Favorite anti-war/protest songs?

[tinfoil tiaras]

K, well I have alot, so I'm just gonna name a few...

*Final Straw-R.E.M.:For being on ATS (Around the Sun), it's a really good song with awesome lyrics. The music's also better than most of the music on ATS (probably because it has a freaking guitar in it!)

*Ohio-Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:Amazing. Need I say more?

*Welcome to the Occupation-R.E.M.: Not a well known one, but the music to it is beautiful and the lyrics are frank and powerful (it's about Iran-Contra, i think?)

That's it (for now) from me, but feel free to contribute! :)

[grannylib]

1. Neil Young's new album is great...

And it's probably not a protest song as such, but Bowie's "I'm afraid of America" sounds like one to me.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. All of The Lost Patrol's "Songs In The Key Of Resistance" album...

Some damn fine protest music right there.

Also:
Bright Eyes - "When The President Talks To God"
Desaparecidos - "Popn' off at the F"
Desaparecidos - "Happiest Place on Earth"
Rise Against - "State of the Union"
Rise Against - "The First Drop"
Protest The Hero - "These Colours Don't Run"
Rx Bandits - "Overcome"
Rx Bandits - "Newsstand Rock"
Closet Monster - "The Empire Strikes Iraq"
Sweatshop Union - "Us"
Sweatshop Union - "Close To Home"
Sweatshop Union - "The Thing About It"
Zack de la Rocha and DJ Shadow - "March of Death"
Pharoahe Monch - "Agent Orange"
Mr. Lif - "Home Of The Brave"
Warsawpack - "Wolfblitzer"
Warsawpack - "Rogue Nation"
Bad Religion - "Let Them Eat War"
Bright Eyes - "Lets Not Shit Ourselves"
Rise Against - "Blood Red, White and Blue"
The Ataris (or Bad Religion) - "Heaven is Falling"
Company Flow - "Patriotism"

There's a lot more I could list, but I'm too lazy to browse the collection at the moment.

[tinfoil tiaras]

3. Shit! Forgot about the first and third ones!!

I love those songs with a passion!

[saged52]

4. always - Ohio

breaks my heart when I hear it -

[tinfoil tiaras]

7. Oh, I know

I wasn't even alive at the time, but damn, that song is sad and really powerful.

[Tikki]

5. ...circa early 70's.....

O'Jays...."For the Love of Money" "Love Train"
Temptations...."Ball of Confusion"
Lamont Dozier....."Fish Ain't Bitin"
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson....."Real Mother For Ya"
WAR......"Why Can't We Be Friends"
Sly and the Family Stone...."Everyday People"

...oh there's more...there's more....


Tikki

[asteroid2003QQ47]

6. I.W.W. SONG

CHRISTIANS AT WAR
By John < >Kendrick
(Tune: "Onward, Christian Soldiers")

Onward, Christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain:
Slay your Christian neighbors, or by them be slain.
Pulpiteers are spouting effervescent swill,
God above is calling you to rob and rape and kill,
All your acts are sanctified by the lamb on high;
If you love the Holy Ghost, go murder, pray and die.

Onward, Christian soldiers, rip and tear and smite!
Let the gentle Jesus, bless your dynamite.
Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod;
Folks who do not speak your tongue, deserve the curse of
God.
Smash the doors of every home, pretty maidens seize;
Use your might and sacred right to treat them as you
please.

Onward, Christian soldiers! Eat and drink your fill;
Rob with bloody fingers, Christ O. K.'s the bill.
Steal the farmer's savings, take their grain and meat;
Even though the children starve, the Saviour's bums must
eat.
Burn the peasant's cottages, orphans leave bereft;
In Jehovah's holy name, wreak ruin right and left.

Onward, Christian soldiers! Drench the land with gore;
Mercy is a weakness all the gods abhor.
Bayonet the babies, jab the mothers, too;
Hoist the cross of Calvary to hallow all you do.
File your bullets' noses flat, poison every well;
God decrees your enemies must all go plumb to hell.

Onward, Christian soldiers! Blighting all you meet,
Trampling human freedom under pious feet.
Praise the Lord whose dollar sign dupes his favored race!
Make the foreign trash respect your bullion brand of
grace.
Trust in mock salvation, serve as pirates' tools;
History will say of you: "That pack of G-- d--- fools."

I.W.W. SONGS

[1monster]

8. The Green Fields of France

by Eric Bogle

Well how do you do Private William McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, Lord and I'm nearly done
I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the great fallen of 1916
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBride was it slow and obscene

Chorus:
Did they beat the drum slowly
Did they sound the fife lowly,
did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down ?
did the bugles sing The Last Post in chorus ?
And did the pipes play the flowers of the forest

Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined
And though you died back in 1916,
to that loyal heart are you forever 19
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Enshrined there forever behind a glass pane
In an old photograph torn and tattered and
stained
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame

Chorus
------
The sun's shining now on the green Fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plough
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned

Chorus
------
And I can't help but wonder young Willie McBride
Do all who lie here with you know why they died
Did you really believe it when they told you the cause
Did you honestly think that one war would end wars
But your suffering, your sorrow, your glory, your shame
Your killing, your dying, it was all done in vain..........
'Cos young Willie McBride it all happened again, and again, and again, and again and again.

Chorus

on edit: The site I copied this from had a few of the lyrics wrong...

[Metta]

9. Malvina Reynolds, Buffy St. Marie and everything by Phil Ochs.

Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Universal Soldier and like I said.

:donut: :donut: :hi:

[Katina]

10. Handsome Johnny ...

sung by Richie Havens and written by Richie & Lou Gossett. Ir was a huge antiwar song back in the woodstock/anti vietnam war days.

HANDSOME JOHNNY
(Lou Gossett / Richie Havens)

Richie Havens

Hey, look yonder, tell me what's that you see
Marching to the fields of Concord?
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a musket in his hand,
Marching to the Concord war, hey marching to the Concord war.

Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Gettysburg?
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a flintlock in his hand,
Marching to the Gettysburg war, hey marching to the Gettysburg war.

Hey, look yonder, tell me what's that you see
Marching to the fields of Dunkirk?
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a carbine in his hand,
Marching to the Dunkirk war, hey marching to the Dunkirk war.

Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Korea?
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M1 in his hand,
Marching to the Korean war, hey marching to the Korean war.

Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Vietnam?
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M15,
Marching to the Vietnam war, hey marching to the Vietnam war.

Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Birmingham?
It looks like Handsome Johnny with his hand rolled in a fist,
Marching to the Birmingham war, hey marching to the Birmingham war.

Hey, it's a long hard road, it's a long hard road,
It's a long hard road, before we'll be free.

Hey, what's the use of singing this song, some of you are not even listening.
Tell me what it is we've got to do: wait for our fields to start glistening,
Wait for the bullets to start whistling.
Here comes a hydrogen bomb, here comes a guided missile,
Here comes a hydrogen bomb: I can almost hear its whistle.