Vietnam Protest Songs

Saigon ơi vĩnh biệt saigon goodbye by nam lộc a song for vietnamese refugees having to flee their homeland after the fall of saigon saigon shrunken panorama by the mountain goats sài gòn quật khởi hồ bắc about the determination against the us and the republic of vietnam of people in saigon.

Vietnam protest songs. Raise my taxes freeze my wages send my son to vietnam. The songs in this playlist expressed a degree of opposition to us government and military policies in vietnam or they displayed general peace anti war sent. Give peace a chance was lennon s first solo single released in 1969. Some anti war songs lament some aspects of war while others satirize war.

Often great art is produced in the hardest of times and some of the most iconic music of the 20th century was produced during the 1960s and early 1970s in protest of america s involvement in the. Two years later imagine was the title song on his second solo album. From then until now both songs have endured as widely recognized antiwar anthems. War what is it good for 1969 this intense vietnam protest song by edwin starr and written by one of mototown s top composers norman whitfield says it loud and clear war yea what is it good for absolutely nothing it was a 1 hit in 1970 and was later performed by bruce springsteen and the e street band during their tour of 1985.

Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers innocent civilians and humanity as a whole.