One hit wonder Timmy Thomas wrote the song after he moved to Miami and heard the news on the radio reporting on the number of deaths in the Vietnam war.
He once said in an interview: “WHAT?! You mean that many mothers’ children died today? In a war that we can’t come to the table and sit down and talk about this, without so many families losing their loved ones?” I said, “Why can’t we live together?” Bing! That light went off. And I started writing it there and then.
The song from 1972, notable for being recorded in mono, reached no.6 in the States and no.12 here.
Timmy died of cancer on March 11, 2022, at the age of 77.
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