Country Joe, Anti- Vietnam War Song, WOODSTOCK 50 Years Ago, Aug. 15-18, 1969

[appalachiablue]

[Dennis Donovan]

1. The few beautiful things of 1969

...after a horrible year, 1968.

THANK YOU for your posts on this anniversary.

[appalachiablue]

4. It's been wonderful, a welcome light in these strange times!

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. ...thanks for this appalachiablue - brings back the worst of times, and the best of times..

Both brothers served..one was in AF, in Thailand, one was in the thick of it in VN...the worst of times. and then,

Aug. 14, 1969..Framingham Mass, my daughter was born.. the best of times..

[appalachiablue]

3. It's been wonderful to revisit this mass festival for music, peace & love

Best to you, yours who served this country and all, this terrific and historic weekend! Peace,



PS SEE more music videos from Woodstock '69 posted in this section yesterday & new film "Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation" (2019). Very well done film.


Film, https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017550071

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. ++ right back to ya'....n/t

[OKNancy]

6. "Fixin'-to-Die Rag"

Is the actual name of the song.

[appalachiablue]

7. Thanks much, I never knew that-

[OKNancy]

8. You're welcome. Woodstock and the moon landing were two of three big events in my life

LOL - got married in Nov. 1969. I was a young bride, but we did that back then lol.
( Doctors wouldn't give you the pill unless you were married )

[appalachiablue]

9. That's fine, one good friend m. young in 1971 & has been very happy.

Young brides and marrieds can definitely work I think, and looking back so many we knew m. in their late late 20s or more. I didn't get hitched till the 80s cuz of grad. school etc., but in hindsight was ready to m. in the 70s for sure.

This Woodstock anniversary has brought many experiences back & the fantastic music-- 50 years has flown by!

[ancianita]

10. Fixin'-to-Die" is the kind of singing gets us through dark times. I sang it with friends regularly.

Thanks for posting it.

I remember how horrible 1968 was, and how at home we nevertheless demanded our raucous fun even as we fought the war, draft, civil rights -- with sit-ins, shut-downs, draft card burnings, pouring blood on draft office records, riots, and the breakups of families over it all.

[appalachiablue]

11. This anniv., Joe's song & the others have been a real lift in these

weird times. I was younger but knew older kids in the late 60s and absorbed major events going on--the demonstrations, anxiety over Vietnam, the horrible assassinations and more. A dark period punctuated by this wonderful music festival. What an exciting, tumultuous era!

[ancianita]

12. It's the singing that makes children know the good guys.

[appalachiablue]

13. The music of the period is lasting for sure, nothing like it.