Be the 1st home on the block to have your boy come home in a box, as a Navy vet. from that era that line can still bring a tear for friends lost over 50 years ago.
especially if you couldn't afford to go to college and get a four year deferment from being drafted, or if you were rich, had orange hair, and suddenly developed bone spurs in your feet.
This isn't Country Joe and the Fish. It's Country Joe performing solo. They needed an acoustic act so they gave him a guitar and shoved him onstage. The rest is history. Oh the real name of song is "I Feel Like I am Fixin To Die Rag".
It is worth checking out the studio version that includes the entire group! The surreal juxtaposition of the upbeat carnival calliope with the serious topic expressed in the lyrics profoundly expresses the insanity of war...
good reaction from an old man who 18 in 1967 not a good year to be 18
One of the greatest protest songs during a time
Be the 1st home on the block to have your boy come home in a box, as a Navy vet. from that era that line can still bring a tear for friends lost over 50 years ago.
Great reaction nice choice. If you were back in that day and of age you probably would have been drafted to go to Viet Nam.
especially if you couldn't afford to go to college and get a four year deferment from being drafted, or if you were rich, had orange hair, and suddenly developed bone spurs in your feet.
Good analysis...and you don't stop a song 20 times
It was a hell of a ride living those times…🇨🇦🖖🏻
THE DRAFT, conscription baby
You are right.
I'm glad you appreciate this song. When I was just to this, my parents told me about ww2
Life goes on but we seem to always have war.
Thank u 4 listening to the song w an open mond
country Joe mcdonald! love that man!
This isn't Country Joe and the Fish. It's Country Joe performing solo. They needed an acoustic act so they gave him a guitar and shoved him onstage. The rest is history. Oh the real name of song is "I Feel Like I am Fixin To Die Rag".
It is worth checking out the studio version that includes the entire group! The surreal juxtaposition of the upbeat carnival calliope with the serious topic expressed in the lyrics profoundly expresses the insanity of war...
They have the draft back then
Good report.
clueless!
ace