1972 Vietnam War Song: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrummer/vietnam_war_song_project/
Another "GI movement" anti-war record (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, founded in the spring of 1971, started their own publication called "Helping Hand".
The most memorable and startling track is "Napalm Sticks to Kids", a vivid account of US forces indiscriminately dropping bombs on Vietnam, hitting pregnant women, children, and other civilians. The record booklet credited the song to "Air Force and Army GIs attached to the 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam. Recited by Sgt. John Boychuk....a group of GIs sat down one night in a hootch in Vietnam to write these words. Each person made a verse about an incident in which he had taken part and the poem expresses their collective bitterness toward the military that had turned them into murderers".
The song made a special reference to the company Dow Chemical, which produced napalm and agent orange under a 1965 government contract. Several other suppliers stopped production of these weapons because of protests and bad publicity. But Dow Chemical continued as the sole provider of napalm and agent orange because of its commitment to the government.
"We shoot the sick, the young, the lame
We do our best to kill and maim
Because the kills all count the same, Napalm sticks to kids
Flying low across the trees, pilots doing what they please
Dropping frags on refugees...a group of gooks in the grass
But all the fighting 's long since past
Crispy youngsters in a mass...
Drop some napalm on the barn, it won't do too much harm
Just burn of a leg or an arm...children cowering in a pit
Dow Chemical doesn't give a shit, napalm sticks to kids
They're all VC when the bombs explode...killing gooks is macho fun
If one's pregnant, it's two for one...
What the hell let's drop the bomb"
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