Country Joe - Fixing to die (Wierd version?)

Country Joe McDonald and The Fish - The Fish Cheer / I Feel like I'm fixing to die

Can anybody tell me where this version is from? It is defenatly not the Woodstock-version.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• COuntry
• Joe
• mcdonald
• and
• the
• fish
• fixing
• to
• die
• rag
• feel
• like
• cheer
• woodstock
• etta-cameron

[tjkjr1992]

lolcaramelz views are his own, but I find them absolutely disgusting to the foundations of our entire country. People like you should be ashamed, sir, you undermine freedom of rights, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness when you speak like that.

[Jeppedenanden]

Pursuit of happiness and freedom rights... Such things are not possible on a large scale in a 100 % capitalistic economy.

Some might be able to work their way from the bottom to the top of society, but that are the lucky few.

Without equality, there is no freedom for the non-that-wealthy part of society.

[1BarefootCowboy]

This is the original studio version of "The Fish Cheer/I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" by Country Joe And The Fish. It's from the LP "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" which, I believe, is their second album. This is my personal favorite of theirs, song and version.

[Jeppedenanden]

Thanks :)

[TL250Rider]

I remember back in 1972 Listening to KDAY 106 AM and hearing this song.

Then in 1978 Disco Came

Very Sad.

[AGENT24]

This is the studio version.

[Superfluential]

He used various 4 letter words...basically signified the sentiment that if you could spell a 4 letter word, you were good enough to be shipped off to vietnam

[RedVynil]

@airsoft808 That's the background singer(s), they're using an old style of singing from the `20's that was done by people like, Rudy Vallee, then remade popular again in the `70's by The New Vaudeville Band. They're saying, "Doo waka doo waka doo waka doo". Later in the choruses, you can hear them singing, "Psychedelic, psychedelic", instead.

[RedVynil]

@hardrockerofsoccer THAT'S funny!! I didn't know he played country music!! Everything I ever heard him do was rock, psych or blues!!

[RedVynil]

@slimfchance1 Did we? It's now called, Trance, or Acid, or Electronica. Same mind nuimbing stupid beat, just faster and louder and no real music involved.

[RedVynil]

@sm9847 This version was done first, Joe only changed Fish to Fuck for the Woodstock show.

[RedVynil]

@docambra I remember a bunch of us singing it on the school bus on the way home from school, possibly every day, for a while. As I wasn't into psych & anti-war stuff back then, I'd never heard the song before. I think it was shortly after that that I heard the Woodstock soundtrack for the first time. Probably `71 or `72. Sadly, at the time, I was more into bubblegum: "Chewy, Chewy", "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy", etc.. Now, I wish I could go back and scoop up as many psych records as I can find!!

[RedVynil]

@Jeppedenanden Yes, it's the original version. Why you follow it with 4:00 of dead air, I don't know.

[supertank7911]

what's that spell ? i can't hear

[MrAmerican76]

This is the Original Version - When I was with E-Co 75th Rangers in Tan An in 1969 We all played it ... Kept up morale the Dinks thought we were all nuts... Go Go Go Country Joe...

[sonjabarrett]

This the Original version, Before Woodstock.