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I invite you to dust off some of those old early 1960's albums, or find them re-mastered on CD. I know reading lyrics is hardly the same as listening to them in song, but here are the words anyway.
We Didn’t Know, The Mitchell Trio The Album: That’s the Way It’s Gonna Be/Violets of Dawn
We didn’t know it all We didn’t see a thing You can’t hold us to blame What could we do? It was a terrible shame But we can’t bear the blame Oh no, not us, we didn’t know.
We didn’t know said the burgermeister About those camps on the edge of town It was Hitler and his crew tore the German Nation down We saw the cattle cars it’s true And maybe they carried a Jew or two They woke us up as they rattled through What did you expect me to do?
We didn’t know it all We didn’t see a thing You can’t hold us to blame What could we do? It was a terrible shame But we can’t bear the blame Oh no, not us, we didn’t know.
We didn’t know said the congregation Singing their hymn in a Church of white The Press was full of lies about us Preacher told us we were right The outside agitators came They burned some Churches and they put The blame on decent Southern names To set our colored folks aflame Maybe some of our boys got hot And a couple of niggers and reds got shot They should have stayed where they belong Preacher would have told us if we’d done wrong.
We didn’t know it all We didn’t see a thing You can’t hold us to blame What could we do? It was a terrible shame But we can’t bear the blame Oh no, not us, we didn’t know.
We didn’t know said the puzzled voter Watching the President on TV I guess we gotta drop those bombs If we’re gonna keep South Asia free The President’s such a peaceful man I guess he’s got some kind of plan They say we’re torturing prisoners of war But I don’t believe that stuff no more Torturing prisoners is a Communist game And you can bet they’re doing the same I wish this war were over and through But what do you expect me to do?
We didn’t know it all We didn’t see a thing You can’t hold us to blame What could we do? It was a terrible shame But we can’t bear the blame Oh no, not us, we didn’t know.
Where are the vocal artists today? Is the Media really that powerful to drown out all dissent?
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