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Reference to the My Lai Massacre, Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), and General Westmoreland. A "GI movement" anti-war record from 1972 (Paredon Records # P-1015), released on the label founded by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber - all the songs were written and sung by active-duty GIs at the Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The group, formed in the spring of 1971, started their own publication called "Helping Hand".

The record booklet said about this song:
"Outside the Rodeway Inn where the Boise Chamber of Commerce were honoring General Westmoreland in August in 1971. Nine Covered Wagon members were arrested for 'disturbing the peace' and three others with 'interfering with the police'. This song played an important part in the state-wide campaign to win an acquittal for them. After the charges were finally dropped, some of the defendants filed charges against the policy on behalf of the Covered Wagon". Composed by Mark Lane and Jim Shaffer.

"What do we want? Peace
When do we want it? Now...
Boise's biggest, Boise's best
The place to dine, the place to rest...
One day in August in '71
Businessmen met, businessmen fun
Westmoreland was their honored guest...
The wine they sipped, the general's brand
Turned into blood on foreign lands...
From mountain home, 40 miles or more
Said we don't want your fucking war
The guest were simply horrified
With the chants - not genocide...
They came to seize the criminal
We pointed to the general
Take him before other die
He was in charge of Johnson's My Lai
They came with chains to end the song
But chains could never right the wrong
Nor jail cells, change their stand
While children die in other lands

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