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Release Everybody's Got a Right to Live
Year 1968
Label Broadside # BR 308
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick & Jimmy Collier, Everybody's Got a Right to Live, accessed 13 November 2026; cite each song by its SongID

Everybody's Got a Right to Live

1968 · Album · Broadside # BR 308 · USA
2 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-War.
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Annotation
Firstly, the album contained the song track "Hands Off Nkrumah" - a reference to Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana following independence from British rule. The song warned the CIA and FBI from getting involved in Ghanian politics, making a comparison to Vietnam. "if you know about our policy, you'll know were in a jam, that's the kind of policy that got us in Vietnam" . More importantly, the album contained the ant-war song "The Fires of Napalm" , written by Collier. The lyrics and notations first appeared in Broadside # 91, May 1968, p.3, alongside quotes from American physicians on napalm wounds in Vietnam. This song focused on the chemical weapon Napalm B - a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.345 The Dow Chemical Company, the largest suppler of napalm to the US military, became a target of Vietnam protests (such as boycotts), particularly on university campuses.6
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
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Songs from this release appear in these 2 curated collections.
The songs
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1968 · Album · Broadside # BR 308 · USA · Everybody's Got a Right to Live

Duo of civil-rights movement song leaders: Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933-1987), Louisiana-born folk singer and SCLC activist, and Jimmy Collier (b. 1947, Fort Smith, Arkansas), field organizer and singer for Dr. King's movement; they recorded together on 'Everybody's Got a Right to Live' (1968). [Source: Wikipedia]

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1968 · Album · Broadside # BR 308 · USA · Everybody's Got a Right to Live

Duo of civil-rights movement song leaders: Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933-1987), Louisiana-born folk singer and SCLC activist, and Jimmy Collier (b. 1947, Fort Smith, Arkansas), field organizer and singer for Dr. King's movement; they recorded together on 'Everybody's Got a Right to Live' (1968). [Source: Wikipedia]