This is the REAL version. All others to date posted on youtube are NOT from Woodstock but rather from the recent Hollywood movie about the Woodstock event; the Country Joe people see singing is an actor and as well as the audience - you can catch glimpses of palm trees in the background! HA!
this is the best song ever that has a a kazoo in it...lyrics are still timely, just change vietnam for whatever sandy hellhole with oil we're bombing this week, when we were best buds with their dictator last week
@Tyburn13: All this upload needs is the real FISH Cry. It started with F and ended with K. During that era, that Fish cry is the one we associated with this song. BTW, this is a great upload of my favorite protest song. Thank you.
Thanks for posting the recorded version. I remember listening to this on one of my dads "songs of protest" records when I was a kid. Was well before my time but still resonates with me!
Doing course on protest poetry and another student said to watch this.I am ashamed to say I had forgotten some of the images of Vietnam but they came flooding back.The effect is still brilliant with the images and music.
My 7th grade social studies teacher was a marine in vietnam and made us listen to this song in class a few times, now im 22 and found this song again... good times..
My favorite protest song, from the first day it came out. And these pictures, we lived seeing them every day. I still can't get out of my head the little Viet girl running and screaming in pain because she was burning (large, live flames on her back) from the napalm we dropped. Nobody, I repeat, nobody with morals thought that was was right, on any level. Thank you, now I'll get off my soapbox!
In the UK we never really heard much about it. Then one day a mate told me something was going to go off outside the US embassy in London next day.That was '68 and it was the start of a journey for me that I never forgot. In the words another song it was all moving paper fantasies and new told lies.
Like the US Civil War it was an obscene period in US history that should never have happened and many regretted.
@TheSpiritof1969 You're right, it was obscene and many other depressing adjectives.... The word that comes to my mind most often is heartbreaking. Unfortunately, we of the 60's have to live with these memories burned into our brains. And mourn those we lost.
I think may countries lost something. History can be interpreted in many ways and I could put a valid argument that that war saved us from worse things. But the politics never stopped, lesson not learned and the following 25 years after Vietnam threw up a whole series of events that might never have happened had the war not started..
@TheSpiritof1969 Yes, many countries lost something during that war. And, yes you could put forward a valid argument about it but remember, there are pros and cons on every situation in life. As a now older (but not elderly yet; I will never be elderly in my mind, no matter my age) child of the 60's, I still very much believe that we can all just get along. But maybe, with the world being as it is, that's just a "pie in the sky" belief. But I'm sticking to it!
For me they were heady times. In 68 I actually gut to shake the hand of Jimmi Hendrix. Music and Vietnam seemed to go hand in hand. 2 Unwanted air tickets from a former employer a few years later and me and a mate were in NY with $150 between us on an adventure of a lifetime. Almost three weeks later we were at Cape Canaveral one night to watch Apollo17 blast off. Those 2 English kids saw the real America warts and all as we worked out way down.
Such were the people back then that when we got arrested hitchhiking two days before the launch and taken twenty miles back the way we came they were touched that those two English kids had 'Come all the way from England just to see our rocket go to the moon.'
A hot shower, night in the cells and the biggest breakfast I had seen in my life we were packet into a police car and driven off in the direction of Kennedy as it was then known.
@TheSpiritof1969 I'm lovin your adventure in the good ole USA. Somehow I wish I were with you. Those did seem to be more hospitable times here. At least you got to see something launched. I went down in April for the "last" shuttle launch and it was aborted. Ended up in a watering hole moaning, bitching and complaining. As it were, I only got to watch on the tube. BTW, I graduated high school during the "summer of love", 1967. We could go on and on, but we can't go back. Damn it!
Fantastic tyburn. Thanks for the posting. Love playing this song. Working on a contemporary version because the same old shit is still going on. don't let all the bastards grind you down brothers and sisters.
Oh how true this song is ... and we still don't get it! We need to mind our own business. I can understand the retaliation for 9/01 as I came very close to losing my daughter .... but, Iraq, Libya??????? Where are we going to stick our noses next?
Yes, I agree with you that this is what is going on .. but what right does our government have sending
our people over there to get maimed and killed so they can make a buck? The sad thing is when these people
come home, there are no jobs for them, from what I am reading, their heads are so messed up from the horrors they have seen and experienced that they come back a different person (gee .. you think?), so the families are suffering as well!
My crew chief wouldn't fly unless we played this before our missions. Travis, my brother, you must have been on to something because we all made it. back alive. I love you. And I have to apologize to the maggot I dropped in his tracks when our guys were leaving Ft. Lewis November 17, 1970. I thought I'd killed you. Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had COPD. You need to cover your mouth when you cough (spit). BTW, I didn't go to jail......
This song takes me back to my Haight-Ashbury days in San Francisco in 1967 and 1968. I loved it!
Peace & Love
Rick Ryan
Oh! One day after they turned Haight St. into a one-way because of all the tourist coming into the area, Country Joe got a truck with a flatbed trailer so he could set the band up on it. As they slowly came down Haight St., they were playing this song. I'll never forget that!
The amazing thing about halting the march of Communism, is, it stopped itself. After the North flooded down and took over, there really was a bloodbath of sorts. The south Vietnamese fled in a panic on boats or any way they could get out. The Rooskies took over our bases. Vietnamese didn`t like Rooskies or Communism. Now its "Russians #10", and Americans #1. Go figure!
The recorded version is much better than the Woodstock version. I originally heard the recorded version but managed to lose it, then all I could find online was the crappy woodstock version! thanks for this
I was a platoon Sgt with 2 Plt, C Troop, 1/1 Cav, 23Inf Div in Nam 1969 t0 1972 (Yeah, I was nuts), We loved this song and hated the war!!!!! We killed for one reason, to stay alive. We sure as hell weren't fighting to end the red threat, and none of us believed we would be millionaires someday. Just like us, the kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanstan know it's all crap.
stop ,every day theres a different war,when are the humans gonna learn,.when is enough, enough 4 xxxxx sake! stop. stop .stop. stop. stop .forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow .whats the point!what is the point in bothering!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
stop ,every day theres a different war,when are the humans gonna learn,.when is enough, enough 4 xxxxx sake! stop. stop .stop. stop. stop .forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow .whats the point!what is the point in bothering!
Don't know where they got the sound affects at the end, but they give me chills listening to the ending. I can still remember the first time I saw an F-4 making a run and drop its ordinance.
And yet we do it again. This time with mercenaries rather than draftees. The poor and the ignorant on our coin. We just don't get it. I remember it all so clearly when I listen to this song. We must stop it. We are wrong.
You are obviously an idiot for there's not one country in S.E. Asia with a communist regime anymore and if you US fools would have not intervened they would not even have been communist !
this song is not appropriate now. In the 60s, those vietnamese just attacked a small PT boat near their coast. that is hardly a reason to launch a war.
But in case no one realized, we were attacked by people in afghanistan and their taliban supported it. In 2001, 3000 americans were killed. Now THAT is a good reason. They attacked us so we must respond to the threat.
Actually, the Taliban offered to hand Bin Laden over to us if we provided any evidence that he was involved in the plot. Betcha didn't know that. We also were paying the Taliban millions for "poppy eradication" right up to sept 10th.
The war in Afghanistan has killed how many innocent people what had nothing at all to do with 9/11? Were any of the hijackers from Afghanistan?
You are obviously another idiot for the 9/11 hijackers were all killed during the attack themselves. So the impossibility of revenge frustrated you so much you thought it justified to start a war on a whole culture with mainly US poor as a victim of budget cuts on social security in favour of the war effort.
Strange US citizens seem less important to you as Afghanis are.
@envanje it doesnt matter if the people that committed the act were all dead. the culture and country supported the terrorist attack against us so that makes them guilty.
just a tiny group supported the attack on WTC towers. even some european christians did. but you frustrated fools take revenge on innocents and you must pay for that !
@jessica5000000 Boy, have u got to learn more about how wars start!
Isn't it amazing that USA supported Afgan rebels with weapons fighting the USSR Military for 9 yrs and now must fight the rebels themselves using the very same weapons that they supplied and the rebels need only kill Americans to re-stock their low-ammo supplies of 7.62 bullets
@CarlJMagrath Actually, we supplied them with very few weapons. The Taliban, and Al Quaeda in Afghanistan use Russian, or Chinese made weapons. Also, the majority of US weapons don't even fire 7.62x51mm, they fire 5.56x45mm.
@casciatod It is indeed. I lost quie a few good friends in both Iraq and Afghanistan. You will never find someone who wishes for peace more, than someone who's lived through war.
This song takes me back to my Haight-Ashbury days in San Francisco in 1967 and 1968. I loved it!
Peace & Love
Rick Ryan
Oh! One day after they turned Haight St. into a one-way because of all the tourist coming into the area, Country Joe got a truck with a flatbed trailer so he could set the band up on it. As they slowly came down Haight St., they were playing this song. I'll never forget that!
@Rrwmissouri yes i have many great memories of those fantastic days of free concerts in Golden Gate Park...referred to The Gate back in the day...Hail to all of my Hippie friends
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll. Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll
This tack seamed really appropriate (once again) in Cablegate Month. - An anthem to USA's International Hostility, and Paranoia. - The sad thing is, generally speaking, USA's proletariate dose NOT recognize this characteristic in themselves !!!!! - And they act offended when anybody has to good grace to try and offer them correction. -
this was the pic from woodstock he origonaly wasnt supposed to sing to the third day but the other singers were late so they made him sing but he complained that he had no guitar strap so they gave hime the rope and whrn hr got on he didnt the give me an f give me an i give me an s give me an h he did give me an f give me a u give me a c give me a k
how can you forget? vietnam was,according to gov, a "conflict"-we went over to teach skills to help and somehow got sucked into fighting - the rich kids in college or parental political influence kept them out of harms way-everyone else lived in fear of going to mailbox to find draft card.I watch the wonderful homecomings of todays troops coming home to televised celebrations,when I witnessed vietnam vets being spat on and shunned-basically untrained kids stolen and sent with no choice.remember!
@mauricejbarry The Military Industrial Complex created the perfect war, the perpetual war on terror. Who is the enemy? Our kids ride down the rode trying to draw fire, similar to Vietnam, we would take a hill and then leave it. just to draw fire. You can't win a conflict if you know who your enemy is. They shake your hand today and fire at you tomorrow. There is a whole lot of money to be made, billions a day a spent to keep our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, yes Iraq still 50,000 troops there.
this is the DEVIL's song folks. It mocks the sense to protect against communist lies which ultimately, without fail, lead to millions dying (the best of the human race, those who succeed, out of jelousy), and seeks to focus the puny minds out there upon the narrowly construed negative aspects of war - gun fire and death. What about Payne's give me liberty or death? No, if i give him anything, it's his clever insight into painting Christians as not fully understanding what was going on.
@jonvonman Yes, you are one of the Devils' i'm talking about, for you judge the complexity and fullness of my statement as a "Dude" who possible is high on pot. But a discerning fellow who understood the socio/political issues of this era would know that preemptive War's are under the condemnation of this "peaceful generation" who apparently would rather go into delusions rather than fight for freedom against Communist China and Russia via Vietnam - A valid song leads us to the end of freedom.
@chica476: They tried, remember the FFL in Vietnam. They meet Vo Nguyen Giap at Dien Bien Phu. Before that they rode the "Street of Tears" Route #1. And Group Mobile 100 found death In the Mang Yang Pass between An Khe and Pleiku. Read Bernard Fall books before you take such cavalier attitude on the ease of warfare in French Indochina. I spent 6+ years there and never once disrespected my adversaries be they hardcore NVA or wily VC. To underestimate your foe is to place a gun at your own head.
the german Wehrmacht invaded french indochina? who's Bernard Fall? I will look into your considerations... but please do not misunderstand my stance by thinking that I was underestimating the cunningness of the NVA nor VC. As I seem to recall, that how the American's fought against the British during their war of independance... haha
@chica476: After WW2 many Wehrmacht, and Waffen-SS troops escaped Germany, joined the French Foreign Legion, and served in French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). Bernard Fall was a writer that covered the French Army in Vietnam (1945-1954) and wrote several books. And actually most engagements between the British and Colonial Army were set piece battles not guerilla engagements. The NVA bloodied the nose of the Chinese Forces that invaded Vietnam in 1979 as well.
the vietnamese have bloodied the chinese noses several times in history, but the chinese eventually took over the good amount of vietnam, i forgot which chinese dynasty though. Interestingly enough, China was having difficult relations with Vietnam around the late 40's early 50's. Vietnam even allied themselves with the soviet union during such times... I wonder if the Soviet Union was also on bad terms with China?
@chica476: Vietnam was free from the 10th century to the middle of the 19th century. The Vietnamese absorb their enemies. France controlled Vietnam for
about a 100 years...but Vietnam took from french culture what they wanted and
discarded the rest. Same with China. And yes China and the USSR were on bad
terms for many years. They each practiced a different form of communism. In 1969 800K of chinese troops faced 700K of russian troops in border clashes.
@chica476: Though the opposing forces were large they mostly skirmished with less than 900 casualties (mostly Chinese) between them. It was a typical cold war engagement....a lot of bluster but the stakes were too high to start a real war.
What a paradox-such a fun, swingin' tune, but such a dark, gritty theme & subject. Excellent video & audio-thanks! Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)
I was a Hospital Corpsman with 2/9 and then later at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in `68 You might think that the Marines would have hated that song! Just the opposite! They played it and played it, and never got tired. These were double amputees and PTSD patients alike. Noone can tell me that our marines don`t have a sense of humor. WE are allowed to hate war too! That is freedom.
@docambra I was a Devil Doc, too. With the 3/5 in Iraq. Same story, different war. As for Marines having a sense of humor, I couldn't agree more I can say with certainty, not one of us wanted to be there. We were told we were invading because Saddam had WMDs. Then, a few days after the invasion began, we were told to stow our MOPP gear. Nobody spoke as we realized everything we had been told was a lie.
@docambra --Hi Doc -another "pecker-checker "here 3/3 1965-6 also at Oak Knoll in 61-2---45b when there were ramps--- just nice to see another Corpsman here---
Time to bring this kind of music back into pop culture - we need another revolution - Obama is escalating the war just like Johnson and Nixon did! Urgh!
I never knew there was a studio track for this. Sad thing is...the live Woodstock '69 version sounds so much better to me. I still gave you five stars anyway.
I never knew there was a studio track for this. Sad thing is...the live Woodstock '69 version sounds so much better to me. I still gave you five stars anyway.
We played this in our hooches in Tan An when I was with the 75th Rangers. Every juke box in Saigon had this song on it sure brings back the old days.. Hoo Rah !!
The Gooks thought we were nuts - They were right .
cavsfan000: Well said. It was frightening to have REAL boys disappear into the army, never to come back to my hometown in Vermont. I know war is necessary or peaceful people are simply overtaken, but it is still frightening..and viet nam never made any sense!!
ya, without the war this song wouldent have been created; but it was created so it could end the war! He wanted every1 to rebel against uncle sam and the pointless fuckin war of nam! God, look at some of the fuucking images on this slide and you can still say war is great?! I hope you get drafted then lets see how much u love war. Jesuss christ, people like you make me sick! FYI its not call of duty, its real! people die every day!
My dad barely escaped the draft as well. Most of us might not be here at all today if not for the legal loopholes in the draft. For example, my dad had bad vision, that's all that saved him pretty much. If the draft was reinstated nowadays, no one could escape it. But I'll sooner die a radical activist than die an unwilling government cog.
Let's see you fight and die for the cause then, spot603. War isn't like some video game, you couldn't begin to know what it's like until you're on the front lines dying for your country. Americans die too, not just 'the enemy'. Until you sign your freedom away to uncle sam, you might want to think about your claims before you make them. Otherwise you just sound like an ignorant racist, not a patriotic citizen.
This studio version from the album is FAR better than the nervous, speeded-up gig at Woodstock. This was a watershed deal for me----I had been in the Army in the early 1960s, and I was critical of the anti-war protesters until this song came along.
This is the best version. Our DI's playeed this for us in boot camp to keep it light. In 6 years they have lost around 2400 men women in Iran afghanistan. In 6 years in Viet Nam we lost most of the 54,000 plus who dies.
I kept checking to find this version. The caliope adds to the insanity doesn't it? I love it. I woke to this on my first mission of a long and wasted year in Vietnam. My son knows if the draft is reinstituted he has everything I own to get out of this country. Never again!
hopefully if that happens Stephen Harper won't be in power here in Canada so he can come here. I think most Canadians would welcome him into their homes, I know I would
@brandonichero i suggest you go with him, NOW, as the freedoms threatened by the likes of Mao, Stalin, Castro, Chavez, Hitler, Japan, who would make your son a slave to their tyrannical systems, worse than death compared to the USA, are only really due to fighting of brave men for freedom. Anyone who doesn't recognize its a global fight is ignorant. However, to get more effective Generals than those fighting Vietnam, maybe that is the answer.
@brandonichero If he's coming to Canada, email me. I was working in the medical field in Florida when you guys were coming home....sweet Jesus...people who weren't there really have no idea what you guys (gender nonspecific) went through. Still chokes me up if I dwell on it too long. When Bush et al went into this last war this song was the first thing that popped into my head with a quick change from Vietnam to "kill Sadam". Doomed to repeat it......sigh.
@brandonichero My father was a vet of Patton's Army and a patriot for the best reasons. But he had the same position towards me and the draft in the early '70's as you for your son, and for the same reasons. Actually he was in top secret gov. communications. Though he kept the details and his oath, he said what he'd seen had formed his opinion against the war. He did say the gov. was telling big lies.
Anybody else notice that when the chorus is sung, the word "psychedelic" is repeated in the background? FUCK YEAH!
MrAcidheadz 3 weeks ago
This is the REAL version. All others to date posted on youtube are NOT from Woodstock but rather from the recent Hollywood movie about the Woodstock event; the Country Joe people see singing is an actor and as well as the audience - you can catch glimpses of palm trees in the background! HA!
jsbach15 1 month ago
Man This is suprisingly Catchy
XsvruploaderX 1 month ago
this is the best song ever that has a a kazoo in it...lyrics are still timely, just change vietnam for whatever sandy hellhole with oil we're bombing this week, when we were best buds with their dictator last week
OldSkoolThrasher666 1 month ago
thanks love the recorded one from the studio
101princess 2 months ago
The music is so upbeat and bouncy but the lyrics are so dark. haha! Always loved the dark humor of this song.
redrover367 2 months ago
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fucking hippies
nerfkrazy24 2 months ago
@nerfkrazy24 fucking dickhead
Tyburn13 2 months ago 25
@Tyburn13 Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for giving "it" the heads up!
BgMsDangerus 1 month ago
@nerfkrazy24 Shut the fuck up, living room warrior.
Prka01 2 months ago
@nerfkrazy24 SOMEBODY ENLIST THIS FUCKER SO HE CAN SUFFER THE HELL THAT IS WAR
WarFair100 1 week ago
@Tyburn13: All this upload needs is the real FISH Cry. It started with F and ended with K. During that era, that Fish cry is the one we associated with this song. BTW, this is a great upload of my favorite protest song. Thank you.
BgMsDangerus 2 months ago
Thanks for posting the recorded version. I remember listening to this on one of my dads "songs of protest" records when I was a kid. Was well before my time but still resonates with me!
wilko8698 2 months ago
Doing course on protest poetry and another student said to watch this.I am ashamed to say I had forgotten some of the images of Vietnam but they came flooding back.The effect is still brilliant with the images and music.
coral1946 2 months ago
My 7th grade social studies teacher was a marine in vietnam and made us listen to this song in class a few times, now im 22 and found this song again... good times..
MIdru313 2 months ago in playlist MIdru313's favorites
War is good for only one thing, technology
stevefreakinawesome 3 months ago
My favorite protest song, from the first day it came out. And these pictures, we lived seeing them every day. I still can't get out of my head the little Viet girl running and screaming in pain because she was burning (large, live flames on her back) from the napalm we dropped. Nobody, I repeat, nobody with morals thought that was was right, on any level. Thank you, now I'll get off my soapbox!
BgMsDangerus 3 months ago
@BgMsDangerus
In the UK we never really heard much about it. Then one day a mate told me something was going to go off outside the US embassy in London next day.That was '68 and it was the start of a journey for me that I never forgot. In the words another song it was all moving paper fantasies and new told lies.
Like the US Civil War it was an obscene period in US history that should never have happened and many regretted.
TheSpiritof1969 2 months ago
@TheSpiritof1969 You're right, it was obscene and many other depressing adjectives.... The word that comes to my mind most often is heartbreaking. Unfortunately, we of the 60's have to live with these memories burned into our brains. And mourn those we lost.
BgMsDangerus 2 months ago
@BgMsDangerus
I think may countries lost something. History can be interpreted in many ways and I could put a valid argument that that war saved us from worse things. But the politics never stopped, lesson not learned and the following 25 years after Vietnam threw up a whole series of events that might never have happened had the war not started..
TheSpiritof1969 2 months ago
@TheSpiritof1969 Yes, many countries lost something during that war. And, yes you could put forward a valid argument about it but remember, there are pros and cons on every situation in life. As a now older (but not elderly yet; I will never be elderly in my mind, no matter my age) child of the 60's, I still very much believe that we can all just get along. But maybe, with the world being as it is, that's just a "pie in the sky" belief. But I'm sticking to it!
BgMsDangerus 2 months ago
@BgMsDangerus
For me they were heady times. In 68 I actually gut to shake the hand of Jimmi Hendrix. Music and Vietnam seemed to go hand in hand. 2 Unwanted air tickets from a former employer a few years later and me and a mate were in NY with $150 between us on an adventure of a lifetime. Almost three weeks later we were at Cape Canaveral one night to watch Apollo17 blast off. Those 2 English kids saw the real America warts and all as we worked out way down.
continued ......
TheSpiritof1969 2 months ago
@BgMsDangerus
Such were the people back then that when we got arrested hitchhiking two days before the launch and taken twenty miles back the way we came they were touched that those two English kids had 'Come all the way from England just to see our rocket go to the moon.'
A hot shower, night in the cells and the biggest breakfast I had seen in my life we were packet into a police car and driven off in the direction of Kennedy as it was then known.
Patriotism .... can be wonderful stuff.
TheSpiritof1969 2 months ago
@TheSpiritof1969 I'm lovin your adventure in the good ole USA. Somehow I wish I were with you. Those did seem to be more hospitable times here. At least you got to see something launched. I went down in April for the "last" shuttle launch and it was aborted. Ended up in a watering hole moaning, bitching and complaining. As it were, I only got to watch on the tube. BTW, I graduated high school during the "summer of love", 1967. We could go on and on, but we can't go back. Damn it!
BgMsDangerus 2 months ago
Oh God, How True. Lost a friend in that conflagration.
BgMsDangerus 4 months ago
Thanks for this - haven't heard the studio version in many a decade!
tdalaska 4 months ago
No truer words.
What *are* we fighting for?
djdavemick 4 months ago
Don't sak me i don't give a damn, next stop is Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yeman, Syria, Iran..
cgkeddington 4 months ago
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cgkeddington 1 month ago
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I stand corrected. (That's why I deleted my last comment.)
ndrussiangerman1 1 month ago
@ndrussiangerman1 :)
cgkeddington 1 month ago
Fantastic tyburn. Thanks for the posting. Love playing this song. Working on a contemporary version because the same old shit is still going on. don't let all the bastards grind you down brothers and sisters.
MilSepic60 5 months ago
Oh how true this song is ... and we still don't get it! We need to mind our own business. I can understand the retaliation for 9/01 as I came very close to losing my daughter .... but, Iraq, Libya??????? Where are we going to stick our noses next?
liszja00 5 months ago
@liszja00 where the government's little friends can make money on the back of the government.
psych0p4t3 5 months ago
@psych0p4t3
Yes, I agree with you that this is what is going on .. but what right does our government have sending
our people over there to get maimed and killed so they can make a buck? The sad thing is when these people
come home, there are no jobs for them, from what I am reading, their heads are so messed up from the horrors they have seen and experienced that they come back a different person (gee .. you think?), so the families are suffering as well!
liszja00 5 months ago
@liszja00 then why don't you do something huh?
Lyndonmidwestjuggalo 5 months ago
The 60s were frighting, exciting and wonderful all at the same time.
odiewan58 5 months ago
My crew chief wouldn't fly unless we played this before our missions. Travis, my brother, you must have been on to something because we all made it. back alive. I love you. And I have to apologize to the maggot I dropped in his tracks when our guys were leaving Ft. Lewis November 17, 1970. I thought I'd killed you. Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had COPD. You need to cover your mouth when you cough (spit). BTW, I didn't go to jail......
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This song takes me back to my Haight-Ashbury days in San Francisco in 1967 and 1968. I loved it!
Peace & Love
Rick Ryan
Oh! One day after they turned Haight St. into a one-way because of all the tourist coming into the area, Country Joe got a truck with a flatbed trailer so he could set the band up on it. As they slowly came down Haight St., they were playing this song. I'll never forget that!
Rick Ryan
Rrwmissouri 6 months ago
The amazing thing about halting the march of Communism, is, it stopped itself. After the North flooded down and took over, there really was a bloodbath of sorts. The south Vietnamese fled in a panic on boats or any way they could get out. The Rooskies took over our bases. Vietnamese didn`t like Rooskies or Communism. Now its "Russians #10", and Americans #1. Go figure!
docambra 6 months ago in playlist MUSIC :COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH
The recorded version is much better than the Woodstock version. I originally heard the recorded version but managed to lose it, then all I could find online was the crappy woodstock version! thanks for this
donteatthatpepper 6 months ago
How to modernize this song:
Replace Vietnam with name of country
Replace Reds with a shorten nickname for your enemy in said country
Replace Commie with General name for your enemy
666thedevil1 7 months ago 25
@666thedevil1 Enemy hasn't changed. As long as there are commies in the world.
panda1345 3 weeks ago
@mrbunkum yup, with good old U.S. army helicopters getting your boys out of there... ah, team work.
porterbehling 7 months ago
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jooachimme 7 months ago
AHhh...this brings memories...at least I think it does, or is it flashbacks???lol
kthinsa 8 months ago
Haha the "Gimme an H!" guy sounds like Chris Farley.
racher7 8 months ago in playlist 125F Final Paper
One of my favorite moments in generation kill is when they start singing this while Iceman takes a combat shit.
Jokrmein 9 months ago
@Jokrmein generation kill it's a fucking good show
cplasgaunas1 7 months ago
fuck if you are on a trip it must kill you dammmmnnn
paulemasterman 9 months ago
Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Afghanistan...
ambyyy1 9 months ago 61
@ambyyy1
right, we have our own mini-vietnam right here in Canada, with Afghanistan.
TVFREAKMAN 7 months ago
love this song is this guy ailve
madman10188 9 months ago
Don't agree with the artist's views but this is pure genius o/
MrFlylice 9 months ago
Lol the lyrics for this song were on the Document Based Question for the 2008 AP US History Exam...
spellbee3 9 months ago 4
I like the Woodstock version way better
chillnshred 10 months ago
I was a platoon Sgt with 2 Plt, C Troop, 1/1 Cav, 23Inf Div in Nam 1969 t0 1972 (Yeah, I was nuts), We loved this song and hated the war!!!!! We killed for one reason, to stay alive. We sure as hell weren't fighting to end the red threat, and none of us believed we would be millionaires someday. Just like us, the kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanstan know it's all crap.
clearacres 10 months ago 4
911 was a inside job go to infowar .com
fight New World Order one more thing Fuck this Government
Punkman1982 10 months ago
@Punkman1982 Please, leave.
ImTehSlenderMan 10 months ago
stop ,every day theres a different war,when are the humans gonna learn,.when is enough, enough 4 xxxxx sake! stop. stop .stop. stop. stop .forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow .whats the point!what is the point in bothering!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
davidprust 10 months ago
stop ,every day theres a different war,when are the humans gonna learn,.when is enough, enough 4 xxxxx sake! stop. stop .stop. stop. stop .forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow,forward for tomorrow .whats the point!what is the point in bothering!
davidprust 10 months ago
Don't know where they got the sound affects at the end, but they give me chills listening to the ending. I can still remember the first time I saw an F-4 making a run and drop its ordinance.
pre9120 10 months ago
Haa i heard this in U.S history class and fell in love <3
BitchTitsMcFlarp 10 months ago
@BitchTitsMcFlarp Rofl Fishy
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1giant22 10 months ago
And yet we do it again. This time with mercenaries rather than draftees. The poor and the ignorant on our coin. We just don't get it. I remember it all so clearly when I listen to this song. We must stop it. We are wrong.
afcain1 11 months ago
It is ashame we didn't win the war in Vietnam, and stop the spread of communism now all the countries in southeast Asia are communist.
1giant22 11 months ago
@1giant22
You are obviously an idiot for there's not one country in S.E. Asia with a communist regime anymore and if you US fools would have not intervened they would not even have been communist !
envanje 11 months ago
this song is not appropriate now. In the 60s, those vietnamese just attacked a small PT boat near their coast. that is hardly a reason to launch a war.
But in case no one realized, we were attacked by people in afghanistan and their taliban supported it. In 2001, 3000 americans were killed. Now THAT is a good reason. They attacked us so we must respond to the threat.
jessica5000000 1 year ago
@jessica5000000
Actually, the Taliban offered to hand Bin Laden over to us if we provided any evidence that he was involved in the plot. Betcha didn't know that. We also were paying the Taliban millions for "poppy eradication" right up to sept 10th.
The war in Afghanistan has killed how many innocent people what had nothing at all to do with 9/11? Were any of the hijackers from Afghanistan?
Whatchagonado 1 year ago
@jessica5000000
You are obviously another idiot for the 9/11 hijackers were all killed during the attack themselves. So the impossibility of revenge frustrated you so much you thought it justified to start a war on a whole culture with mainly US poor as a victim of budget cuts on social security in favour of the war effort.
Strange US citizens seem less important to you as Afghanis are.
envanje 11 months ago
@envanje it doesnt matter if the people that committed the act were all dead. the culture and country supported the terrorist attack against us so that makes them guilty.
jessica5000000 11 months ago
@jessica5000000
just a tiny group supported the attack on WTC towers. even some european christians did. but you frustrated fools take revenge on innocents and you must pay for that !
envanje 11 months ago
@jessica5000000 stop robbing them for oil then...
paulthepill 9 months ago
@jessica5000000 Boy, have u got to learn more about how wars start!
Isn't it amazing that USA supported Afgan rebels with weapons fighting the USSR Military for 9 yrs and now must fight the rebels themselves using the very same weapons that they supplied and the rebels need only kill Americans to re-stock their low-ammo supplies of 7.62 bullets
CarlJMagrath 11 months ago
@CarlJMagrath Actually, we supplied them with very few weapons. The Taliban, and Al Quaeda in Afghanistan use Russian, or Chinese made weapons. Also, the majority of US weapons don't even fire 7.62x51mm, they fire 5.56x45mm.
ExUSSailor 11 months ago
@ExUSSailor However the principle of it is still immoral, is it not?
casciatod 11 months ago
@casciatod It is indeed. I lost quie a few good friends in both Iraq and Afghanistan. You will never find someone who wishes for peace more, than someone who's lived through war.
ExUSSailor 11 months ago
@ExUSSailor I can imagine.
casciatod 11 months ago
@jessica5000000 so i suggest you sign up and go fight for your freedom......fool.
paulthepill 9 months ago
Didn't Country Joe sit on a hot stove?
shmuli9 1 year ago
Joe mcdonald high on LSD with the circus beat I LOVE IT
79tazman 1 year ago 2
This song takes me back to my Haight-Ashbury days in San Francisco in 1967 and 1968. I loved it!
Peace & Love
Rick Ryan
Oh! One day after they turned Haight St. into a one-way because of all the tourist coming into the area, Country Joe got a truck with a flatbed trailer so he could set the band up on it. As they slowly came down Haight St., they were playing this song. I'll never forget that!
Rrwmissouri 1 year ago
@Rrwmissouri yes i have many great memories of those fantastic days of free concerts in Golden Gate Park...referred to The Gate back in the day...Hail to all of my Hippie friends
osiyo43 11 months ago
evil love ignorance
pinewood189 1 year ago
the only version yu could find was the woodstock version, cause thats the best one
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Snowandrews 1 year ago
this was the pic from woodstock he origonaly wasnt supposed to sing to the third day but the other singers were late so they made him sing but he complained that he had no guitar strap so they gave hime the rope and whrn hr got on he didnt the give me an f give me an i give me an s give me an h he did give me an f give me a u give me a c give me a k
m60man12 1 year ago
I might play this on 21/12/2012, just because of the last line of the chorus.
meerkater 1 year ago
how can you forget? vietnam was,according to gov, a "conflict"-we went over to teach skills to help and somehow got sucked into fighting - the rich kids in college or parental political influence kept them out of harms way-everyone else lived in fear of going to mailbox to find draft card.I watch the wonderful homecomings of todays troops coming home to televised celebrations,when I witnessed vietnam vets being spat on and shunned-basically untrained kids stolen and sent with no choice.remember!
trippinvic 1 year ago
Make tea, not war!
borgduck 1 year ago 2
I've got a toothache. PLEASE, someone kill me!
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borgduck 1 year ago
My dad would sing this around the dinner table for some reason when I was young; what an era it was for music.
yeahmedude 1 year ago
@yeahmedude
Yes, the big time for songs has regretfully passed.
envanje 11 months ago
Afghanistan can fit the meter and works in this song perfectly. Somehow that's more than coincidence.
Commiton 1 year ago
@Commiton So you reckon the invasion of Afghanistan only happened because they could fit it's name into a Country Joe song? Interesting.......
mauricejbarry 1 year ago
@mauricejbarry The Military Industrial Complex created the perfect war, the perpetual war on terror. Who is the enemy? Our kids ride down the rode trying to draw fire, similar to Vietnam, we would take a hill and then leave it. just to draw fire. You can't win a conflict if you know who your enemy is. They shake your hand today and fire at you tomorrow. There is a whole lot of money to be made, billions a day a spent to keep our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, yes Iraq still 50,000 troops there.
brainerdrebel 1 year ago
this is the DEVIL's song folks. It mocks the sense to protect against communist lies which ultimately, without fail, lead to millions dying (the best of the human race, those who succeed, out of jelousy), and seeks to focus the puny minds out there upon the narrowly construed negative aspects of war - gun fire and death. What about Payne's give me liberty or death? No, if i give him anything, it's his clever insight into painting Christians as not fully understanding what was going on.
brother234 1 year ago
@brother234 Hahaha, I can't even follow that fucked up stream of thought. You have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
jonvonman 1 year ago
@jonvonman Yes, you are one of the Devils' i'm talking about, for you judge the complexity and fullness of my statement as a "Dude" who possible is high on pot. But a discerning fellow who understood the socio/political issues of this era would know that preemptive War's are under the condemnation of this "peaceful generation" who apparently would rather go into delusions rather than fight for freedom against Communist China and Russia via Vietnam - A valid song leads us to the end of freedom.
brother234 1 year ago
Don't ask me I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Afghanistan!
Algernon3 1 year ago
live version is better
KidCanza 1 year ago
woooooooodstock.
TheGirlWithTheGun 1 year ago
2:46, holy crap, that guy is on Fire!
That is scary
XForRealxX 1 year ago
the wehrmacht would've mopped up those nva wanks and asked for seconds.
chica476 1 year ago
@chica476: They tried, remember the FFL in Vietnam. They meet Vo Nguyen Giap at Dien Bien Phu. Before that they rode the "Street of Tears" Route #1. And Group Mobile 100 found death In the Mang Yang Pass between An Khe and Pleiku. Read Bernard Fall books before you take such cavalier attitude on the ease of warfare in French Indochina. I spent 6+ years there and never once disrespected my adversaries be they hardcore NVA or wily VC. To underestimate your foe is to place a gun at your own head.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories
the german Wehrmacht invaded french indochina? who's Bernard Fall? I will look into your considerations... but please do not misunderstand my stance by thinking that I was underestimating the cunningness of the NVA nor VC. As I seem to recall, that how the American's fought against the British during their war of independance... haha
chica476 1 year ago
@chica476: After WW2 many Wehrmacht, and Waffen-SS troops escaped Germany, joined the French Foreign Legion, and served in French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). Bernard Fall was a writer that covered the French Army in Vietnam (1945-1954) and wrote several books. And actually most engagements between the British and Colonial Army were set piece battles not guerilla engagements. The NVA bloodied the nose of the Chinese Forces that invaded Vietnam in 1979 as well.
crossed their
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories
the vietnamese have bloodied the chinese noses several times in history, but the chinese eventually took over the good amount of vietnam, i forgot which chinese dynasty though. Interestingly enough, China was having difficult relations with Vietnam around the late 40's early 50's. Vietnam even allied themselves with the soviet union during such times... I wonder if the Soviet Union was also on bad terms with China?
chica476 1 year ago
@chica476: Vietnam was free from the 10th century to the middle of the 19th century. The Vietnamese absorb their enemies. France controlled Vietnam for
about a 100 years...but Vietnam took from french culture what they wanted and
discarded the rest. Same with China. And yes China and the USSR were on bad
terms for many years. They each practiced a different form of communism. In 1969 800K of chinese troops faced 700K of russian troops in border clashes.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
@MusicEqualsMemories
any notable battles between the soviets and chinese?
chica476 1 year ago
@chica476: Though the opposing forces were large they mostly skirmished with less than 900 casualties (mostly Chinese) between them. It was a typical cold war engagement....a lot of bluster but the stakes were too high to start a real war.
MusicEqualsMemories 1 year ago
Where are the protest songs to our current Vietnams?
BBulletin 1 year ago
@BBulletin if there was a draft, there likely would be more resistance.
yeahmedude 1 year ago
@yeahmedude drafting or not the war is still pointless what happened to all the love and the peace
musicmasterjake 1 year ago
Shit, I could see this producing one bad trip.
Damn good song though.
ImJulieee 1 year ago
@ImJulieee haha tell me about it
scotchmistt 1 year ago
What a paradox-such a fun, swingin' tune, but such a dark, gritty theme & subject. Excellent video & audio-thanks! Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)
OlRetro 1 year ago
dropped my first lsd trip to this record....totally insane night....44 years on and still insane.
paulthepill 1 year ago 3
I was a Hospital Corpsman with 2/9 and then later at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in `68 You might think that the Marines would have hated that song! Just the opposite! They played it and played it, and never got tired. These were double amputees and PTSD patients alike. Noone can tell me that our marines don`t have a sense of humor. WE are allowed to hate war too! That is freedom.
docambra 1 year ago 57
@docambra I was a Devil Doc, too. With the 3/5 in Iraq. Same story, different war. As for Marines having a sense of humor, I couldn't agree more I can say with certainty, not one of us wanted to be there. We were told we were invading because Saddam had WMDs. Then, a few days after the invasion began, we were told to stow our MOPP gear. Nobody spoke as we realized everything we had been told was a lie.
ExUSSailor 10 months ago 2
@docambra --Hi Doc -another "pecker-checker "here 3/3 1965-6 also at Oak Knoll in 61-2---45b when there were ramps--- just nice to see another Corpsman here---
farone100 7 months ago
@docambra I never knew that.
thesparitan 7 months ago
@docambra God bless.
pmalone4 6 months ago
Wow what memories this brings back
Talleyrander 1 year ago
This song is so ridiculously catchy.
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ChantalTaylor25 1 year ago
Time to bring this kind of music back into pop culture - we need another revolution - Obama is escalating the war just like Johnson and Nixon did! Urgh!
GrammyCathrine 1 year ago 2
@GrammyCathrine hell yea
sergeantdiessel 1 year ago
I never knew there was a studio track for this. Sad thing is...the live Woodstock '69 version sounds so much better to me. I still gave you five stars anyway.
madmanszalinski 1 year ago
I never knew there was a studio track for this. Sad thing is...the live Woodstock '69 version sounds so much better to me. I still gave you five stars anyway.
madmanszalinski 1 year ago
I never knew there was a studio track for this. Sad thing is...the live Woodstock '69 version sounds so much better to me.
madmanszalinski 1 year ago
the Vietnam was not unprovoked
jhoelzler 1 year ago
Greatest anti-war song ever!
chordateify 1 year ago 3
We have made some progress since this song came out.
The line:
"Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box."
can know proudly become:
"Be the first one on your block to have your boy or girl come home in a box."
Real progress? This song is 40 years old, and still bites as if it were written yesterday. Just replace "Vietnam" with whatever.
Wee hee! We're all gonna die.
naganokumas 1 year ago 29
@naganokumas women?
women aren't allowed in combat. They only have support roles or jobs that don't consist of fighting in combat.
porterbehling 8 months ago
We played this in our hooches in Tan An when I was with the 75th Rangers. Every juke box in Saigon had this song on it sure brings back the old days.. Hoo Rah !!
The Gooks thought we were nuts - They were right .
thediceman711 1 year ago
I did not appreciate this when I was in Vietnam--now I appreciate it mucho
Number 1
donham298 2 years ago
cavsfan000: Well said. It was frightening to have REAL boys disappear into the army, never to come back to my hometown in Vermont. I know war is necessary or peaceful people are simply overtaken, but it is still frightening..and viet nam never made any sense!!
puppiefaces 2 years ago
SPOT 603...
Are you fucking retarted?!
ya, without the war this song wouldent have been created; but it was created so it could end the war! He wanted every1 to rebel against uncle sam and the pointless fuckin war of nam! God, look at some of the fuucking images on this slide and you can still say war is great?! I hope you get drafted then lets see how much u love war. Jesuss christ, people like you make me sick! FYI its not call of duty, its real! people die every day!
cavsfan000 2 years ago
Howdy Spot
I wish you were drafted like I was and could speak intelligently about VietNam.
Crawl back under your rock and eat some flies or something.
War is great. Those of who are qualified to comment on the subject would not disagree.
If not for people like me you would be speaking Russian or Chinese. You are welcome, by the way
Semper Fi!.
MrCactusjumper 1 year ago
nice job, t-13.....5 stars.
sirg31 2 years ago
My dad barely escaped the draft as well. Most of us might not be here at all today if not for the legal loopholes in the draft. For example, my dad had bad vision, that's all that saved him pretty much. If the draft was reinstated nowadays, no one could escape it. But I'll sooner die a radical activist than die an unwilling government cog.
Matador5678 2 years ago
Let's see you fight and die for the cause then, spot603. War isn't like some video game, you couldn't begin to know what it's like until you're on the front lines dying for your country. Americans die too, not just 'the enemy'. Until you sign your freedom away to uncle sam, you might want to think about your claims before you make them. Otherwise you just sound like an ignorant racist, not a patriotic citizen.
Matador5678 2 years ago
my dad barely escaped the draft. it ended the year he graduated high school.
hippielovers20 2 years ago
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just think, without war this great song would have never been created. War rules. Fucking kill some Haji's
spot603 2 years ago
sounds like a plan.
rene1369 2 years ago
ohhrah!
minorkaos 2 years ago
and its 1..2...3 what are we fighting for? (WHOOPI) Dont Ask me I Dont give a Damn! Next stop is Veet-nam!
hardrockerofsoccer 2 years ago 2
My son is a huge fan!!
angelshoulders 2 years ago
@marciano2002 glad someone got a comment in ! great song ademas es el version original***** song and video !
preacain 2 years ago
Thank you! Smoked some stuff and heard this in my basement.....years ago! Love it!
rossrobertstheboy1 2 years ago
awesome!
☮, ♥ and ☺!
pillcrow 2 years ago 2
great message.
UnitedRacers 2 years ago
If you would like to see Country Joe play this song on 10/11/2009, 40 years after Woodstock click here.
Witzomania 2 years ago
This studio version from the album is FAR better than the nervous, speeded-up gig at Woodstock. This was a watershed deal for me----I had been in the Army in the early 1960s, and I was critical of the anti-war protesters until this song came along.
Grisbi6 2 years ago 2
Thanks for your service ... I know its just words but , I mean it thanks.
ru2l8t 2 years ago
This is the best version. Our DI's playeed this for us in boot camp to keep it light. In 6 years they have lost around 2400 men women in Iran afghanistan. In 6 years in Viet Nam we lost most of the 54,000 plus who dies.
JudischerWolfsmench 2 years ago
Very nice pictorial!!
gkoz791 2 years ago
i like the woodstock version better, too.
Give me a "F"! Give ma a "U"! Give me a "C"! Give me a "K"! Whats that spell ?
UltraMusicAddictive 2 years ago
my grandpa and i jam to this song :)
ECKlette 2 years ago 2
I like the woodstock version far better
denniskussinich08 2 years ago
i think so too
jmasterd5 2 years ago
kinda cool ,,i notice that the beginning sounds like them guys from david peele and the lower east side,,,,
xjdozer 2 years ago
I kept checking to find this version. The caliope adds to the insanity doesn't it? I love it. I woke to this on my first mission of a long and wasted year in Vietnam. My son knows if the draft is reinstituted he has everything I own to get out of this country. Never again!
brandonichero 2 years ago 39
hopefully if that happens Stephen Harper won't be in power here in Canada so he can come here. I think most Canadians would welcome him into their homes, I know I would
icaru34 2 years ago
@brandonichero i suggest you go with him, NOW, as the freedoms threatened by the likes of Mao, Stalin, Castro, Chavez, Hitler, Japan, who would make your son a slave to their tyrannical systems, worse than death compared to the USA, are only really due to fighting of brave men for freedom. Anyone who doesn't recognize its a global fight is ignorant. However, to get more effective Generals than those fighting Vietnam, maybe that is the answer.
brother234 1 year ago
@brandonichero If he's coming to Canada, email me. I was working in the medical field in Florida when you guys were coming home....sweet Jesus...people who weren't there really have no idea what you guys (gender nonspecific) went through. Still chokes me up if I dwell on it too long. When Bush et al went into this last war this song was the first thing that popped into my head with a quick change from Vietnam to "kill Sadam". Doomed to repeat it......sigh.
Pax79pax 1 year ago
@brandonichero My father was a vet of Patton's Army and a patriot for the best reasons. But he had the same position towards me and the draft in the early '70's as you for your son, and for the same reasons. Actually he was in top secret gov. communications. Though he kept the details and his oath, he said what he'd seen had formed his opinion against the war. He did say the gov. was telling big lies.
Commiton 1 year ago
Wow. I remember those pictures and songs growing up. Thank you.
2waxwings 2 years ago
vietnam
airsoftking12111 2 years ago
Vietnam m8
Tyburn13 2 years ago
thanx...sure i know...was a joke...hihihi
foreveraien 2 years ago