This American Songwriter feature revisits three folk protest songs from the mid-1960s that became emblematic of opposition to the Vietnam War, arguing they still resonate strongly with baby boomers who came of age during the conflict. The piece highlights how folk music, rather than mainstream radio, became the vehicle for anti-war sentiment, with these songs soundtracking demonstrations, draft-card burnings and political dissent throughout the era.

The article picks out Phil Ochs's "I Ain't Marching Any More" (1964), performed at the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests; Pete Seeger's "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" (1967), which criticised President Lyndon B. Johnson's escalation of the war and was famously censored from a television broadcast; and Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier" (1964), which examined individual moral responsibility for war and was later covered by Donovan and Depeche Mode.