Song Name: "My Lai Mama" Artist: DEVO
* Booji Boy's Basement discs A001, A027 (same recording) Run Time: unknown Year Written: by 1972 Year Demo Recorded: Unknown, if at all Year Released: Never Years Performed: 1974 Writing Credits: Unknown Sung By: Gerald Casale Personnel Jim Mothersbaugh (percussion), Bob Mothersbaugh (guitar), Mark Mothersbaugh (synthesizer), Gerald Casale (bass, also on original demo), Bob Lewis (slide guitar on original demo), Peter Gregg (lead guitar on original demo) Demo Versions: 1972 Song Connections: 1974 live version segues from "(She Didn't Know I Was A) Midget"
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| - Song Name: "My Lai Mama" Artist: DEVO
* Booji Boy's Basement discs A001, A027 (same recording) Run Time: unknown Year Written: by 1972 Year Demo Recorded: Unknown, if at all Year Released: Never Years Performed: 1974 Writing Credits: Unknown Sung By: Gerald Casale Personnel Jim Mothersbaugh (percussion), Bob Mothersbaugh (guitar), Mark Mothersbaugh (synthesizer), Gerald Casale (bass, also on original demo), Bob Lewis (slide guitar on original demo), Peter Gregg (lead guitar on original demo) Demo Versions: 1972 Song Connections: 1974 live version segues from "(She Didn't Know I Was A) Midget"
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| - Song Name: "My Lai Mama" Artist: DEVO
* Booji Boy's Basement discs A001, A027 (same recording) Run Time: unknown Year Written: by 1972 Year Demo Recorded: Unknown, if at all Year Released: Never Years Performed: 1974 Writing Credits: Unknown Sung By: Gerald Casale Personnel Jim Mothersbaugh (percussion), Bob Mothersbaugh (guitar), Mark Mothersbaugh (synthesizer), Gerald Casale (bass, also on original demo), Bob Lewis (slide guitar on original demo), Peter Gregg (lead guitar on original demo) Demo Versions: 1972 Song Connections: 1974 live version segues from "(She Didn't Know I Was A) Midget"
* This song has never been released in its entirety. There are no recordings of the whole song known to be in circulation.
* It only is available as a fragment at the end of Booji Boy's Basement recording A027, right before the tape cuts off. Onstage Behavior: Unknown Mỹ Lai mama, don't you lie to me You're gonna tell me your tale of misery (unknown past this point) None Fan upload: Devo- Midget/My Lai Mama (Cut) (Live In Akron 1974) YouTube.
* The Mỹ Lai Massacre (Thảm sát Mỹ Lai) occurred March 16 1968, during the Vietnam War.
* Bob Lewis says de-evolution's "raison d'etre was a desire to create a universe of discourse that would be both an aesthetic capable of critical analysis and a tool for social justice..."
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