Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
- Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1967 during the Vietnam War. The song tells the story of a platoon wading in a river in Louisiana on a practice patrol in 1942. The captain orders the platoon to continue, until they're finally up to their necks. This is also symbolic of the Vietnam War as a whole, and how the United States kept getting deeper and deeper into the war and eventually became so drawn into it that withdrawal was nearly impossible, but kept pushing on anyway. Seeger sang the song on the taping of the CBS show, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in September, 1967. However, CBS management objected to its political tone, and censored the song prior to broadcast. CBS later relented, and allowed Seeger to come back and sing the song on the Brothers' February 25, 1968 show. This broadcast is included on the DVD: The Best of the Smothers Brothers.
Richard Shindell recorded a cover of this song on his 2005 album "Vuelta". The song was also covered by Dick Gaughan in his 1997 album "Sail On". Bruce Springsteen, who would later record an album of Seeger-related songs, used the line "Waist deep in the big muddy" as the chorus for his 1992 song, "Big Muddy." John McCutcheon also covered it on his 2007 album "This Fire".
The song was translated into French by Graeme Allwright under the title "Jusqu'à la ceinture".
External links
* [http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/snd/waistdeep.html Lyrics of Waist Deep in the Big Muddy]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXhShuof1I YouTube video, from the "Best of" DVD, 7 minutes]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjONblHLPPI YouTube video, 3 minute clip of just this one song]
* [http://www.powerofsong.net Seeger documentary, includes this song]
* [http://www.peteseeger.net/givepeacechance.htm Seeger's account of the song's composition and original television appearance]
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