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KILL FOR PEACE
by the Fugs

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

Near or middle or very far east
Far or near or very middle east

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

If you don't like the people
or the way that they talk
If you don't like their manners
or they way that they walk,

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

If you don't kill them
then the Chinese will
If you don't want America
to play second fiddle,

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

If you let them live
they might support the Russians
If you let them live
they might love the Russians

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

Kill 'em, kill 'em, strafe those gook creeps!
The only gook an
American can trust
Is a gook that's got
his yellow head bust.

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

Kill, kill, it'll
feel so good,
like my captain
said it should

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

Kill it will give
you a mental ease
kill it will give
you a big release

Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace
Kill, kill, kill for peace

Peace
LionHeart
February 2006

The Fugs
Fugs Website



The Fugs, the first underground rock band of the 1960s, will present "A Literary Concert" featuring musical homages to the works of William Blake, William Shakespeare, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, John Donne, Emily Dickinson, various Beat poets, and Homer (in the original Greek).

Founded by noteworthy Beat poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg in 1964, The Fugs pioneered a joyously chaotic blend of Beat-style lyrics, political rant, comedy and jug band music that influenced a legion of better-known bands, including Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges and Alice Cooper. Many historians view The Fugs as an important cultural bridge between the Beat Era and the 1960s.

Born in a bookstore (Sanders' famous countercultural Peace Eye book store in New York's Greenwich Village), the band has always been steeped in literary influences. One of their signature tunes, which appears on their first album, is "The Swinburne Stomp," named for the gay Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909).

Although the band never achieved true star status, it acquired a passionate cult following and became a fixture at anti-Vietnam War protests and political demonstrations across the country. Actress Bette Midler claims to have been one of band's early groupies. As founder of The Fugs, Ed Sanders appeared on the front cover of "Life" magazine (February 17, 1967) and was proclaimed a "Leader of New York's Other Culture."

The band's 14 albums (many unavailable) include "The Fugs" (1966), which made the "Billboard" Top 100, "Golden Filth" (1969), "No More Slavery" (1986), and "The Real Woodstock Festival" (1995). The band's latest album is "Final CD, Part 1" (2003). Songs include "Western Ballad," a tribute to Allen Ginsberg, who was a long-time friend of the band; a musical setting for a poem by Beat poet Charles Bukowski; and the spoof "Septuagenarian in Love," sung to the tune of "Teenager in Love" by Fugs co-founder Tuli Kupferberg. Kupferberg, who will turn 80 on September 24th, bills himself as the world's oldest rock star.

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The Village Fugs (The Fugs First Album) (1965) The Fugs (2nd album) (1966) Virgin Fugs

The Fugs Final CD

Live From the 60s No More Slavery Refuse to Be Burnt Out Real Woodstock Festival Songs From a Portable Feast

Books by Ed Sanders
Fugs co-founder and singer Ed Sanders has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the American Book Award for "Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems 1961-1983" (1987). Sanders' most recent books of poetry include "America: A History in Verse" (Part I, 1999; Part II, 2000); "The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem" (2000); "1968: A History in Verse" (1997); and "Chekhov" (1995), a biography of the Russian playwright in verse. Sanders' fiction includes the short story collections, "Tales of Beatnik Glory: Volumes I and II" (1990). Sanders' best-known book may be his work of investigative journalism, "The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion" (1971), a national bestseller that was reissued in a revised and updated edition in 2002. Sanders also edits a biweekly newspaper, "The Woodstock Journal" in Woodstock, NY.


The Family
by Ed Sanders
In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and his dystopic communal family helped to wreck the dreams of the Love Generation. At least nine people were murdered, among them Sharon Tate, the young, beautiful, pregnant, actress and wife of Roman Polanski. Ed Sanders’ unnerving and detailed look at the horror dealt by Manson and his followers is a classic of the true-crime genre. The Family was originally published in 1971 and remains the most meticulously researched account of the most notorious murders of the 1960s. Using firsthand accounts from some of the family's infamous members, including the wizard himself, Sanders examines not only the origins and legacy of Manson and his family, but also the mysteries that persist. Completely revised and updated, this edition features 25 harrowing black and white photos from the investigation. "One of the best-researched, best-written, thoroughly-constructed, and eminently significant books of our times…

America
by Ed Sanders
America's 20th century written as an Olsonian open-field epic poem makes for Sanders's most ambitious work to date, spilling forth its first four decades with shudders of investigative glee. Casually dismantling the position of historian as objective authority, Sanders takes the reader year by year through America's tumultuous passage into industrialization, focusing on the efforts of the country's spirited, fragmented left-wing to bring forth measures of democratic equality and justice in the face of ever-present labor abuses. Sanders, who has spent years working on a journalistic method of poetry-as-history (Chekhov; 1968: A History in Verse), here manages effortless precision and tonal confidence, all the while maintaining a radical perspective: "April 21/ air ace Manfred von Richthofen/ was shot down/ June/ `Share or die' the Bolsheviks shouted/ as they ordered the nationalization of industry/ and shudders zoomed through the board rooms of Wall Street/ Tremble, o Greed heads, tremble" ("1918"). The snappy, episodic structure of the book makes it highly accessible without sacrificing detail or smarts, and Sanders's irreverent humor manages to lend credibility to his defiantly liberal historic framing: "The Progressives supported suffrage/ while wince-minded Wilson/ would not come out for it!/ feeling it was an issue for the states!/ --Racism and women's rights/ not visited at all by/ the whitebread campaign o' '12." Sanders's plainspoken poetry will no doubt dismay the right-leaning, as well as lefties who equate radicalism with formal difficulty. But in its exactness, spirited stand-taking and expansive vision, his verse history proves a remarkable achievement.

Tales of Beatnik Glory
by Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders's mock-heroic (and heroic) odyssey follows poet, filmmaker, and activist Sam Thomas, editor of Dope, Fucking, and Social Change, and a variegated cast of castoffs, dropouts, peaceniks, freakniks, and mendicant filthniks, from Kansas through the beatnik and hippie countercultures of New York City's Lower East Side and Greenwich Village. From the Freedom Rides and confrontations with the Alabama Klan to the "hate-dappled" Summer of Love, Tales of Beatnik Glory is the epic of America in the sixties, in a language of droll invention and stoned mythopoesis, from a man who once dared to exorcise the Pentagon. This revised edition adds two new volumes and includes twenty-five never-before-published stories

1968
by Ed Sanders
Not only does Mr. Sanders' epic present an invaluable history lesson factoid-wise on a pivotal year in American culture mainstream & counter(indeed, 1968, A History in Verse should be on the reading list of every enlightened middle & high school American History class), as a work of free verse it stands among the Fug-bard's best, with images that will burn into the reader's brain with the intensity of words etched in acid, as Sanders cocks his snoot at Time the thief & regains for us much that was lost over the course of that fateful year a century-past (a year when, indeed, so much was lost), a poignant goodbye & a funtime for all who refuse to say goodbye to peace & love & justice, from one who survived a season in hell while stealing pieces of heaven, fighting right on the front lines, armed with nothing but daisies, music & the Holy Goof.

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