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Instructions: Listen to the recording and read the lyrics of the attached songs and then use them to
answer the following questions: 1. Vietnam Song Live from Woodstock (1969)
1. Who made this recording? Do you know anything about the artist(s) who recorded this music?
Find out at least 3 interesting facts about the artist(s)
2. What is the song about? Does it tell a story, or take a political position about an event, period or person? What position does it take? How can you tell?
3. When was this song created? How does that inform the nature of the song?
4. What mood does the recording create?
5. Explain how the mood is created. How does this mood affect the message?
6. Interpret the meaning of the song’s lyrics line by line. If you need to break the lyrics down stanza by stanza. What is meant by the lyrics in the song? What events or ideas do the lyrics refer to?
7. What is the message of this song?
8. What questions do you have for the author/creator about the time period in which the song was written? (you are responsible for the creation of at least two questions.)
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answer the following questions. 2. Everybody Knows: Leonard Cohen 1988
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5. Explain how the mood is created. How does this mood affect the message?
6. Interpret the meaning of the song’s lyrics line by line. If you need to break the lyrics down stanza by stanza. What is meant by the lyrics in the song? What events or ideas do the lyrics refer to?
7. What is the message of this song?
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answer the following questions 3. Ohio (1970)
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U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday- 1983I can't believe the news todayOh, I can't close my eyes and make it go awayHow long, how long must we sing this song?How long? How long?'Cause tonight we can be as one, tonight
Broken bottles under children's feetBodies strewn across the dead end streetsBut I won't heed the battle callIt puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
And the battle's just begunThere's many lost but tell me who has wonThe trench is dug within our heartsAnd mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Sunday, Bloody SundaySunday, Bloody Sunday
How long, how long must we sing this song?How long? How long?'Cause tonight we can be as oneTonight, tonight
Sunday, Bloody SundaySunday, Bloody Sunday
Wipe the tears from your eyesWipe your tears awayOh, wipe your tears awayOh, wipe your tears awayOh, wipe your blood shot eyes
Sunday, Bloody SundaySunday, Bloody Sunday
And it's true we are immune when fact is fiction and TV realityAnd today the millions cryWe eat and drink while tomorrow they dieThe real battle just begun to claim the victory Jesus won on
Sunday Bloody SundaySunday Bloody Sunday
What’s going on Marvin Gaye-1971Mother, motherThere's too many of you cryingBrother, brother, brotherThere's far too many of you dyingYou know we've got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here today, yeah
Father, fatherWe don't need to escalateYou see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hateYou know we've got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here today
Picket lines and picket signsDon't punish me with brutalityTalk to meSo you can seeOh, what's going onWhat's goingWhat's going onWhat's going on
Right on, babyRight onRight on
Mother, motherEverybody thinks we're wrongOh, but who are they to judge usSimply because our hair is longOh, you know we've got to find a wayTo bring some understanding here today
Picket lines and picket signsDon't punish me with brutalityCome on talk to meSo you can seeWhat's going onWhat's going onTell me what's going onI'll tell you ya, what's going on
Right on, babyRight on, babyRight on, baby...
Everybody Knows: Leonard Cohen 1988
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long stem rose Everybody knows
Everybody knows that you love me baby Everybody knows that you really do Everybody knows that you've been faithful Ah give or take a night or two Everybody knows you've been discreet But there were so many people you just had to meet Without your clothes And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows That's how it goes Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows That's how it goes Everybody knows
And everybody knows that it's now or never Everybody knows that it's me or you And everybody knows that you live forever Ah when you've done a line or two Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming Everybody knows that it's moving fast Everybody knows that the naked man and woman Are just a shining artifact of the past Everybody knows the scene is dead But there's gonna be a meter on your bed That will disclose What everybody knows
And everybody knows that you're in trouble Everybody knows what you've been through From the bloody cross on top of Calvary To the beach of Malibu Everybody knows it's coming apart Take one last look at this Sacred Heart Before it blows And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows That's how it goes Everybody knows
Oh everybody knows, everybody knows That's how it goes Everybody knows
Everybody knows
STING (1985)"Russians"
In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteriaConditioned to respond to all the threatsIn the rhetorical speeches of the SovietsMr. Krushchev said we will bury youI don't subscribe to this point of viewIt would be such an ignorant thing to doIf the Russians love their children too
How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toyThere is no monopoly in common senseOn either side of the political fenceWe share the same biologyRegardless of ideologyBelieve me when I say to youI hope the Russians love their children too
There is no historical precedentTo put the words in the mouth of the PresidentThere's no such thing as a winnable warIt's a lie that we don't believe anymoreMr. Reagan says we will protect youI don't subscribe to this point of viewBelieve me when I say to youI hope the Russians love their children too
We share the same biologyRegardless of ideologyWhat might save us, me, and youIs that the Russians love their children too
Give Peace A Chance (1969)
Ev'rybody's talking aboutBagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, TagismThis-ism, that-ism Isn’t it the mostAll we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers, Sinisters, Banisters and canisters,Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,And bye bye, bye byes. All we are saying is give peace a chanceAll we are saying is give peace a chance
Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking aboutRevolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagelolation, Regulations.Integrations, Meditations, United Nations, CongratulationsAll we are saying is give peace a chanceAll we are saying is give peace a chance
Oh Let’s stick to itEv'rybody's talking aboutJohn and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers, Bob Dylan, Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,Hare KrishnaAll we are saying is give peace a chanceAll we are saying is give peace a chance
Universal Soldier (Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1966)
He's five feet two and he's six feet fourHe fights with missiles and with spearsHe's all of thirty-one and he's always seventeenHe's been a soldier for a thousand yearsHe's fighting for Britain and he's fighting for IraqHe's fighting for the USAHe's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for JapanAnd he thinks he'll put an end to war this wayHe's fighting for democracy he's fighting for the redsHe says he's for the peace of allHe's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to dieAnd he never sees the writing on the wallBut without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Le ValWithout him Caesar would have stood aloneHe's the one who gives his body as the weapon of the warAnd without him all this killing can't go onHe's the universal soldierHe really is to blameHis sword has come from far away no moreThey come from you and meAnd brothers / sisters can't you seeThis is not the way we put an end to war?
99 Luftballoons (99 Red Balloons) was originally released in German (1983) and re-released in English (1984). Below are both sets of lyrics: note that this is not 1980-89's translation, it is simply the lyrics of how the song was released in both languages by Nena.
Lyrics 99 Luftballoons (99 Red Balloons 1983)
Hast Du etwas Zeit für michDann singe ich ein Lied fuer DichVon 99 LuftballonsAuf ihrem Weg zum HorizontDenkst Du vielleicht grad' an michDann singe ich ein Lied fuer DichVon 99 LuftballonsUnd dass sowas von sowas kommt
You and I in a little toy shopBuy a bag of balloons with the money we've got.Set them free at the break of dawn'Til one by one, they were gone.Back at base, bugs in the softwareFlash the message, Something's out there.Floating in the summer sky.99 red balloons go by.
99 LuftballonsAuf ihrem Weg zum HorizontHielt man fuer UFOs aus dem AllDarum schickte ein GeneralEine Fliegerstaffel hinterherAlarm zu geben, wenn es so warDabei war da am HorizontNur 99 Luftballons
99 red balloons.floating in the summer sky.Panic bells, it's red alert.There's something here from somewhere else.The war machine springs to life.Opens up one eager eye.Focusing it on the sky.Where 99 red balloons go by.
99 DuesenjaegerJeder war ein grosser KriegerHielten sich fuer Captain KirkDas gab ein grosses FeuerwerkDie Nachbarn haben nichts gerafftUnd fuehlten sich gleich angemachtDabei schoss man am HorizontAuf 99 Luftballons
99 Decision Street.99 ministers meet.To worry, worry, super-scurry.Call the troops out in a hurry.This is what we've waited for.This is it boys, this is war.The president is on the lineAs 99 red balloons go by.
99 KriegsministerStreichholz und BenzinkanisterHielten sich fuer schlaue LeuteWitterten schon fette BeuteRiefen: Krieg und wollten MachtMann, wer haette das gedachtDass es einmal soweit kommtWegen 99 Luftballons
99 Knights of the airRide super-high-tech jet fightersEveryone's a superhero.Everyone's a Captain Kirk.With orders to identify.To clarify and classify.Scramble in the summer sky.As 99 red balloons go by.
99 Jahre KriegLiessen keinen Platz fuer SiegerKriegsminister gibt es nicht mehrUnd auch keine DuesenfliegerHeute zieh ich meine RundenSeh die Welt in Truemmern liegenHab' nen Luftballon gefundenDenk' an Dich und lass' ihn fliegen
99 dreams I have had.In every one a red balloon.It's all over and I'm standing pretty.In this dust that was a city.If I could find a souvenir.Just to prove the world was here.And here is a red balloonI think of you and let it go.
Metallica One 1987
The cerebrum has suffered massive and reparable damageYou never know what has happened to himIf I have not been sure of this, I would not have permitted him to liveWhere am I? Father, what happened? I need help
What is democracy? What is democracy?
It got something to do with young men killing each other, ArthurWhat if its my turn, will you want me to go?For democracy, any man would give his only begotten son
It is impossible for any severed individual to experience painPleasure, memory, dream or thought of any kindThis young man will be as unfeeling as unthinking as the deadUntil the day joins them
I don't know whether I'm alive or dreaming or dead or rememberingHow can you tell what's a dream and what's realWhen you can't even tell when your awake and when your asleepWhere am I?
I can't remember anythingCan't tell if this is true or dreamDeep down inside I feel to screamThis terrible silence stops with me
Now that the war is through with meI'm waking up, I cannot seeThat there's not much left of meNothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for deathOh, please God, wake me
They kept my head and chopped off everythingOh, God, please make them hear meThey won't listen, they won't hear meThey got to wake me up Ill be like this for years, hear me
Back in the womb it's much too realIn pumps life that I must feelBut can't look forward to revealLook to the time when I'll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in meJust like a wartime noveltyTied to machines that make me beCut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for deathOh, please God, wake meIt's like a piece of me
Hurricane by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy (1976)
Pistols shots ring out in the barroom nightEnter Patty Valentine from the upper hallShe sees the bartender in a pool of bloodCries out "My God they killed them all"Here comes the story of the HurricaneThe man the authorities came to blameFor something that he never donePut him in a prison cell but one time he could-a beenThe champion of the world.
Three bodies lying there does Patty seeAnd another man named Bello moving around mysteriously"I didn't do it" he says and he throws up his hands"I was only robbing the register I hope you understandI saw them leaving" he says and he stops"One of us had better call up the cops"And so Patty calls the copsAnd they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashingIn the hot New Jersey night.
Meanwhile far away in another part of townRubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving aroundNumber one contender for the middleweight crownHad no idea what kinda shit was about to go downWhen a cop pulled him over to the side of the roadJust like the time before and the time before thatIn Patterson that's just the way things goIf you're black you might as well not SHOW up on the street'Less you wanna draw the heat.
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the corpsHim and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling aroundHe said "I saw two men running out they looked like middleweightsThey jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates"And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her headCop said "Wait a minute boys this one's not dead"So they took him to the infirmaryAnd though this man could hardly seeThey told him that he could identify the guilty men.
Four in the morning and they haul Rubin inTake him to the hospital and they bring him upstairsThe wounded man looks up through his one dying eyeSays "Wha'd you bring him in here for ? He ain't the guy !"Yes here comes the story of the HurricaneThe man the authorities came to blameFor something that he never donePut in a prison cell but one time he could-a beenThe champion of the world.
Four months later the ghettos are in flameRubin's in South America fighting for his nameWhile Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery gameAnd the cops are putting the screws to him looking for somebody to blame"Remember that murder that happened in a bar ?""Remember you said you saw the getaway car?""You think you'd like to play ball with the law ?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter you saw running that night ?""Don't forget that you are white".
Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure"Cops said "A boy like you could use a breakWe got you for the motel job and we're talking to your friend BelloNow you don't wanta have to go back to jail be a nice fellowYou'll be doing society a favorThat sonofabitch is brave and getting braverWe want to put his ass in stirWe want to pin this triple murder on himHe ain't no Gentleman Jim".
Rubin could take a man out with just one punchBut he never did like to talk about it all that muchIt's my work he'd say and I do it for payAnd when it's over I'd just as soon go on my wayUp to some paradiseWhere the trout streams flow and the air is niceAnd ride a horse along a trailBut then they took him to the jailhouseWhere they try to turn a man into a mouse.
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advanceThe trial was a pig-circus he never had a chanceThe judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slumsTo the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bumAnd to the black folks he was just a crazy (n word)No one doubted that he pulled the triggerAnd though they could not produce the gunThe DA said he was the one who did the deedAnd the all-white jury agreed.
Rubin Carter was falsely triedThe crime was murder 'one' guess who testifiedBello and Bradley and they both baldly liedAnd the newspapers they all went along for the rideHow can the life of such a manBe in the palm of some fool's hand ? To see him obviously framedCouldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land Where justice is a game.
Now all the criminals in their coats and their tiesAre free to drink martinis and watch the sun riseWhile Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cellAn innocent man in a living hellThat's the story of the HurricaneBut it won't be over till they clear his nameAnd give him back the time he's donePut him in a prison cell but one time he could-a beenThe champion of the world.
Ohio –Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970)Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming,We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drumming,Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us downShould have been done long ago.What if you knew herAnd found her dead on the groundHow can you run when you know?
La la la la la la la laLa la la la la la laLa la la la la la la laLa la la la la la la.
Gotta get down to itSoldiers are gunning us downShould have been done long ago.What if you knew herAnd found her dead on the groundHow can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming,We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drumming,Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio.
Fortunate Son –Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)Some folks are born made to wave the flagOoh, they're red, white and blueAnd when the band plays "Hail to the chief"Ooh, they point the cannon at you, LordIt ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, sonIt ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no
Yeah!Some folks are born silver spoon in handLord, don't they help themselves, ohBut when the taxman comes to the doorLord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, noIt ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no
Some folks inherit star spangled eyesOoh, they send you down to war, LordAnd when you ask them, "How much should we give?"Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, sonIt ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no noIt ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll- Bob Dylan (1963)William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie CarrollWith a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring fingerAt a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'And the cops were called in and his weapon took from himAs they rode him in custody down to the stationAnd booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murderBut you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsTake the rag away from your faceNow ain't the time for your tears.
William Zanzinger who at twenty-four yearsOwns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect himAnd high office relations in the politics of MarylandReacted to his deed with a shrug of his shouldersAnd swear words and sneering and his tongue it was snarlingIn a matter of minutes on bail was out walkingBut you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsTake the rag away from your faceNow ain't the time for your tears.
Hattie Carroll was a maid in the kitchenShe was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten childrenWho carried the dishes and took out the garbageAnd never sat once at the head of the tableAnd didn't even talk to the people at the tableWho just cleaned up all the food from the tableAnd emptied the ashtrays on a whole other levelGot killed by a blow, lay slain by a caneThat sailed through the air and came down through the roomDoomed and determined to destroy all the gentleAnd she never done nothing to William ZanzingerAnd you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsTake the rag away from your faceNow ain't the time for your tears.
In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavelTo show that all's equal and that the courts are on the levelAnd that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuadedAnd that even the nobles get properly handledOnce that the cops have chased after and caught 'emAnd that ladder of law has no top and no bottomStared at the person who killed for no reasonWho just happened to be feelin' that way without warnin'And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguishedAnd handed out strongly, for penalty and repentanceWilliam Zanzinger with a six-month sentenceOh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsBury the rag deep in your faceFor now's the time for your tears.
Eve of Destruction- (by P.F. Sloan 1965) performed by Barrie Mc Guier and other artistsThe eastern world it is explodin',Violence flarin', bullets loadin',You're old enough to kill but not for votin',You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin',And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',But you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say? Can't you feel the fears that I'm feeling today? If the button is pushed, there's no running away, There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave, Take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy, And you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,Handful of Senators don't pass legislation,And marches alone can't bring integration,When human respect is disintegratin',This whole crazy world is just too frustratin',And you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama! Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,But when your return, it's the same old place, The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace,You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace, Hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,And you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. mmm, no, no.you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
Vietnam Song (Live from Woodstock 1969) Country Joe and the Fish(I have removed a spoken section at the beginning because of profanity- Ractliffe)
Well come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again,he got himself in a terrible jam, way down yonder in Vietnam,put down your books and pick up a gun, we're gunna have a whole lotta fun.
CHORUSand its 1,2,3 what are we fightin for?don't ask me i don't give a dam, the next stop is Vietnam,and its 5,6,7 open up the pearly gates. Well there aint no time to wonder why...WHOPEE we're all gunna die.
now come on wall street don't be slow, why man this's war a-go-go,there's plenty good money to be made, supplyin' the army with the tools of the trade,just hope and pray that when they drop the bomb, they drop it on the Vietcong.CHORUSnow come on generals lets move fast, your big chance is here at last.nite you go out and get those reds cuz the only good commie is one thats dead,you know that peace can only be won, when you blow em all to kingdom come.CHORUS
(I have removed a spoken section here because of profanity- Ractliffe)CHORUSNow come on mothers throughout the land, pack your boys off to Vietnam,Come on fathers don't hesitate, send your sons off before its too late,Be the first one on your block, to have your boy come home in a box
