Billy Don't Be a Hero



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



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[hide] *1 General  ==General[Edit] == It is an anti-war song that appeared on singles in 1974. Because of that time it was thought at first that it was a protest song against the war in Viet Nam but later showed off record sleeve and video clip that it went to the American civil war, more than a century earlier.
 * 2 Paper Lace
 * 2.1 chart positions
 * 2.1.1 Belgian BRT Top 30
 * 2.2 UK Singles Chart
 * 3 Bo Donaldson
 * 3.1 chart positions
 * 3.1.1 Belgian BRT Top 30

The song is about a young lady who sees her husband walk from their village with a regiment to withdraw to end up the war. She complains:


 * "Billy, don't be a hero! Don't be a fool with your life!
 * "Billy, don't be a hero! Come back and make me your wife!
 * "And as Billy started to go, she said, ' Keep your pretty head low! '
 * "Billy, don't be a hero! Come back to me! "

Later in the song describes that Billy still life as he as a courier while searching for strengthening is shot. The lock is formed by the woman, who sent her the letter from the Ministry of War in connection with the heroic end of his life. ==Paper Lace[Edit] == The British Paper Lace brought it out as their debut singlein 1974, after they were "discovered" by the writing duo Murray and Callander. The song reached the first place in England. ===Chart Positions[Edit] === In Netherlands, the song does not meet; hardly in Belgium. ====Belgian BRT Top 30[Edit] ==== ===UK Singles Chart[Edit] === ==Bo Donaldson[Edit] == {| cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="toccolours vatop infobox" len="3673" style="font-size:12px;border-color:rgb(170,170,170);padding:0px;color:black;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:sans-serif;width:270px;" Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="40" style="vertical-align:top;"|Billy, don't be a hero
 * - len="90" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="52" style="vertical-align:top;"|Single from:
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="62" style="vertical-align:top;"|From the album:
 * - len="340" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="302" style="vertical-align:top;"|(Cover on en.wikipedia.org)
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 * len="166" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|B-side (s)
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|Celia
 * - len="74" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="11" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Released
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|1974
 * - len="285" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="215" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Genre
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="11" style="vertical-align:top;"|protest song
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 * len="171" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Tag
 * colspan="2" len="177" style="vertical-align:top;"|ABC Records
 * - len="257" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="187" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Producer (s)
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="11" style="vertical-align:top;"|Steve Barri
 * - len="142" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="55" style="vertical-align:top;"|Order by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
 * - len="365" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * colspan="3" len="342" style="vertical-align:top;"|
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="1048" style="vertical-align:top;"|

In the United States it 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 left lying. ===Chart Positions[Edit] === ====Belgian BRT Top 30<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[Edit] ==== <p lang="en" len="71" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Belgium, the song regularly, just like the version of Paper Lace.
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