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E​.​C. Ball, vocal and guitar - That Crazy War

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil by Field Recorders' Collective

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Now over there In Vietnam, they've got another war.
Wonder if them crazy fools knows what they're fighting for,
In that war, that crazy war.

In 19 and 45, we helped them win the fight.
All that we got’s what Hitler said was right,
In that war, that crazy war.

Now, I was a country lad, lived down on the farm.
I never killed a flea or done a body harm,
‘Til that war, that crazy war.

Got a letter from the President, said “Greetings, my son.”
“Uncle Sam, he needs you to help him tote a gun,”
In that war, that crazy war.

They took me out to the rifle range to hear the bullets sing.
I shot and shot and shot all day and never hit a thing,
In that war, that crazy war.

Now, the captain said to fire at will and I said, “Who is he?”
The doggone fool got raving mad and took a shot at me,
In that war, that crazy war.

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Bruce Kaplan or Dick Drevo, Rugby, VA, 1971. Previously unissued.

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