"I believe in God and Senator Dodd" Thomas Dodd's son Chris, also a Senator from Connecticut, recently became head lobbyist for the MPAA and then whined that the SOPA blackout was an "abuse of power" by websites. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
@wlrube You are more likely to be elected to the British House of Commons, than the US Congress without a daddy's name to run on....so...I guess the British are laughing asking 'so how's that meritocratic republic thing going for yah.'
This is a great song about the assholes who would later be aptly named "chicken hawks," people like rush limbaugh and others who ducked military service during the Vietnam atrocity yet still supported it. Has nothing whatever to do with Obama, Clintoon, or anyone else. Phil Ochs was a remarkable left-patriot-artist who was strongly opposed to Vietnam and reviled the kind of people who supported the killing, yet considered themselves too important to risk their degenerate selves. Yay Phil!!
Gee, elvis.. I knew you were stupid, but you're a BIRTHER and an Obama is a Muslim-er too? You should have mentioned that up front and I would have understood that you are insane..
@MiserableOldFart yo whatever you have to say about obama you can not access his high school or college records nobody knows how many brothers and sisters he has its like he just appeared one day at least you know who bush's parents and family are and where he was born
If Lyndon Johnson had the sense to get the USA out of Vietnam, Nixon, reagan and neither of the bushes would have ever come to power, and this country would be a shining example to the world instead of a dangerous laughingstock in an economic shambles.
@MiserableOldFart can you tell me how much over budget did the great society go? weve spent trillions on it and thats exactly what the obama healthcare plan will do
elvis your mommy and daddy really need to control your computer use a little. The criminal Nixon, indeed ended the war after prolonging it for a good many years. Johnson didn't start the war, but he certainly destroyed his presidency with it, and in so doing, gave birth to the resurgence of the Amerikan right, to his great shame. Whether Johnson, the consummate, brilliant tactical politician was that stupid or had a gun to his head is still speculation.
@MiserableOldFart you moron america has always been a conservative nation for the most part except for the filthy degenerates in new york and la ancd boston chicago
Wait! It suddenly occurred to me that this elvis idiot didn't understand that Ochs was virulently opposed to the war, and this song is making fun of the kind of "chicken hawks" who supported the Vietnam Atrocity but ducked out of it..
@MiserableOldFart go d damn you it was a democrat who started vietnma and arepublican who ended it shithead. you will vote for that idiot obama again i can tell
@elvispresley718 Can't vote for any of the filth the GOP is hawking now. I still believe they are going to pull another POS out of their asses at their disgusting vomitous convention, maybe Jeb or Christie.. wouldn't vote for those POSs either. The Democratic party is well positioned to become the conservative party of the country, and another party representing the left. The GOP well, that garbage is almost over.
@MiserableOldFart what could me more filthy than a muslim pre4sident who was not born in the usa? and with a wife running around telling us what to eat?
Perfect for all the GOP chickenhawks who were cheering for the Vietnam Atrocity whilst safely protecting their spoiled rich brat asses. At least the people who were accuse of being "traitors," like myself didn't want ANYONE to go there.
@RandallFlaggNY cheny would have made a great president but like all liberals you think that blacks can NEVER do any wrong unless they become conservatives go fuck yourself
first we need strict(can't buy the election like mike bloomberg) term limits on all elected positions and absouletely no former office holders working for "pac's" or as lobbiests what the fuck is the matter with the american public? all of your politicans leave office a lot more wealthy than they went in. nobody wonders why? we have become a nation of fucking idiots. i'm old and a vietnam vet so i gave up a long time ago but don't you morons care about your children?
@elvispresley718 STFU you ignorant POS. Elvis was also cool and you disgrace the man's name. Who the hell would you be to tell me what I need to do? Go back to the sixth grade and get yourself a little humanity.
@elvispresley718 You very funny little twirp. You still supporting the Vietnam Atrocity and Dubya's two needless wars? This song is about the chicken hawks, though they weren't yet called that yet.
@MiserableOldFart so you think that we should have have said oh you just killed 2700 american citizens on 9/11 and do nothing about it or was it bushs plan to get reelected? you are an ignorant piece of shit do not have children
If you were not ALIVE during the Vietnam WAR or bothered to study it and ask, what was it about...ahh I am speaking to the deaf, dumb and blind...but Some cool comments...Protest is in The Constitution. This is well done. And Phil would lampoon anybody, he would be amazed, though, at some of the fodder spat from the mouths of those with Today's political agenda... Me, I could call
you names...but then I would become you...sigh (Catch 22 bites back)
I see people posting that it should be for a republican or democrat. I think the point is missed. I like the idea of the draft. Nothing ends a war quicker. Start pulling the sons and daughters of politicians and billionairs away from their mothers and send them to the front and see how quick they stop raising glasses to the war and start pushing for the end.
@taxisteve929 i think the answer is, the Monster called The Military Industreal Complex has taken over the White House & is running the show. the out going President in 1959 said (beware) them. anyway, keep singing.
@taxisteve929 If it only worked that way.The politicos' children & the rich BUY their way out (deferments).The exceptions serve by choice, not command. No, there's only one way to stop war.We must awaken & then, to quote the 60s poster: "What if they had a war and nobody came?" The answer is not to be anti-war but PRO-Peace.We've had wars against: poverty, drugs,child abuse,DV...& now terrorism.Have any succeeded? No! Why? Coz we get what we give. Everythg is Vibrations, especially music.
I believe this ought to be the Republican party theme song just google list of republican chickenhawks, and you will see what I mean. It fits except they left out other priorities and pimple on my butt. LOL!
@johnvicky typical for a liberal to attack a republican on something they have no ground to stand on, remember your lovely barak and slick willie didnt even come close to serving
you should listen to some of his others he does a great job of putting important historical events to music - it can be a real memory boost I have had to be careful not to start laughing in class because something my professor said fit with at least one of Phil's lyrics -- wish I could remember which. try "Love me, I'm a liberal" and "I ain't marching anymore" some of his songs have even been put with pictures and video from the past ten years
Been listening to this since 1967. Got drafted in '68. Always play this for the likes of Slick Willy Clinton and Barack Hussein. Great song that celebrates the American Pussy. Always thought it ironic that a lefty like Ochs should come up with it. Great song then, and still good now.
@vanbock You're not one of those rednecks that think that only people on the left dodged the draft, right? Because I could give you a very long list of conservatards who dodged the draft.
@vanbock I think you missed the point of this song. Phil Ochs didn't think Vietnam was a good war. So did a lot of people. So these people felt that they didn't have to fight a war that they didn't believe in hence, all these excuses not to go to war in the song. Also, you don't have to like the president, but you should respect them. They are the leader of the "free-world" after all. A real popular way of dodging the draft was to join up in the National Guard, like George Bush Jr.
@AgentMurphy286 um, no. YOU have missed the point! The song is about people like Rush Limbaugh who talk up a big storm about going to war and can't wait to get our troops overseas, but when they're drafted they find every excuse to be ineligible and thus avoid the draft. This is a song about war-mongering hypocrites, not hippies. I'm sure Phil Ochs thought highly of the people who burned their draft cards publicly and would never make fun of them.
@vanbock this song is not for people who simply didn't join the military. This is for hypocrites who are pro-war, like Rush Limbaugh, who find every excuse not to go to war when they get drafted. It's not about "pussies." If you believed war was the right thing and you actually did your duty when the chance came, well hey, good for you. But a lot of people who try to get us to go to battle and call the others unpatriotic, or some other nonsense, never see battle and try to avoid it at all costs.
@rapeasaurus1 let me ask you if rush is a hypocrite for not serving would the opinion of hime by current members of the military i would be guessing is pretty high does that make sense to you?
@elvispresley718 so all soldiers are republicans? I find this very hard to believe. Limbaugh is, in fact, a hypocrite along with all his war hawk, draft-dodging pals and no amount of pro-war rhetoric will change that.
@fripertronics I am from that era. Some of your are overcomplicating this. The war was idiotic from any rational point of view. The Bay of Tonkin attack upon U.S. warship was fabricated (much like WMD Iraq) and that is no longer argued. Many of us felt going was morally wrong and otherwise contraindicated. So yes, many of the tactics in this song were actually used by many people I knew for those reasons. Many thought of ourselves as hippies. Your history lesson of the day.
"I believe in God and Senator Dodd" Thomas Dodd's son Chris, also a Senator from Connecticut, recently became head lobbyist for the MPAA and then whined that the SOPA blackout was an "abuse of power" by websites. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
wlrube 2 weeks ago
@wlrube You are more likely to be elected to the British House of Commons, than the US Congress without a daddy's name to run on....so...I guess the British are laughing asking 'so how's that meritocratic republic thing going for yah.'
Twistednerver 1 week ago
This is a great song about the assholes who would later be aptly named "chicken hawks," people like rush limbaugh and others who ducked military service during the Vietnam atrocity yet still supported it. Has nothing whatever to do with Obama, Clintoon, or anyone else. Phil Ochs was a remarkable left-patriot-artist who was strongly opposed to Vietnam and reviled the kind of people who supported the killing, yet considered themselves too important to risk their degenerate selves. Yay Phil!!
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago 3
God bless Phil Ochs and all who stand against the filth of the Amerikan right!
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
elvis, grease up that stupid pointy hat and put your head back up your ass.
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
Gee, elvis.. I knew you were stupid, but you're a BIRTHER and an Obama is a Muslim-er too? You should have mentioned that up front and I would have understood that you are insane..
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart yo whatever you have to say about obama you can not access his high school or college records nobody knows how many brothers and sisters he has its like he just appeared one day at least you know who bush's parents and family are and where he was born
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
If Lyndon Johnson had the sense to get the USA out of Vietnam, Nixon, reagan and neither of the bushes would have ever come to power, and this country would be a shining example to the world instead of a dangerous laughingstock in an economic shambles.
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart can you tell me how much over budget did the great society go? weve spent trillions on it and thats exactly what the obama healthcare plan will do
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
elvis your mommy and daddy really need to control your computer use a little. The criminal Nixon, indeed ended the war after prolonging it for a good many years. Johnson didn't start the war, but he certainly destroyed his presidency with it, and in so doing, gave birth to the resurgence of the Amerikan right, to his great shame. Whether Johnson, the consummate, brilliant tactical politician was that stupid or had a gun to his head is still speculation.
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart you idiot johnson was president when the gulf of tonkin resolution was passed
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
@elvis true, but the war started long before that.
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart that is when it officially started does life begin in the womb?
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart you moron america has always been a conservative nation for the most part except for the filthy degenerates in new york and la ancd boston chicago
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
Wait! It suddenly occurred to me that this elvis idiot didn't understand that Ochs was virulently opposed to the war, and this song is making fun of the kind of "chicken hawks" who supported the Vietnam Atrocity but ducked out of it..
MiserableOldFart 3 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart i understand what he was saying you dont understand that your beloved president is an american hating muslim marxist grow up
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart go d damn you it was a democrat who started vietnma and arepublican who ended it shithead. you will vote for that idiot obama again i can tell
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
@elvispresley718 Can't vote for any of the filth the GOP is hawking now. I still believe they are going to pull another POS out of their asses at their disgusting vomitous convention, maybe Jeb or Christie.. wouldn't vote for those POSs either. The Democratic party is well positioned to become the conservative party of the country, and another party representing the left. The GOP well, that garbage is almost over.
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart what could me more filthy than a muslim pre4sident who was not born in the usa? and with a wife running around telling us what to eat?
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
typical amercan boy from a typical american town
elvispresley718 3 weeks ago
Perfect for all the GOP chickenhawks who were cheering for the Vietnam Atrocity whilst safely protecting their spoiled rich brat asses. At least the people who were accuse of being "traitors," like myself didn't want ANYONE to go there.
MiserableOldFart 1 month ago 4
@MiserableOldFart i believe johnson was a democrat you idiot study history a little more it was nixon who ended the war dick head
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
just listening to his voice on this and other songs he sounds so carefree and happy guess thats the opposite of how he was feeling a lot of the time
elvispresley718 1 month ago 2
@elvispresley718 I love his music. He was a manic depressive so sometimes he was happy and sometimes the opposite.
HerodotustheElder 3 weeks ago
Cheney took notes listening to this song.
RandallFlaggNY 1 month ago 4
@RandallFlaggNY cheny would have made a great president but like all liberals you think that blacks can NEVER do any wrong unless they become conservatives go fuck yourself
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
@elvispresley718 LOL! If I fuck myself will you clean up the santorum?
RandallFlaggNY 2 weeks ago
many thanks to stephen king and hearts in atlantis for bringing me here.........
mrcrimsonveil1 1 month ago
first we need strict(can't buy the election like mike bloomberg) term limits on all elected positions and absouletely no former office holders working for "pac's" or as lobbiests what the fuck is the matter with the american public? all of your politicans leave office a lot more wealthy than they went in. nobody wonders why? we have become a nation of fucking idiots. i'm old and a vietnam vet so i gave up a long time ago but don't you morons care about your children?
nativebird63 1 month ago
@nativebird63 "i'm old and a vietnam vet so i gave up a long time ago"
This is the problem. People (like you) just give up.
So basically, our problem is laziness.
amysita77 1 month ago
@nativebird63 FOX noose and the other corporate criminals have been "teaching" idiocy to Amerika for decades now.
MiserableOldFart 1 month ago
@MiserableOldFart you need to go hang with those worthless occupy dickhead nobodys dying to get to cuba or north korea except for you
elvispresley718 3 weeks ago
@elvispresley718 STFU you ignorant POS. Elvis was also cool and you disgrace the man's name. Who the hell would you be to tell me what I need to do? Go back to the sixth grade and get yourself a little humanity.
MiserableOldFart 3 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart ignoratn old fart sucik my weiner bitch
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
@elvispresley718 You very funny little twirp. You still supporting the Vietnam Atrocity and Dubya's two needless wars? This song is about the chicken hawks, though they weren't yet called that yet.
MiserableOldFart 2 weeks ago
@MiserableOldFart so you think that we should have have said oh you just killed 2700 american citizens on 9/11 and do nothing about it or was it bushs plan to get reelected? you are an ignorant piece of shit do not have children
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
happy birthday, phil. oh, how i remember these days!
missjoshemmett 2 months ago
"i'm a biggot but at least a biggot for the left" Woody Allen
Invalid444Name 3 months ago
THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING! BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS VERSION!
nooksak1 3 months ago
If you were not ALIVE during the Vietnam WAR or bothered to study it and ask, what was it about...ahh I am speaking to the deaf, dumb and blind...but Some cool comments...Protest is in The Constitution. This is well done. And Phil would lampoon anybody, he would be amazed, though, at some of the fodder spat from the mouths of those with Today's political agenda... Me, I could call
you names...but then I would become you...sigh (Catch 22 bites back)
TheVaughan7 3 months ago 2
@jjdown1996 was it professor Gantner?
dachvan 4 months ago
@dachvan no haha i dont know him o.O
jjdown1996 4 months ago
I see people posting that it should be for a republican or democrat. I think the point is missed. I like the idea of the draft. Nothing ends a war quicker. Start pulling the sons and daughters of politicians and billionairs away from their mothers and send them to the front and see how quick they stop raising glasses to the war and start pushing for the end.
taxisteve929 4 months ago 3
@taxisteve929 you just changed my mind on the draft, but why, in the name of God, is WAR, so Normal in American Life?
tonybenn1000 4 months ago
@tonybenn1000 I can't answer that. I hate war. Will never understand the why's. Prefer singing peace songs to killing. Kinda wish everyone would.
taxisteve929 2 months ago 4
@taxisteve929 i think the answer is, the Monster called The Military Industreal Complex has taken over the White House & is running the show. the out going President in 1959 said (beware) them. anyway, keep singing.
tonybenn1000 2 months ago 3
@tonybenn1000 you idiot where would we be withouit a military is that what you are suggesting?
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
@taxisteve929 If it only worked that way.The politicos' children & the rich BUY their way out (deferments).The exceptions serve by choice, not command. No, there's only one way to stop war.We must awaken & then, to quote the 60s poster: "What if they had a war and nobody came?" The answer is not to be anti-war but PRO-Peace.We've had wars against: poverty, drugs,child abuse,DV...& now terrorism.Have any succeeded? No! Why? Coz we get what we give. Everythg is Vibrations, especially music.
silverbonn 2 months ago 2
I believe this ought to be the Republican party theme song just google list of republican chickenhawks, and you will see what I mean. It fits except they left out other priorities and pimple on my butt. LOL!
johnvicky 4 months ago
@johnvicky typical for a liberal to attack a republican on something they have no ground to stand on, remember your lovely barak and slick willie didnt even come close to serving
nocode1973 4 months ago
Bill Clinton's campaign song
tommygun6644 4 months ago
@tommygun6644 more like bush's
rapeasaurus1 1 month ago
@tommygun6644 Bill Clinton piece of shit
elvispresley718 2 weeks ago
you should listen to some of his others he does a great job of putting important historical events to music - it can be a real memory boost I have had to be careful not to start laughing in class because something my professor said fit with at least one of Phil's lyrics -- wish I could remember which. try "Love me, I'm a liberal" and "I ain't marching anymore" some of his songs have even been put with pictures and video from the past ten years
kaza735 5 months ago
Been listening to this since 1967. Got drafted in '68. Always play this for the likes of Slick Willy Clinton and Barack Hussein. Great song that celebrates the American Pussy. Always thought it ironic that a lefty like Ochs should come up with it. Great song then, and still good now.
vanbock 5 months ago
@vanbock You're not one of those rednecks that think that only people on the left dodged the draft, right? Because I could give you a very long list of conservatards who dodged the draft.
amysita77 5 months ago 4
@vanbock I think you missed the point of this song. Phil Ochs didn't think Vietnam was a good war. So did a lot of people. So these people felt that they didn't have to fight a war that they didn't believe in hence, all these excuses not to go to war in the song. Also, you don't have to like the president, but you should respect them. They are the leader of the "free-world" after all. A real popular way of dodging the draft was to join up in the National Guard, like George Bush Jr.
AgentMurphy286 5 months ago
@AgentMurphy286 um, no. YOU have missed the point! The song is about people like Rush Limbaugh who talk up a big storm about going to war and can't wait to get our troops overseas, but when they're drafted they find every excuse to be ineligible and thus avoid the draft. This is a song about war-mongering hypocrites, not hippies. I'm sure Phil Ochs thought highly of the people who burned their draft cards publicly and would never make fun of them.
rapeasaurus1 1 month ago
@vanbock this song is not for people who simply didn't join the military. This is for hypocrites who are pro-war, like Rush Limbaugh, who find every excuse not to go to war when they get drafted. It's not about "pussies." If you believed war was the right thing and you actually did your duty when the chance came, well hey, good for you. But a lot of people who try to get us to go to battle and call the others unpatriotic, or some other nonsense, never see battle and try to avoid it at all costs.
rapeasaurus1 1 month ago
@rapeasaurus1 let me ask you if rush is a hypocrite for not serving would the opinion of hime by current members of the military i would be guessing is pretty high does that make sense to you?
elvispresley718 3 weeks ago
@elvispresley718 so all soldiers are republicans? I find this very hard to believe. Limbaugh is, in fact, a hypocrite along with all his war hawk, draft-dodging pals and no amount of pro-war rhetoric will change that.
rapeasaurus1 3 weeks ago 2
I just missed the draft but several of my friends had brothers that sweated the draft lottery.
31rx7 6 months ago
And I was there after this came out. I sang it "over there" anyway. Surprising how many of us draftees still liked all this stuff
poppyo723 8 months ago
I remember the draft.I also remember all my college classmates that actually thought about things.
Dion1957 8 months ago
thanks for uploading the original. Its much appreciated.
AMr7002 9 months ago 13
i found this song thanks to my History teacher and now i keep listening to it lol.
jjdown1996 9 months ago 19
@jjdown1996 I heard it from my history teacher too. I love this kind of song. :) It's funny, creative, and ridiculous. XD
346410161513775 8 months ago
@jjdown1996 You have a very cool history teacher!
drbalalajka 4 months ago
@jjdown1996
Youhad a Great History teacher, now follow up and find out who Phil Ochs was.
fripertronics 1 month ago
@fripertronics I am from that era. Some of your are overcomplicating this. The war was idiotic from any rational point of view. The Bay of Tonkin attack upon U.S. warship was fabricated (much like WMD Iraq) and that is no longer argued. Many of us felt going was morally wrong and otherwise contraindicated. So yes, many of the tactics in this song were actually used by many people I knew for those reasons. Many thought of ourselves as hippies. Your history lesson of the day.
HerodotustheElder 3 weeks ago
so glad i found the original of this instead of all the covers
sjmr1216 9 months ago 2