I Didnt Raise My Boy to be a Soldier the first anti war hit record

Released in 1915, I Didn t Raise My Son to be a Soldier, sung here by the Peerless Quartet, was the first commercially successful antiwar record and featured prominently in the American antiwar movement opposing US entry in the first world war. The warmongering expresident Theodore Roosevelt objected to the song s message of peace and its early feminism: Foolish people who applaud a song entitled I Didn t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier are just the people who would also in their hearts applaud a song entitled I Didn t Raise my Girl To Be A The song was revived in the 1960s in opposition to the US war in Vietnam. FOLLOW STOP THE WAR COALITION: WEBSITE: FACEBOOK: TWITTER: