Timothy Blinks - Lisa Kalvelage (Pete Seeger)
Channel: TimothyBIinks
Date: 2011-09-16

In 1966, a housewife named Lisa Kalvelage and three of her friends put on their Sunday best, went down to the San Jose docks, and sat down in front of a shipment of napalm bound for Vietnam. 

Pete Seeger was sent a news release quoting statements Lisa Kalvelage made in court, and did his best to set them to music, with a minimum of changes. 

When I heard about this song, I couldn't find any free version to learn how it went, and ended up having to download an album called "Pete Seeger Sings and Answers Questions." No regrets — it's a great and interesting album, and I support supporting Pete Seeger, but I think such a fantastic song deserves wider and freer exposure (and I suspect Pete might feel the same way).

Full lyrics from Seeger's site:
http://www.peteseeger.net/LisaKalv.htm

The chord pattern I played is:
G -- D7 G / C -- G -- / G -- D G / C -- G --
C D G -- / C -- G -- / C D G -- / C -- G --
Slashes indicate line divisions in the lyrics, hyphens that you keep playing the previous chord. Each verse in this song has eight lines, so I've broken it up into two groups of four. 
I omit the first 4 lines of the last verse, so act accordingly, chord-wise.
On those dramatic final lines "that is why I am here today," and "when they asked 'where was your mother when?' " I play "C D G  --" (instead of C -- G --, as the pattern above).

I play slightly different chords, (and therefore, a slightly different melody) than Pete, or at least Pete as "Spike" notates him. A few less D7s, and I swap an occasional C in. To compare, you can download a PDF of the lyrics, and original chords as Spike notates them here:
http://spikesmusic-folk.spike-jamie.com/Pete-Seeger.html

More about the four 1966 "Napalm Ladies":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omkdv8gz_PM

A 2001 audio interview with Lisa Kalvelage:
http://www.democracynow.org/2001/5/10/my_name_is_lisa_kalvelage_anti

More and newer music by Tim:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKlJd5R6Ffdea1nODZf2Ng
https://wychwood.bandcamp.com/music