Vintage Leon Russell: Anti-war Song

There’s alway more to learn about the musical genius of the Master of Space and Time.

Before A Song For You or Tight Rope, this song, Everybody’s Talking “Bout The Young was released in 1965 by young, twenty-three-year-old Leon Russell.

He added his socially conscious voice to the growing anti-Vietnam War movement. Brilliantly set to a strident electric country backing, Leon’s voice sounds a bit like Dylan and Sonny Bono. It wouldn’t take long before he found his own distinctive voice a few years later.

And like all of his lyrics, they’re still relevant after all these years…

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Everybody’s talking ’bout the young
They forget the damage that’s been done
By middle-age adults In Southern sheeted cults
So why do they still talk about the young?
The younger generation and its plight
Ain’t half as bad as hangings in the night
We got a monkey on our back In a little Georgia shack
So why do they still talk about the young?
Congo, Cuba, it’s out of the frying pan
China’s got an atom bomb
Boy, it’s gonna hit the fan
Let’s talk about the young in Vietnam
They’re over there a-fighting for our land
Yeah, they’re young but they got guts,
Bayonets and rifle butts
Well who’s a gonna bury all our young?
Hey you talkers will you bury all our young?