Protest Music Padlet by Didenur Ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm en-us 2018-04-18 12:41:22 UTC 2025-10-10 04:30:55 UTC hello@padlet.com LYRICS didenur_ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/252965475 I got a letter from LBJ. It said, “This is your lucky day.
It’s time to put your khaki trousers on.
Though it may seem very queer, we’ve got no jobs to give you here
So we are sending you to Vietnam.”

(Every male American HAS to fight in the Vietnam War, they give them no jobs and so what they have to do is fight in the war.)

"Have no fear of escalation.
I am trying everyone to please.
Though it isn't really war,
We're sending fifty thousand more,
To help save Vietnam from Vietnamese."

(No one wants to fight in the war so the government convinces the people that this is not a war so they can have more soldiers.)

We're sending fifty thousand more
To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese.

(America doesn't stop sending soldiers and taking more males from homes.)
]]> 2018-04-18 12:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/252965475 ABOUT THE ARTIST didenur_ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/252986227 Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk song-writer who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years. He is noteworthy as a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with new compositions.]]> 2018-04-18 13:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/252986227 SONG didenur_ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/252987084 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTyqoV1d2Ys]]> 2018-04-18 13:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/252987084 IMAGES (1) didenur_ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253804819 Lyndon Johnson doing a speech, like in the lyrics.]]> 2018-04-20 13:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253804819 IMAGES (2) didenur_ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253805547 The Vietnam War was a challenging war because it was a exotic area, with jungles.]]> 2018-04-20 13:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253805547 IMAGE (3) didenur_ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253806744 People want love and peace, not chaos and deaths and war. ]]> 2018-04-20 13:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253806744 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE didenur_ergul https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253807304 It's more political and social(?) It speaks about Lyndon Johnson - the 36th President of U.S. - says that they will take male people and make them soldiers, which is a protest song because the song is talking about the challenge in the war. It's mostly refering to Lyndon Johnson as a bad President, it's 80% political, 20% social/]]> 2018-04-20 13:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/didenur_ergul/aigxln10b9nm/wish/253807304