Folk Songs About the Viet Nam War

Vietnam War time table:

• 7 August 1964 - Senate passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution
• 8 March 1965 - First US combat troops (3,500 Marines) join advisers already there
• 21 January 1968 - Battle of Khe Sanh begins
• 30 January 1968 - Tet Offensive begins
• 16 March 1968 - My Lai massacre
• 27 January 1973 - Paris Peace Accords signed
• 30 April 1975 - Saigon falls

Steve Goodman \ The Ballad of Penny Evans

[played 2007]
Robin & Linda Williams\ 50,000 Names\ Radio Songs\ Red House
Chuck Rosenberg and friends\ Played Around and Stayed Around Vietnam Too Long\ In Country (VA)\ Flying Fish
Kate Long\ McNamara's Tear\ Bigollady\ Roane
Country Joe & The Fish\ Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag\ Steal This Movie (VA)\ ?
John Prine\ Sam Stone\ Anthology\ Rhino

[other Vietnam War songs]
"Touch A Name On The Wall" Joel Mabus on album Retold
Michael Jerling's "Long Black Wall"
"More Than a Name On a Wall" from Dailey & Vincent on Rounder

whole cd:
Various Artists\ In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War (1991 Flying Fish)

Johnny Cash\ Veteran's Day\ Wounded Heart of America (VA)\ Hightone
Lenore\ The Hippie Song\ Another Life\ Elaine
Gordon Carter has one on his latest
Pete Seeger\ Waist Deep in the Big Muddy\ Headlines & Footnotes\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Iris DeMent\ There's a Wall in Washington\ The Way I Should\ Warner Bros.
John Prine\ Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore\ Epon.\ Atlantic
Phil Ochs\ I Ain't Marching Anymore\ I Ain't Marching Anymore\ Hannibal
Arlo Guthrie\ When a Soldier Makes It Home\ Mystic Journey\ Rising Son
Country Joe & The Fish\ Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die Rag\ Steal This Movie (VA)\

Dixie Chicks\ Travelin' Soldier\ Home\ Columbia
John Wright with Junior Blanckenship and James Price\ Soldier's Boy\ Promises\ Self

From Susan Forbes-Hansen:
17. Buffalo Springfield: For What It's  Worth (Buffalo Springfield), 
ATCO LP, 1973
18. Paul Kamm and Eleanore  MacDonald: When You Came Home (Game of 
Dances), Freewheel 101  [www.kammmac.com]
19. Tom Paxton: Jimmy Newman (Politics ­ Live), Flying Fish  70486

26. Toby Hughes, Saul Brody, Chuck Rosenberg: "Ho Chi Minh Trail"
various artists: In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War
(1991 Flying Fish)

28. Bill Ellis: "Grunt" In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the
Vietnam War

32. Sgt.Barry Sadler: "The Ballad of the Green Berets" Vietnam: Songs from the Divided House

Hello Vietnam \ JOHNNY WRIGHT \ From the Vaults:Decca Country \ Decca
Marching off to War \ WILLIAM BELL \ soul of Vietnam \ Risky Business
Ho Chi Minh Trail \ TOM HUGHES \ In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in
                                       Vietnam War \ Flying Fish
Tall & Proud \ EWAN MACCOLL & PEGGY SEEGER \ At the Present Moment \
                                         Folkways
Requiem  & In Remembrance of Steve \ JOHN DAVIS \ Dreams of the Lost
                                           Tribe \ Self
Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon \ FUGS \ Tenderness Junction \
                                               Reprise
Vietnam \ PAUL KAPLAN \ Broadside #7 (and Best of Broadside) \ Smithsonian Folkways