Favorite song of the 60s

[reeb]

Heres mine:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/pRV9QCXL...arch/risingsun

Put your favorite on here.

I even got married with that song playing in Cavite City, P.I. in 1969

enough......

reeb..........

[82Rigger]

Here's mine:

[Stick]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUAszi-PHps[/media]

[DeadlyDaring]

In a Gadda Da Vida Part One-Iron Butterfly
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02fBoam-14&feature=related[/media]

In a Gadda Da Vida part 2-Iron Butterfly
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjT5BfQJWa8&feature=related[/media]

[Jerry D]

I guess the song I remember most and listened to the most from the 60's is Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" 1968

[82Rigger]

Hey there, Jerry!

Great to see you posting again!

[DeadlyDaring]

This song was the best for any Viet Vet in Australia and you Yanks could relate to the song as well

I was only 19
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TXBuVUQJw[/media]


Lyrics
I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)
John Schumann: Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal,
(1t was long march from cadets).
The Sixth Battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card…
We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left.

And Townsville lined the footpath as we marched down to the quay;
This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean;
And there's me in my slouch hat, with my SLR and greens…
God help me, I was only nineteen.

From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat,
I'd been in and out of choppers now for months.
But we made our tents a home, VB and pin-ups on the lockers,
and an Asian orange sunset through the scrub.

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me, I was only nineteen.

A four week operation, when each step could mean your last one on two legs:
it was a war within yourself.
But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off,
so you closed your eyes and thought about something else.

Then someone yelled out "Contact"', and the bloke behind me swore.
We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar;
Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon: -
God help me, he was going home in June.

1 can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel
on a thirty-six hour rec. leave in Vung Tau.
And I can still hear Frankie lying screaming in the jungle.
'Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row

And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears,
and stories that my father told me never seemed quite real
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel…
God help me, I was only nineteen.

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me,
I was only nineteen.

[MORTARDUDE]

We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place
by the Animals
In this dirty old part of the city where the sun refuse to shine
People tell me there ain't no use in trying
Now, my girl, you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true,
You'll be dead before your time is due, (I know)

Watch my daddy in bed and dying
Watch his hair been turning grey
He's been working and slaving his life away, (Oh yes I know)

He's been working so hard
I've been working too baby, (every night and day)

(Chorus)
We've gotta get out of this place
if it's the last thing we ever do
We've gotta get out of this place
Girl there's a better life for me and you

Now my girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true
You'll be dead before your time is due, (I know it)

Watch my daddy in bed and dying
Watch his hair been turning grey
He's been working and slaving his life away (I know)

He's been working so hard
I've been working too baby,

[DMZ-LT]

Larry , Tiny had that played at the end of his funeral. I had to smile when I found out.

[MORTARDUDE]

Interesting.

May God Bless,

Larry