Incredible how this tune is SO right on 44 YEARS LATER! It's the same old same old money-making people-killing game. Eisenhower was right even further back, in 1960, he warned us about the menace of an outta-control mi/itary/industrial/financial/government complex. Mass public resistance helped end Vietnam. I hope it might work again, but the propaganda screws are on tighter now..check out original tune "Innocent Blood" on fishersofmenvideo
@fishersofmenvideo Mass public resistance isnt happening because people today, even our generation which resisted then are far too materialistic to give a damn. The younger ones are being lied to in school. My grandson is in the ROTC and you should hear the shit his superior is telling him. When my grandson is in the war, his superior won't remember his name. I can't get through to him tho. His mama is soo proud. I could never be proud of my child dying becasue of GOP lies!
@BIGBUTist What do you mean "GOP lies"? Are we not still in Iraq ? Are we not still "nation building" in Afghanistan under Obama? Who was it that signed off on bombing on Libya? Are we not still saber rattling with Iran, N. Korea & so on? Clinton shut down bases in the States and sent the troops over seas making things easy for Bush. How many over seas bases has Obama shut down? Get that "anti war left" mind set out of your head, the GOP & DNC are both bitches of the Military Industrial Complex.
I believe this video caught the true vibe of Woodstock, with all the Brothers & Sisters hangin' out. I thoroughly enjoyed the footage. Give me a "F", give me a "U", give me a "C", give me a "K". I could feel the vibe of hanging on the verge of a happening. Thanks.
I like Countrey Joe but i dont like the crowed i bet they booed our boys at the airport and protested in washington all of them fuckers should have been drafted to feel how it feels like.
@TheJer1963 bull they weren't against the soldiers. my ex husband walked off a plane 5 times from tours in viet nam. those protests were aimed at soldiers. he was so relieved - and in some ways hurt - when the citizens of the US treated the soldiers returning from the gulf war in the same way. i was around in those days - and i remember the names that were screamed at the soldiers coming home.
@evemarie1958 I served in Desert Storm myself, I still remember the welcome we got when we got back to San Diego. It was really nice. You can go back and watch some films and hear for yourself the protesters chanting, "We're not against the soldiers, We're against the war" Not saying they all did but a lot of them felt that way. As I say, I know what it was like coming back from the first Gulf war in 1991.
@evemarie1958 We grew up in a whole different era from now. Our parents were the WWII generation saving the world from the Axis. We rotated back to the world on our own coming off the bird to people who were angry at the images they saw on Huntley Brinkley about "destroying villages to save them" and My Lai. Every cop show had a "crazed Vietnam vet" on a rampage. It was a whole different vibe and the people who came to the airports were the extreme nutcases. Glad your ex got back to the world.
I think we sang this song as often as we filed and signed petitions...if you're 18 you have the right to vote if you don't have the right to say no to go...if you're 18, you have the right to belly up to the bar before you went that damned far...................
We have learned something, Where there is money to be made by the 1%, many who are in Congress or the lobbyest, guess what? We are going to war, WHOOPY!!! Sp5 FJ Miles 1st SFGA, Vietnam 1968
@fredjackamikoons AMEN. Fighting is one thing, but to fight with the intentions of not winning sucks. The politicians have changed the definition of war and winning to conflict or police action and "stay 'till me and my friends get rich"!!
Nothing was learned in Vietnam and nothing was learned in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not that shooting Jhiadists and Taliban aren't worthy endeavors, but the idea of 'saving' people who had no true desire to be saved is a waste of time. Mark my words, in another twenty years or so, the US will try it again somewhere else.. Something to look forward to......
@Multigrandeful You have an excellent teacher. History was captured in music as much as in literature and film, in some ways more so. The next time you see that teacher, thank her for me. Happy birthday on your upcoming 14th. May life become peaceful before too long and war a distant memory by your 18th. Blessings.
If you want to believe in fairy tales so be it! It's about making money bud and nothing more. There are specific articles about the phoney Woodstock video that was made; in fact there were two of them. WHOOPEE, wasn't shouted by Joe when he sang "Fixin to Die Rag," at Woodstock; it was only on the recording and following concerts. Also, there are NO palm trees in upper state new york! HA!
@Uncovered3rdEye94 I never commented on the the song content or entertainment value. I like people to know the truth which is sorely lacking in so many aspects of our nation these days.
I am glad the draft is over. It is always a mistake to force people to fight a "war", when congress does not have the guts to declare war in the first place. We now pay people a decent wage to serve in our peace-time army -- which is much better than the Vietnam tragedy. In fact, our constitution REQUIRES a declaration of war -- in the first place.
Some of us went....we did...and again...some of us came home not in a box. The anti-war shit hit home when i stepped off the plane...i didn't appreciate it then...don't now. Easy to read about it.....easy to say "welcome home" but if you really don't mean it....don't say it.
@justrock247 lmao hahahaq too bad there is nothing funny about it. ww3 is right around the corner, dig a big hole. if the shit never hits the fan, you will still have a nice big old hole.
@justrock247 I love the new lyrics! I just hope that everyone remembers this: Don't hate the players, hate the game, and not turn on our service members like the bastards did in the 1960's and 70's. What they did to our troops was appalling, it was not their fault that they got sent to war, it was the clown in the White House that did that. I am a Veteran who served in the Sand Box and if I ever catch anyone disrespecting a veteran in protest of the war, I will put them in a pine box personally.
@vfwpost5533 Still promulgating hate, violence, and death, I see, and you never served in nam, in fact you weren't even born, so quit talking about an era you know nothing about; except the distortions and myths you hear because it's doubtful you read!
@jsbach15 I did not serve in Vietnam, but all but 4 of my VFW members all were Vietnam Veterans with a majority of them being Rangers. I have heard from numerous Vietnam Veterans about the disgusting treatment they received, especially when arriving back in California (San Fran and LA). I will believe them much more than anyone else on a social media website. Every time I meet a new Nam Vet I welcome them home and thank them for their service, as they were not welcomed home like Desert Storm.
@justrock247 Really great... one small nitpick though. where he sings 'Put down your books and pick up a gun / We're gonna have a whole lotta fun!' the rhyme is a 1-2-2 design. yours, 'You can always bet there's a terrorist threat, knockin on our door' is a 1-1-2 rhyme. Also the 3rd part should be a stand-alone sentence instead of relying on the first 2 parts for meaning.
Again I really like it, that's why I think such small details are noteworthy.
@zapproowsdower Eh, what can I say? I'm a drummer by trade, lyrics aren't my specialty but I gave it a shot. Just my perspective of this whole thing. I posted those lyrics before any of this crap in the news. I basically wrote it while listening to Hannity try to school Ron Paul on "foreign policy" a couple months back...
@MrAuddun I hope it enlightened you rather for a grade. Glad to hear this was someone's homework. This IS how it was. I lost a close, close friend to suicide because he was picked in the draft (his number came up) and at 18 they threw him in a jungle. It was survival, and he couldn't live with what he had done or the pain of his wounds, and he slipped away a few days after Christmas. He had stayed with me for Christmas. He never even knew his son, but he left him a vintage Impala. It hurts still
i fixed lines that needed fixing! Now someone guitar n sing it!
Way down yonder in Afghanistan don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stops Afghanistan let's hope and pray that if they drop the bomb, they drop it on the Taliban Come on generals, let's move fast your big chance has come at last now you can go out and kill towel heads cos the only good Muslim is the one that's dead pack your boys off to Afghanistan and you can be the first ones on your block to have your boy come home in a box
To the young men out there stumbling on this: Can you imagine turning eighteen years old (at one point in time not even old enough to vote) then getting a letter saying that you won the lottery to be sent to serve in one of the bloodiest senseless wars in history?
@MsThebeMoon can you imagine saying Im not going when asked to by your country? Good thing George Washington and George Patton didnt say "Im not going".
@567sniper - First of all, the draft does not "ask" anyone to serve. It is MANDATED. Your examples reek of someone very young. A Vietnam Vet friend of mine told me a long time ago that when he was out there fighting the people we were supposedly fighting for didn't even realize it. It was a mess and went on far too long. My brother in-law was lucky and sent to Germany during the war.. The way this country is going backwards, if a GOP is prez in 2012, I'm looking to go to Canada.
@MsThebeMoon My 20 year old will be sent to Canada asap if it happens! I've told him for years that if conscription happens, he has 2 choices: #1-Canada #2- I cut off his trigger finger on prevalent hand ( as in my fave Irving book, "A Prayer For Owen Meany"). And I'm completely, absolutely serious!
@supergailey1 Hey, I understand. My son is too old, but my grandson isnt. Canada will not harbor draft card burners any longer. So drastic measures will have to be taken. Politicians need to send their faggot kids to battle, and not like George W. Bush put in a reserve. That isnt serving. He was a lousy president. He is a chicken shit.
This isn't the REAL Woodstock, it's a clip from the movie about Woodstock; dead giveaway are the Palm Trees in the background/reflection and this isn't Country Joe; the audience doesn't look like the youth from back them - the hair, clothes etc....are off...close, but not quite right for the times, almost like a characterization - actually it is! It's a movie!
@jsbach15, That's not a palm tree at 1:30, and that is Country Joe, an Air Force vet & I met him at the Old Miami Bar in Detroit - once was a vet's hangout - in the 80's or very early 90's. He played this & numerous other songs at the Old Ma Mammy (Miami). The bar was once called the New Miami before Dan O. - 101st AB vet - bought it and repaired it from fire damage.
@christof139 It is a Palm Tree, and for some reason youtube won't let me paste the link to another video on youtube with the real County Joe singer. I'll grant you that the actor is a dead-ringer for Joe, but it's not Woodstock and it's not Joe; I don't know why this is being touted as the real footage unless it's link to money being made by corporation who think the public won't know any better?
@jsbach15 One other key point in know that this isn't County Joe - When County Joe sang "I'm fixing to die rag" song at Woodstock, he did NOT sing "Whoopee" during the phrase ..."we're all going to die." I know because I was always disappointed, upon seeing the Woodstock documentary that Joe did not sing that word; it was only sung on his recording of the song, and then after in other concerts!
@jsbach15 FYI After reading your comment I got on the net and typed in ' bio of country joe mcdonald'. I suggest you go there yourself so you will know the truth. Yes It is Joe in the footage singing "Fixin' To Die Rag" - the real title of the VietNam song, Fish Cheer or it's many other names. The war itself was bad enough, let's not fuss over a protest song about it, PLEASE.
Well when I got back from Quang Tri in 72, I heard this song and Joe you were right, what the hell were we fighting for??? Then I heard in 75 that we lost 58 thousand...hell I believe there were more than that and we are still finding remains of our KIA's and POWs..........
tvbunk, it doesn't make any difference to me. you are a hero in my family. in '68 I went down and passed all tests but my rh factor showed severe arthritis. so besides having a son the arthritis shot me down. you were only doing what your officers told you and that is okay, my son was/is a marine. oorah!
this song was a statment to the powers that be at its time that the youth were made to serve in the impending draft that they were subject to,also as an awakening to the youth of the time to question authority through non violent expression.......ergo the music.
You were fighting to preserve capitalism, and people are being sacrificed for that still all over the world. The USA lost that war (I make this point becos I heard a lot of young Americans don't realise this). Capitalism seemed to be on a wave tho, didn't it ? Til now - boom slump boom slump - the end ?
Thank you for posting this. My parents had the Woodstock record and I played it to death when I was 4 or 5 - 6 tops. This song was my absolute favorite. I'm sure my parents winced every time I'd sing along at the top of my lungs. I still do!
If the corporations who profit like shit from our kids getting killed haven't been taught a lesson about the Industrial Military Complex by now, we'll only be sending our grand-kids to satisfy their hunger in the future. Most Americans are dumb enough to swallow this shit, and they (and their dumb kids) deserve it! Got a good argument? Bring it on!?
@stevevandien One Word. "ZACHARIA" If you've never watched the movie Zacharia treat yerself to Country Joe and the Fish as the Crackers, The James Gang playing live in the desert and Don Johnsons debut. It's the first electric western with the Logo, "A Head of His Time". LOL
Right with you tvbunk. I am 68 next week and i served three tours in Vietnam as a marine. I was pissed to realize this like so many war was based on lies. Lost too many buddies for no damm good reason. i was one of the fortunate one by only suffering from PTSD. Many din't make it back while other were wounded. Sometime the wounds you can't see can cause the most damage.
If we had it would have meant war with RED CHINA.It Also would have ignited WW III Bringing the Soviet Union against us on the other side.The President and the Cabinet in Conress would have been impeached by the American People !!
Try going to war and then told to stop 3 days later. They should have left us finish it while we were over there. A lot more kids would be alive today. 91 was FUBAR for sure.
@TheJer1963 Xin Loi my Boy ! That word was niether heard of nor used down South In The Republic That Once Was Vietnam. Perhaps SNAFU but not FUBAR. May be some where else, another shooting war in another Hemisphere.
Mine is not to reason why!! Don't mock me because deep down, in the deepest part of your craven being, you are glad there are men like me to do what needs to be done.
@ILLINUT, Perhaps true, but the Viet Nam conflict was a waste of time. The war was run from Washington instead of by the generals in the field. Read "Thud Ridge" to find that out, and how an Air Force officer was sent to trial by courts-martial for shooting back at a missile battery in Hanoi that was shooting at them during a bombing mission. After twenty plus years in the military and seeing friends die for what eventually was for nothing.
@ILLINUT If we are going to fight a war, then it isn't too much to ask that the war would have a point, and that we would use overwhelming force as was used in WWII where we defeated the enemy overwhelmingly and then held the land we took In Viet Nam we weren't allowed to do that. We would take territory and be ordered to withdraw and the VC came right back in, and we'd have to take it again.
The people you are fighting for have to have the will to fight for themselves.
@ILLINUT The South Vietnamese did not have the will to fight. Ask any Viet Nam vet how many times that the ARVN turned and retreated.........In the end, in 1975, we turned and retreated ourselves, and it cost hundreds of thousands of innocent lives because we did. Our bombing of Cambodia in 1972 caused the rise of the Khmer Rouge, and by the time they were eventually driven from power by the Vietnamese, they had killed almost two million of their countrymen.
One step from psychotic? Not even. If not self defense, war is exactly psychotic, period. High political office makes inferior people lose the ability to value human life. I still can't listen to this song without tearing up. You have to hope there is a special place in Hell for the likes of Johnson, Nixon, Bush, and now sadly even Obama.
check out my anti-afghanistan/ iraq video. they really are vietnam all over again. where are the peace marchs? the protest in the streets? banners and symbols and songs? thumbs up if you think we should start doing this again
My next stop was in fact Vietnam, and I didn't know what I was fighting for. Now I'm 62 and still don't know what we are fighting for....how f%$#@ up is that?
@tvbunk Indeed, brother. Welcome home from another vet (retired). All I can think of recently is the Association's "Requiem for the Masses". Afghanistan is scarcely civilized outside the cities. Right now we are doing nothing but pissing in the wind.
@tvbunk dont feel sorry for that war,the people will never forget all those man who died for this stupid cause.i am a french canadian ex soldier who fight in afghanistan.all war are stupid.have a good life and have no regrets.sorry for my english like i said im a frog frog canada ahhahahaha.
I for one was proud of being around and being a part of that great era. Thank you my friend for letting all hear this great song. Very fine job. Ricky!!
FUCK!!!
lbjeffries100 3 days ago
Colonialism is a BITCH.
Cervicconstruction 5 days ago
Incredible how this tune is SO right on 44 YEARS LATER! It's the same old same old money-making people-killing game. Eisenhower was right even further back, in 1960, he warned us about the menace of an outta-control mi/itary/industrial/financial/government complex. Mass public resistance helped end Vietnam. I hope it might work again, but the propaganda screws are on tighter now..check out original tune "Innocent Blood" on fishersofmenvideo
fishersofmenvideo 6 days ago
@fishersofmenvideo Mass public resistance isnt happening because people today, even our generation which resisted then are far too materialistic to give a damn. The younger ones are being lied to in school. My grandson is in the ROTC and you should hear the shit his superior is telling him. When my grandson is in the war, his superior won't remember his name. I can't get through to him tho. His mama is soo proud. I could never be proud of my child dying becasue of GOP lies!
BIGBUTist 3 days ago
@BIGBUTist What do you mean "GOP lies"? Are we not still in Iraq ? Are we not still "nation building" in Afghanistan under Obama? Who was it that signed off on bombing on Libya? Are we not still saber rattling with Iran, N. Korea & so on? Clinton shut down bases in the States and sent the troops over seas making things easy for Bush. How many over seas bases has Obama shut down? Get that "anti war left" mind set out of your head, the GOP & DNC are both bitches of the Military Industrial Complex.
BradNC11175 3 days ago
on the lp its refered too as the fish cheer
pahat58 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
fuck the GOP
Llawliet812 1 week ago
I believe this video caught the true vibe of Woodstock, with all the Brothers & Sisters hangin' out. I thoroughly enjoyed the footage. Give me a "F", give me a "U", give me a "C", give me a "K". I could feel the vibe of hanging on the verge of a happening. Thanks.
TheoriginalTruckerJo 1 week ago
I like Countrey Joe but i dont like the crowed i bet they booed our boys at the airport and protested in washington all of them fuckers should have been drafted to feel how it feels like.
JDOG145899100 1 week ago
@JDOG145899100 They were not against the soldiers, they were against the war. You had to have been around back in those days.
TheJer1963 1 week ago
@TheJer1963 bull they weren't against the soldiers. my ex husband walked off a plane 5 times from tours in viet nam. those protests were aimed at soldiers. he was so relieved - and in some ways hurt - when the citizens of the US treated the soldiers returning from the gulf war in the same way. i was around in those days - and i remember the names that were screamed at the soldiers coming home.
evemarie1958 1 week ago
@evemarie1958 I served in Desert Storm myself, I still remember the welcome we got when we got back to San Diego. It was really nice. You can go back and watch some films and hear for yourself the protesters chanting, "We're not against the soldiers, We're against the war" Not saying they all did but a lot of them felt that way. As I say, I know what it was like coming back from the first Gulf war in 1991.
TheJer1963 1 week ago
@evemarie1958 We grew up in a whole different era from now. Our parents were the WWII generation saving the world from the Axis. We rotated back to the world on our own coming off the bird to people who were angry at the images they saw on Huntley Brinkley about "destroying villages to save them" and My Lai. Every cop show had a "crazed Vietnam vet" on a rampage. It was a whole different vibe and the people who came to the airports were the extreme nutcases. Glad your ex got back to the world.
larrybndc 6 days ago
I don't know why I thought of this song....
Maybe because now more than ever, the world is going to Hell.
NealAGray 2 weeks ago
What will it take to stop war on this planet? Nothing
jshalander 2 weeks ago
@jshalander "Only the dead have seen the end of war". - Plato
567sniper 1 week ago
What a sad time for the guys , from my school alone 7 dint came back, 4 Puerto Ricans
2 blacks alive and 1 white
What a F sad times !
And you guys volunteer for war again?
yoko59lee 3 weeks ago
I spent six years in the National Guard, 1962 - 1968. This song was the truth of it.
otissumnerbrown 4 weeks ago
GIMME AN F!!!!!! LOL! I rember this song.
ChimeraAZ 1 month ago
I remember this song as an old fart, but never thought history would repeat it self in my lifetime
gunnar1954 1 month ago
@gunnar1954
Sadly, you are right. Dave56
wdchefdave56 4 weeks ago
@gunnar1954 History will repeat again.. again and again until we blow it all up..
Anoint2 3 weeks ago 6
Song makes me want to fight and kill more XD
Colton5 1 month ago
I think we sang this song as often as we filed and signed petitions...if you're 18 you have the right to vote if you don't have the right to say no to go...if you're 18, you have the right to belly up to the bar before you went that damned far...................
BigSisD2H 1 month ago
We have learned something, Where there is money to be made by the 1%, many who are in Congress or the lobbyest, guess what? We are going to war, WHOOPY!!! Sp5 FJ Miles 1st SFGA, Vietnam 1968
fredjackamikoons 1 month ago 6
@fredjackamikoons AMEN. Fighting is one thing, but to fight with the intentions of not winning sucks. The politicians have changed the definition of war and winning to conflict or police action and "stay 'till me and my friends get rich"!!
coleyman1 3 days ago
Nothing was learned in Vietnam and nothing was learned in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not that shooting Jhiadists and Taliban aren't worthy endeavors, but the idea of 'saving' people who had no true desire to be saved is a waste of time. Mark my words, in another twenty years or so, the US will try it again somewhere else.. Something to look forward to......
Hassar650 1 month ago
@Hassar650 Man, 20 years? Next stop is in Iran, problaby this year...
rsrocknroller 4 weeks ago
@rsrocknroller Unfortunately, you are probably right. The way things are in the world at present, it may well be the start of WW3.
ardvarkkkkk1 2 weeks ago
Love this and still the same about all war!
kkmb1000 1 month ago
Far Out....
bqueenqb1 1 month ago
C'est surement le côté positif des USA pendant la Guerre Froide !
570Spirit 1 month ago
My history teacher showed us this in school. I love it. <3
- Btw. I'm soon 14 ^^
Multigrandeful 1 month ago 2
@Multigrandeful You have an excellent teacher. History was captured in music as much as in literature and film, in some ways more so. The next time you see that teacher, thank her for me. Happy birthday on your upcoming 14th. May life become peaceful before too long and war a distant memory by your 18th. Blessings.
BigSisD2H 1 month ago
@BigSisD2H I will tell him that :)
- And thanks alot
Multigrandeful 3 weeks ago
woodstock :)
xxshaddowxxtx 1 month ago
Iran is next...ask your President.
ricshorten 1 month ago
@ricshorten the Black Dubya Bush?
Democrats are fools and hypocrites of the highest order. I guess they are so ashamed of Neo-Con Obama that they are going to re-elect him.
Get your Scott respirators w/NBC filters, some potassium iodide, cans of spam, a few lids an a case of Jack before the fireworks jump off. heh.
Anyone remember the 70's nostradamus docu with Orson Wells? The Persian/Arab looking guys in the turbans start the end times with nukes.....muahahahah
RoyalWulffDry 1 month ago
My lottery number was 141 and they got to 138 before the draft ended...God Bless those who went there....you are all heroes!!
flydadj 1 month ago
what is your birthdate? it sounds like my lottery number!
sneakers53 1 month ago
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stefanmorrow615 1 month ago
a whole lotta fun?
B1LLSs 1 month ago
1:11 Wasn't that Newt Gingrich?
RonPaulPeace 1 month ago
anyone that ever has served in this war is a far better person than you or I...what a place to be ..god bless all of you who went!
MrDaddykaos 1 month ago 2
@MrDaddykaos how do you figure?
FionMacCumhail 1 week ago
But i cannot help but think of all the young men that were scared, worried and died lonely for their country... while we sang.
WAHOOUPS 1 month ago
i will not take a political stand on this but, the music of the era was most inventive and clever
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josepena1127 1 month ago
1:06 That guy looks at this song the same way I do.
NammVet 1 month ago
i was born during this song..literally..
jimmyt568 1 month ago
If you want to believe in fairy tales so be it! It's about making money bud and nothing more. There are specific articles about the phoney Woodstock video that was made; in fact there were two of them. WHOOPEE, wasn't shouted by Joe when he sang "Fixin to Die Rag," at Woodstock; it was only on the recording and following concerts. Also, there are NO palm trees in upper state new york! HA!
jsbach15 1 month ago
@jsbach15 I've heard both version's, and understand it's fake, but c'mon this is pretty catchy haha.
Uncovered3rdEye94 1 month ago
@Uncovered3rdEye94 I never commented on the the song content or entertainment value. I like people to know the truth which is sorely lacking in so many aspects of our nation these days.
jsbach15 1 month ago
@jsbach15 Haha it's cool man I was just messing around.
Uncovered3rdEye94 1 month ago
I am glad the draft is over. It is always a mistake to force people to fight a "war", when congress does not have the guts to declare war in the first place. We now pay people a decent wage to serve in our peace-time army -- which is much better than the Vietnam tragedy. In fact, our constitution REQUIRES a declaration of war -- in the first place.
otissumnerbrown 1 month ago
whoever dislikes this,can kiss my American ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! an you should be ashamed of yourselves!!!!!!!!!!!! ASSHOLES!!!
MsWiggles82 1 month ago
Dark time for our country and the world :( sad.
85Raidernation 1 month ago
....Just rember this clown was not or ever was at the sharp end .
cuteoldguy 1 month ago
yes
funkensteinish 2 months ago
Some of us went....we did...and again...some of us came home not in a box. The anti-war shit hit home when i stepped off the plane...i didn't appreciate it then...don't now. Easy to read about it.....easy to say "welcome home" but if you really don't mean it....don't say it.
NAM VET 1966
bro1945 2 months ago
aint no time to wonder why, whoopee were all gonna die
eshizz89 2 months ago
Well the boys finally back from Iraq
But theres trouble in the dessert, we have to go back
They say Iran has weapons of war
Gee, we've all heard that before
You can always bet there's a terrorist threat,
knockin on our door...
And its one two three
what are fighting for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is in Iran.....
justrock247 2 months ago 34
@justrock247 lmao hahahaq too bad there is nothing funny about it. ww3 is right around the corner, dig a big hole. if the shit never hits the fan, you will still have a nice big old hole.
eshizz89 2 months ago
@justrock247 I love the new lyrics! I just hope that everyone remembers this: Don't hate the players, hate the game, and not turn on our service members like the bastards did in the 1960's and 70's. What they did to our troops was appalling, it was not their fault that they got sent to war, it was the clown in the White House that did that. I am a Veteran who served in the Sand Box and if I ever catch anyone disrespecting a veteran in protest of the war, I will put them in a pine box personally.
vfwpost5533 1 month ago
@vfwpost5533 Love the warrior, not the war.
Uncovered3rdEye94 1 month ago
@vfwpost5533 Still promulgating hate, violence, and death, I see, and you never served in nam, in fact you weren't even born, so quit talking about an era you know nothing about; except the distortions and myths you hear because it's doubtful you read!
jsbach15 1 month ago
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@jsbach15 I did not serve in Vietnam, but all but 4 of my VFW members all were Vietnam Veterans with a majority of them being Rangers. I have heard from numerous Vietnam Veterans about the disgusting treatment they received, especially when arriving back in California (San Fran and LA). I will believe them much more than anyone else on a social media website. Every time I meet a new Nam Vet I welcome them home and thank them for their service, as they were not welcomed home like Desert Storm.
vfwpost5533 1 month ago
@justrock247 its terrible but true :/
Madara2233 1 month ago
@justrock247 Really great... one small nitpick though. where he sings 'Put down your books and pick up a gun / We're gonna have a whole lotta fun!' the rhyme is a 1-2-2 design. yours, 'You can always bet there's a terrorist threat, knockin on our door' is a 1-1-2 rhyme. Also the 3rd part should be a stand-alone sentence instead of relying on the first 2 parts for meaning.
Again I really like it, that's why I think such small details are noteworthy.
zapproowsdower 2 weeks ago
@zapproowsdower Eh, what can I say? I'm a drummer by trade, lyrics aren't my specialty but I gave it a shot. Just my perspective of this whole thing. I posted those lyrics before any of this crap in the news. I basically wrote it while listening to Hannity try to school Ron Paul on "foreign policy" a couple months back...
justrock247 2 weeks ago
@justrock247 are you one of those idiots who were secretly glad about 9/11 and thinks that america deserved that?
elvispresley718 1 week ago
@elvispresley718 comes around goes around
are you one the 40% of yanks who cant even find usa on a world map?
toobularbells 1 week ago
@MrAuddun I hope it enlightened you rather for a grade. Glad to hear this was someone's homework. This IS how it was. I lost a close, close friend to suicide because he was picked in the draft (his number came up) and at 18 they threw him in a jungle. It was survival, and he couldn't live with what he had done or the pain of his wounds, and he slipped away a few days after Christmas. He had stayed with me for Christmas. He never even knew his son, but he left him a vintage Impala. It hurts still
Honker66 2 months ago
I always love you, Ronny
Honker66 2 months ago
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i fixed lines that needed fixing! Now someone guitar n sing it!
Way down yonder in Afghanistan don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stops Afghanistan let's hope and pray that if they drop the bomb, they drop it on the Taliban Come on generals, let's move fast your big chance has come at last now you can go out and kill towel heads cos the only good Muslim is the one that's dead pack your boys off to Afghanistan and you can be the first ones on your block to have your boy come home in a box
Zombied77 2 months ago
Although I was a hawk, I always enjoyed the music of the era. Just about all of it was protest music, but it was great music.
22ndSouthCarolina 2 months ago
It's 1/2 step down no ?
Linedwell51 2 months ago
To the young men out there stumbling on this: Can you imagine turning eighteen years old (at one point in time not even old enough to vote) then getting a letter saying that you won the lottery to be sent to serve in one of the bloodiest senseless wars in history?
MsThebeMoon 2 months ago 18
@MsThebeMoon you sent some shudders down my spine man, as did this song.
xDroflmao1337 2 weeks ago
@MsThebeMoon can you imagine saying Im not going when asked to by your country? Good thing George Washington and George Patton didnt say "Im not going".
567sniper 1 week ago
@567sniper - First of all, the draft does not "ask" anyone to serve. It is MANDATED. Your examples reek of someone very young. A Vietnam Vet friend of mine told me a long time ago that when he was out there fighting the people we were supposedly fighting for didn't even realize it. It was a mess and went on far too long. My brother in-law was lucky and sent to Germany during the war.. The way this country is going backwards, if a GOP is prez in 2012, I'm looking to go to Canada.
MsThebeMoon 1 week ago
@MsThebeMoon My 20 year old will be sent to Canada asap if it happens! I've told him for years that if conscription happens, he has 2 choices: #1-Canada #2- I cut off his trigger finger on prevalent hand ( as in my fave Irving book, "A Prayer For Owen Meany"). And I'm completely, absolutely serious!
supergailey1 3 days ago 2
@supergailey1 Hey, I understand. My son is too old, but my grandson isnt. Canada will not harbor draft card burners any longer. So drastic measures will have to be taken. Politicians need to send their faggot kids to battle, and not like George W. Bush put in a reserve. That isnt serving. He was a lousy president. He is a chicken shit.
BIGBUTist 3 days ago 2
@BIGBUTist I agree with you BUT calling anybody faggot is unacceptable!
INAWEOFKRIS 1 day ago
Just wondering, were the song "Anti Vietnam War Song" ever released? :-)
SleepyZheep 2 months ago
youtube video Country Joe - Rock and Rock Woodstock '69 here on youtube. Have a look.
jsbach15 2 months ago
HA! This is the movie not the real Woodstock!
jsbach15 2 months ago
I feel this.
floydnelson123 2 months ago
I don't care where this was filmed ... still brings back years of tears. Good tune.
GuynSherri 2 months ago
This isn't the REAL Woodstock, it's a clip from the movie about Woodstock; dead giveaway are the Palm Trees in the background/reflection and this isn't Country Joe; the audience doesn't look like the youth from back them - the hair, clothes etc....are off...close, but not quite right for the times, almost like a characterization - actually it is! It's a movie!
jsbach15 2 months ago
@jsbach15 actually this is from the documentary.........lol can't tell if you're trolling or not...
becauseigame 2 months ago
@becauseigame
jsbach15 2 months ago
@becauseigame They don't have Palm Trees (look at frame 1:30, in the video) in upper state New York! Also, this isn't Country Joe!
jsbach15 2 months ago
@jsbach15, That's not a palm tree at 1:30, and that is Country Joe, an Air Force vet & I met him at the Old Miami Bar in Detroit - once was a vet's hangout - in the 80's or very early 90's. He played this & numerous other songs at the Old Ma Mammy (Miami). The bar was once called the New Miami before Dan O. - 101st AB vet - bought it and repaired it from fire damage.
christof139 2 months ago
@christof139 It is a Palm Tree, and for some reason youtube won't let me paste the link to another video on youtube with the real County Joe singer. I'll grant you that the actor is a dead-ringer for Joe, but it's not Woodstock and it's not Joe; I don't know why this is being touted as the real footage unless it's link to money being made by corporation who think the public won't know any better?
jsbach15 2 months ago
@jsbach15 One other key point in know that this isn't County Joe - When County Joe sang "I'm fixing to die rag" song at Woodstock, he did NOT sing "Whoopee" during the phrase ..."we're all going to die." I know because I was always disappointed, upon seeing the Woodstock documentary that Joe did not sing that word; it was only sung on his recording of the song, and then after in other concerts!
jsbach15 2 months ago
@jsbach15 FYI After reading your comment I got on the net and typed in ' bio of country joe mcdonald'. I suggest you go there yourself so you will know the truth. Yes It is Joe in the footage singing "Fixin' To Die Rag" - the real title of the VietNam song, Fish Cheer or it's many other names. The war itself was bad enough, let's not fuss over a protest song about it, PLEASE.
jljaklls 1 month ago
this song is right up my alley. wishing they had a loveit option.
chiefdancingostriche 2 months ago
Maybe the best protest song ever.
jaysirrock 2 months ago
Iraq's new name is Vietnam
nholt 2 months ago
Well when I got back from Quang Tri in 72, I heard this song and Joe you were right, what the hell were we fighting for??? Then I heard in 75 that we lost 58 thousand...hell I believe there were more than that and we are still finding remains of our KIA's and POWs..........
WX5G 2 months ago
whats that smell??
ciaran7162 2 months ago
tvbunk, it doesn't make any difference to me. you are a hero in my family. in '68 I went down and passed all tests but my rh factor showed severe arthritis. so besides having a son the arthritis shot me down. you were only doing what your officers told you and that is okay, my son was/is a marine. oorah!
thanevelden 2 months ago
this song was a statment to the powers that be at its time that the youth were made to serve in the impending draft that they were subject to,also as an awakening to the youth of the time to question authority through non violent expression.......ergo the music.
jumpinthefire28 2 months ago
Yesterday, today, and tomorow Joe -- you're still a low down turd.
ernstbecker1 2 months ago
@ernstbecker1 hay Jody
Joe is a vet
hopdoehop 2 months ago
@hopdoehop Didn't know. Thanks for the info.
ernstbecker1 2 months ago
"Fixin to die rag"
arcchie07 2 months ago
You were fighting to preserve capitalism, and people are being sacrificed for that still all over the world. The USA lost that war (I make this point becos I heard a lot of young Americans don't realise this). Capitalism seemed to be on a wave tho, didn't it ? Til now - boom slump boom slump - the end ?
pempeg 2 months ago
man the altime greastest protest songs
metaliclsalayer875 3 months ago
Thank you for posting this. My parents had the Woodstock record and I played it to death when I was 4 or 5 - 6 tops. This song was my absolute favorite. I'm sure my parents winced every time I'd sing along at the top of my lungs. I still do!
chippychin 3 months ago 12
the only good commie is one that is dead... still true today
cesky69 3 months ago
I saw Country Joe play this song many times & it was always great fun to sing along. "Whoopie were all gonna die!!!" & I don't give a damn..
Longie60724 3 months ago
I think it spells fuck.
imXaXteapot2112 3 months ago
That was COOl.
KREEPNASTY1 3 months ago
I love you Nam vets.I didn't go because my lottery number didn't come up.
I just want you to know that I love you BROTHER....
From a fellow American
doowaditti 3 months ago 37
@doowaditti Could have joined, that's what my brother did. When I was old enough I went to join, but the war was over.
10021walshke 1 month ago
You gotta wonder what was the total value of drugs that everyone that attended woodstock did. probably equals the national debt total.
cb2k761 3 months ago
I lost my virginity to this song!
msbonnie99 3 months ago
If the corporations who profit like shit from our kids getting killed haven't been taught a lesson about the Industrial Military Complex by now, we'll only be sending our grand-kids to satisfy their hunger in the future. Most Americans are dumb enough to swallow this shit, and they (and their dumb kids) deserve it! Got a good argument? Bring it on!?
laaxe 3 months ago
Gee. Did "Country Joe" (why the "Country," by the way?) and his fellow Fish (ditto) ever do anything else that ANYONE ever gave a rat's arse about?
I can name exactly ONE other song that "Country Joe" wrote ("Janis," about his former girlfriend, Janis Joplin) Can anybody else do likewise?
stevevandien 3 months ago
@stevevandien One Word. "ZACHARIA" If you've never watched the movie Zacharia treat yerself to Country Joe and the Fish as the Crackers, The James Gang playing live in the desert and Don Johnsons debut. It's the first electric western with the Logo, "A Head of His Time". LOL
hotboy8675309 3 months ago
Do not know why but started to feel that this 2012 would be somehitng like the summer of 68
calito44 3 months ago
you can tell that some of the guys in the crowd were in the military, either they have old fatigue jackets or still short hair...
imajeepster 3 months ago
war stinks.
imajeepster 3 months ago
what alot of American people are capable of, one of the most liberal race's but unfortunately they are brainwashed and live pre designated lives
FuckMrMind 3 months ago
Im 15, I want to know why the fuck I live in the 2000's I belong in the 60s and 70s !!!!1
TheRockandroll420 3 months ago
at 0:46 I have a crush with this girl.... how curious, giving the fact that I born a few years later she literally could be my mother now.....
calito44 3 months ago
@calito44 Me too!!! I think women of the 60's & 70's era were the best looking ever!
tryingharder 3 months ago
@tryingharder Thks until I read your comment felt the only one who has this kind of "back to the future" crush LOL
calito44 3 months ago
Right with you tvbunk. I am 68 next week and i served three tours in Vietnam as a marine. I was pissed to realize this like so many war was based on lies. Lost too many buddies for no damm good reason. i was one of the fortunate one by only suffering from PTSD. Many din't make it back while other were wounded. Sometime the wounds you can't see can cause the most damage.
oldman66able 3 months ago 2
has it prove anything
MrEamonn1964 3 months ago
he looks like the guy from born on the 4th of july
dylanwhaley87 4 months ago
@dylanwhaley87 Will Smith?
Bimmelbong 3 months ago
If we had it would have meant war with RED CHINA.It Also would have ignited WW III Bringing the Soviet Union against us on the other side.The President and the Cabinet in Conress would have been impeached by the American People !!
Larry731000 4 months ago
Try going to war and then told to stop 3 days later. They should have left us finish it while we were over there. A lot more kids would be alive today. 91 was FUBAR for sure.
TheJer1963 4 months ago
@TheJer1963 Xin Loi my Boy ! That word was niether heard of nor used down South In The Republic That Once Was Vietnam. Perhaps SNAFU but not FUBAR. May be some where else, another shooting war in another Hemisphere.
ernstbecker1 2 months ago
@ernstbecker1 Well I don't know if it was used in Vietnam but I know it was used in WW2 and we used it in 1991.
TheJer1963 2 months ago
'FUCK YOU MAN, I STARTED THIS WAR'
theyearofourlordig88 4 months ago
Mine is not to reason why!! Don't mock me because deep down, in the deepest part of your craven being, you are glad there are men like me to do what needs to be done.
Prowler609 4 months ago
@ILLINUT, Perhaps true, but the Viet Nam conflict was a waste of time. The war was run from Washington instead of by the generals in the field. Read "Thud Ridge" to find that out, and how an Air Force officer was sent to trial by courts-martial for shooting back at a missile battery in Hanoi that was shooting at them during a bombing mission. After twenty plus years in the military and seeing friends die for what eventually was for nothing.
grizzled8353 4 months ago
@ILLINUT If we are going to fight a war, then it isn't too much to ask that the war would have a point, and that we would use overwhelming force as was used in WWII where we defeated the enemy overwhelmingly and then held the land we took In Viet Nam we weren't allowed to do that. We would take territory and be ordered to withdraw and the VC came right back in, and we'd have to take it again.
The people you are fighting for have to have the will to fight for themselves.
grizzled8353 4 months ago
@ILLINUT The South Vietnamese did not have the will to fight. Ask any Viet Nam vet how many times that the ARVN turned and retreated.........In the end, in 1975, we turned and retreated ourselves, and it cost hundreds of thousands of innocent lives because we did. Our bombing of Cambodia in 1972 caused the rise of the Khmer Rouge, and by the time they were eventually driven from power by the Vietnamese, they had killed almost two million of their countrymen.
grizzled8353 4 months ago
One step from psychotic? Not even. If not self defense, war is exactly psychotic, period. High political office makes inferior people lose the ability to value human life. I still can't listen to this song without tearing up. You have to hope there is a special place in Hell for the likes of Johnson, Nixon, Bush, and now sadly even Obama.
spambedam 4 months ago
54nono53 Thanks for uploading the real FISH cry.
BgMsDangerus 4 months ago
Rich mans war, poor mans blood. WOW, somethings just don't ever change!
BBFINC 4 months ago in playlist BBFINC's favorites
check out my anti-afghanistan/ iraq video. they really are vietnam all over again. where are the peace marchs? the protest in the streets? banners and symbols and songs? thumbs up if you think we should start doing this again
mary xx
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talbot5445 4 months ago
My next stop was in fact Vietnam, and I didn't know what I was fighting for. Now I'm 62 and still don't know what we are fighting for....how f%$#@ up is that?
tvbunk 4 months ago 64
@tvbunk Indeed, brother. Welcome home from another vet (retired). All I can think of recently is the Association's "Requiem for the Masses". Afghanistan is scarcely civilized outside the cities. Right now we are doing nothing but pissing in the wind.
grizzled8353 4 months ago
@tvbunk Just wanted to say Thanks for serving your time in Hell for us..God Bless
PurpleDrangon1975 4 months ago
@tvbunk My girls dad was a Vietnam vet. Marines. He said the same thing before he passed 3 years ago. Glad some of you guys are still around!!!
tryingharder 3 months ago
@tvbunk thank you
RufousFiber 3 months ago
@tvbunk dont feel sorry for that war,the people will never forget all those man who died for this stupid cause.i am a french canadian ex soldier who fight in afghanistan.all war are stupid.have a good life and have no regrets.sorry for my english like i said im a frog frog canada ahhahahaha.
bruno5834 2 months ago
@tvbunk I don't know eather ,Thanks anyway!!!
48lisap 2 months ago
DUDE SAYS-IF YOUR OLD ENOUGH YOUR GONNA DIE ANYWAY
joediazmack521 4 months ago
IS tHIS Avilible on Itunes With Clean Words?
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APEXchannel1 4 months ago
Whos The Idiot Who Disliked This. :I Its A Great Song.
xDeficationx 4 months ago
I like this song it brings a smile to face :)
edwardelricfangirl1 5 months ago
40 years on man and fuck all has changed. Bummer man :)
liverpoolsammy 5 months ago
I for one was proud of being around and being a part of that great era. Thank you my friend for letting all hear this great song. Very fine job. Ricky!!
rjc3208 5 months ago 3
I'm sick of people who think hippies are cowards. I mean whats wrong with getting a point across?
METALHEAD101ist 5 months ago
Lol at all the dirty white hippies.
Transformers2themax 5 months ago
I was there.
GetRhythm2011 5 months ago
@GetRhythm2011 lucky what was like there in 69 i bet it was awesome
edwardelricfangirl1 5 months ago
@edwardelricfangirl1 Not talking about the Woodstock.
GetRhythm2011 4 months ago
@GetRhythm2011 oh
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