07-14-2016, 02:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-14-2016, 02:42 PM by Eric the Green.)
One of the most famous anti-war songs of the sixties was Country Joe's, released on The Fish's 2nd album.
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die, aka The Fish Cheer
Live at an anti-war rally and a solo performance, in a video produced by Joe:
https://youtu.be/YHMQKmlpKCM
Sometimes he would replace the "Fish" cheer with a "Fuck" cheer. The word Vietnam can be replaced by whatever war Uncle Sam gets involved in next. As in "next stop, Afghanistan"
I always thought this song was a later version of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade (concerning the Crimean War) which included the famous lines:
"Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die"
also recited as "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge...ade_(poem)
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die, aka The Fish Cheer
Live at an anti-war rally and a solo performance, in a video produced by Joe:
https://youtu.be/YHMQKmlpKCM
Sometimes he would replace the "Fish" cheer with a "Fuck" cheer. The word Vietnam can be replaced by whatever war Uncle Sam gets involved in next. As in "next stop, Afghanistan"
I always thought this song was a later version of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade (concerning the Crimean War) which included the famous lines:
"Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die"
also recited as "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge...ade_(poem)