Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation

Here is another one of my vocal covers. This time it’s a song written by folk singer/song-writer Tom Paxton from 1965 who was very well known and regarded in his time. The pace of this number is classic folk style - short and quick with a biting message. It was a lot of fun to record it.
This piece takes me back where I remember only too well the headlines, the TV news, and good old President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the bane of our existence as young men especially. He lied and then again lied as he escalated this incredibly wrong war in Vietnam through his entire presidency. Millions of us protested everywhere and not until the end of Richard Nixon’s first term did it all mercifully end for the military on both sides and especially for the Vietnamese people! War is rotten.
Thanks for listening.

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Great recording Gene! And the message is - sadly - just as relevant still.................