Townes Van Zandt- "Ballad of Ira Hayes"
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Would like to recommend the book, Ceremony, by Leslie Silko. It's a novel about a native American who returns emotionally ans spiritually damaged by his experiences in the Pacific in World War ll. It a very compelling story with a lot of the anguish of an Ira Hayes in it.
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@otlclips HA! I should have checked the depth of the water before I dived in. I realized my error when I visited your playlist and saw your greybeard list of music. Personally I prefer Patrick Sky's version of this but both these versions preserve the ballad nature of the lyrics. The lyrics are a poem, a reflection; Cash, as magnificent as he is, treated it as mere entertainment, a tune. But heck, even Bobby Lane threw an interception now and then.
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@yasukomcleod I'm in my 60s. How much older do you figure I need to get? LOL.
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@otlclips You think that because you're young. When you get older you will gain introspection and come to appreciate this version.
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@gdkeen I stand corrected. Patrick Sky's version has been posted.
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@gdkeen I agree this is a real good version, better in style than the other versions here; another version, in the same style as this, was done by Patrick Sky. Sky's version is not shown here, I have it on a compilation of American folk songs called, Folk Songs America, published twenty some years ago by Sony Music. I think I ordered it from NPR.
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townes is king...
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I think Johnny Cash did it a LOT better!
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ira hayes one of thousands of natives who stood up to fight for a land they loved and a government that did every thing they could to destroy there culture
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Out of the six men that are immortalized in the famous flag raising photo over Iwo JIma three died through the remainder of the battle. I'm glad Towns did a song about Ira. If yall like to read i recommend Flags of Our Fathers. The movie is pretty good too.
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I feel like I can't rate this highly enough. I'm frustrated that this video doesn't hve 70million views, because it deserves it, for it's message and it's BRILLIANT composition
gdkeen 2 years ago 19
Such an incredible song. Nobody does it better than Townes. Great video work!!
coolanddark 2 years ago 8