The fact that this song is 19 days away from being 60 years old should tell everyone we WEREN’T on the Eve of Destruction. Everything in that song is still true today.
To be fair, we were saved from MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) twice by individuals acting on their own initiative against standing orders. That's close to the _edge_ of destruction...
I am 73 years old and we are going in the same direction all over again. They sent me and a whole lot of brothers to Vietnam to fight their war,and when we came back they were preaching non violence.
If this song made you mad, then it did it's job. It was a powerful song when it came out and still is today. It is sad that we haven't learned to live with each other since the dawn of time.
Not only the humans, but the countless animals and birds died horrible deaths, whole forests wiped away with agent orange, At 82 i am so sad every day; not for me, but for all that has happened and is now happening.
As, not more, relevant. The threat of nuclear fire back in the 50s and 60s was very real, and I spent many hours in a bunker training how to plot nuclear explosions. I must say, though, that back then those in power seemed far less volatile and crazy than a today.
@paulwhite3237 still relevant. there are politicians out there trying to raise the voting age agian. Not to mention Russia theeating nuclear war if Ukraine gets assistance. it's same shit.
Songs, books, and art like this play an important part in life. They're like an alarm clock or a siren. While difficult to hear, they wake us up and warn us. Without them, we'd likely be worse off in the world.
This song was originally offered to the Byrds but they turned it down , the Turtles also covered it but it is so good Barry McGuire was the original performer as his version was raw and really captured the spirit of the song and the times.
I was 13 years old when this song was released and now, after all these years, it feels more real and relevant than it did then. I wish we could have passed on a better, more peaceful world. We did try.
As someone who grew up during this time, I know most young people can not relate to having civil defense drills in schools and every day siren tests. this is what our lives were dictated by, the constant news of the wars and threats this country faced. The domestic side was no different politicians even then did their best to divide the people and destroy families.
I was 14 in 1965 and remember it well. This was just a couple years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and nuclear annihilation was on our minds all the time. A lot has changed in the last 59 years, but McGuire was just a little bit early on his prediction. It's coming...
How many also remember talk and planning to build a bomb shelter? During the Cuban missle crisis my father was considering it. It was never built but at 9 or 10 years old it sticks with you. Thanks to our armed forces, always at the ready, for standing between us and destruction.
As a 21yr old in the 80s I can remember running to my airplane, the pilots starting engines. Getting clearance to come abort. Close the hatch and getting ready to hear authentication codes that told us if we were flying to meet bombers on their way to nuke Russia. Thank God ee never did. War is for the politicians
This is one of the few most blatant protest songs to ever become a US Billboard Hot 100 chart # 1 hit. It topped the chart for one week on September 25th 1965 becoming Barry McGuire's only # 1 hit on the chart to date.
I understand you want your channel to be fun, but this stuff is important too. Looking away is what makes horrors like this possible. If more people didn't look away we could prevent some of these things.
60 years later it is for me the best Anti-War song and again so up-to-date than ever! And the songline "You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'" shows the insanity of war.
Barry was part of the whole 60's thing. He went through a really hard spot in his life but then became a Christian in the 70's and started writing Christian music. He's retired now and lives with his wife somewhere I believe in Washington. I met him a few times, he's really a great guy and reminds me of an overgrown teddy bear.
It's life. My father came home from war, fairly unscathed. I was never deployed, thank God. I worked with many war refugees. It's somewhere around the world every night. Blessed are the peacemakers.
@@solofly5793 I failed to say and probably should have. In analysis of songs, it's helpful in putting them in context with their times. At this point of history, these things were sanitized, and not spoken of. That was the point of the counter culture. It could be called a reawakening of the former Age of Enlightenment. A natural occurring event, but still of value.
One of the greatest but most under-rated songs of the 60's with just as much relevance now as then. Writer and philosopher George Santayana originally wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It would appear that todays leaders have not learned from past mistakes, perhaps they have forgotten 2 World Wars in the last century and what they cost our countries in terms of lives?
They are not mistakes to them, it's all part of their game. It's we who need to learn and not put them into power to play their games at our expense. Everytime they cry out 'freedom and democracy' we must remember that democracy is simply two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, and the US/UK alliance are the wolves.
I was 8 when this song came out and when the song says "take a good look around you boy. It's bound to scare you boy..." . Thats what I did as a young boy and I knew what it meant. During elementary school we had nuclear bomb drills. Everyone runs out to the hallway, sits down, put your head between your legs and (kiss your butt goodbye). Also, we watched movies on nuclear bombs tests at school and the destruction just one bomb could do and there were thousands of them. It could happen at any moment! Then came all the riots when I was about 10 yrs old. I was white and my black neighbor was a good friend. We played together a lot until then. All this while Vietnam and protesting is on the news every night. So open your eyes and take a GOOD look around. Peace
In all that time, only one thing has changed ... The line, "you're old enough to kill, but not for voting". Back then, you were drafted at the age of 18 but the voting age was 21. Being on this planet a lot longer than you (I'm 73) I can attest that as a species, "We haven't learned a damn thing" and if anything, it has gotten worse.
Many think that we are on the verge of total destruction today, but as you can see from this music video, humanity has been on the "Eve of Destruction" (1965) for decades, if not centuries. Some of the scenes are hard for me to watch because I lived through it. Veterans returning from WWII were honored as are Veterans of today and rightfully so. The Veterans of the Vietnam War were not so lucky! Nothing has changed except the faces, the names and the dates. The rich get to live and the poor are sent to die! Pray for the fallen, PRAY FOR MY BROTHERS!
We do need to think about this. Music can and has changed the world. this song and others of its time helped to stop the Vietnam War and saved thousands of lives.
Next one up should be Buffy St. Marie's song Universal Soldier performed by Donovan. That one tells you that it's all our fault for believing that we live in a country that's somehow 'ours' even though it's owned by them.
This was a big hit here in the 60's. A anti-war song that struck a chord then and now. a powerful and original song with nice bits of harmonica-Colin Ward
The year this song came out I turned 16. A lot of my friends were in the "counter culture", so to speak. The Vietnam War was ramping up, and soon we'd have over half a million service members over there at any given time. On the evening news they'd have the number of U.S. military people killed that day. There were riots and demonstrations, as you see in the film clips. And it was only 3 years ealier that we were in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kids in some areas of the U.S. had drills in school where they learned to take shelter under desks and tables in case of a nuclear missile attack. I know it's scary now, too, but please don't let it get to you. We've lived through hard times before, and we will live through them again. God bless you and yours. He will see us through. Thanks so much for letting us watch this with you!
I heard this song when I was in the fifth grade...living in Birmingham Alabama. I had no siblings but some of my classmates had older brothers that were joining the armed forces and heading for Vietnam. While that was going on we watching the race riots, but not on the evening news. We were watching the riots through our living room windows. As You watched the video I saw horror, sadness and regret in your eyes. I'm 70 years old now and those are same things I feel to this day.
Born in 1956. In elementary school you needed to have an opinion on the viet nam war, hippies, civil rights, poverty, pollution etc... I wish we had made better choices over the years. I still have faith in the youth of today
Credence Clearwater Revival put out a lot of songs relating to Vietnam. Fortunate Son really spoke out about the draft system and how it was mostly poor kids who got drafted.
This was the heaviest song to come out in the 60''s. Us teens were stunned into complete silence when we first heard it on the radio...the second heaviest song we'd ever heard was Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. Both songs were talked about for years....
You bring lots of joy with your reactions. But occasionally we do need a reality check and songs like this remind us that we STILL have problems that can't be fixed if we are afraid to talk about them.
Protest songs are powerful messages, and definitely a niche genre. Totally understandable that you wouldn't want to put it on your phone to repeat listen - thank you for sharing it!!
I was in grade six when this came out. So young, yet old enough to understand what this song meant. All of us young souls did. It started with the assassination of JFK and hasn't ended. This song told us we were in the begging of something much bigger than ourselves.
I remember when this first was released. I was 13, but I was already worrying about having to go fight in Vietnam. I had an uncle in the Air Force, and he was always getting sent overseas
Sadly, what's happening in that song in 1965 seems to be happening right now. Although one thing was different then A young person Could be drafted and had to go to a Vietnam, but cannot vote in election yet.
I was young in 1965 - 10 years old. But I remember this song. And then my uncle was killed off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 in the flight deck fire on USS Forrestal. And we listened to the other great protest songs, by Black Sabbath and Buffalo Springfield and one two three what are we fightin for. And we listened to Peace Train and Love Train. And we listened to Kenny Rogers singing about Ruby taking her love to town, and John Prine singing about the hole in Sam Stone's arm where all the money goes. And we listen now to Jason Isbell singing about sleeping in Dress Blues and James McMurtry saying we can't make it here anymore and Iris Dement singing about the Wasteland of the Free. You must react to these songs, introduce these songs to today's generation. We cannot ignore them.
Loreena McKennitt did a song named "Lullaby" which was based on words written by William Blake in the 1800s which would go nicely with this one-very dark words, which resonate as strongly today as they did when written. She does the background vocals, and plays the harp in this one, but is a tremendous singer/writer, and musician-her video/album recorded in the Alhambra (The famous one in Spain) is well worth a listen should your spirit so move-this song is not on that DVD but is to be found on youtube-along with the DVD .
I am just old enough to remember the release of this song. Some "request" radio stations would not play it. My local "Top 40" station would give a 60 second spiel about how this song did not represent the opinions of the station, every time they played it.
I think this song is brilliant, and it has all the elements of a great song from that time period. As much as I enjoy your reactions, I think this is one of the better songs I've heard on your channel. Yes, I enjoyed hearing this song and listening to your reaction.
i love this song , ive even requested it on radio but they refuse to play it , history repeats and every time it does the weapons get more horrific and deadly , we are now at a time when the next time could spell the last time ,,,,,,not long to go now people , look up
The most telling line for me is, "hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace".
you not wanting to do songs like this is exactly why you should do songs like this …..
It's her channel. She can do whatever she wants.
I agree
@@idanwillenchik3050 we are just making suggestions child.
@@tomhirons7475And unless you’re a Patreon, your chances are slim to none that she’ll take said suggestion.
@@tomhirons7475 I'm 50 years old, Don't call me child!
Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. We are waking up...slowly.
I would like to agree. But I'm afraid the trend is in the other direction.
We are? 60 years have gone by and we are still living the same old sh#@t
@@josecalderon2036so true sir. And in those 60 years how propagandized were we?
@@peterversionone all the time from "I am not a crook" to "It's a witch hunt." Nothing has changed..
It's a powerful song about the pain and suffering going on in the world. It may have been written in 1965 but it's message still resonates today.
Yep 1965. “Take a look around you boy, it’s bound to scare you, boy.” It did.
I was 10 years old when I first heard this song,,, scared me to death..
The fact that this song is 19 days away from being 60 years old should tell everyone we WEREN’T on the Eve of Destruction. Everything in that song is still true today.
To be fair, we were saved from MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) twice by individuals acting on their own initiative against standing orders. That's close to the _edge_ of destruction...
The 60s was a terrifying and brutal period. We were truly afraid of Nuclear annihilation and Vietnam was raging. America changed forever after that.
And now the hippies and the protesters are running the government and making war on just about everyone
So do you not think the world is just as terrifying and brutal now, ? I would say more so and the song resonates as much now as it did then.
I am 73 years old and we are going in the same direction all over again. They sent me and a whole lot of brothers to Vietnam to fight their war,and when we came back they were preaching non violence.
I feel you brother VN 70-72 .welcome home!
Barry McGuire taught my late husband to play the guitar, and he turned out to be one of the best guitarists ever!
If this song made you mad, then it did it's job. It was a powerful song when it came out and still is today. It is sad that we haven't learned to live with each other since the dawn of time.
Not only the humans, but the countless animals and birds died horrible deaths, whole forests wiped away with agent orange, At 82 i am so sad every day; not for me, but for all that has happened and is now happening.
Wow! "You can hate your neighbor but don't forget to say grace" Fantastic. Thanks for posting.
This song is more relevant now than it was in the 60’s. A total prophecy told in poetic form. You had wonderful insights
As, not more, relevant. The threat of nuclear fire back in the 50s and 60s was very real, and I spent many hours in a bunker training how to plot nuclear explosions. I must say, though, that back then those in power seemed far less volatile and crazy than a today.
@paulwhite3237 still relevant. there are politicians out there trying to raise the voting age agian. Not to mention Russia theeating nuclear war if Ukraine gets assistance. it's same shit.
You are 100% correct. I lived during those times in 1965 and yes, history is repeating itself once again! Thank you for sharing.
Except now it is much worse everywhere.
One of the best mid 1960s protest songs. Impossible not to be profoundly moved by it.
I'm 69, watched my brothers and cousins go, then I I played the selective service lottery when it was my turn. Nixon to Trump, nothing has changed.
Songs, books, and art like this play an important part in life. They're like an alarm clock or a siren. While difficult to hear, they wake us up and warn us. Without them, we'd likely be worse off in the world.
Think about what was going on in the world when this came out. It felt so real. FYI: I was in High School.
Imagine that song was 60 years ago, today turn on your local news, still destruction going on "all over" the world!
This song remains just as relevant today as it was in 1965
I got this song on tape.
When i was 15.
Know i am 61.
Love song.
So much truth in this song. This song was hes only great song. ❤❤❤ 2:24 ❤❤
Mark Twain said, “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
This song was originally offered to the Byrds but they turned it down , the Turtles also covered it but it is so good Barry McGuire was the original performer as his version was raw and really captured the spirit of the song and the times.
I was 13 years old when this song was released and now, after all these years, it feels more real and relevant than it did then. I wish we could have passed on a better, more peaceful world. We did try.
As someone who grew up during this time, I know most young people can not relate to having civil defense drills in schools and every day siren tests. this is what our lives were dictated by, the constant news of the wars and threats this country faced. The domestic side was no different politicians even then did their best to divide the people and destroy families.
The greatest protest song ever. Crazy how relevant it is today.
I was 14 in 1965 and remember it well. This was just a couple years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and nuclear annihilation was on our minds all the time. A lot has changed in the last 59 years, but McGuire was just a little bit early on his prediction. It's coming...
How many also remember talk and planning to build a bomb shelter? During the Cuban missle crisis my father was considering it. It was never built but at 9 or 10 years old it sticks with you. Thanks to our armed forces, always at the ready, for standing between us and destruction.
As a 21yr old in the 80s I can remember running to my airplane, the pilots starting engines. Getting clearance to come abort. Close the hatch and getting ready to hear authentication codes that told us if we were flying to meet bombers on their way to nuke Russia. Thank God ee never did. War is for the politicians
This was a protest song about the Vietnam War and a good message. It's sad that the world isn't any better.
Because we're human beings, duh.
the song was written to make people upset
This is one of the few most blatant protest songs to ever become a US Billboard Hot 100 chart # 1 hit. It topped the chart for one week on September 25th 1965 becoming Barry McGuire's only # 1 hit on the chart to date.
Isn’t it amazing 60 years later this song still applies ! What an incredible song with incredible lyrics that just give me the chills till this day
A very powerful song
I understand you want your channel to be fun, but this stuff is important too. Looking away is what makes horrors like this possible. If more people didn't look away we could prevent some of these things.
This song defined a generation. It was written by P.F. Sloan. Amazing how it still applies today.
60 years later it is for me the best Anti-War song and again so up-to-date than ever!
And the songline "You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'" shows the insanity of war.
1972 was the first year that the voting age was 18 on a nationwide basis. Before that it varied with most states using age 21.
@@Alan_CFAThought it was '71.
@@NativWorld it’s the new math😁
This is a very well-written song and there's no bones about it, that's how you have to look at it.
Barry was part of the whole 60's thing. He went through a really hard spot in his life but then became a Christian in the 70's and started writing Christian music. He's retired now and lives with his wife somewhere I believe in Washington. I met him a few times, he's really a great guy and reminds me of an overgrown teddy bear.
IT'S HAS A GOOD BEET AND YOU CAN DANCE TO IT. I GIVE IT A 75!!
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yes history IS repeating itself !!
History isn’t repeating itself as much as nothing has changed. It’s always been this way. The world is a scary place.
I forget who said it, "History may not repeat, but it does rhyme."
Exactly.
This song came out in the middle of the Vietman War when protests were starting around the country. I was in college at the time.
It's life. My father came home from war, fairly unscathed. I was never deployed, thank God. I worked with many war refugees. It's somewhere around the world every night. Blessed are the peacemakers.
I did serve in the Air Force for twenty years, but I never deployed anywhere. I did get sent to Guam for two years, but that was during peacetime.
……. And thy name is Angela! She is right, this is all of our safe space. And should remain so.
@@solofly5793 I failed to say and probably should have. In analysis of songs, it's helpful in putting them in context with their times. At this point of history, these things were sanitized, and not spoken of. That was the point of the counter culture. It could be called a reawakening of the former Age of Enlightenment. A natural occurring event, but still of value.
Same message today and even more relevant today with so much hate and anger in the world. God help us
Sixty years later. History repeats itself if we let it.
One of the greatest but most under-rated songs of the 60's with just as much relevance now as then.
Writer and philosopher George Santayana originally wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It would appear that todays leaders have not learned from past mistakes, perhaps they have forgotten 2 World Wars in the last century and what they cost our countries in terms of lives?
They are not mistakes to them, it's all part of their game. It's we who need to learn and not put them into power to play their games at our expense.
Everytime they cry out 'freedom and democracy' we must remember that democracy is simply two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, and the US/UK alliance are the wolves.
I was 8 when this song came out and when the song says "take a good look around you boy. It's bound to scare you boy..." . Thats what I did as a young boy and I knew what it meant. During elementary school we had nuclear bomb drills. Everyone runs out to the hallway, sits down, put your head between your legs and (kiss your butt goodbye). Also, we watched movies on nuclear bombs tests at school and the destruction just one bomb could do and there were thousands of them. It could happen at any moment! Then came all the riots when I was about 10 yrs old. I was white and my black neighbor was a good friend. We played together a lot until then. All this while Vietnam and protesting is on the news every night. So open your eyes and take a GOOD look around. Peace
girl people need to hear these kind of songs so we not politicians or people in charge we need to change this world everyone of us !
I was 11 years old when this came out. It was the first protest song of the Viet Nam war.
Classic track of the 60s 😅
It's not that history repeats. It is that we don't learn from history and we make the same mistakes, BUT ESCALATED.
It got banned in the UK. Got left on the duke box in a little local coffee bar and was always being played.
In all that time, only one thing has changed ... The line, "you're old enough to kill, but not for voting". Back then, you were drafted at the age of 18 but the voting age was 21. Being on this planet a lot longer than you (I'm 73) I can attest that as a species, "We haven't learned a damn thing" and if anything, it has gotten worse.
Sad thing about that line is that over 50% of the names Names on the Vietnam war Memorial didn't vote in one election
Many think that we are on the verge of total destruction today, but as you can see from this music video, humanity has been on the "Eve of Destruction" (1965) for decades, if not centuries. Some of the scenes are hard for me to watch because I lived through it. Veterans returning from WWII were honored as are Veterans of today and rightfully so. The Veterans of the Vietnam War were not so lucky! Nothing has changed except the faces, the names and the dates. The rich get to live and the poor are sent to die! Pray for the fallen, PRAY FOR MY BROTHERS!
The thing that gives me some hope is that I was 10 years old when this song hit the radio waves and the world hasn't destroyed itself ...yet
Key word YET!
We do need to think about this. Music can and has changed the world. this song and others of its time helped to stop the Vietnam War and saved thousands of lives.
Next one up should be Buffy St. Marie's song Universal Soldier performed by Donovan. That one tells you that it's all our fault for believing that we live in a country that's somehow 'ours' even though it's owned by them.
This was a big hit here in the 60's. A anti-war song that struck a chord then and now. a powerful and original song with nice bits of harmonica-Colin Ward
The year this song came out I turned 16. A lot of my friends were in the "counter culture", so to speak. The Vietnam War was ramping up, and soon we'd have over half a million service members over there at any given time. On the evening news they'd have the number of U.S. military people killed that day. There were riots and demonstrations, as you see in the film clips. And it was only 3 years ealier that we were in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kids in some areas of the U.S. had drills in school where they learned to take shelter under desks and tables in case of a nuclear missile attack. I know it's scary now, too, but please don't let it get to you. We've lived through hard times before, and we will live through them again. God bless you and yours. He will see us through. Thanks so much for letting us watch this with you!
Truer today than ever it was.
born n 63 lived all my live under nuclear threat and the duck and cover thought keep America strong
I heard this song when I was in the fifth grade...living in Birmingham Alabama. I had no siblings but some of my classmates had older brothers that were joining the armed forces and heading for Vietnam. While that was going on we watching the race riots, but not on the evening news. We were watching the riots through our living room windows. As You watched the video I saw horror, sadness and regret in your eyes. I'm 70 years old now and those are same things I feel to this day.
Modern musicians can be the troubadours of old. Telling stories of the past and warning’s of the future.
This song was one I played often. It holds meaning for me. US ARMY, 1969 - 1973....
There is a saying if you stick your head in the sand, it leaves your ass exposed.
You should be thinking of all this stuff. Playing ostrich hiding your head in the sand helps the bad people.
You should listen to this song more! You are the change that you’re waiting for. We blew it, the struggle continues!
Born in 1956. In elementary school you needed to have an opinion on the viet nam war, hippies, civil rights, poverty, pollution etc...
I wish we had made better choices over the years. I still have faith in the youth of today
I was also born in 56 it was a great time to be born we missed the draft by a couple years.
Credence Clearwater Revival put out a lot of songs relating to Vietnam. Fortunate Son really spoke out about the draft system and how it was mostly poor kids who got drafted.
@@MikeB-in1nd yup. Also high school music was 1970 - 74. Good time to listen to the radio
I am 73 years old and remember dancing in the playground at break,but I was in tears listening today and agree totally with you.
I remember all of this.
Hi Angela I can see how moved you are by Barry's song, perhaps you now need Louie Armstrong, Singing What A WONDERFUL WORLD, to Balance things up.
This was the heaviest song to come out in the 60''s. Us teens were stunned into complete silence when we first heard it on the radio...the second heaviest song we'd ever heard was Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. Both songs were talked about for years....
A song similar to this is “Ball of Confusion” by the Temptations. Give it a listen.
This was the first song I learned all the words to. I was 10 yrs old. Still to this day the most powerful song I have ever heard.
You bring lots of joy with your reactions. But occasionally we do need a reality check and songs like this remind us that we STILL have problems that can't be fixed if we are afraid to talk about them.
Protest songs are powerful messages, and definitely a niche genre. Totally understandable that you wouldn't want to put it on your phone to repeat listen - thank you for sharing it!!
I remember when this was new. I'm still standing. It doesn't pay to panic.
I was in grade six when this came out. So young, yet old enough to understand what this song meant. All of us young souls did. It started with the assassination of JFK and hasn't ended. This song told us we were in the begging of something much bigger than ourselves.
I remember when this first was released. I was 13, but I was already worrying about having to go fight in Vietnam. I had an uncle in the Air Force, and he was always getting sent overseas
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Great review, and thanks for not stopping the song just to make comments. Born in 53 I was 12 but I remember the song well.
Yep, the American war machine rolls on.
Sadly, what's happening in that song in 1965 seems to be happening right now. Although one thing was different then A young person Could be drafted and had to go to a Vietnam, but cannot vote in election yet.
I was young in 1965 - 10 years old. But I remember this song. And then my uncle was killed off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 in the flight deck fire on USS Forrestal. And we listened to the other great protest songs, by Black Sabbath and Buffalo Springfield and one two three what are we fightin for. And we listened to Peace Train and Love Train. And we listened to Kenny Rogers singing about Ruby taking her love to town, and John Prine singing about the hole in Sam Stone's arm where all the money goes. And we listen now to Jason Isbell singing about sleeping in Dress Blues and James McMurtry saying we can't make it here anymore and Iris Dement singing about the Wasteland of the Free. You must react to these songs, introduce these songs to today's generation. We cannot ignore them.
Loreena McKennitt did a song named "Lullaby" which was based on words written by William Blake in the 1800s which would go nicely with this one-very dark words, which resonate as strongly today as they did when written. She does the background vocals, and plays the harp in this one, but is a tremendous singer/writer, and musician-her video/album recorded in the Alhambra (The famous one in Spain) is well worth a listen should your spirit so move-this song is not on that DVD but is to be found on youtube-along with the DVD .
I'm in my 60's and you are still very young. You will survive, not to worry. You are loved :)
I am just old enough to remember the release of this song. Some "request" radio stations would not play it. My local "Top 40" station would give a 60 second spiel about how this song did not represent the opinions of the station, every time they played it.
my father was and m p for a while in the military. and this was one of his favorite songs. yea i remember.
Back in the day when thought and meaning went into songwriting, compared to the dross we are served up today
WAR is Waste and Insanity 😢💔
Play it often for everyone 🤔
Children are the changes we need!!!!!! 🙏✌️🕊️🧡🤍💜
This song is as relevant now as when it came out, maybe more so
I think this song is brilliant, and it has all the elements of a great song from that time period. As much as I enjoy your reactions, I think this is one of the better songs I've heard on your channel. Yes, I enjoyed hearing this song and listening to your reaction.
Was number 1 song on the top 40 stations back then.
I thought I was the only one crying.
I was 4 when this came out. 63 now and we're still in this situation, even more so now.
I was 12 in 65
A very strong protest song that of which alot can apply today 60 yrs later.
i love this song , ive even requested it on radio but they refuse to play it , history repeats and every time it does the weapons get more horrific and deadly , we are now at a time when the next time could spell the last time ,,,,,,not long to go now people , look up
It's impossible for history to repeat itself. It is, however, extremely possible for idiots to repeat history.