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VIETNAM © 1972 by Paul Kaplan T~NTH AN NIVER~ARY ~117 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1972 SO¢ Words and Music By Pa.ul Kaplan VIETNAM © 1972 by Paul Kaplan ---,;I'-- ......,- -I"-- .:... ' r -p-....,.... ........".'"..-".- Have you e-ver-- seen a ruined land-- Have you ever seen a meadow J!/Fiff::::::::: EO? Am. c/& -r J"j n f l§J)-I-? ;f3 kJ me r tY G 3. I that will never bloom a-gain -4 Have you ever seen such hor-rors PjFif ~ ~ F ~1- i % E..m -7 ffl F '1EJ-i r~:ffi F41 rod· .. fJ IJjJ@JjJ I ..""....... ~ -d-~' ~7JI'- the'- -- hands~ bro t a-bout by man-- Have you e- ver stood between clapping of two ,,"1 A;T1~ ~ !~1T1 . G& ,,-no._ Q,xl-Tlj:r---I [91$1;{ n fji.t1 J.AN Lf1 ./ -;- -;r- -.;L- -;y- ~.,... -.JL---......... '--'..-' l:::::! "8 - Then you've seen the coun-try that is known as ~ Viet- nam- f1 f\m~ c/s: ~~ F Am E7 Am £1 \;:[1,\ Vi:@ J·)§jrg]1 t:fJD'\-~1G?{jfItD;RI_11 Liberation Fighters of Indochina - Vi-et- nam -- Vi-et- nam ~~ iTi-et- nam. 2. Have you ever heard thunder all around 3. Did you ever feel the earth tremble beneath the iron rain Have you ever tried to bury your face in the ground Did you ever lose your best friend and you could not Have you ever cried to Heaven how far must I go down feel the pain Did you ever know your screaming didn't make a sound Did you ever kill a man and you did not know his name Did you ever try to rise up when your head was hung in shame. 4. The Romans burned Carthage to win the Punic War/And nothing grew but misery for a thousand years or more All the children lost their future with their fathers and their home How do I know about it, it was written down in Rome. (Repeat First Verse, new last line) cent from her song "Freight Train", I N THIS ISSUE altho countless moneygrubbers have recorded it. Harry Belafonte several years ago wanted to re­ Malvina Reynolds cord an album of Bessie Jones' 1/ songs but dropped the project Marti Rogers Folk music is the people's music, one of the wellsprings of our joy and when a "collector" stormed into sorrow and always a source of our inspiration. It is not the his office demanding the royal­ Agnes Cunningham property of that handful of greedy bastards who want to ties. Tony Schwartz lost $140,000 steal it from us. claim ownership of it and then sell it back ~ when a famed rock group used a La.rry Estridge to us for the sake of a lousy dollar. IT IS OURS! segment of a folk documentary he neglected to copyright. This The above quote is from John Cohen of the group has grossed ~30.000,000 ov­ Pete Seeger NEW LOST CITY RAl1BLERS, writing in the erall. I1hen the Kingston Trio co­ Sept/Oct '71 issue of Sing Outl Beau­ pyrighted and made thousands out tifully said. His flgreedy bastards" pre­ of "Torn Dooley", the real author of the song, the late Frank Prof­ "IF YOU'RE BROKE AND NEED SOME CASH sumably are those who make a profit -­ RIP IT OFF. FROM THE RULDJG CLASS and sometimes a fortune -- off the bones fitt, asked them for some of.the bread. They promised him a share THE BEST THINGS DJ LIFE ARE FREE of the dead. But is it not a greater IF YOU TAKE THEM FROM THE BOURGEOISIE" crime to rip off folksong composers be­ of the royalties after the first 4,000,000 records-were sold. Sales Country Joe McDonald on fore they are in their graves? Examples: stopped at 3,999,999. Elizabeth Cotton said recently on Channel Incredible! Live! (Vanguard) 13 TV NYC that she herself never got a (continued on page 5) - 2 - '<I' WASHINGTON-A government of­ Change It ~ ficial, picking his way through the ~ rubble of a Philadelphia neighborhood (ho: ]) w".'t"'d~ ilnd rmu'ii" '"' the other day, remarked that no other ::.: civilized country would permit the '<, systematic destruction of cities that is r r - I l' j P o taking place in the United States. :>-. ~'$*'4 Change,1 - Change it. We got to change the system ~ It is a process that takes place when <: ~ people of means move out and 'leave c G G behind the poor and the socially dis- """"1 ~ tressed.' - \j. fj 1 ,. J II '"' 'The plain fact is that a lot of gross D n I profiteerihg in housing involving the Change the system. Make it over,turn it round, change it. poor is legal. It has become more and more evident in recent mOlltr.. s that n'1 housing suLsidy laws enacte-d in the ;"" 1'(117" dto· 1960's in the name of helping the poor \It; 1 f j J l tJ W~ ijj were in fact designed to enrich the J' ill r lenders, the builders, the t'f~aJ estate 1.We got leaders .. Brother. Eroth.er. thi~d dealers llnd other .interests. Say one theydo a = nother. © Copyright 1971 Schroder lfusic (ASCAP) (Cho. after each verse couplet) We got leaders, see for yourself Say one thing, do something else. Bring them to the judgement day " BUT r F r ASK THE M " You get busted, they go free. (Dedicated to the memory of Aunt Molly Jackson) System's driving us into the ground Words & Music by Agnes Cunningham © 1972 Agnes Cunningham BMI We got to turn the whole world £t V~ , & round. System I S for money. that I s the road J I '* YO J )) J, ,I J J I J 3i Dovm to hell with a heavy load. r' Have you written a folksong ~ Have you writ~ a folksong? r have, ~ have. Leaders supposed to be great & wise l:Y Can't see a thing, got money in their eyes. ~J &,1-' iJ Ij J J J I J? )0£) I .01 j, I )J ...! I Tactic, tactics, what do you say? r have. Have you lived something and wrote it true - r have, r have. Have Got to keep trying till we find the way. &;... p V e:,." Sticks & stones will break my pones J gl!U I j J ·1"";1 pI r r r Got to win people's minds & souls. hell and rode it through - r have. But seems I've stayed around too. __ _ Come out, come out, come out in ~ Fryepeat r, ,verse requires) long, the sun Two kinds of heads are better than • D J JpU J J J V: ~ J ~. J J.) I~ J JJ rh ~t. one~ All they re-mem-ber is - my song, And no one thought to won- der "whose?" r say one thing, you say another Here it was for them to use. Tra­ di- tion at their beck and call, Soon we've got it all together. r say A, you say B I ~ c. (';1 1~- Alphabet will set us free. J J !1 J'"1 J I J J, J. J II Many people have turned around Maybe I never lived at all; Have you written a folk-song? I have. Finding their way to. the solid ground. 2. 3. Did you sing your true song? I did, Do you know why they sing my song? I r did do, I do. Do you know why, etc. Did you sing your true song? r did. They cannot make one of their ovm as ((~ ~ •• q.; But I do, I do if I ask them 'where I can -get a few When r was'young and strong of voice, pennies for the songs! teach them, r did, r did So they take the meat & who gets the bone they just don't lmow. Since I left my They take the bread & who gets the stone* home in Kentucky in 19311 have had my Sing of a life that was not my choice, songs that I composed translated in 5 r did. Schedules kept & deadlines met I do. different languages and records made out of my songs but I have never re­ For all those ones r knew so well They see nothing they regret ceived one cent from anyone out of all A story grovm too hard to tell; Promoters paid, producers praised the protest songs I have composed. Champagne poured & glasses raised You don't know what was on my nind Some of the 'ROlL~d the rLlg a toast is said people that is putting 'out records and Unless you stood in the ragged line; All too soon they pronounced me dead using my songs think I am dead and I But the song became no longer mine, If I speak they hear me not am forgotten. But I am not. All said They're singin it now in their clothes But one-a these days they'll try the ~~on~oneo'n/ i~ ~nlla*~~~1i-'o:Y o~ so fine, lock ~'if I am almost eighty-one. , ;' Did you taste that bitter wine? r did. And who holds the key they forgot? I do. Aunt Molly Jacltson (*A throvm in line - same tune as the line above it.) BROfliJS IDE. # 117 - 3 - THEW·O R L D OF PETE SEE G E R -- UPDATED PETE VISITS THE FAA EAST: Hanoi March 1972 •. !IDear Broadside - Have heard some beauti­ ful music in Vietnam. Thought you ruight,be interested in this page from my diary.
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