On "Long Haired Country Boy" Charlie Daniels pretty much tells everyone he doesn't give a fuck about anything else. So strong, in fact, even a Republican President broke down and pulled the troops out.Īmidst this unrest, a country fiddle player named Charlie Daniels jumped on board the peacenik bandwagon and performed a few controversial songs like 1973's "Long Haired Country Boy" and 1975's "Uneasy Rider." Anti-war sentiment (perhaps due to this bubblegum revolution) became too strong. Helped along exponentially by war's uncanny knack for literally preventing new generations from occurring.īut something eventually happened. McCall emerged and ushered in the novelties like nude streaking and CB Radios.īut that damn Vietnam War was still widening the generation gap. The television show He-Haw debuted and country singers opted for more cornball lyrics like songs about smuggling cars from the factory and building them do it yourself "one piece at a time." Novelty singer like Ray Stevens and C.W. Not to mention Victor Lindberg's God-awful spoken-word advisory "Open Letter to My Teenage Son" which celebrated hawkish patriotism while decrying the liberal anti-war movement as a bunch of "pot smokers".īy the early 1970s, the bubblegum pop craze was upon us. The hippy uprising of the turbulent sixties found songs like Merle Haggard's unapologetic "Okie From Muskogee", SSgt Barry Sadler's war chant "Ballad of the Green Berets" charting.