A link from counterpunch provided a youtube Vietnam era video of Pete Seeger's, "Bring Them Home."
Appleseedsrec.com has released an updated version of this classic with Ani DeFranco, Steve Earle and Billy Bragg joining Pete.
Here's the song, gratis of appleseeds. (I did the right thing by just buying the album online) Here are the great lyrics:
If you love this land of the free,
Bring them home, bring them home.
Bring all troops back from overseas,
Bring them home, bring them home.
It'll make the generals sad, I know,
Bring them home, bring them home.
They want to tangle with the foe,
Bring them home, bring them home.
They want to test their weaponry,
But bring them home, bring them home.
Here is their big fallacy,
Bring them home, bring them home.
A foe is hunger and ignorance,
Bring them home, bring them home.
You can’t beat that with bombs and guns,
Bring them home, bring them home.
I may be right and I may be wrong,
Bring them home, bring them home.
But I got a right to sing this song
Bring them home, bring them home
There’s one thing I must confess
Bring them home, bring them home
I'm not really a pacifist,
Bring them home, bring them home.
If an army invaded this land of mine,
Bring them home, bring them home.
You'd find me out on the firing line,
Bring them home, bring them home.
Show those generals a fallacy:
Bring them home, bring them home.
They don't have the right weaponry,
Bring them home, bring them home.
For defense you need common sense,
Bring them home, bring them home.
They don't have the right armaments,
Bring them home, bring them home.
The world needs teachers, books and schools
Bring them home, bring them home
And learning a few universal rules
Bring them home, bring them home
So now we don’t want to fight for oil
Bring them home, bring them home
Underneath some foreign soil
Bring them home, bring them home
So if you love this land of the free
Bring them home, bring them home
Bring all troops back from overseas
Bring them home, bring them home
Sunday, May 21, 2006
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