Please don’t bring him up to be sensitive.
Don’t bring him up to be kind.
Don’t bring him up to believe that a man
Can use his heart and mind.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
So, when he argues with a friend,
Teach him he should fight,
That the crunch of a jaw and flesh that’s raw
Is a source of keen delight.
He won’t be short of women;
Those Saigon girls are cute,
But he’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
Please teach him how to see the world
At the Commonwealth’s expense.
Teach him killing civilians
Is essential to our defense.
Teach him to hate each foreign name,
Colour, race or tongue,
‘Cause he’ll make a happier soldier
If you brutalise him young.
He’ll make a happier soldier, Mum,
If you brutalise him young.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
Don’t bring him up to be kind.
Don’t bring him up to believe that a man
Can use his heart and mind.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
So, when he argues with a friend,
Teach him he should fight,
That the crunch of a jaw and flesh that’s raw
Is a source of keen delight.
He won’t be short of women;
Those Saigon girls are cute,
But he’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
Please teach him how to see the world
At the Commonwealth’s expense.
Teach him killing civilians
Is essential to our defense.
Teach him to hate each foreign name,
Colour, race or tongue,
‘Cause he’ll make a happier soldier
If you brutalise him young.
He’ll make a happier soldier, Mum,
If you brutalise him young.
When it comes to twisting a bayonet
Or sticking in the boot
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
He’ll find it so much easier
If you bring him up as a brute.
inviata da Bartleby - 2/1/2012 - 13:32
Bernart Bartleby - 16/2/2016 - 15:08
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Il lato B di un 45” di questa oggi misconosciuta cantautrice australiana che negli anni 60 fu - prima ancora di Eric Bogle - la voce più importante contro il coinvolgimento dell’Australia nella guerra in Vietnam.
Sul lato A un’altra canzone dedicata a William "Bill" White, un giovane maestro che nel 1966 divenne in primo obiettore di coscienza australiano, rifiutandosi di partire per il sud-est asiatico. White fu rimosso dall’insegnamento e gli fu ordinato di consegnarsi presso una base militare; lui disse che si rifiutava e che avrebbe aspettato l’arresto nella propria casa; le autorità, in grave imbarazzo (anche perché un gran numero di manifestanti e di giornalisti si erano subito assiepati intorno all’abitazione dell’obiettore), tergiversarono per qualche giorno ma poi mandarono i loro mastini a catturarlo…
Questa la dichiarazione di obiezione di coscienza di Bill White:
Secondly, I am standing against the war itself as a national and international policy. As war, by definition, has always incorporated killing, I would have been opposed to any war on this basis.
On the third front I am opposed to a state's right to conscript a person, I believe very strongly in democracy and democratic ideals... In fact the National Service Act is the embodiment of what I consider to be morally wrong and, no matter, what the consequences, I will never fulfill the term...
Primo, sono contro l’omicidio, l’assassinio… L’etica, secondo me, si fonda sul rispetto della vita. Io rispetto le persone, i loro sentimenti, le loro proprietà ed il fatto che sono tutte eguali, ed è perché ritengo in coscienza che tutte le persone, io compreso, abbiano l’incontestabile diritto a vivere.
Secondo, sono contro la guerra come strumento politico a livello nazionale ed internazionale. Siccome la guerra prevede sempre, per assunto, l’assassinio, mi opporrei proprio per questo a qualsiasi guerra.
Terzo, sono contrario al diritto di uno Stato di precettare le persone per la guerra, credo fermamente nella democrazia e negli ideali democratici… Di fatto il National Service Act è l’incarnazione di questo (abuso) che io ritengo sia eticamente sbagliato e al quale, non importa quali siano le conseguenza, io non adempierò mai.