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Create a Top Ten List of Vietnam Era Music. Create and include the ranking system. Explain the ranking system. What does the music say about the time period?

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This song is number 10 on the list because the lyrics are repeated over and over, but on the other hand the song gives people hope. George Harrison repeats endlessly: “give me love” & “give me peace on Earth”. George Harrison is making sure that people do not give up on America and not think about how bad the war is but to think about how peaceful the people can potentially be.

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9. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - “Ohio”

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9. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - “Ohio”

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This song is number 9 on the list because it tells the true story of the war. They talk about how soldiers are shooting down the enemy and how people are dying. They also talk about how Nixon sent so many children into war & that there are people dying even in their home state of ohio.

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This song is number 8 on the list because it tells the story of a man going to war and how much he misses his wife or his most recent bride. He claims on how he is going to be in foreign lands and is going to cross the seas and enter strange jungles for her. He makes a very unique statement for this time saying “how many men to conquer mars”, “how many must die to reach the stars”. This could relate to the vietnam war in the fact that many had to die just to take control of another country.

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7. Arlo Guthrie - “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre

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7. Arlo Guthrie - “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre

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This song is number 7 on the list because this song does not tell a story about a vietnam soldier or even a wife back home. This is a story of a African American child, even though the singer is not African American, within a small town that has been officially introduced to racism. As the police officer states in the song there is no one to help him because everyone is off to war. He states that towns are near empty and the ones left are struggling when they need workers in restaurants or at home. This is a unique but well written story/son.

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This song is number 6 on the list because Aretha Franklin firstly is one of the most majestic voices of Black History. In her song I think it is a mixture of talking about African American rights and the Vietnam War. Even though this is a post Vietnam War song there are many lyrics that associate with it. The lyrics include “ there ain't nothing a mother can do when her baby is gone”, “stands for freedom in a foreign land”. I believe that the first quote is referring to when a mother loses her child to the draft because there is nothing that they can do but pray. For the second quote I believe that they are talking about Vietnam because standing for freedom is what soldiers had to do when in the foreign lands of vietnam.

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This song is number 5 on the lost because it does not necessarily talk about the vietnam war but it talks about violence and police brutality that has affected the African American community that stayed home during the time of the Vietnam War. Marvin Gaye in the song was specifically talking about the police brutality taking place in Berkeley, CA on Bloody Sunday from1969 through 1970.

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This song is number 4 on my list because it tells the truth about the vietnam war and how it affects people back home. It also breaks into the stereotypical mind of a man during this time stating “rape, war, YEAH”. The song also states how if there is a problem man just shoot their way through it or get shot and die. This song is mostly about survival in the “modern world” not about the actual war of Vietnam.

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3. Curtis Mayfield - “Back to the World”

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3. Curtis Mayfield - “Back to the World”

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This song is number 3 on my list because it tells a story of a young man that has come back home from vietnam. The song starts with the man speaking to his mom and his mom says that she has been praying for him to come home. After all of the heartwarming lyrics she says the war is not yet over. The war she is speaking of is racism in their hometown. Curtis begins to sing about how hard life is after the war still being in a racist society.

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This song is number 2 on my list because this is one of very few songs that can get their point across with few words. The song lyrics are about 9 lines long with no more than 7 words in each line. The song tells a story about  a boy waking up to the bright sunshine to what he thinks will be a good day. He gets a letter and realizes that he is going to war. He questions himself to see if he really wants to or not. This song contradicts what The Rolling Stone - “Gimme Shelter” says about men that are going to war.

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This song is number 1 on my list because this is the one song that I could find during this era in which represents a woman of color’s point of view during the war. Aretha Franklin talks mostly about missing her husband and that she has to be strong without him. She says on his day of leave she was devastated because he also divorced her the same day he left for war. She states that she was the weak link in the beginning and she had to change but it took her many months to get over the drastic change in her life. However she did have many ups and downs she had a peaceful rest of her life and accomplished many things.

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What does the music say about the time period?

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What does the music say about the time period?

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One thing that all these songs have in common or that are similar are the meaning behind them. In every song there are lyrics that reference either the draft, going to war, missing their family, or the idea that fighting does not truly help the world. For example in the song “Draft Morning” by The Byrds and in Marvin Gaye’s song “What’s Going On” they both reference draft day and what will come of the future after the war. For them what came after the future is the true unknown. All of these lyricists and/or songwriters had one thing in mind. They wanted to give the people hope. Many people did not think that we would make it out of the Vietnam War or if the family members that were sent to the war may never come back. These people back in the 1960's & 1970’s are equivalent to the people we call influencers in this day in age.