Viêt Nam, rock and roll, protest songs

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1966 - Moins une chanson de contestation, que le grand tube de l'année 1966.

Well, these boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww

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1965 - Jouée à Woodstock, avec son Fuck cheer
Il se prénomme Joe, pour Joseph de, un rare honneur pour un Américain et il chante le refus de la conscription, !

And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for
don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die

Well C'mon mothers throughout the land
Pack you boys off to Vietnam
C'mon fathers don't hesitate
Send your sons off before it's too late
And be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7-ngmO_p8

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1963 - Forte dénonciation des puissants, les marchands d’armes, qui poussent à la guerre, sans la faire...

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEmI_FT4YHU

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1967 - Foncièrement antimilitariste, il dénonce l’obéissance absolue

The captain told us to ford a river
That's how it all begun
We were knee deep in the Big Muddy
The big fool said to push on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24VOo7-ctKU

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1968 - Reprise de la précédente en français, ma préférée, le vieux con et la rivière

Y'en avait jusqu'à la ceinture
Et le vieux con a dit d'avancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUaV02Eo5s

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1968 - Chanson complexe, qui dénonce moins la guerre, que la présence du mal en chacun de nous, le diable ce n'est pas l'autre, c'est vous et moi

I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
(...)
I watched the glee while your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades for the Gods they made
I shouted out Who killed the Kennedy's ?
When after all it was you and me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k

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1969 - Il dénonce l'inacceptable favoritisme qui reigne au sein de l'armée américaine, où les "fils de" sont préservés loin des combats.

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no no no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate son, no no no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I

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1963 - Le tube de la contestation, une musique admirable, des paroles inspirées, un poète le Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G58XWF6B3AA

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1966 - Tout de noir... Tube de l'année 1966

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg

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1965 - Peur de la guerre nucléaire, un tube de l’année, la chanson sera reprise en 1970 par The Turtles

The eastern world, it is explodin'.
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I

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1969 - La rage de Morrison, appelant à la fin de la guerre...

Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Unborn living, living dead
Bullets strike the helmet's head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LSCoBk8hgU

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1967 - Une voix féminine, pacifiste et engagée

Farewell my wistful Saigon bride
I'm going out to stem the tide
A tide that never saw the seas
It flows through jungles, round the trees
Some say it's yellow, some say red
It will not matter when we're dead

How many dead men will it take
To build a dike that will not break ?
How many children must we kill
Before we make the waves stand still ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20Glis_wWE

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1968 - Psychédélique, ce sont les Birds...

Sun warmth on my face
I hear you down below moving slow
and it's morning
take my time this morning
No hurry to learn to kill an take the will
from unknown faces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6pb2pLeR_s

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1969 - Hard rock incisif

America, where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know, we need you now.
We can't fight alone against the MONSTER.

https://lyricstranslate.com

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1967 - Du rock pur et dur

Well, can't you see that you're killing each other's soul
You're both out in the streets and you got no place to go
Your constant battles are getting to be a bore
So go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war

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1969 - John et Yoko

Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare, Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance