The best anti-war song ever. Ever.

[trof]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8Db7VNgL0&feature=PlayList&p=755AEB284316A015&index=12

[MrPerson]

1. How about Willie McBride?

[trof]

2. OK. What about him? Link?

[MrPerson]

3. The Green Fields of France

Its on you tube.

By the drop kick murphys

[alphafemale]

25. A number of people have covered this song.

One of my favorites is Eric Bogel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzQ6Am-bbc

There's a number of other links on the above page though.

This Bogel version is one I hadn't heard before, as part of it is in German.

[jonnyblitz]

4. Pete Seeger wrote that song. nt

[Inchworm]

15. I got on a Seeger kick and it tanked

I'm happy to know... . . you know.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8492526&mesg_id=8492526

:hug:

[Droopy]

5. It's too pretty for me, but I appreciate the sentiment.

I need my anti-war songs to be ugly, angry, and distorted.

Disposable Heroes by Metallica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQz_eTe4kg

[Xipe Totec]

10. Sometimes juxtaposition is more jarring

One Tin Soldier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCCR2huE2m8

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. Mary Travers is the best,

and she is so young and beautiful in that clip :loveya:

My favorite anti-war song is Masters of War by Dylan .:hi:

[dana_b]

19. Masters of War

is my all time fav anti-war song and Dylan song. I love Pearl am's version too.

[surrealAmerican]

7. Come Away Melinda

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdTyNycfz5Y

[LeftyMom]

8. Maybe it's generational, but I kinda figured an anti-war song should sound angry or bitter

:shrug:

I'm on really, really slow wi-fi, but I'll try to link some things I think are brilliant when I'm on a better connection.

[HopeHoops]

9. Alice's Restaurant

[FarLeftRage]

11. This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6imjvgJFvM&feature=related

[ogneopasno]

12. My fourth-grade teacher would have us sing this, in 1981. And "One Tin Soldier."

Whenever I hear those songs, I think of her.

[malta blue]

13. Bring Em Home - Pete Seeger

No links better than this"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYYhT2xKyfI

[abq e streeter]

14. Kill For Peace , by the Fugs is a great one

Universal Soldier too ( Donovan; but written by Buffy St Marie)

[Silver Swan]

16. Hiroshima

I first heard this 45 years ago. There have been several recordings, including this one by the Byrds. It is still a powerful message.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac0CDpU44fA

[WCGreen]

17. The Band Plyed Waltzing Matilda...

Travelin' Soldier...

Rich Man's War...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lE-YjjZhwc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLBgmbXBOb8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjT6B6IFUU8

[Inchworm]

20. Sad and endearing as it is...

I love this version.

"so they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed... the legless, the armless, the blind and insane. as prouud wounded heroes of "something" ...

:cry:

[CanuckAmok]

22. 21 postsa and not one mention of Phil Ochs' "I Ain't Marchin'"?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pgrKSwFJE

and also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N93OCCBXGXc&feature=related


and just for fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pklr0UD9eSo&feature=related

[WCGreen]

27. And I wrote a fourth verse when I sang that song bck in 2005

at a coffee shop. I can't remember or find that verse. I should have remember that one...

[Condem]

18. Jesus. You guys are forgetting the great Edwin Starr.

War. What is it good for?

[Drunken Girlfriend]

21. Anti war songs

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned 'Give peace a chance',or 'Imagine' by John Lennon.

Here are the 2 songs posted,if anyone cares to watch them.:)

Give peace a chance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk


Imagine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1NIXgjNXDk&feature=related

[alphafemale]

23. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye - Is another that always gets to me

<snip>

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.

<snip>

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.


http://www.ireland-information.com/irishmusic/johnnyihardlyknewye.shtml

[Swede]

24. One- Metallica is a good one,not the best,but powerful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prHD_KliAc&feature=related


I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel the scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, wake me

Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this shit off from me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, wake me

Now the world is gone I'm just one
Oh god, help me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, help me

Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

Landmines has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell

[rucky]

26. War Pigs

and Eve of Destruction