Billy, don't be a hero

Billy, don't be a hero is a song written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander .

Contents

 * 1 General
 * 2 Paper Lace
 * 2.1 Hitnotering
 * 2.1.1 Belgian BRT Top 30
 * 2.2 UK Singles Chart
 * 3 Bo Donaldson
 * 3.1 Hitnotering
 * 3.1.1 Belgian BRT Top 30

General
It is an anti-war song that singles appeared in 1974 . Because that time it was thought at first that it was a protest song against the Vietnam War but later found out album cover and music video that it was the American Civil War, more than a century earlier.

The song is about a young lady who withdraw from their village sees her husband to walk with a regiment to end the war. She laments:
 * "Billy, do not be a hero! Do not be a fool with your life!
 * "Billy, do not be a hero! Come back and make me your wife!
 * "And as Billy started to go, she said, 'Keep your head pretty low!"
 * "Billy, do not be a hero! Come back to me!"

Described later in the song that Billy still living as late as he courier while searching for reinforcement will be shot. The lock is formed by the woman, the letter from the War Department sent her in connection with the heroic end of his life.

Paper Lace [ edit ]
The British Paper Lace brought it out in 1974 when their debut single, after being "discovered" by the writing duo Murray and Callander. The number reached the first place in England.

[Hitnotering edit ]
In the Netherlands, the song hit not; in Belgium barely.

Bo Donaldson [ edit ]
In the United States was released by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods . This version was two weeks number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100, but in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were allowed to ignore it.

Belgian BRT Top 30 [ edit ]
In Belgium hit song moderately, as did the version of Paper Lace.