I had never heard of Len Chandler before I saw the film "FTA" (Free/Fuck the Army), about Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and other entertainer's Vietnam era anti-war show for GIs. Its a good film, available on Netflix, released into theatres for a week in the early 1970s and then buried, and Louis Proyect reviews it here along with the classic documentary about Vietnam, "Hearts and Minds".
Anyway, within "FTA" is Len Chandler singing another great song, "My Ass is Mine" which I take to be a play on an army officer's phrase "your ass is mine". I have looked for a You Tube clip of that part of "FTA", and haven't found one. (FYI, the You Tube clip of Rita Martinson that I posted for Memorial Day also from the file "FTA".) Whatever happened to these great resistance artists?
Anyway, here are some of the lyrics from Len Chandler singing "Move on Over (John Brown's Body)" Enjoy the video below.
"Your jails are filled with black men, and your courts are white with hate,
And with every bid for freedom, someone whispers to us "wait".................,
Move on over, or we will move on over you............
It is you who are subversive, you are the killers of the dream......
In a savage world of bandits, it is you who are extreme........"
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