adside qt 82 THE TOP I CAL SON G MAG A Z I N E JULY , 1967 MATTHEW JONES & ELAINE LARON HELL NO! I AIN'T GONNA GO * * * * * r * * * * Janis Ian SHADY ACRES Phil Oehs PLEAS~"RES of the HARBOR Also: Songs By TOM PARROTT STAN JAY ROSALIE SORRELS & BRUCE PHILLIPS Record reviews by JOSH DUNSON and JIM BEUCHLER. Book Review: ELI JAFFE. Drawing By LINDA JEAN FRAME - 2 - I went out to the "Support Our Boys part of the sign, but it really only meant In Vietnam" parade on Saturday, May 13th. that three of us got shoved and pummeled Suzanne Nachtigal and I thought it would instead of two. be tragic if the march went unprotested, The police pulled us out of there, but, and we took along a sign reading "Support after they took us across the street, they Our'Boys In Vietnam - Bring Them Home Now!" told us to take a walk. Ne were followed. Half a dozen people stopped to voice their The six or eight, I wasn't able to get a good agreement, one of them, a young man with count, brave young men made several more the look of a Viking, stayed nearby, and, abortive attempts to do physical damage, with eventually, a group of hecklers formed a kick in my back, and a judo throw on the behind us. Viking, but we finally got away from them, It took about fifteen minutes for this when a rookie cop let us cross the street, group of six or eight patriots (I use the holding them on the other side. word advisedly) to talk enough fanaticism I got pretty ticked off, and wrote a into one fifteenish 00y for him to grab the song about it: "The Freedoms Ne've Been sign, ripping it in half. The Viking came to Fighting For." - Tom Parrott our aid at that point, handing me the largest THE FREEDOMS N E ' V E BEE N FIGHTING FOR Nords & Music By TOM PARROTT Copyright 1967 by Tom Parrott ,~ III: ~J J~ J PI~ J ,I j tic r J -,!fA I r JI , JI J. , ) ;r~ Ne~ve fought a thousand battles, we've won a hundred wars From the bloody ridge at ~ .J:) (j ~ C- ~ !}-f ~ C i n Jd,l 'I,'J, '1\14, JJ 10 p' F r,,,iJ )z1)1; Gettysburg to China's "Open Door",And it's written in our history, it's re~orded !: c.. "" ~1-5 ,jlfj, -J-l1 J,'J.1IrJ. )1 a h .,II~ in our lore, All the wonder of the freedoms that we've been- fighting for. :P G Co I'l'\ ] I' aat timll" And when we rise to speak our minds - - e~ Jill :t against the cancer's spread, (2) Ne ~or. vie're told that we're responsible Ne drove the Indians from their land, for the rising toll of dead; their hallowed grounds to till; And we're battered and we're beaten for we stand against this war; And they went if they were savvy Tell me! Nhere are all those freedoms and if they stayed they all were killed. And it didn't matter that this land that you say we're fighting for? belonged to them before; For they were not red men's freedoms that we were fighting for. And when we crossed the mountains to the California side, And gold was found at Sutter's Mill no force could stem the tide; And freedom was the battle cry, but greed was at the core; And they were not Mexican freedoms that we were fighting for. And when the Civil Nar came and fathers killed their sons, Emancipation was the cause B for which it all was done; R But the slavery of two hundred years o lived another hundred more; A And they were not Negro freedoms D that we were fighting for. S I And when our boys in Vietnam D drive out the Viet Cong, E Behind them come the landlords to continue all their wrongs; # And a government of tyranny 82 treats it's country like a whore; Are they Oriental freedoms that we are fighting for? - 3 - HEll AINT GONNA GO! Words & Music: MATTHEW Copyright 1967 by Matthew JONES & ELAINE LARON Jones & Elaine Laron fli'trz;' I~ n'£Ilftyt= I~ :£4 I~.ll~I;; It EJ 1~B"r:: 1~1 :*J;j I UP TIGHT THAT'S RIGHT I ain't gon-na go HELL ~,. 3',4 fl1 :D/S- Pt JU- A1 J'/s A 3'/5: A1 :DIs- ~~;bt -1 - I r J n 21 iJ teAt I e r w t1 J It tJfttrn NO v. 1. I ain't go-in' to 'liet-nam L-l I ain't 1J dy-in' f~ Un- cle Sam. (Ren 2. I ain't goin 'to Viet-nam I aint burn' , r:JY. h::others to serve the man. ( II ) 3. I ain't goinl.to 1iet-nam The Viet-congls just like 1M., UP TIGHT, UP TIGHT UP TIGHT! «~'(Bridge:) l'~ 6/5 l)~ (,/S A ~k> ~ A7"," > ~(,/s Z, &6- ~F - It J I t J qW ft Ii J qp7t' I' J' J J ~ J I i J tJI; t JJ qr r I Let I S run it dOlffi Brother Brolffi, Tell every Cat just where it's at, 1've had e-nough of .J\.1'1 "/5 E. E 7 f- rlt1 ftr1 :t:.B iL/S .B7 E/:;- i f J qWr .0 I 'Wadr rI 1] n~) M- !- , J]) tRk ~i ~ ~ 1"''''·1 Charliels stuff. If he mess-es with me lim gon-na get rough. (T~odulate )UP TIGHT etc. (Ref.) to key of B ' (Continue in B to end: same chord sequence as in key~f A) 4. I ain It going to Viet Nam 5. I ain It going to Viet Nam 6. I ain't gOi!lg to Viet Nam That Free World jazz is all Cause the U.S.Army is the I got business in Harlem,Watts a sham (refrain) Ku Klux Klan (refrain) and Birmingham (refrain) Severe Hunger Found in Mississippi I NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14,1967 --R~ck ;n' Roll Song Becomi~g By N~ ROBERTSON Specla~ to The New York TImes By EARL CALDWELL Special to Tht New York Times , Vietnam's Tipperary t OAKLAND, Calif., July 1 -' returned from Mississippi In a speech filled with emotion, By JONATHAN RA.."IDAL Ihere. some new verses have Congress today that they Floyd B. McKissick called on Special to Th~ N~w YOI·k Timu I .. CORE's annual convention last SAIGON, South Vietnam, be:n written WIth VIetnam in found hunger approaching June 13-A half-forgotten rock- mmd, jvation and serious night to "do .something" about 'n'roll song is rapidly becoming In the famIliar version the diseases among hundreds the antiriot legislation that is the "Tipperary" of the Vietna- lyrics went: "Tllis land is your gro children there. now being considered by COIl­ mese war. land, This land is my land, from They described the health of gress. Recorded almost two years California to the New York is­ the poor children there as "piti­ Mr, McKissick, nationai di­ ago by The Animals, a British lands girl There's a better life ful " ·'ala:rming ". "unbelievable" rector of the Congress of Ra­ rock 'n'· roll group, it was con- for y~u a~d for me." ;;t.nd . "appalling," ~ven though cial Equality, said that the bill side red a minor protest song in These lyrics used words from r Mississippi has reached a higher was "not designed to' stop the United States. one folk tune and borrowed \' percentage .of its poor with food I~ Vietnam, the so~g wa.s.P?p- lines from another: "This Land prQgrams,.ushig Federal anti­ Stokely Carmichael but to stoP ulanzed by a four-gIrl FIllpmo is Your Land," by Woody Guth­ llQyerty funds,. than any state, . black people." I group called the Paulettes, rie and a rock 'n' roll tune by '1' He called the violence that which began singing it last fall I Barry Mann and Cynthia Wei! L .The doctors' report COTI­ . has flared in Negro ghett." L tinued": ". r for troops from one end of the .with the title, "We Got to Get across the country not riots, but I "We do not want to quibble I country to the other. Out of this Place." . over words, but 'malnutrition' "rebellions by black people." By now, it is ihcluded in most One of the local variations is not quite what we. found; Then, with tears streaming of the repertories of entertain- takes this form:. down his face, Mr. McKissick ers booked into South Vietnam "This land ain't your land,' . the boys and girls we saw were 1:::;::===== shouted that "these are black hungry - weak, in pain, sick; I The New York TUnes June 17, 1967 by the United Services Organi- this land ain't my land, from people who say 'get off my zation. the Mekong Delta to the Cen- their lives are being shortened' DoctQrs saw severe hunger neCk, treat me .like a man'." "If you don't know it, the tral Highlands, this land was ... They are suffering from anil disease among Negro BJll Expected to Pass G.I.'s request it," sa.id Luzvi- made for Charlie, this land was hunger and disease and direct- chUdren in six counties in minda, the. 20-year-old leader of , IY or indirectly they.