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Vietnam War P.O.W. songs: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrummer/vietnam_war__p_o_w____m_i_a__songs/
Leon Rausch - a country singer, born on 2 October 1927 in Springfield, Missouri. Early in his career he performed with the Western Swing group Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (from 1958 into around 1965-66), as lead singer. In 1973 he released the Vietnam War song "Hanoi Jane" (Derrick # DRC-100) in Dallas, Texas, written by Bill Rogers. The song title referenced Jane Fonda, a famous actress and political activist who visited North Vietnam in 1972, and met with American P.O.W.s. She released a documentary in 1974 with her husband Tom Hayden (referenced in this song), called Introduction to the Enemy, which depicted their travels through North and South Vietnam. Hayden, a political activist, one of the founding members Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), played a major role in the protests outside of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968. He and several others were arrested for inciting riots, and they became known as the "Chicago Seven".

While in Vietnam Fonda posed in a photograph with North Vietnamese soldiers and an anti-aircraft cannon. She urged US soldiers to stop bombing North Vietnam and accused them of being war criminals. As mentioned above, she visited a select group American P.O.W.s, while also delivering 200 letters from P.O.W. families. These P.O.W.s apparently 'volunteered' to meet Fonda for a photo shoot, and many had turned against the war. When the P.O.W.s returned to the US in 1973, the government paraded a selected group of hardliners who supported the president and the war. Those that had met with Fonda were accused of being traitors and threatened with court-martial. One of them, David Wesley Hoffman, claimed that he had been "hung from a hook by his broken arm until he agreed to meet" with Fonda. On 31 March 1973, the Associate Press quoted Fonda as saying that "POWs who reported that they were tortured are hypocrites and liars". Because of these activities, Fonda became known as 'Hanoi Jane'.

The narrator of the song strongly criticised Fonda, and wanted her to "just leave America". Then directly speaking to Fonda, the narrator said: "button up your big mouth and leave our P.O.W.'s alone". The lyrics also mentioned a "Radical Ramsey" - a reference to the former Attorney General Ramsey Clark (under President Johnson, 1967-1969), who also visited Hanoi during the conflict. As Attorney General, he had oversaw the the prosecution of the Boston Five for aiding draft resistance, including pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock and Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin. He later turned against the war.

"Come and listen to our story were gonna tell to you of the
Little bamboo prisons we were in, don't listen to the man
Named Ramsey and the girl called Hanoi Jane, both traitors
To America with communistic brains, I can't understand why
We let them live in America, a nation we all call the promise
Land, Jane called our P.O.W.'s stupid and liars, but she has
Communist, ignorance in her brains, Hanoi Jane, why don't you
Just leave America, button up your big mouth and leave our
P.O.W.'s alone, take your husband and Ramsey and go back to
Hanoi, because baby America knows that's where you belong
Hanoi Jane is nothing but an American traitor, she's running
Down the soldiers who fought for this great land, she's stepping
On the toes of our soldiers who suffered agony and pain
This is the big mouth for Hanoi, that we call Hanoi Jane"