Lay Ye Down (Lay Down Your Guns)
1981 · RCA ABL1-3928 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Richie Havens
- Title
- Lay Ye Down (Lay Down Your Guns)
- Release
- Kent State (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Year
- 1981
- Label
- RCA # ABL1-3928
- Format
- LP · Soundtrack
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Ken Lauber
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs
Soundtrack (RCA Records # ABL1-3928) to the 1981 television film that dramatised the events at Kent State. Ken Lauber composed the instrumental parts (about half the album). The other songs were performed by well-known names of the 60s/70s protest movement: Grace Slick, Richie Havens, and John Sebastian.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Lay you down boys, come on home / Rest your bones your mama loves you / Right or wrong yay you down boys / From the cities to the country farms / Let your love without the wars / Don't you buy no more / From the Mississippi to the foreign shores / Across the station, out on the street / We'll go marching with the breath of peace / Yes we'll be marching in the free sunlight / From every border to the mountain highs / Lay you down boys, come on home / Rest your eyes all your learning / Has turned to lies, let all those experts / Then decide come on home boys
Notes
Soundtrack to the 1981 NBC television film "Kent State"; music composed, produced and conducted by Ken Lauber; recorded at Wizard Recording Studios, Los Angeles.
About the artist
Richie Havens (born 21 January 1941, Brooklyn, New York; died 22 April 2013, Jersey City, New Jersey) was a folk singer and guitarist who opened the Woodstock festival in 1969. [Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release Kent State (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)