Credited on the record as Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron.
Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go
1970 · Folkways FW05312 · Atlanta, Georgia
- Artist
- Matt Jones
- Credited on the record as
- Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron
- Title
- Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go
- Release
- Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Folkways # FW05312
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Songwriter
- Matthew Jones, Elaine Laron
- Genre
- Blues · Blues · Soul
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
English: I ain't gonna go to Vietnam / I ain't dying for Uncle Sam... / I ain't burning my brother to serve the man... / The Vietcong just like I am... / Lets run it down / Brother Brown, tell every cat just where it's at / I've had enough of Charlie's stuff / If he messes with me I'm gonna get rough / I ain't gonna go to Vietnam / That free world jazz is all a shame / I ain't gonna go to Vietnam / Cause the US army is the Ku Klux Clan / I ain't gonna go to Vietnam / I got business in Harlem, Watts, and Birmingham
Notes
Broadside BRS 312 / Folkways FW 5312, "Broadside Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out" (© 1970 Asch Recordings), side B track 5, 3:25; credited "Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron"; booklet: "By Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron, © 1967 by M. Jones & E. Laron"; lyric printed from Broadside #82. The 7" on Relevant RP 1 (VWSP1055) credits Matt Jones. [From the record booklet; Discogs]
About the artist
Matthew 'Matt' Jones (born 17 September 1936 in Tennessee; died 30 March 2011 in New York City, aged 74) was an American folk singer, songwriter and civil rights activist who served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from June 1963, organising in Danville, Virginia, where he founded the Danville Freedom Voices. He sang with the SNCC Freedom Singers from the autumn of 1963 until 1967 alongside Bernice Johnson Reagon and Charles Sherrod, wrote some five hundred songs drawing on the gospel tradition, was arrested twenty-nine times in the course of his…
Themes
Anti-War · Civil Rights · VC · Draft
From the release Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Draft Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]