Let's say I got a number
That number's fifty thousand
That's ten percent
Of five hundred thousand
Oh here we are
In French Indochina
Executive order
Congressional decision
The working masses
Are manipulated
Was this our policy?
Ten long years
Not one domino shall fall
That number's fifty thousand
That's ten percent
Of five hundred thousand
In French Indochina
Congressional decision
The working masses
Are manipulated
Ten long years
Not one domino shall fall
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Very cool. I don't know of any other groups who wrote a post Vietnam song. Sure there was tons of stuff protesting it while it was happening but the Minutemen do the whole crusade justice here by following through. There's no need to talk about the meaning of this tune when it's all so evident. This really is just 1 of the tunes that make Double Nickels on the Dime one of the best albums ever created. I bought it when it was first released and am still entertained by it and never tired of it.
LawdyMama: The only other band I know of that did something similar is The Dead Milkmen with their song "Beach Party Vietnam."
When he talks about the numbers in the first verse, 50,000 is an approximation of the number of American troops who died in Vietnam and 500,000 was an approximation of the total number of American troops who were sent there. That means about 10% of the US soldiers died.
It's a pretty straightforward Vietnam protest song made after the war was over. Just one of several of the band's anti-war songs.
Seems like from the meaning you are saying all they cared about was American soldiers. Not all the insane amount of Vietnamese that were killed in the war. You should look up the history of Vietnamese boat people if your interested in find out more.
Seems like from the meaning you are saying all they cared about was American soldiers. Not all the insane amount of Vietnamese that were killed in the war. You should look up the history of Vietnamese boat people if your interested in find out more.
i find the minutemen so underrated/unknown in the UK. brilliant song.
"not one domino shall fall" - obviously refers to the domino theory of communism.
FRENCH INDO-CHINA!
I love D's vocals in this one
Vietnams dark days . It’s where the Vietnamese were basically enslaved by the French and forced to produce rubber for the global market. Among other things
Vietnams dark days . It’s where the Vietnamese were basically enslaved by the French and forced to produce rubber for the global market. Among other things