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[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well come on mothers throughout the land

Pack your boys off to ~~Vietnam~~ Iran (again!)

Come on fathers don't hesitate

Send them off before it's too late

Be the first one on your block

To have your boy come home in a box

[–] Zorro@mander.xyz 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Country Joe McDonald and the Fish!!!Haven't heard that song since the '70s - there must be a wealth of songs from back then that are equally fitting to politics today 🤔....

...and it's one, two, three What are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is I-I-ran!

Thanks for a most welcome 'earworm', lol!

Been trying to teach it to the next generation - fun reminder that time is a flat circle and you’re always disposable to porky!

[–] DictatrshipOfTheseus@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"GIMME AN F! GIMME A U! GIMME A C! GIMME A K! WHAT'S THAT SPELL? WHAT'S THAT SPELL?"

I actually got to meet and really hang out with Country Joe for a while. He was a chill dude. Definitely a lib, but a "heart in the right place" kind of lib. But truth be told, at the time so was I.

That’s awesome! Yeah there aren’t enough protest songs that haven’t been co-opted to hell and back, and this one always hits for me. Fuck imperialism