https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80 Post your song and description here. en-us 2020-03-01 19:16:07 UTC 2020-03-05 02:07:22 UTC hello@padlet.com ntier https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/452632708 "I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" by Country Joe McDonald

This is song is protesting the USA's involvement in Vietnam including the draft, military-industrial complex, and questions the honesty of political leaders. 

A section of the song that support this is:
"1-2-3 What are we fightin' for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam". ]]> 2020-03-01 19:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/452632708 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453100967  "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

This song is about men being drafted into Vietnam. But not affluent people, only the average joe got drafted into Vietnam.
The section of the song supports this is:
"Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord".]]> 2020-03-02 17:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453100967 eickheri000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453100972 "eve of destruction" by Barry McGuire

This song is protesting the United States involvement in the Vietnam war. The song is also trying to make the voting age to 18 instead of 21. It is also protesting the draft and it is trying to put an end to the fighting occurring in Vietnam.

"The eastern world, it is explodin',
Violence flarin', bullets loadin',
You're old enough to kill but not for votin',
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin',]]> 2020-03-02 17:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453100972 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101061 "Fortunate Son" by ]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101061 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101102 This song protested the war by showing how they wanted the soldiers to return to America because they were constantly getting injured during the war. The soldiers were dying and suffering and no good was coming out of it. 
"Can't you see 'em march across the sky, all the soldiers that have died
Tryin' to get home can't you see them tryin' to get home?
Tryin' to get home they're tryin' to get home
Seesaw fire on the battlefield
Enough men have already been wounded or killed". 

]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101102 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101136 I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam 
By John Lee 🤬

This song portrays how people protested the draft and Vietnam War since they didn't want to fight in it. The people that refused to be drafted to the War often refused because they had problems in their home lives. they felt there lives were to problematic for the war.

Section that supports this:

"Sittin' down here thinkin', I don't wanna go to Vietnam
I'm sittin' down here thinkin', I don't wanna go to Vietnam
I have all these troubles at home; I don't wanna go to Vietnam"]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101136 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101253 Phil Ochs, "I Ain’t Marching Anymore"

This song is explaining how the US has been fighting for a long time and they are tired of marching.

A section of the song that supports this is, "For I marched to the battles of the German trench In a war that was bound to end all wars Oh I must have killed a million men And now they want me back again
But I ain't marchin' anymore"]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101253 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101266 "Saigon Bride" by Joan Baez
 This song was about a soldier saying goodbye to his wife. He was protesting the fact that he may die. The song protested the war itself and the draft process. 
"How many dead men will it take
To build a 🤬 that will not break?"]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101266 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101268 This song is protesting the troop involvement in Vietnam, and how they want the troops to be removed from Vietnam. 
"We'll give no more brave young lives Bring 'em home, bring 'em home." ]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101268 swanggag0001 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101327 Bob Dylan, “Blowin' in the Wind”

 How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?

This song helps explain include references to civil right marches that were popular in the 60’s. How many of these walks would it take to win what they naturally have a right to? Helping to show how many people have to fight to be considered a man]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101327 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101353 "What Are Fighting For?" by Phil Ochs
The song is about people asking the government the real reason they are fighting with Vietnam.

]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101353 winstcar000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101416 "Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon

This song shows that the hippie culture (peacemakers/ lovers) wanted the United States to give peace a chance, or not fight in Vietnam anymore because they support peace and love, not fighting. 

A section of the song that shows this is, "Ev'rybody's talking 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m" which means everybody is talking about hatred and violence that peace must be present in the U.S.]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101416 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101538 "Draft Morning" The Byrds

The song is protesting that people are getting drafted without wanting to go to war.

"Take my time this morning, no hurry
To learn to kill and take the will
From unknown faces"]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101538 cotilhop000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101583 this shows that people are protesting the Vietnam War and the draft by highlighting the fact that people didn't want to fight in the war. They refused to fight. It also says that people already problems at home in their personal lives so they did not want to be drafted.  

a section of the song that shows this is:
Sittin' down here thinkin', I don't wanna go to Vietnam
I'm sittin' down here thinkin', I don't wanna go to Vietnam
I have all these troubles at home; I don't wanna go to Vietnam]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101583 calvemeg000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101628 "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel

This song is protesting the poor conditions that soldiers fighting in the war had to face. It includes the ]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101628 taylocou000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101663 "What Are You Fighting For?" by Phil Ochs.

This song protests the USA involvement in fighting in the war. It questions what people are really fighting for, showing how people are in the war for no reason.

A section of the song that supports this:
"Before you pack your rifle and sail across the sea
Just think upon the southern part of the land that you call free"]]> 2020-03-02 17:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101663 griffkie000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101910 "Saigon Bride"  by Joan Baez
This song is protesting the United State's involvement  in the war and the lives of men and children that will be lost in the war.
A section of the song that portrays this is
"How many dead men will it take
To build a 🤬 that will not break?
How many children must we kill
Before we make the waves stand still?"]]> 2020-03-02 17:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453101910 pajovluk000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453102214 "Ohio"- by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
This song protests the Vietnam War itself, but really focuses in on the horrific disaster known as the Kent State Shooting. The song says, "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming...Four dead in Ohio." The first line is talking about the National Guard Nixon brought on to shut down the protest. The second line refers to the four students that were killed by the National Guard during the shooting.]]> 2020-03-02 17:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453102214 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453102421 "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs
This song shows that people across the United States protested the Vietnam War and they were going to stand up for what they believed in.

"Call it, "Peace" or call it, Treason"Call it, "Love" or call it, "Reason"But I ain't marchin' any more" This shows that people where going to stop fight the in the war.]]> 2020-03-02 17:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453102421 oleaian0001 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453102670 "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" by Tom Paxton 

This song protests the Vietnam draft, US's involvement with Vietnam in the first place. 

One part said "We're sending fifty thousand more to help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese" This questions why America is interfering with the war in the first place if the only threat before America to Vietnam was Vietnam. 

]]> 2020-03-02 17:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453102670 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453103009 "Napalm Sticks to Kids" by The Covered Wagon Musicians is a Vietnam war protest song. 

Specifically it protests the war crimes committed by the US during the war.

A section of the song that proves this is when it says "We shoot the sick, the young, the lame,
We do our best to maim,
Because the kills all count the same" 
This line is about how America killed innocent people during the Vietnam war.]]> 2020-03-02 17:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453103009 albandav000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453103554 2020-03-02 17:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453103554 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453104037 Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
The song Ohio was protesting the shooting at Kent State. This can be seen when they sing four dead in Ohio]]> 2020-03-02 17:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453104037 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453104128 Is about singing about getting a letter from Vietnam that your someone your closed too died 

This part of the song where he says "my time'll be up some time in June
Don't forget", he said, "to tell my sweet Mary her golden lips
Are sweet as cherry", and it came from Vietnam, Vietnam...
It was just the next day, his mother got a telegram
It was addressed from Vietnam, now mistress Brown
She lives in the USA and this is what she wrote and said
"Don't be alarmed", she told me the telegram said
"But mistress Brown your son is dead"
And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam...
Somebody please stop that war now, Vietnam, Vietnam."]]> 2020-03-02 17:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453104128 taylocou000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453105376 2020-03-02 17:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453105376 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453106384 "I ain't marching anymore" by Jim Kindheart.

In this song Jim Kindheart sings about a soldier that has been in every American war since 1812, this soldier says how he is done with fighting after all his battles. 
      This song protests overall American involvement in the Vietnam War. This can be seen in the lines 
"Oh I must have killed a million men
And now they want me back again
But I ain't marchin' anymore"]]> 2020-03-02 17:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453106384 guptaavi0011 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453106649 In this song, Jimmy Cliff is singing about how the war in Vietnam is killing ]]> 2020-03-02 17:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453106649 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453106827
"Give me Love" by George Harrison 

This song protests how life on earth should be peaceful and how no more people should be fighting in the war or how fighting is a wrong and peace should be more acknowledged and that there is hope that the war will end soon.

A section of the song that supports this: "Keep me free from birth.Give me hope, help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with heart and soul give me love, give me love give me peace on earth"]]> 2020-03-02 17:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453106827 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453107224 2020-03-02 17:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453107224 albandav000 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453107645 Fortunate Son is an anti-Vietnam war song saying that not everyone is "meant to" go off and fight in the war. 

A section of the song days, "Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue."

This helps to prove the point that not everyone is meant to go off to war but usually the poor and people who couldn't afford to go to college and to go off to war, and wave the flag and fight for their country. However, the rich that could afford to go to college were able to get out of going to the war, henceforth, they weren't meant to "wave the flag".]]> 2020-03-02 17:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453107645 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453108791 Pete Seeger had wrote this song to protest against the Vietnam war. This song was wrote because he thought it was best way to support the men that were fighting for them and how they wanted them back home as soon as possible. Even though they could be wrong about it they wanted to prove their point that they have rights to sing about and how they wanted their soldiers back home where it was much safer.

"Support our boys in Vietnam 
Bring them home, bring them home...I may be right, I may be wrong...But I got a right to sing this song..."]]> 2020-03-02 17:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453108791 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453382337 This song is protesting the Vietnam War and the shooting at Kent State University by the National Guard sent in by President Richard Nixon. This is shown when they say "Tin Soldiers and Nixon's coming . . . four dead in Ohio". The tin soldiers reference refers to the National Guard and the four dead in Ohio represents the four protesters killed at Kent State University.]]> 2020-03-03 02:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453382337 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453390413 "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel 

This song is protesting the poor conditions that American soldiers in Vietnam faced. 

A section of the song that portrays this is, "We had no home front, We had no soft soap... We dug in deep, And shot on sight, And prayed to Jesus Christ, With all our might" 

This demonstrates the harsh conditions that the American soldiers were forced to go through in Vietnam, including the lack of necessities and the uncertainty of the situation that they were in, proving that this song is against the war and the hardships of it for soldiers. ]]> 2020-03-03 02:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/453390413 https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/454772050 Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival. This song is about the unfair procedure of the draft and that if you were related to a politician you were in the clear but if you were normal you had to go. A lyric to support this is "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no"]]> 2020-03-05 01:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ntier/9ev5ixtpo80/wish/454772050