These lyrics are different than the Paper Lace version. "And as Billy started to go, she said keep your pretty head low ..." versus "And as he started to go, she said Billy keep your head low ...". I like this version much better.
I served over 20 years and I lost friends in Grenada, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But I would be willing to bet that every single one of them would do it again. We all voluntarily signed a contract that included the possibility of giving our lives for our country to protect those who we loved back home.
With this version being the one I grew up with, I agree,, though I imagine I would say the same if I'd grown up listening to PaperLace singing it . PEACE ....
I played the 45 non-stop. Thank dog there was no social media then. I'm sure, somewhere on YT there's some idiot who uploaded a reaction video to this crappy song. I was 9 or 10 and didn't know shit about anything. But, it's now 2020 and not knowing shit about anything doesn't stop fools from filming themselves and uploading it to YT. You think I'm exaggerating? You want links to the idiots who just discovered AC/DC? How about stupid 30 year olds who think Phil Collins is "dope"? This song should only be heard by 9 and 10 year olds.
My dad played this song as I grew up. I'm 21 now and basically one of the only people my age who knows this song 😅
This is every bit as relevant today as it was when it was new!
Some people understand.
A song I heard as a little boy.
This makes me cry
this song went to #1 on the pop charts in 1974!!!
Daniel Burns one of my favorite dong ever
Daniel Burns really i love super seventies. Hit sing
These lyrics are different than the Paper Lace version. "And as Billy started to go, she said keep your pretty head low ..." versus "And as he started to go, she said Billy keep your head low ...". I like this version much better.
I remember my dad playing this all the time on my way home from school... I could sing the entire song acapella in first grade
This was one of the last pop hits, if not the last pop hit, of the 70's that was war related.
There was never an influx of war-related songs during Desert Storm...and perhaps there should have been!
@@davidallen5776 Desert Storm didn't last long enough for writers to turn out songs en masse like what happened during the Vietnam War.
This songs rips my heart out , why do these war mongers kill our beautiful men
I served over 20 years and I lost friends in Grenada, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But I would be willing to bet that every single one of them would do it again. We all voluntarily signed a contract that included the possibility of giving our lives for our country to protect those who we loved back home.
I remember the song I allway to ot
Should have been another verse where the singer marries the girl and raises Billy’s son.
RIP Mr. Mike Gibbons!
David Cassidy and The Partridge Family should have covered this one!
I like this song A Lot, because it promotes anti enlisting!
Beats the Paperlace version by miles.
With this version being the one I grew up with, I agree,, though I imagine I would say the same if I'd grown up listening to PaperLace singing it . PEACE ....
Good point. I grew up with this version, too 😁👍
I seem to recognize that part at 0:52. Other than that, I don't think I know the song...
I'd thought it was just a sad song,not an anti-war song. Billy did go and then died.
You observed it right.
@Reggie Rendon I think I go and research that.
Well maybe.
I played the 45 non-stop. Thank dog there was no social media then. I'm sure, somewhere on YT there's some idiot who uploaded a reaction video to this crappy song. I was 9 or 10 and didn't know shit about anything. But, it's now 2020 and not knowing shit about anything doesn't stop fools from filming themselves and uploading it to YT. You think I'm exaggerating? You want links to the idiots who just discovered AC/DC? How about stupid 30 year olds who think Phil Collins is "dope"? This song should only be heard by 9 and 10 year olds.
Yeah, Phil Collins actually put out some good music soooo...
@@slactweak Actually, he didn't
@@laurawesoff5732 Yeah, actually, he did.
You're very pressed about this lmao. Don't be a sourpuss, just let people have their fun.
this is the original thank you
Danna Michaelson paperlice wrote the original song i like this clsssic seventies hit singvversion allot better