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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould we get a thread going of political and anti-war music suggestions?
as we're likely on the eve of yet another military intervention (aka war)
I'll start with Anti-Flag's 1 Trillion Dollar$
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)It's sounding more and more like the administration is going for a military intervention.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)I used to try to play that one.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Coming again to say the motherfucking day yeah!!
enigmatic
(15,021 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)malaise
(267,824 posts)enigmatic
(15,021 posts)As an aside, I miss D. Boon:
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)BOG PERSON
(2,916 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)tense and interesting.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)WARNING: Do not listen alone in the dark!
chieftain
(3,222 posts)DFW
(54,057 posts)His name is Eric Bogle, and he's originally from Scotland, though he spends most of his time in Australia now. He wrote another anti-war classic called "No Man's Land," recorded by many (Hannes Wader even did a version in German) since, though Eric is still less famous than the people who cover the songs he writes.
I had to give up touring decades ago for my day job, but Eric is still at it. Good for him!
chieftain
(3,222 posts)I almost posted "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" but it is so close to the bone I didn't do it. But here it is:
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)Boccaccio, Calderón, Lord Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton
had never lived we would experience worse wars, usury,
more oppressive fraud, malfeasance and servitude.
I doubt it. I think they functioned as entertainers
who taught nothing. I submit the continuation of
everything they abhorred substantiates my argument.
~ Evan S. Connell
Points for a Compass Rose
"No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?"
"I say, 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book, instead?'"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)I guess I am a 9/11 Iraq Zombie in some ways. I probably will be until there is Justice for the Actions of * & Co.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)I wrote and perform. It's about a soldier in Iraq waking up from a dream about her girlfriend back home.
cali
(114,904 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Here's a anti violence song that's a favorite of mine.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)"For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield
"Eve of Destruction" - Barry McGuire
"Fall of the Peacemakers" - Molly Hatchet
"Signs" - Five-Man Electrical Band
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Political and anti-war both:
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Ptah
(32,983 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Steve Earle's Rich Man's War
Muse: Uprising
easttexaslefty
(1,554 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)This is probably the best anti-war song ever written.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)And it's every month I tear it up and I mail the damn thing back
Do you think that makes it all right? Do you think I'd fall for that?
And you can keep your bloody money: it sure won't bring my Billy back
I never cared for politics, and speeches I don't understand
And likewise never took no charity from any living man
But tonight there's fifty thousand gone in that unhappy land
And fifty thousand Heart-and-Souls being played with just one hand
And my name is Penny Evans and I've just gone twenty-one
A young widow in the war that's being fought in Viet Nam
And I have two infant daughters and I thank God I have no son
Now they say the war is over but I think it's just begun
-- Steve Goodman
easttexaslefty
(1,554 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)easttexaslefty
(1,554 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)easttexaslefty
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)this is the first one that comes to my mind. Hundreds more after this, but this is always first.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Buffy Sainte-Marie
a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli
How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again
Now those that were left, well we tried to survive
In a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me
So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
Then turned all their faces away
And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong
Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?
VOX
(22,976 posts)Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They'd all been warned
And the walls came down
They just stood there laughing
They're not laughing anymore
The walls came down
Sanctuary fades
The congregation splits
Nightly military raids
The congregation splits
It's a song of assassins
Ringin' in your ears
We got terrorist thinking
Playing on fears
Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They'd all been warned
But the walls came down
I don't think there are any Russians
And there ain't no Yanks
Just corporate criminals
playin' with tanks
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_I_Hardly_Knew_Ye
Joan Baez, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye
Johnny I hardly Knew Ye
While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy
A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye
A doleful damsel I heard cry,
Johnny I hardly knew ye.
With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and drums and guns
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye.
Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild
When my heart you so beguiled
Why did ye run from me and the child
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run
When you went for to carry a gun
Indeed your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.
I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home
All from the island of Sulloon
So low in flesh, so high in bone
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg
Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg
Ye'll have to put with a bowl out to beg
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.
They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again
But they never will take our sons again
No they never will take our sons again
Johnny I'm swearing to ye.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)livetohike
(22,084 posts)"Machine Gun"
"Happy new year first of all. I hope we'll have
A million or two million more of them... if we
Can get over this summer, he he he. right I'd
Like to dedicate this one to the draggin' scene
That's goin' on all the soldiers that are fightin'
In chicago, milwaukee and new york... oh yeas, and
All the soldiers fightin' in vietnam. like to do
A thing called 'machine gun'."
Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart
Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart
Evil man make me kill ya
Evil man make you kill me
Evil man make me kill you
Even though we're only families apart
Well I pick up my axe and fight lik a bomber
(you know what I mean)
Hey and your bullets keep knocking me down
Hey I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now
Yeah but you still blast me down to the ground
The same way you shoot me down baby
You'll be going just the same
Three times the pain
And your own self to blame
Hey machine gun
Oooooooooo
I ain't afraid of your mess no more, babe
I ain't afraid no more
After a while your your cheap talk don't evern cause me pain
So let your bullets fly like rain
'cause I know all the time you're wrong baby
And you'll be goin' just the same
Yeah machine gun
Tearing my family apart
Yeah yeah alright
Tearing my family apart
Don't you shoot him down
He's about to leave here
Don't you shoot him down
He's got to stay here
He ain't going nowhere
He's been shot down to the ground
Oh where he can't survive no no
Yeah that's what we don't wanna hear any more, alright
No bullets
At least here, huh huh
No guns, no bombs
Huh huh
No nothin', just let's all live and live
You know instead of killin'
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 25, 2013, 09:47 PM - Edit history (1)
Written by Bob Dylan, I love this version by Peter, Paul and Mary.
TYY
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)TYY
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Not "anti-war" per se but certainly political...
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)kas125
(2,472 posts)someone I love, Tomas Young.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)love it
kas125
(2,472 posts)is so wrong and so heartbreaking. And it's looking more and more as if we're going to do it again to more kids soon...
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kas125
(2,472 posts)And speaking of Barlow, we all owe him and his EFF a great debt of gratitude for not giving up and keeping their case against the NSA going. It finally may achieve its' goal.
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kas125
(2,472 posts)we really ARE everywhere!
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kas125
(2,472 posts)Of all the millions of people who lived before us, and all the millions who will come after us, we were here at the right time to witness and be part of it. I am forever grateful.
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MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Washington Bullets
Charlie Don't Surf
Straight to Hell
The Call Up
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
XTC - Generals and Majors, Living Through Another Cuba
ELP - Lucky Man
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)"911 For Peace"
It's in the paper every day
I see it in the headlines and I feel so sick, yeah
Another life leaves this world (this world) so full of hate
But short
Short on compassion
Short on humanity
Asking myself in vain, shaken by the shock,
"do we even have a chance?"
I don't wanna die
(I don't wanna kill)
I don't wanna kill
(I don't wanna die)
We are all human.
It's time to prove it.
This is a plea for peace (world peace)
To the oppressors of the world and to
To the leaders of nations, corporate profit takers,
to the everday citizen
Greed, envy, fear, hate-- the competition has to stop.
When you see someone down, now's the time to pick them up
Set our differences aside and never look back, no
I don't wanna die
(I don't wanna kill)
I don't wanna kill
(I don't wanna die)
We are all human
It's time to prove it.
Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? (hey, hey)
Isn't everybody tired of the killing? (hey, hey)
Isn't everybody tired of the dying? (hey, hey)
Isn't everybody tired of the hatred? (hey, hey)
Violence.. fighting... killing...dying.. aaaaaah!!
-excerpts from Martin Luther King-
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream
we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,
black men and white men
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join
hands and sing
"Free at last, free at last.
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
I don't wanna die
(I don't wanna kill)
I don't wanna kill
(I don't wanna die)
We are all human
It's time to prove it.
We are all human
It's time to prove it.
We are all human...
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)Tikki
DFW
(54,057 posts)clip: http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/the-freedom-toast/album/sing-along-with-the-republicans/track/when-johnny-comes-rolling-home
I don't know of the full version being out there for free on the net. The Toast got a bag full of hate mail from the Bushies on this one.
Here are the full lyrics:
When Johnny comes rolling home again, IRAQ, IRAQ!
We know hell never roam again, IRAQ, IRAQ!
His legs dont work, and his shoulder droops.
But thats OK: we support the troops!
We will all think twice when Johnny comes rolling home.
When our boy comes back broke and bent, IRAQ, IRAQ!
Well wonder why he ever went, IRAQ, IRAQ!
Dick Cheney got all his contracts done
And Dubya proved hes the favorite son
But well all think twice when Johnny comes rolling home.
The White House thinks they did the job IRAQ, IRAQ!
They never heard our Johnny sob, IRAQ, IRAQ!
They never found what they went to find,
And they give no thought to those left behind.
Bush will not be there when Johnny comes rolling home.
We wait for Johnny to arrive, IRAQ, IRAQ!
We know hes more dead than alive, IRAQ, IRAQ!
He joined to fight for the U S A,
He never thought hed get tossed away
And well all wake up when Johnny comes rolling home!
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Draft Dodger Rag
One More Parade
Cops of the World
Song Of A Soldier
The War Is Over
Heidi
(58,237 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Eric Bogle wrote it in 1971.
A close second would be his "Willie McBride" aka No Mans Land