My oldest gdaughter is an USAF TSgt.

We need to tear apart the MIC. It keeps us in the dark ages, heavily reliant on oil and gas to make the weapons go.

A seemingly never ending cycle of Samsara. The suffering we give to others while living the delusion that some lives are more important than others……especially if they have darker skin and are living on gold or oil.

Updated for our current ghastly time.
Thank you.

Too bad Country Joe isn't alive to sing it.

Only a shame he couldn't write anything before he went

Well done!

your terrific updated version? Will give you writer’s credit 303squadron. The music of a protest movement has special power. Thank you for your most excellent and valuable contribution!

Happy to be in service to the cause.

I play bass and sing, GF plays guitar and sings harmony. My friends will like that.

And no Dr. Martin Luther King, though I have hopes for Senator Warnock.

I challenge young(er) people. Come up with new songs.

I just bought a guitar and am up to two chords already.

Do you want to be outdone by an old Vietnam-era vet?

Are you chicken?

Etcetera

For the younger ones in the DU!

It was a little concert called Woodstock, back in the day.

War. Huh. What is it good for.

Absolutely NOTHIN'!

That was the missing rhyme I couldn't figure out.
I always got hung up.
You nailed it!!

Draft Age is something meaningless to youth today and inconceivable to even half of the population back then. Though thousands served courageously in Vietnam, women weren’t issued draft cards for compulsory military service. They faced their own battles of discrimination, something men were largely unaffected.

To the point: these lyrics were what was on every teenager’s mind in the 60s and early 70s. And to those old enough to remember, Johnny Carson had country Joe and the fish perform this song on the tonight show. The audience was stunned, as I remember. But it was an important point for the anti-war movement.