And Freedom, Too - Bill Frederick

And Freedom, Too Lyrics

“And Freedom Too”
From the 1967 album, “Hey Hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?” by Bill Fredrick.
"From the steaming Mekong Delta to the shores of Tonkin Bay, advisers are advising and the peasants romp and play.  Bombs of jellied gasoline make night as bright as day.  And safe non-lethal poison gases there to clear the way."  
"We fight for coal and zinc and manganese, lumber, fruits and rice, rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapar Tea, and spice, cattle, quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through . . . we fight for tin and tungsten . . . . and freedom too." 
"Oh listen to the screaming across the jungle floor.  I hear the people shouting "Oh what a lovely war".  We're testing our new weapons and we're learning quite a lot.  And as they say in Washington, "It's the only war we've got."
"We fight for coal and zinc and manganese, lumber, fruits and rice, rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapar Tea, and spice, cattle, quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through . . . we fight for tin and tungsten . . . . and freedom too."
"It's often I have wondered as I march to the war, what is the use of dying, what are we fighting for?  But Eisenhower said it and I saw him on TV, when we took over from the French in 1953." 
"We fight for coal and zinc and manganese, lumber, fruits and rice, rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapar Tea, and spice, cattle, quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through . . . we fight for tin and tungsten . . . . and freedom too."
"We're fighting wars on poverty throughout the world today.  We're killing off poor people in the most efficient way.  We can't lose Southeast Asia so we'll bomb them 'til its bare, and then I'll start a tungsten mine and become a millionaire. 

"We fight for coal and zinc and manganese, lumber, fruits and rice, rubber, pepper, iron ore, Kapar Tea, and spice, cattle, quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through . . . we fight for tin and tungsten . . . . and freedom too." 
From the 1967 album, "Hey hey LBJ How Many Kids Did You Kill Today? - Songs of the US Anti-war Movement" - by Bill Fredrick. 
Lyrics Submitted by David Myers