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Day Is Done (song)
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1969 single by Peter, Paul and Mary
"Day Is Done" is a song written by Peter Yarrow. It was recorded by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary and released as a single in 1969.
An anti-war protest song of the Vietnam War era, the song reached No. 21 on BillboardHot 100, and was ranked No. 48 on the Billboard year-end Top Easy Listening Singles chart of 1969.[2]
Background
[edit]"Day Is Done" was written by Peter Yarrow in 1968, and it was the last single that Peter, Paul and Mary recorded together as a group (the trio's version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane", released as a single in 1969, appeared on their Album 1700, released in 1967).[3]
The song was written as an anti-war song during the Vietnam War era.[4] According to Yarrow, it was written from the perspective of his younger brother who faced the possibility of getting drafted into the army.[5] Yarrow performed it as the opening song at a concert during the anti-war march he helped organized in Washington in November 1969.
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