Why don't we have songs like this anymore? Alice's Restaurant
This is the perfect song for thanksgiving. One of my favorites from the vietnam era.
I love this song because it is a cute song, has a catchy tune, but most of all - has a meaning. It makes light of a serious situation - the draft - with music. It seems like most of the music from the sixties and seventies was all about that.
What happened? The closest thing we have to a protest song today is Flo Rida’s the Club Cant Even Handle Me (Joke, by the way)
I wish we had some songs with a meaning.
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