Jimmy Cliff: We Don't Want another Vietnam in Afghanistan
Jimmy Cliff: We Don't Want another Vietnam in Afghanistan
25 June 2011
Jimmy Cliff sang this at the Glastonbury Festival on 24 June 2011, changing the title of his 1960s anti-war hit Vietnam to Afghanistan. His uncompromising anti-war message was broadcast to a huge TV audience.
Hey, Afghanistan, Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan
Yesterday I got a letter from my friend
fighting in Afghanistan
And this is what he had to
say
"Tell all my friends that I'll be coming home
soon
My time'll be up some time in June"
"Don't
forget", he said, "To tell my sweet Mary
Her golden lips
are sweet as cherry"
And it came from, Afghanistan,
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Afghanistan
Afghanistan,
Afghanistan, Afghanistan
It was just the next day his
mother got an email
It was addressed from
Afghanistan
Now Mistress Brown, she lives in the
USA
And this is what they wrote and said
She said
"Don't be alarmed", she told her the email said
'But
Mistress Brown, your son is dead'
And it came from
Afghanistan, Afghanistan
Afghanistan,
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Afghanistan, hey,
Afghanistan
Somebody please stop that war now
In Iraq,
in Jerusalem, in Libya, in Syria
In Pakistan, in
Sudan
People got to stop the war
People got to stop
the war
I remember Vietnam, I remember Vietnam
I
remember Vietnam, I remember Vietnam
Somebody stop the
war, stop the war, stop the war
ENDS