs to be a requirement to be "Commander in Cheif'"Military experience Required!oik i have 134 characters remaining lol!We need take control of our gov't our lives and how many characters we can have on this site
Ancientmirrors1 2 months ago
It is good to see this and alot of other awesome uploads,I am also glad to see a major awakening of America but on the other hand I see what is coming...
Thanks so much for the upload Ninanwk60
Ancientmirrors1 2 months ago
I was speaking of the golden dawn,aleister crowley heres an article i just found, but have seen a video interviewing her,Learn so you all may live,We are in serious danger.
Moby there is online many sites you can see where kissinger said"Men are usless dumb animals to be used as pawns of war"
infowars site has article about the skull and bones today
I have alotta sites to share if any of you want to add me as a friend,Better yet a Brother,I am also Cherokee I know much history
Ancientmirrors1 2 months ago
It's a shame men can't live as brothers,especially now with the globalist bastards trying to really accelerate what they started in 1913,another repetition of history.Greed and lust will never let the world acheive true peace.
I know human nature "Some men you just can't reach"is a fact we have in this century been closer and especially right now to total world chaos which is what they want,I know this I have studied it intensely,I know who they worship as I have studied that as well.
Ancientmirrors1 2 months ago
in 1970 we left Quebec City to go on summer holidays in N.J. I was 15 and in charge of the car radio,almost every station i tuned in played a Melanie song. Nice to hear her again.
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etebas12 2 months ago
Awesome...timeless...
keith1951 2 months ago
It's been over 35 years since I heard this song of Melanie. All I could say then, and all I can say now is AWESOME!! It's like being reunited with an old friend: Joyous and exhilarating!
THANKS for posting this gem!!
brilliantico 2 months ago 13
Wondeful song and video, thank you
jellyjukebox 2 months ago
as an airborne ranger we laid it down for our country--we never asked why--we just did what we thought was right--unfortunately we are there again {meaning war}
stonewall857 2 months ago
p.s. all you fake poser hippies who never did anything in your pathetic lives. bank rolled by mommy +daddy. looking down your noses at the working people of this country. you jerks think that you're some kind of heros 'cuz you sleep in a donated tent. then u want the cops once the crooks get in on your thing. a big bunch hypocrites u are. the real heros are in afganistan and iraq and libya where o'jerkoff sent them. you don't even compare, they have integrity
jojo42093 2 months ago
@jojo42093 I'm not talking about the military here, but I think you're over-simplifying things.
kaldemvor 2 months ago
@jojo42093 How the hell can you listen to a song like this and then spew your hate towards other human beings?You arent here to listen to this music. You think you have it all figured out. You even know the name of the unknown soldier.The real hypocrite is you.
goodthing52 2 months ago in playlist goodthing52's favorites
@goodthing52 i think it is truly disgraceful for you to mock the tomb of the unkown soldiers, especialy after veterans day. those men died for your right to speak out openly and freely without fear of reprisal. have you no compassion for their loved ones they left behind. you're really uptight for a flower child. try practicing what you preach about spewing hate.
jojo42093 2 months ago
reconsider what position? that people are glorifying and pineing away for lost causes. if you had read my first post i wrote that a lot of people got on to this dreamy 60's groovey, peace thing. i said that was over simplifying things and that there were some whiners about the 60's. further more i said it is all about the MUSIC! you dopes should read and comprehend what the message being convayed here means. i'm surprised anyone wrote, i thought all you hippies be at occupy wall st.
jojo42093 2 months ago
@jojo42093 I'll put my response a different way then: Saying "the rebs think the same thing down south" is not a good statement to use to support your opinion.
kaldemvor 2 months ago
In the mid 80s I participated in a protest fighting for religious freedom. The protest lasted for several months. At its peak it was 10,000 strong and comprised people from the world over. Melanie was there and performed this song among many. Being at that protest changed my life on so many levels. Those now protesting via Occupying one city or another will never be the same either. Taking part in something like OWS is a wonderful, wonderful gift for one to give to themself.
monterock100 3 months ago
Love you Melanie. You have been part of my life for over 40 years. So sad about Peter. You were, and are, in my thoughts. Much love to you and yours xx
gazrobbo53 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Melanie
Melanie sounds so much like Buffy Saint-Marie who sang "Soldier Blue" she is very good but ruined her career by singing a Rolling Stones classic Ruby Tuesday in which she murdered it
TractorBoy50 3 months ago
Yah, that woman can certainly sing!!!!!!
cewelte 3 months ago
my friend brought it to a Libertarian Meeting,she's smart
Syzygy60 3 months ago
i have her signature on this album
Syzygy60 3 months ago
i wasnt born in before 1970 but my dad also went to Vietnam. Growing up I listened to his records and this was one of my favorites..
Dianernful 3 months ago
So raise the candles HIGH!!!
Thadesgal 3 months ago
This song gives me goosebumps.
MisterTom1001 3 months ago 2
nice song i was in grade school when it came out. i can't stand all this hippie shit that everyone gets so romantic about everytime some nit-wit brings up the 60's, nam,kennedy, kent state,yada yada yada. give it a break already. just shut up and enjoy the music instead of your sorry-ass flower-power clap-trap.
jojo42093 3 months ago
@jojo42093
I got taken back by the vibes coming from your comment.You really may want to consider a more positive attitude and live and let live. Why should we care if a couple people have the desire to discuss something which is in their heart. and on their mind?Why be so critical and judgmental?
Goldie32057 3 months ago
@Goldie32057 i wasn't being jugmental. my thing was about people romanticizing the whole " woodstroke" scene, hence the allusions i had made to kent state, the protesters, etc... it really seems to me that some think that the "movement" was some noble cause that was de-railed by the power men and that if they really had the chance they could change the world with a handful of granola. to me that seems very naive to such complex issues of the time. the rebs think the same down south.
jojo42093 3 months ago
@jojo42093 You had to have been there..........
oneofakind302 3 months ago
@jojo42093 If "rebs think the same thing down south," that's a pretty good indication that you might want to reconsider your postion on this issue.
kaldemvor 2 months ago
Last of the draftee's 17 Kilo ( Ground surveilance Radar) and 11Brovo20(Armored Scout) never had to go to RVN only Arizona, Kansas, and Reforger exercises in Germany, and Melanie's voice helped keep us all sane, during and after, and yet have we learned that we are all "beautiful people"? I kinda doubt it, seeing where we seem to be going. It IS up to us what we leave for our children. A future with (or without) hope. Be Damned careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
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plutosunshine 4 months ago
war ruins business and gas prices the war was over long time ago and there still fighting
narcovice 4 months ago
@mobydoug: Yes, she CAN flat-out sing, and you're right on all counts. Thank you for posting.
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samuelviolin 4 months ago
i spent some time with melanie in ny city in 1968, @ the albert hotel on e14th near the village i was 17 she jammed with us for we were a rock band she thought could back her up.she wanted to go to play woodstock ,we stayed and played times squre oh what a managment mistake
altocumulas 4 months ago 3
little sisters of the sun
Syzygy60 4 months ago
i can ...well,she can verify her signature
Syzygy60 4 months ago
u don't
Syzygy60 4 months ago
I have a signed album by Melanie
Syzygy60 4 months ago
that person knew they were wrong
Syzygy60 4 months ago
I hear a mix of Stevie Nicks and Cyndi Lauper in her voice..
mwillh 4 months ago
It is a shame that messages that we heard and sung to have goten lost in the hetic pace of life. Take almost any song that taled about the worlds problems and I will bet you that the problem is still here. maybe even worse.
Qucksilver ask "What you gonna do about me" To many of us din't do enough so they didn't have to do anything but get older and act like they were.
I guess John Lennon said it best when he said that "life is what happens while you are busy making other plans"
davidlaraby 5 months ago
Amen my friend.
davidlaraby 5 months ago
I was too young to really appreciate what this song meant although I do recall the horror of listening to the draft being read out over the radio in Australia.
However, when I first heard it I was swept up in a wave of emotion which remains with me to this day. It reduces me to tears whenever I sing along, and a great singalong song it is too. It was probably my first taste of a gospel style which may explain why I also adore Madonna's Like a Prayer.
tobyone071 5 months ago
That's hilarious. In the context used, it is misspelled, as is "spelt". Spelt is a grain. The word you were attempting to use is "spelled." Good luck in your future gramatical endeavors.
PJHeim 5 months ago
AGAIN you fail! "Spelt" is also a simple past tense and past participle of spell. Stop being a "Spelling" Nazi and stop talking to me, have fun being a lonely old hippy reminiscing about your past.
LadyHoopStar15 5 months ago
@LadyHoopStar15 I don't think you're in any position to call someone lonely when you think the best way to spend your time is getting into fights on youtube over your political views and proper grammar . Just enjoy the music, if you don't like this song then what were you doing looking it up on youtube in the first place?
ScottyHenderson1 5 months ago
@ScottyHenderson1 I have the freedom to state my own opinion if you dont like it then dont respond.
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LadyHoopStar15 3 months ago
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better to be a bad speller with a good heart, then a good speller with poison in one's heart!
Goldie32057 3 months ago
these dope heads are now running the country and continue there liberal commie agenda sad
LadyHoopStar15 5 months ago
@LadyHoopStar15 Perhaps you meant "their liberal commie agenda". It's hard to be superior when you have trouble with spelling.
PJHeim 5 months ago
@PJHeim spelling? i'm pretty sure "there" is spelt correctly, but was just used in the wrong context. that would fall under grammar, not spelling. perhaps you shouldn't be a member of the spelling police, since you don't even understand its definition
LadyHoopStar15 5 months ago
during elections time I drive around in my car playing this song and WAR full blast anything about the 60's we weren't scared to make noise about it, not like today kids just tv games and learn how to kill more people this is the only solution the future generation will understand and do, what a waste of life, I hope that I have shown my children and grand children what life is all about.
richtoga 5 months ago
FANTASTISCH!!!
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vinnyhoags 6 months ago
So sorry about your sister Terry Ann Kelley.
nothing I can do, but please know this, many people will have shed a tear on reading of your loss. We are with you Linda.
yummyjellybaby 6 months ago
My sister ran away from home during this era...to this day, she's still missing.. 40 years later, I still search for you Terry Ann Kelley.. xxoo you're sister.. Linda
avamp1 6 months ago
I was ignoant to the wars going on at this point in my life, all I knew was that Melanie was so raw and so real and she touched me where no one else did. Saw her twice in concert as a teenager when none of my friends would join me because they thought she was od. But she defined me.
laustererk 6 months ago
This song is beyond amazing,as Is melanies voice! Truly an extremely important song!!!!!
SuperScotch23 6 months ago 3
I soo loved this song and Melanie---
plezhurhouse 6 months ago
What a great strong voice! It just rips through me.
Swatantra100 6 months ago
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buzzy044 6 months ago
LAy down, lay down, lay it all down.
brianallancobb 6 months ago
I loved her then and love her more now. I managed to avoid the Viet Nam fiasco through some stealth maneuvers.But I never blamed those who were inducted and had to fight. I did my thing and they did the thing of the generals and the politicians. I feel for them.
slkaiser69 6 months ago
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Thank you, brother. They stopped drafting the year before I turned eighteen. I didn't know what I was going to do. Probably go to Canada. I ended up enlisting the fall of 1973, in a misguided impulse to help the State of Israel, which is nothing but a gangster state.
brianallancobb 6 months ago
@brianallancobb I remember sitting on the grass at the Univ. of Houston smoking some good grass and listening to Melanie and other protest songs. As soon as a dropped a course, the draft board called me up, summer of 1969. After talking to me a while they said I was 5'4" tall and weighed 265. I was 6" tall and weighed 220. It was the Group W bench in Arlo Guthrie;s Alices Restaurant all over again. Peace out, Brother
slkaiser69 6 months ago
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Whatever got you out, brother, we've been in thrall to the National Security State ever snce Truman. Always liked Arlo, always thought the Group W bench was the place to be. Peace, love, fuck the Army, Brian
brianallancobb 6 months ago
@brianallancobb Thanks for the comment. 'preciate it.
slkaiser69 5 months ago
If we don't glorify our wars, people may not want to fight them. Hoo Rah!
UnitedCoastToCoast 6 months ago
I recently came across a pic of my uncle from 1967 when he was serving in Vietnam.
i don't know if the war was right or right. but those who fought it faced the fear of it with a courage that you can only admire. i heard all the stories, know what they went through. may God bless them all.
jasonwheel 7 months ago
melanie safka the high priestess to mankind! always was and will continue to be aas well as the queen of folk . She truly is one of a kind patent and hallmarked with of course the most beautiful singing voice on the planet earth ,as well as other planets.It's about her engenuis writings and her brilliant power and beyond beautiful voice .
1955c 7 months ago
Peace 2 All!
menopausalguitarist 7 months ago
love it. great voice
MissGreenie 7 months ago
Lost my verginity to this song..........LAY DOWN LAY DOWN. what a great song and lyrics.
88reltih88 7 months ago
I am a Namvet. I was in the infantry, '68-'69. No one "spat" on me or any other vet I knew when we returned. The anger for the pointless destruction wrought by that war should be turned on the cynical architects of the war: politicians who gained votes, manufacturers who made profits, generals who gained promotions. There is no sense being angry at the people who resisted the war and wanted our men HOME. Same goes for the Iraq War. Oh, and Melanie can flat out SING!
mobydoug 7 months ago 61
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Oh, well the spitting must not have happened then. /sarcasm
It's not pointless to resist an ideology that killed 100 million or so people. You're the one who's the cynic.You slag the motives of a country that's willing to shed its own blood to resist tyranny in all forms all over the world.
We're not perfect but we're damn good, and we deserve better than to be slandered by a loser like you.
You hoped for defeat in Iraq but didn't get it. So you're mad. We get it.
1Doz 6 months ago
@1Doz You think we WON in Iraq? Holy Herds of Sacred Cows! You think we WON after one trillion plus dollars blown away, no WMD's, lie upon lie upon lie, 5,000 plus American dead, 40,000 plus American wounded, 250,000 plus Iraqi dead, 2 million plus Iraqi refugees, and an entire nation laid waste? You call that VICTORY?! Wow.
mobydoug 6 months ago
@mobydoug i totally agree!
MrPetercolucci 5 months ago
@mobydoug - Well said
70sRob 5 months ago
@mobydoug I'm so glad you've written this. I was in the war against the war (and still am, against all wars). When y'all came home I heard all the nonsense and wondered where those people who spat were hiding. Probably paid by the warmongers or Hoover's FBI. My parents were marines. They were sent anonymous letters saying I was "under communist influence". Spent many nights with friends who came home thinking about life and where it takes us and how grand it is just to be alive. Peace!
cfortnerXYZ 5 months ago
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Without war you would be living under the Third Riech & blacks would still be slaves.
dlrice 5 months ago
@dlrice That's pretty funny, do you think "war" only means YOUR war.. Without war there never would have been world war IIhave another doobie. Blacks would never have been slaves at all if people with greed hadn't wanted to use them to do their dirty work.
cfortnerXYZ 5 months ago
@cfortnerXYZ dude you make no sense & you cannot refute the fact that war liberates enslaved people
Without war there is no WWII? What?! Makes no difference why people were slaves, they were freed by war.
Try & catch up.
dlrice 5 months ago
@dlrice And in the wise words of Sgt. Barry Saddler....he has died...for those oppressed...God Bless Our Protectors.
Sugaree1956 4 months ago
@cfortnerXYZ The Jews were slaves under the Egyptians long before blacks were slaves in America...just sayin'...time to let go of that bad blood, it's been dry for too long
yieldyieldyield 4 months ago 2
@mobydoug I was spat on in the LA bus station but NOT in the San Diego bus station. I was in civies but they can always tell you are a GI from your haircut and shoes. There was a clear effort by a small group of conservative, secretive Americans to promote war for profit. They killed JFK because he promoted peace. They lied about Vietnam like they lied about Iraq to start war. The Cold war could have ended in 1963.
Carrier Air Group Seven, USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Turner Joy
exenrontexas 4 months ago
@mobydoug wonderful voice. thank God big brother came home from that war.
greatbigbubby 4 months ago
@mobydoug I'm an old grunt(11B10) like you who served in I Corps, 23rd(Americal) div in 69/70. When I went to school on the GI Bill in the early 70s, I sometimes had problems with professors and students who thought that we were either murderous moral degenerates or brainless dupes of the military machine. I tried to be honest with them that we were, for the most part, just ordinary people thrown into a bewildering and frightening situation, just trying to survive.
videomaniac108 4 months ago 22
@videomaniac108 I can't understand why the soldiers were looked down upon by the people back in the states. We all lost some good freinds in the conflict and I disagreed with our politicians at the time for sending you guys there because I didn't buy into the communist threat. But for the life of me, I can't understand why you had so much pressure put on you when you came back. As if you didn't sacrifice enough already. Thank-you, from my heart, for your service.
chuckbyf1 2 months ago 3
@videomaniac108 I respect you with all my heart. I was artillery in 1970 but didn't go to Vietnam. Wish that I would have been there with you heroes. The professors were and still are clueless.
chach2000 1 month ago
@videomaniac108 Thanks for your service. I'm very young, comparatively, and wasn't alive in the 1970s. But I'm sorry that you were thought of so negatively, and I'm glad you're still around to tell your story. It's a valuable piece of American history. Thank you.
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MrSgtSniper 1 month ago
@videomaniac108 Newsflash. You WERE murderers. Killing ANY human being is homicide, a morally neutral time. Don't give that BS explanation about being 'just porrdinary people.' Ordinary people do not kill others. Murderers do.
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whofanray 2 weeks ago
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without them defending our freedom...you would not be able to say things like that..............
whofanray 2 weeks ago
@whofanray That's what they say, isn't it. We had to go overseas to a tiny country that most people had never heard of to " defend freedom". After slaughtering a couple million people and burning and mining the country so that children still die almost everday, we left. Now we're good freinds with the country. Maybe being good freinds makes everyone safe and free. Not wars that make certain people very rich. Try to limit repeating Republican bumper stickers and think like a real man. Not a robot
terrybeaton 2 weeks ago
@tommerrigan1956 You don't have a clue!
revjim1968 1 week ago
To videomaniac108 and all the other brothers ... welcome home
FaithTrinity1 3 weeks ago
Ronnie Scotts Wednesday 29th June, 7.30-8.30. A great opportunity to see Melanie, don't miss it.
Duncanh8 7 months ago
the 'popping' of the vinyl is choice! Thanks for noticing.
MsSpawn1234 7 months ago
Love this song and the cracking and popping of the vinyl album makes it even sweeter.
bvallier100 7 months ago
We must work to make sure no more fathers, mothers sons, daughters... are ever lost in wars they want no parts of.
hftomlinson 7 months ago
I just lost my best friend to cancer. I don't know if it was agent orange, but he was in Nam for a full tour when they were spraying that stuff. He was 62, just sixty two and I am 7 years older, but I did not go to Nam.
onebaud 7 months ago
I nominate this song as "The National Anthem" of the Agent Orange Nation...
LRSchuler 7 months ago
Melanie is one of the Beautiful People!!
MARTYCLFC 7 months ago 4
what a beautiful job thank you it made me, a nam vet cry like a child
mothergrace1 7 months ago 2
No one in this day and age disputes the tragedy of war and the suffering it causes before during and after but this song reminds us that we cant give in to our politicians and fight for greed killing innocent people and destroying our Mother earth We have to stand up and let the goverments know its time tfo listen to the people and stop the maddness. This song is a testament to that and will forever be one. The candles will light the way to true peace on earth
PHILLIPBOZARTH 7 months ago
I watch over an old sailor who was exposed to Agent Orange...
he's just 68, going on 98.
Ain't easy... but, how could one better serve someone who served us in advance?
War and Peace never have worked well together.
We cannot stop war... but, we can make peace.
Please, make it so.
I have loved and understood this song for so long now.
Yet, where will this message play these days?
Or, have all that needed to "hear"... have so already?
Maybe so.
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cainwenjun 8 months ago
@stanislowskichris Sorry for your loss. Thanks for your Dad's service. My brother is 63 and going through a lot of medical problems from Agent Orange. Peace to you and your family.
TheAbbfan 8 months ago
Man, I remember mom would play this when I was a toddler. She would always sing along to it. It brings back...great memories.
GrubbyTheBear 8 months ago 3
Great song; hadn't heard it in years. Came out in 1969 or early 70. Listened to it in the barracks at Oakland Army Base.
Oldies radio is OK, but they have a very limited play list. Never hear songs like this one.
Pookiepup1 9 months ago 2
Thanks for this gentle reminder. The more I watch this, the more I see how brilliant this composition is.
lmcglynn1 9 months ago
Thanks for this gentle reminder.
lmcglynn1 9 months ago
Awesome song, that still stands in time, love it, to pay homage to my family who fought in all the wars....and to spread peace on earth now and forever..xox
christine201955 9 months ago
Thanks for posting. The ultimate flower child.
North8000 9 months ago
Totally awesome!
loui0008 9 months ago
2:23, look @ that face of innocence ...a baby ...and sent to war in a foreign land .....hope you made it home buddy
6905632418 9 months ago
Sooo obvious this is one of the best songs of the seventies, with the Edwin Hawkins Singers as a touch of absolute brilliance!
jehosh5577 9 months ago
Thank-you to all our boys who served in Viet Nam... I too lost a cousin to Agent Orange.
wsc910 9 months ago
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moistsheep 10 months ago
Listening to this brought a flood of memories,what a voice .Thanks
MrVinny53 10 months ago
Seriously just cried a bit watching this. Fucking Melanie she's incredible..
F0rtn0x 10 months ago
Hey @bostonsportslover - You suck! Now, for the meaning : you don't get it . You don't get it now. You didn't get it then. You won't get it when . . . . You and all those who are blind to the message and the wave and the light of Peace and Love and Light will not get it until you Listen and Learn and Hear and See. If you're not with us (Human Beans), you're against us (and thus, are robots our enemies). Play on....
arhatyellow 10 months ago
I danced to this one year and it was such a powerful song. I loved the style of the song. Beautiful <3
missshannahmariee 10 months ago
It is only right to celebrate life as we remember those who have gone on. But remember that the celebration does not end here ,only the suffering! Please believe that they are waiting for us . True heros dont die and just live in our dreams ,they will be ther when our hour comes if you just believe. God Bless You All!
stanislowskichris 10 months ago
Great. Kids dying in the jungle and you think some hippies drinking and doing drugs and going to concerts MADE A DIFFERENCE??????? It made these musicians rich off the backs of those kids...
Read Dylan (excuse me, Robert Zimmerman's) book!
bostonsportslover1 10 months ago
Powerful song that may be even more relevant today than it was during the Vietnam war. Many brave soldiers died during the Gulf war and the wars in Iraq and Afganistan in a similar way the soldiers died during the war in Vietnam. Much love to all those left behind while their loved ones died in the wars in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afganistan, (and all past World Wars and conflicts) and the present tensions in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
gorickard319582010 10 months ago
I don't know if my tears and the chills that this song brings are for my brothers or myself, but for all that are gone and those that remain, this is a song that we heard on the other side of the world while we were lost in a place where humanity did not exist. Some of us are still in that moment and choose not to return .............
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SpiritGirlSF 10 months ago
@dogbig02 your words touch my very soul...I was a little girl watching my Daddy, a WW2 & Korean War Vet, die while the Vietnam War was on the tv news and the National Cemetery we knew he would be buried in was getting ever bigger as the brave young Soldiers who lost their lives were laid to rest there...it make a huge impact on the little girl and it still does for this grown Woman....Much love to you ~A Spirited Woman
SpiritGirlSF 10 months ago
@SpiritGirlSF Thank-you for the love Spirit Girl ........ It is through our words that their memory lives on, as does their spirit within us
dogbig02 10 months ago 2
These lyrics can still apply yo the world today
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If only we knew then what we know now.
Shuricat 11 months ago
If only we knew then what we know now.
Shuricat 11 months ago
Thanx slim
stanislowskichris 11 months ago
@ stanistowskichris. i'm sorry about ur dad. but i know 4 a fact that he would agree with me when i say. "It don't mean nothin'" u had 2 be there.
hippyblood4 11 months ago
the quintessential 60's babe with an extraordinary voice. engineered and produced to perfection. kudos!!
mpcump 11 months ago
although killer vocals..I went to woodstock concert 1999
961kelly 11 months ago
..Jesus said that people will be calling themselves the Massiah in the end times
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Yes, he was known for wanting peace but a very disturbed man..For some reason kept targeting the USA
961kelly 11 months ago
Melany-Lay down..although I love her vocals im not sure where she was going with Meher Baba...
961kelly 11 months ago
thank you
stanislowskichris 11 months ago
Jesus said love everyone your enemy the orphans the widows! Pray for ignorance and God be with everyone who does what tey have to do or feel so! We are not judges juries or executioners. That will the Lords job! Peace be with you in your beliefs,Love your neighbor as much as you love yourselves! God bless
stanislowskichris 11 months ago
fucking hippie shit
JohnnyMidnight1 11 months ago
I remember hearing President Obama, early in his term, say that those fighting in our current two wars could hold their heads high, or some such, because they were FIGHTING UNDER HIS AUTHORITY!
Two criminal wars, but it's OK...because the Commander In Chief Says So.
terrybake 11 months ago
I like this version much more than the shortened version you usually hear without the introduction, and I don't have any complaints about the record "pops" that are obvious at the beginning.
douglas787 11 months ago
Love all human beings.....not just Americans. Love God? "Though Shall Not Kill"
SharonCobb 11 months ago 3
Love all human beings.....not just Americans.
SharonCobb 11 months ago 3