First saw Billy Jack in the mid-70's as a recent Vietnam veteran living in California. Was not impressed then & even less so now. First, Army Green Beret personnel at the time learned only very basic self-defense skills (no Karate anywhere near the level portrayed by Billy Jack in this movie). Second, discrimination against indians & hippies portrayed in this movie is grossly exaggerated. Finally, acting is horrible, script absurd, and story utterly beyond belief. Like some of the music though.
Maybe he did the martial arts in his spare time? lol... If I was in that position, I'd want to be a master of hand to hand combat! As for the discrimination, hmmm...we're talking about the same country where blacks were hanged from trees, and couldn't sit at the front of a bus, or sit at a seat in Woolworth's, and where the remnants of the Indian tribes were shunted off to reservations, right? After breaking treaty after treaty? Lol... I was 12 when it came out, but I wasn't allowed to see it.
PreacherofArrakeen > ".. Maybe .. martial arts in his spare time?
Perhaps. However, the movie made it clear his skills came from Green Beret training.
> ".. As for the discrimination .."
The movie was based in the 1970's, not decades earlier (lynchings), the early 60's (buses & Woolworth's), or the 1800's (indians). I was a hippy in the late 60's and a veteran when this movie came out. Neither hippies nor veterans were harassed in the manner this movie suggests.
i seen this movie billy jack when i was 15 the movie and the song repersent so much to me pity more people didnt think like this man.i am now in my 50s an still remember every part of this movie that is how much it meant to me.
Had never heard of the song until it was playing in an episode of The Simpson's, so decided to check it out. Beautiful song, and the movie sounds good as well, having read the reviews on the IMDB.. only downside is looking at Amazon (UK), the prices are EXTORTIONATE.. they range from around £40 to an unbelievable £520 for a new copy. I don't think it's very well known over here, as there is no R2 dvd. If anyone knows where I can get a copy (genuine) for a sensible price I'd be VERY grateful!
Nothing has really changed since this movie has came out I wonder if our country will ever learn hate is not the answer but us as a nation coming togeather as one will we ever bring about change
I doubt it, i have visions of hope but, they are crushed , like so much soda pop. sorrow for the pun, i am old an grey, and laying in the hay. I,m on your side,, i wish i could change things,
This movie is over the top in so many respects. But the filmmakers really deliver THE MOMENT. I still get choked-up seeing the kids rise to salute as BJ is taken away. Undeniable...
the bottom line is once again someone's treasure and what hold great meaning like beneath the rock peace on earth is all it said....the valley people couldnt understand peace and happiness is our greatest treasure dont wait stop the hate
people,you all are missing the point of what the song and movie is about .The human race as a whole .we are inscure,greedy.primates,look back at history,you might learn something about who we really are.
Go ahead and Hate your neighbor as you have always done, Use religion to justify your cruelty and theft as you have always done, The world is a new place now, This country has now awaken judgement day is now your reality be very affraid.
no its not, thats just the stupid movie of the retarded cowboy. Its about the destruction of greed. how could it be a song about standing up for rights, its about a tribe of people killing every one cause they thought the other tribe had something they wanted, the mountain people still got killed even tho they wanted to share, wow joe u really need to think about stuff
The concepts presented in this movie go way beyond the ability of small minds, as so readily exemplified by SSoomz's comment. Good song, good movie, good time to have grown up.
Me, that's who listens to this "crap." Are you trolling or do you really mean it?
This song makes a point that peace is treasure, but people usually ignore peace to pursue other treasures they would kill for. The words had meaning when they were written, and they are still relevant today.
That's not why i listen though. i grew up hearing it, and i still like the way it sounds.
Why don't you go through my favorites and see what other "gay shit" i listen to?
I don't know why native people don't dismiss this pap. It's a white guy doing asian martial arts and he's your representative? My vote is thumbs down.
It's just a movie, the character was a former Special Forces soldier. There happen to be native people in the film with the school kids too. Well, I guess you can figure the rest out!!!
true it isn't about natives or whites...being native or white it's all about the greed and simple principles of matertialistic standings we all seem to strive for...by the way the world needs more billy jacks who believe in real rights and pricipals. of our fellow brother/sisterhood...
My apologies too all, but leave it to a white supremacist to bring hate to this place 30 years after the film was made, and the songs message has passed people like him by for all of these sad years that there has been no change. I will fight, but prefer peace. I have seen too much of wars, they are ugly, and we should have outgrown them by now.
So, "Cap", I am a native, bring that BS to MY doorstep bitch. We ultimately are all equal. We're just not equal to anyone with real power. BUT know this. if you r going to take out a native, try me first.
...and ALL American men didn't have the right to vote until "voting rights act of 1965". several states even had a "poll tax" in order to discourage the poor and non whites from voting! if any think that diseased blankets for land is a fair trade, then go ahead and give THE NATIVE AMERICANS what You have stolen from them and head to the reservation! the U.S. to this date has broken every treaty with ALL NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS..
the U.S. was still involved in the slve trade in 1864 (one year after the 'emancipation proclamation') with the U.S.S Nightingale as one of these greatest slavers on the high seas. Great Britain had ended slavery 50 years before the American Revolution. there were approximately 500 Black Soldiers in the British forces that fought against the American Revolutionaries. American women didn't have the right to vote until 1920 (3 years after Soviet women and their revolution) and ALL American men..
come on t gamble you dumbass the spanish stole the land from the aztecs we didnt steal shit from mexico the spanish did get a life as for the indians well shit happens and SLAVERY wasnt invented by whits america but it waas ended by U.S. no wonder your a former marine study history man without white america there is no freedom anywhere YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT
Life was much easier back then. We didn't have much in the way of material things like most folks have today. We were much happier. America had it's problems for sure. The Vietman conflict and racism almost riped the heart from our great nation. Somehow this movie gave us hope.
I am a white former Marine. I know the true story. We stole land from Mexico in the 1830's, we murdered and ran the Indians from their land and we have assassinated every single president that didn't go along with the Masonic, Illuminati agenda for World government since 1776. FDR, Woodrow Wilson, Bush, Bush, Obama, Nixon, and many more turned their back on Americans and are supporting the World Government and are traitors, FACT!! The facts are irrefutable. "War is a Racket" by Butler....
All you white racist white people who dis indian people are such idiots!Yeah Billy Jack wasn't indian but he knew things about us that you will never know!
as you use the white racist who is racist and ms native pride when was the last time you were forced to go to labor camps or reservation now they use them as banks you were the morons who sold manhattan for beads lol
WTF! I got this melody in my head first, then found this bt accident. Wierd, I still think I came up the melody myself first because I never heard it I've hummed it before though/.
Billy Jack brought alotta genres together, asian martial arts, american indian lore, vietnam, environment, commie propaganda, heroes who love ugly girls, improv schools in the desert, smar mouth kids, older white men are all bad....
I love the way Jinx Dawson belts this song out !! She had heart and can hear it in this song. Coven was an under rated group that wrote and sang great songs. They just don't make em like this anymore...
I sang this song i 7th grade and won in completion with 2 1st places and 2 2nd place for best class and best song choosen for 4 straight years we won with this song and yes we are going to new york to sing in much more completion at 17 years old know with old class mates!!
during our age of materialism and greed.our age of easy credit, and corrupt business and government leaders, where doe's peace on earth, the true treasure come in? gotta go and cheat a friend now.
Maybe because it takes us back to a lot of the memories and feelings of that time in our life. I'm 44 now. I was a young pup when this came out. Things were more magical back then!
I think I saw this at the movie theater in Wauconda, Illinois, maybe with my brother, but I do know that we saw Soylent Green there.... "Soylent Green is people!"
I remember seeing this when it came out, and thought it was pretty good. Just for info, it wasn't Tom Laughlin who performed the fight sequences as Billy Jack.
my mom knows this song from when it came out. she used to sing it to me...but this is the first time hearing the real version...truthfully its diffrent than i expected.
Argh - why turn everything into one giant political grudge? It's a good song with a good message and even the movie had a decent message even though it was mixed up with hippie-communal style philosophy.
Honestly, as a dual citizen I don't understand this periodic tendency of some Americans to trace everything good and bad back to gigantic opposing sides. The hippie-type communes didn't do all they aimed to, but society didn't crumble and the messages about peace and against racism are valid.
The 70's best era of my life. I remember seeing Billy Jack for the first time. I LOVED IT! and cried my eyes out. What a movie! the acting was great and so was the music. I was stationed with this Indian guy from Trinadad Colorado who never needed an alarm clock to wake up,if you said get me up at 0600 he was able to wake up. Amazing! Billy Jack will forever be one of my favorite movies. Thank you for the post.
Not all points can be expressed by tickling them with a feather, sometimes the point has to be driven home with a little more 'pressure'... No one likes violence, but no one would allow it to be imposed onto them without some recourse...if so, next time you get a cold...consider it's the cold's 'right' to posses your body and don't bother to fight it...
I would agree with you - violence is ALWAYS the bottom line in life & it doesn't have to be just war.
Anyone who has ever been attacked by a jealous ex-boyfriend, mugger, or drunken bar patron (as I have by all 3) will quickly realize that the ONLY way to defend yourself is by fighting back as hard as possible. There's no time or place for verbal negotiation - it's either hit hard or get your ass kicked.
People that don't understand this point are very naive & will end up a victim.
nunca habia visto ni siquiera un trozo de esta pelicula pero parece muy sana devido a que orienta hacia la lucha y la integridad de un ideal el cual se mantiene en muy pocos lugares del mundo
I also liked it when it came out and I was 14. Then I got a job and I took up martial arts. What I learned since then is that a high kick is a good way to lose a fight and that Indians are drunken bums.
The phrase, One Tin Soldier, comes from C.S. Lewis. In his book Mere Christianity, which is a later compilation of talks given by him on the BBC between 1942 and 1944, Lewis used the astounding metaphor of bringing to life the toy soldiers of his childhood. Why just one tin soldier? What happened to the rest of them? Who is the One Tin Soldier? Is there a relationship between the song and Lewis story?
Lewis's chapter on this is termed "The Obstinate Tin Soldiers'. I take it that he means that the 'one tin soldier' that came to life was Jesus Christ. It is worth re-reading that chapter again. I had not thought of a possible relationship between Lewis and the song until you mentioned it; thanks!
I have a brother in prison, my sister died alone from the hands of her husband, my uncle died in war, my cousin is in Iraq, and my son is a police officer because he believes in doing something to fight the injustice of this world, because I taught him to love and not judge, that is my legacy!
I would prefer they defended their own from those that sought to take their lives and goods. Recall the song; offering to share still got them killed to no gain. Had the highlanders fenced their land with dead valley aggressors, their children would live to see a chance at peaceful coexistence.
Mainer... very reminiscent of Vigorously engaging in intercourse for the cause of virginity. Twisted logic like yours is exactly that which prevents us from outgrowing war. Through years I've learned there is more courage in peace than in combat; More honor in sharing than in stealing, and more virtue to humility than there is to valor itself. -Jim La Pointe, 2009
Funny, when we did it over in Bosnia it seemed to work. Caught them moving on the villages in their trucks and BMP's, engaged with direct fire and turned "ethnic cleansers" into corpses. The villages we protected survived. The villages the "cleansers" came from survived too; we also prevented the locals from trying to return the favour.
I rest my case. our body count, yours and mine, will atest to the simple fact that we won't outgrow war, and it's ugliness. You can glorify yourself if you wish, that is your choice. I wish to transcend the actions of my youth, and move on to better things than warmongering. I remember justifying my actions too when I returned. Then I grew a brain more capable than simple logic, and somehow saw things in better light. I hope you do the same.
I remember getting in trouble in Kindergarten for this song. The teacher sang it and asked what lesson it offered. When I told her in all seriousness that the mountain peoples leaders betrayed their people by failing to defend them. The blood of all those people is as much on the leaders of the slain who failed to prepare their folk to defend themselves as on the raiders who destroyed them.
I lost my respect for feelgood fools when I stood burial detail for those who paid the cost.
Wow! I mean HOLY SHIT! You must be one smart son-of-a-bitch to come up with that reasoning when you were just a kindergartener! you should run for president......
"Go ahead and hate your youtubers,Go ahead and cheat a friend,do it in the name of heaven,try and justify it in the end.Peace on earth,,,cant we all just get along?Good will toward men.....
you people that don't like the movie or song have nnoo respect for his or her freedom or land .if you listen to the song from your heart if yall have one you will here the true meaning...............
i have a cold heart at times but someone mocks what god gave them it just burns me up. ihave alot of hatered but i love my god an country . (god bless us each an everyone)
Classic drive-in theater fare. Billy hauled in an inlfation-adjusted 300 mill on a 5 mill budget, making this schlock a top 100 profit makers of all time. Charming, deep stuff if you never made it out of high school.
you did a great job"peacing " it together--billy jack movies are a experience -only a few made-but you dont forget them quick--thx for posting
simonmoves 1 year ago
A great movie and a great song!
Greyolddog 1 year ago
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Toony18 2 years ago
i really like the message of this song. the story is great. good song too, not my usual genre but its damn good.
donttouchmethere 2 years ago
Jinx has an awesome voice.
loldacz 2 years ago 2
This song has the 4 great chords
MrHappyTurtle 2 years ago
First saw Billy Jack in the mid-70's as a recent Vietnam veteran living in California. Was not impressed then & even less so now. First, Army Green Beret personnel at the time learned only very basic self-defense skills (no Karate anywhere near the level portrayed by Billy Jack in this movie). Second, discrimination against indians & hippies portrayed in this movie is grossly exaggerated. Finally, acting is horrible, script absurd, and story utterly beyond belief. Like some of the music though.
stewartx5 2 years ago
Maybe he did the martial arts in his spare time? lol... If I was in that position, I'd want to be a master of hand to hand combat! As for the discrimination, hmmm...we're talking about the same country where blacks were hanged from trees, and couldn't sit at the front of a bus, or sit at a seat in Woolworth's, and where the remnants of the Indian tribes were shunted off to reservations, right? After breaking treaty after treaty? Lol... I was 12 when it came out, but I wasn't allowed to see it.
PreacherofArrakeen 2 years ago
PreacherofArrakeen > ".. Maybe .. martial arts in his spare time?
Perhaps. However, the movie made it clear his skills came from Green Beret training.
> ".. As for the discrimination .."
The movie was based in the 1970's, not decades earlier (lynchings), the early 60's (buses & Woolworth's), or the 1800's (indians). I was a hippy in the late 60's and a veteran when this movie came out. Neither hippies nor veterans were harassed in the manner this movie suggests.
stewartx5 2 years ago
i seen this movie billy jack when i was 15 the movie and the song repersent so much to me pity more people didnt think like this man.i am now in my 50s an still remember every part of this movie that is how much it meant to me.
CHRISTOPHER2MCGEARY 2 years ago 6
I'm just a dreamer and to me the movie represented change and I still feel that way. Thanks for the post.
001Broken 2 years ago
go ahead and hate your neighboor >D
JeanMarcell 2 years ago
was this about the vietnam war??
Nericera13 2 years ago
we were ment for so much more than this world has to offer.
f111driver 2 years ago
get it from netflix
magicskater77 2 years ago
Had never heard of the song until it was playing in an episode of The Simpson's, so decided to check it out. Beautiful song, and the movie sounds good as well, having read the reviews on the IMDB.. only downside is looking at Amazon (UK), the prices are EXTORTIONATE.. they range from around £40 to an unbelievable £520 for a new copy. I don't think it's very well known over here, as there is no R2 dvd. If anyone knows where I can get a copy (genuine) for a sensible price I'd be VERY grateful!
ollie501 2 years ago
our qoir class had to sing this,its a good song
FrEDo507 2 years ago
Nothing has really changed since this movie has came out I wonder if our country will ever learn hate is not the answer but us as a nation coming togeather as one will we ever bring about change
001Broken 2 years ago
Nice generalization. What the hell are you talking about?
badleeroy 2 years ago
This movie still shows how the world is still today and the message still goes unheard. At what point will our country ever learn ?
001Broken 2 years ago 2
I doubt it, i have visions of hope but, they are crushed , like so much soda pop. sorrow for the pun, i am old an grey, and laying in the hay. I,m on your side,, i wish i could change things,
judge6754 2 years ago
um okay .................
sourbat 2 years ago
my first love - this was/is his favorite song
i still love him - i'll never forget you
PetLadybug 2 years ago
I just want to know how Billy Jack was able to get his leg so high wearing those tight jeans.
Barbara19591 2 years ago
Maybe they were not as tight as your image. Of his,,
judge6754 2 years ago
This movie is over the top in so many respects. But the filmmakers really deliver THE MOMENT. I still get choked-up seeing the kids rise to salute as BJ is taken away. Undeniable...
edmabe64 2 years ago 2
cool hat at the begining
caganb 2 years ago
Does anyone know where the site shown at 1:09 is located? The message of this song is still relevnet today - Peace on Earth!
reikihealer59 2 years ago
the bottom line is once again someone's treasure and what hold great meaning like beneath the rock peace on earth is all it said....the valley people couldnt understand peace and happiness is our greatest treasure dont wait stop the hate
knightmare5000 2 years ago
people,you all are missing the point of what the song and movie is about .The human race as a whole .we are inscure,greedy.primates,look back at history,you might learn something about who we really are.
kegblack 2 years ago
Go ahead and Hate your neighbor as you have always done, Use religion to justify your cruelty and theft as you have always done, The world is a new place now, This country has now awaken judgement day is now your reality be very affraid.
LostFREEDOM 2 years ago
The world is not a new place now.
How naive.
teeembeee 2 years ago
i wish i could wake upon the morrow and find peace on earth. just not in me however.
goldendoomer 2 years ago
Billy Jack Rules!
hmbcker 2 years ago 2
Very touching.
The moral to this storey is -
True Christianity is nothing like the way republicans MIS-represent it. It's about love, empathy, understanding and patience.
LilDarlingxx 2 years ago 2
@LilDarlingxx The song was written by Satanists. The moral is that Christianity is the true evil in the world.
WodenUberAlles 1 year ago
Great spirits always encounter violent oppositions by medeocre minds. Pppl Billy Jack's is what makes America great.
Damn crooked republicans!
LilDarlingxx 2 years ago
what a great song dont wait stop the hate
knightmare5000 2 years ago
Peace is a period of cheating between two wars.
ZoneFighter1 2 years ago
Sorry, Joe, you completely miss the point.
fantasyfish92 2 years ago
This song is about standing up for up for you rights and beliefs and fighting injustice
joe231965 2 years ago
no its not, thats just the stupid movie of the retarded cowboy. Its about the destruction of greed. how could it be a song about standing up for rights, its about a tribe of people killing every one cause they thought the other tribe had something they wanted, the mountain people still got killed even tho they wanted to share, wow joe u really need to think about stuff
ghostikailo 2 years ago
Like all beaners,if he'd of stuck to roofing and drywall he wouldn't have all these problems.
muthafugger 2 years ago
The concepts presented in this movie go way beyond the ability of small minds, as so readily exemplified by SSoomz's comment. Good song, good movie, good time to have grown up.
WanderTheEarth 2 years ago
kinda funn\y for alll it worth is it peach on earch
invisiblebunny219 2 years ago
Hey SSoomz - you obviously lack any and all humanity - screw you
dillbn08 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
This is gay shit really who listens to this crap
SSoomz 2 years ago
fuck u man dont disrespect
mistady1234 2 years ago 2
Fuck you moron, maybe if you had any taste at all you could get past your hate.
LouieO1988 2 years ago 2
Me, that's who listens to this "crap." Are you trolling or do you really mean it?
This song makes a point that peace is treasure, but people usually ignore peace to pursue other treasures they would kill for. The words had meaning when they were written, and they are still relevant today.
That's not why i listen though. i grew up hearing it, and i still like the way it sounds.
Why don't you go through my favorites and see what other "gay shit" i listen to?
kolpinj 2 years ago 2
If you dont like the music go do a lyric search and at least try to understand the meaning of the song. It tells a moral story.
slamminsammy35 2 years ago 2
A classic!!! God Bless Billy Jack!!!!
am2boni 2 years ago
we sing it sooo mucchh better at camp
Jamii620 2 years ago
Great song from a great movie, Tom was way ahead of all the others....
tanner1388 2 years ago
An American cult classic from the vietnam/hippie years (1971). I was 5 years old at that time! I wish I have lived those years as a teen!
brendabaloyan 2 years ago 2
Love this song!!
brendabaloyan 2 years ago
PBS: The American Experience, We Shall Remain.
kurtw27 2 years ago
I don't know why native people don't dismiss this pap. It's a white guy doing asian martial arts and he's your representative? My vote is thumbs down.
mikeinminn 2 years ago
He's a native american man...this was a true story
jlegs9 2 years ago
It's just a movie, the character was a former Special Forces soldier. There happen to be native people in the film with the school kids too. Well, I guess you can figure the rest out!!!
spareaxe 2 years ago
hey clown, it isn't about native or white;
it's about principles that some aspire too;
that is beyond your superficial analysis...
BJ was mixed and fought for what he believed, that I admire, even if I don't agree with everything!
konigtigertank 2 years ago 2
true it isn't about natives or whites...being native or white it's all about the greed and simple principles of matertialistic standings we all seem to strive for...by the way the world needs more billy jacks who believe in real rights and pricipals. of our fellow brother/sisterhood...
redthunder2007 2 years ago
My apologies too all, but leave it to a white supremacist to bring hate to this place 30 years after the film was made, and the songs message has passed people like him by for all of these sad years that there has been no change. I will fight, but prefer peace. I have seen too much of wars, they are ugly, and we should have outgrown them by now.
jimlap4712 2 years ago
So, "Cap", I am a native, bring that BS to MY doorstep bitch. We ultimately are all equal. We're just not equal to anyone with real power. BUT know this. if you r going to take out a native, try me first.
jimlap4712 2 years ago
The " promiss land " was then & still is CANADA..... look it up ..... Where do you think the " underground railroad " led ????
Check your history
PEACE is all that matters...... ( NO MATTER WHERE IT COMES FROM )
CHEERES
vieta1972 2 years ago
...and ALL American men didn't have the right to vote until "voting rights act of 1965". several states even had a "poll tax" in order to discourage the poor and non whites from voting! if any think that diseased blankets for land is a fair trade, then go ahead and give THE NATIVE AMERICANS what You have stolen from them and head to the reservation! the U.S. to this date has broken every treaty with ALL NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS..
sayeretmatkal17021 2 years ago
the U.S. was still involved in the slve trade in 1864 (one year after the 'emancipation proclamation') with the U.S.S Nightingale as one of these greatest slavers on the high seas. Great Britain had ended slavery 50 years before the American Revolution. there were approximately 500 Black Soldiers in the British forces that fought against the American Revolutionaries. American women didn't have the right to vote until 1920 (3 years after Soviet women and their revolution) and ALL American men..
sayeretmatkal17021 2 years ago
come on t gamble you dumbass the spanish stole the land from the aztecs we didnt steal shit from mexico the spanish did get a life as for the indians well shit happens and SLAVERY wasnt invented by whits america but it waas ended by U.S. no wonder your a former marine study history man without white america there is no freedom anywhere YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT
jimejam43 2 years ago 2
Slavery ended by England.
hoogstudent 2 years ago
But they still had debt slavery / indentured servants
3DogsLive 2 years ago
Britain and France got rid of the slave trade first
RedSkiesatDawn 2 years ago
sweet song love it :)
zerglet23 2 years ago
Billy Jack was my hero as a kid! And the mustang, yes so American! wHEN THE ADOPT A MUSTANG PROGRAM came out we were one of the first to participate.
Our dirty grey mare never did come around but by God she sure did make a fine stew! Kept us alive that winter in 89
pigmanobvious 2 years ago
Life was much easier back then. We didn't have much in the way of material things like most folks have today. We were much happier. America had it's problems for sure. The Vietman conflict and racism almost riped the heart from our great nation. Somehow this movie gave us hope.
kw351slr 2 years ago
i just bought the movie at a second hand shop. saw it when i was young. still great. more meaning now than when i was younger.
barkleyray 2 years ago
Thanks for posting !!!
Great song ... Great movie.
luvsmusic208 2 years ago
The Mustang is True American.
kurtw71 2 years ago
go ahead and cheat a neigbor go a head and cheat a friend
invisiblebunny219 2 years ago
Wow! Lot of anger here it seems. Save it for the kiddie pages perhaps?
Anyway, 5 stars for this video. Thanks!!!
redmancheyenne 2 years ago
I am a white former Marine. I know the true story. We stole land from Mexico in the 1830's, we murdered and ran the Indians from their land and we have assassinated every single president that didn't go along with the Masonic, Illuminati agenda for World government since 1776. FDR, Woodrow Wilson, Bush, Bush, Obama, Nixon, and many more turned their back on Americans and are supporting the World Government and are traitors, FACT!! The facts are irrefutable. "War is a Racket" by Butler....
tgambill 2 years ago 2
i like this video. it goes back to me in high school!
Snoop0369 2 years ago
All you white racist white people who dis indian people are such idiots!Yeah Billy Jack wasn't indian but he knew things about us that you will never know!
msnativepride 2 years ago
as you use the white racist who is racist and ms native pride when was the last time you were forced to go to labor camps or reservation now they use them as banks you were the morons who sold manhattan for beads lol
knightmare5000 2 years ago
Billy Jack was cool...
(In the movie,) I wouldn't have felt like much a man ganging up on him...
konigtigertank 2 years ago
I am Spartacus !
Wacokid48 2 years ago
DONT GIVE A FUCK WHAT ANY ONE HAS TO SAY......
I LOVE this movie its message & its song... LONG LIVE BILLY JACK
PEACE........
Keep goin Tom :):):)
Let us see the next one
vieta1972 2 years ago
too bad vieta1972 had to say it like 'that'...
they're enough foul mouthed lowlifes on youtube, no respect for the little ones
konigtigertank 2 years ago
WTF! I got this melody in my head first, then found this bt accident. Wierd, I still think I came up the melody myself first because I never heard it I've hummed it before though/.
dh234 2 years ago
Hey fuck you guys and your anti white bullshit, Billie Jack was a white man you retards. The ghost of Hitler will come and kill you
ashkrowe 2 years ago
I always loved this song
joe231965 2 years ago
The cop at 1:24 looks like a typical slow witted
redneck.
gormley77 2 years ago
please call NASA and let them know about you.
frdbadf 2 years ago
I love his hat at the beginning
caganb 2 years ago
Billy Jack brought alotta genres together, asian martial arts, american indian lore, vietnam, environment, commie propaganda, heroes who love ugly girls, improv schools in the desert, smar mouth kids, older white men are all bad....
tonyschmoeredux 2 years ago
I love the way Jinx Dawson belts this song out !! She had heart and can hear it in this song. Coven was an under rated group that wrote and sang great songs. They just don't make em like this anymore...
Thanks Vet37 for the memories...
Svette1T 2 years ago 3
I sang this song i 7th grade and won in completion with 2 1st places and 2 2nd place for best class and best song choosen for 4 straight years we won with this song and yes we are going to new york to sing in much more completion at 17 years old know with old class mates!!
pembrokepuppydog23 2 years ago
We need more heroes like Billy jack, Not only against white sob.s but in black and Hispanic neighborhoods also. Doug E O myspace
eldougeo 2 years ago
during our age of materialism and greed.our age of easy credit, and corrupt business and government leaders, where doe's peace on earth, the true treasure come in? gotta go and cheat a friend now.
regolio 2 years ago
It's weird when you see a movie as a kid and watch it now. Makes you feel a little strange.
One Tin Soldier...ah yes, I remember.
FigurinItOut 2 years ago
Your right ..Why is that ?
tera46 2 years ago
Maybe because it takes us back to a lot of the memories and feelings of that time in our life. I'm 44 now. I was a young pup when this came out. Things were more magical back then!
FigurinItOut 2 years ago
Coven \m/
cronology 2 years ago
I was about 14 or 15 when I saw this movie "Billy Jack" with my friend & it brings back memories. Now I bought the DVD. Thanks for sharing with us.
olgamarie888 2 years ago
Turned the stone and looked beneath it ......Peace on Earth was ALL it said...
Peace + Love = Happiness !!! oxo
God Bless Everyone !!!
jyoungblood3960 2 years ago 3
I think I saw this at the movie theater in Wauconda, Illinois, maybe with my brother, but I do know that we saw Soylent Green there.... "Soylent Green is people!"
bg147 2 years ago
I remember seeing this when it came out, and thought it was pretty good. Just for info, it wasn't Tom Laughlin who performed the fight sequences as Billy Jack.
Really good video for the song though.
Charonveritas 2 years ago
Bong Soo Han. Hapkido grandmaster, did the fight scenes. He was actually contracted during the viet nam war to train special forces.
Just another piece of trivia. :)
Firewind451 2 years ago
Thank you.
Charonveritas 2 years ago
Love billy jack
Justjimmyb 2 years ago
i like this song we r doing it for a consert
mcrrms12 2 years ago
To the Native American People.
kurtw71 2 years ago 4
Come on folks! We need to stop listening to these media millionaire talking heads on the "left" or the "right".
To heck with FOX, MSNBC and all the rest!
rozback 2 years ago 2
exactly. we only hear what given. more people need to look up indie stuff.
Imptheshrimp 2 years ago
I love this song...
and i loved the billy Jack Movies....
wolf4555 2 years ago 4
my mom knows this song from when it came out. she used to sing it to me...but this is the first time hearing the real version...truthfully its diffrent than i expected.
HiHello005 2 years ago
lovely song... :)
frozenpandaman 2 years ago 2
It's because people ignore (didn't see it), stuff. And then everyone pays.
Wedgeidoc 2 years ago
When bums break the law... There isn't any law. Just urine and feces on the sidewalk while the cops eat doughnuts.
Smackdaddy9 2 years ago
that is because the pro crime leftists liars defend criminals over decent people
Kelticviking 2 years ago
Argh - why turn everything into one giant political grudge? It's a good song with a good message and even the movie had a decent message even though it was mixed up with hippie-communal style philosophy.
Honestly, as a dual citizen I don't understand this periodic tendency of some Americans to trace everything good and bad back to gigantic opposing sides. The hippie-type communes didn't do all they aimed to, but society didn't crumble and the messages about peace and against racism are valid.
AJTwo 2 years ago 6
If everyone was a free wheeling student protester creating art, what would happen when the toilet broke? Would you 'love' it into working?
Smackdaddy9 2 years ago
Veteran37 be good to urself. Maybe one day we will meet. 2nd/508th 82nd ABN Div.
tlgcpg 2 years ago
76th CO L attached to 101 AB. Vietnam
Thank you for your service!
kutzbill 2 years ago 3
i remember the movie, forever.
thanks
TheProdicalSn 2 years ago
The 70's best era of my life. I remember seeing Billy Jack for the first time. I LOVED IT! and cried my eyes out. What a movie! the acting was great and so was the music. I was stationed with this Indian guy from Trinadad Colorado who never needed an alarm clock to wake up,if you said get me up at 0600 he was able to wake up. Amazing! Billy Jack will forever be one of my favorite movies. Thank you for the post.
pips5678 2 years ago
I love the movie but, the acting was terrible. Lol.
Firewind451 2 years ago
Not all points can be expressed by tickling them with a feather, sometimes the point has to be driven home with a little more 'pressure'... No one likes violence, but no one would allow it to be imposed onto them without some recourse...if so, next time you get a cold...consider it's the cold's 'right' to posses your body and don't bother to fight it...
btooley10 2 years ago
btooley10:
I would agree with you - violence is ALWAYS the bottom line in life & it doesn't have to be just war.
Anyone who has ever been attacked by a jealous ex-boyfriend, mugger, or drunken bar patron (as I have by all 3) will quickly realize that the ONLY way to defend yourself is by fighting back as hard as possible. There's no time or place for verbal negotiation - it's either hit hard or get your ass kicked.
People that don't understand this point are very naive & will end up a victim.
Neil6000 2 years ago
It was a lame flick then and it's even more lame now.
SickkMdk18 2 years ago
When everyone is a bum, there is no law, just a bunch of bums. And I hate cops, too.
Smackdaddy9 2 years ago
I can't wait to see John Hulina raising his fist to this song during poker...
hermosavb 2 years ago
nunca habia visto ni siquiera un trozo de esta pelicula pero parece muy sana devido a que orienta hacia la lucha y la integridad de un ideal el cual se mantiene en muy pocos lugares del mundo
miguelherreracorrale 2 years ago
I liked it when I was sixteen yrs. old and first watched the movie. And I still think the message stands!
russelljbarry15 2 years ago 3
I also liked it when it came out and I was 14. Then I got a job and I took up martial arts. What I learned since then is that a high kick is a good way to lose a fight and that Indians are drunken bums.
Smackdaddy9 2 years ago
Things are so much better when you a kid. Hard lesson to learn pal. I had to learn it also..........
Itsmevern12 2 years ago
Billy Jack. Great song.
stukinthe70s 2 years ago
yeah!!!! billy jack!!! right foot across the face!
stoagy 3 years ago
The phrase, One Tin Soldier, comes from C.S. Lewis. In his book Mere Christianity, which is a later compilation of talks given by him on the BBC between 1942 and 1944, Lewis used the astounding metaphor of bringing to life the toy soldiers of his childhood. Why just one tin soldier? What happened to the rest of them? Who is the One Tin Soldier? Is there a relationship between the song and Lewis story?
bbartonjones 3 years ago
Lewis's chapter on this is termed "The Obstinate Tin Soldiers'. I take it that he means that the 'one tin soldier' that came to life was Jesus Christ. It is worth re-reading that chapter again. I had not thought of a possible relationship between Lewis and the song until you mentioned it; thanks!
retexan599 2 years ago
Such pain in the world! What is the reason
pigmanobvious 3 years ago
damn nazi's
trainboy414 3 years ago
proto Walker?
GakkiSai 3 years ago
Beautiful song!
I have a brother in prison, my sister died alone from the hands of her husband, my uncle died in war, my cousin is in Iraq, and my son is a police officer because he believes in doing something to fight the injustice of this world, because I taught him to love and not judge, that is my legacy!
HoPe4PeAcE2009 3 years ago
you would prefer a preemptive attack on the valley people?
zingflop61 3 years ago
I would prefer they defended their own from those that sought to take their lives and goods. Recall the song; offering to share still got them killed to no gain. Had the highlanders fenced their land with dead valley aggressors, their children would live to see a chance at peaceful coexistence.
Mainerjohnthomas 3 years ago
Mainer... very reminiscent of Vigorously engaging in intercourse for the cause of virginity. Twisted logic like yours is exactly that which prevents us from outgrowing war. Through years I've learned there is more courage in peace than in combat; More honor in sharing than in stealing, and more virtue to humility than there is to valor itself. -Jim La Pointe, 2009
jimlap4712 3 years ago
Funny, when we did it over in Bosnia it seemed to work. Caught them moving on the villages in their trucks and BMP's, engaged with direct fire and turned "ethnic cleansers" into corpses. The villages we protected survived. The villages the "cleansers" came from survived too; we also prevented the locals from trying to return the favour.
We made peace boy, and killed to do it.
Mainerjohnthomas 3 years ago
I rest my case. our body count, yours and mine, will atest to the simple fact that we won't outgrow war, and it's ugliness. You can glorify yourself if you wish, that is your choice. I wish to transcend the actions of my youth, and move on to better things than warmongering. I remember justifying my actions too when I returned. Then I grew a brain more capable than simple logic, and somehow saw things in better light. I hope you do the same.
jimlap4712 2 years ago
I remember getting in trouble in Kindergarten for this song. The teacher sang it and asked what lesson it offered. When I told her in all seriousness that the mountain peoples leaders betrayed their people by failing to defend them. The blood of all those people is as much on the leaders of the slain who failed to prepare their folk to defend themselves as on the raiders who destroyed them.
I lost my respect for feelgood fools when I stood burial detail for those who paid the cost.
Mainerjohnthomas 3 years ago
Amen, brother! I agree!
Nobama0000 3 years ago
Damn straight! You said it right brother.
onsitewelding2003 3 years ago
Wow! I mean HOLY SHIT! You must be one smart son-of-a-bitch to come up with that reasoning when you were just a kindergartener! you should run for president......
TAHESER 2 years ago
"Go ahead and hate your youtubers,Go ahead and cheat a friend,do it in the name of heaven,try and justify it in the end.Peace on earth,,,cant we all just get along?Good will toward men.....
smile4mejmarie 3 years ago 2
you people that don't like the movie or song have nnoo respect for his or her freedom or land .if you listen to the song from your heart if yall have one you will here the true meaning...............
shayne1515 3 years ago
yep
smile4mejmarie 3 years ago
i have a cold heart at times but someone mocks what god gave them it just burns me up. ihave alot of hatered but i love my god an country . (god bless us each an everyone)
shayne1515 3 years ago
you all need to chill out.......I grew up to this and respect it. This movie was cheesy, but had a message
lindasue2463 3 years ago 2
WTF this had heart when it come its about the oppressed the indian in this country were f####d took their land
lvmusic61960 3 years ago
calm down............corny yes but true. I'm republican but stand by this
lindasue2463 3 years ago 2
i was a kid when this was produced it had an has a lot of heart i guess you just have to understand it the fellings behind it
lvmusic61960 3 years ago
OH,Billy, i did it for the children.
blackforest270 3 years ago
Classic drive-in theater fare. Billy hauled in an inlfation-adjusted 300 mill on a 5 mill budget, making this schlock a top 100 profit makers of all time. Charming, deep stuff if you never made it out of high school.
DrLepper 3 years ago 2
"deep stuff if you never made it out of high school." hahahaha! I think I've just been insulted.......good one!
vcomp1960 3 years ago 2
Stupid ASS hippies !!!!
SPOOTY57 3 years ago
I remember this as a kid...was one corny movie.
mikeyt62 3 years ago
billy jack i fucked him,oh!
rockysman6 3 years ago
justify it in the end !!!!!!!!!!!!!
juggluver69 3 years ago
Great song with a REAL theme! Thank you so much for posting!
BIGBUCK20 3 years ago
sorry BillyJack was it's name
jbo1111 3 years ago
I'm gonna put my right foot on the side of your face and you can't do a damn thing bout it :44sec cool as hell
jbo1111 3 years ago
sad sad sad honetly people why do we have to fight whats the point??
lovelylittlehuh 3 years ago
we're bred to do it
Memroch 3 years ago