The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7848   Message #48069
Posted By: DonMeixner
05-Dec-98 - 01:19 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: We Didn't Know (Paxton) & protest songs
Subject: RE: Can you help find a protest song from the 60s
Although this isn't really war we're sending fifty thousand more to help save Viet Nam from Vietnamese.

I jumped off the old troop ship, I sank in mud up to my hips , I cussed until the captain called me down, Never mind how hard its raining, think of all the ground we're gaing , just don't take one step outside of town,

And Lyndon Johnson told....

Paxton was my favprite for years, followed by Phil Ochs. Still trying to figure what all the excitment was about Dylan.

Don Meixner