“He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere in the future they saw war. To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn’t fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet deadly secret. They knew that if all the little people all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers and they would say to the guys who wanted them to fight they would say you lying thieving sons-of-bitches we won’t fight we won’t be dead we will live we are the world we are the future and we will not let you butcher us no matter what you say no matter what speeches you make no matter what slogans you write.”
Any one here remember ‘Country Joe & The Fish’; the ‘One, two, three, what’re we fighting for performers at ‘Woodstock Festival in 1969 ?? ‘Country Joe’ is Joe McDonald an attorney in CA and musician. If the little verse that is the subject of this posting perks your interest, check out ‘Country Joe’ McDonalds 1972 album ‘War, War, War’ on Youtube. Country Joe put music to the WWI poems of combat ambulance driver, Robert W. Service, and the poems and the musical composition are epic. Joe McDonald plays all the instruments and provides the vocals. Pay particular interest to the tale of ‘Jean Depresz’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rexTsQ3SPM&t=211s
“He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere in the future they saw war. To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn’t fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet deadly secret. They knew that if all the little people all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers and they would say to the guys who wanted them to fight they would say you lying thieving sons-of-bitches we won’t fight we won’t be dead we will live we are the world we are the future and we will not let you butcher us no matter what you say no matter what speeches you make no matter what slogans you write.”
Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
Any one here remember ‘Country Joe & The Fish’; the ‘One, two, three, what’re we fighting for performers at ‘Woodstock Festival in 1969 ?? ‘Country Joe’ is Joe McDonald an attorney in CA and musician. If the little verse that is the subject of this posting perks your interest, check out ‘Country Joe’ McDonalds 1972 album ‘War, War, War’ on Youtube. Country Joe put music to the WWI poems of combat ambulance driver, Robert W. Service, and the poems and the musical composition are epic. Joe McDonald plays all the instruments and provides the vocals. Pay particular interest to the tale of ‘Jean Depresz’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rexTsQ3SPM&t=211s