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Since it all looks like being a reprise of The Cold War,it's time to get that old duffle coat out and the CND bedecked guitar? This is strangely current...1965.(lyrics by Jonathan King)
It's good news week Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere Contaminating atmosphere And blackening the sky
It's good news week Someone's found a way to give The rotting dead a will to live Go on and never die
Have you heard the news What did it say? Who's won that race? What's the weather like today? It's good news week Families shake the need for gold By stimulating birth control We're wanting less to eat
It's good news week Doctors finding many ways Of wrapping brains on metal trays To keep us from the heat.
Its only relatively recently I learned this song was about nuclear war mistakenly starting...the red balloons in question being mistaken for nuclear missiles.
Love this song, 50 years later and naff all has changed though unfortunately. This song was used to great affect in the Ken Burns series 'The Vietnam War'.
I was walking in Holland Park and there was a box of records left outside someone's house. I rifled through and took a few. As I did a woman came by and told me the lady who had lived there had recently died. I left some for the next man, but one of the records I took was a 7" white label of this.
This thread is right up my street. Some great songs in here.
We can't have a protest song thread like this without the great Pete Seeger who spent his life singing songs about peace and justice. This is one of his last live appearances singing his classic 'Where have all the flowers gone?'. He died just 5 months later at the ripe old age of 94.
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