Could we get a thread going of political and anti-war music suggestions?

[cali]

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]

1. I don't think we'e going, but a good excuse to post Sam Stone anyway

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[cali]

2. I hope you're right. I fear you're wrong.

It's sounding more and more like the administration is going for a military intervention.

[kentuck]

17. +1000

I used to try to play that one.

[backscatter712]

3. For mockery of jingoistic douchebags, go for America! Fuck Yeah!

[cali]

5. I can't stop laughing

[Initech]

73. I used to hang out at this piano bar and I'd get them to play that every time.

Coming again to say the motherfucking day yeah!!

[enigmatic]

4. "I Ain't Marching Anymore"- Phil Ochs

[limpyhobbler]

63. This is completely brilliant.

[malaise]

6. We had this great thread back in 2007

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2097391

[enigmatic]

7. "King Of The Hill"- Minutemen

As an aside, I miss D. Boon:

[limpyhobbler]

53. oohh that was good

[backscatter712]

8. Ministry's good if you're into industrial metal

[KittyWampus]

9. chemical warfare:

[BOG PERSON]

10. Suicide - Rocket U.S.A.

[cali]

11. thanks. that's new to me.

tense and interesting.

[nomorenomore08]

46. And of course, by the same guys, there's always "Frankie Teardrop":

WARNING: Do not listen alone in the dark!

[chieftain]

12. From WWI

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[DFW]

58. That was written by a guy I played a festival with in 1975

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]

75. I love Eric Bogle.

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]

13. Ineffective response, but it can warm the heart . . .

People like to say that if Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer,
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

"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?"

"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]

14. Green Day, American Idiot.

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.

[catnhatnh]

15. done

[Zorra]

16. Here's an original song

I wrote and perform. It's about a soldier in Iraq waking up from a dream about her girlfriend back home.

[cali]

18. that's lovely, thank you.

[Zorra]

29. Thanks, glad you like it.

Here's a anti violence song that's a favorite of mine.

[lastlib]

19. "Wooden Ships" - Crosby, Stills & Nash

"For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield
"Eve of Destruction" - Barry McGuire
"Fall of the Peacemakers" - Molly Hatchet
"Signs" - Five-Man Electrical Band

[IDemo]

20. "We Can't Make it Here" - James McMurtry

Political and anti-war both:

[adirondacker]

60. Excellent choice! nt

[HarveyDarkey]

21. Anything by Utah Phillips, and his collabs with Ani DiFranco

[Ptah]

22. Jackson Browne Lives In the Balance

[cali]

23. a couple more

Steve Earle's Rich Man's War

Muse: Uprising

[easttexaslefty]

24. Traveling solider:

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[limpyhobbler]

57. This is really good.

This is probably the best anti-war song ever written.

[struggle4progress]

25. The Ballad of Penny Evans

And now every month I get a check from an Army bureaucrat
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]

26. Devils and dust

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[PoliticAverse]

27. Masters of War...

[easttexaslefty]

28. War. What is it good for?

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[Shankapotomus]

30. Sting ~ This War

[easttexaslefty]

31. Neil young

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[annabanana]

32. Monster / Steppenwolf

[Curmudgeoness]

76. Every time I think of an anti-war song

this is the first one that comes to my mind. Hundreds more after this, but this is always first.

[Zorra]

33. Universal Soldier ~ 1964

Buffy Sainte-Marie

[a la izquierda]

34. Against Me! From her lips to God's ears

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[alarimer]

35. American Idiot

[WilliamPitt]

36. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by the Pogues

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]

37. The Call: "The Walls Came Down"

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]

38. "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"

"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" (also known as Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye or Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya) is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song. It is generally dated to the early 19th century, when Irish troops served the British East India Company. The original refers to the soldiers from Athy, County Kildare that fought in "Sulloon" (Ceylon – present day Sri Lanka) for the East India Company (in what history knows as the Kandyan Wars though the term was not familiar to the Irish). It has become a definitive anti-war song. ....

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]

39. "The Cruel War" and "The Times They Are a Changing"

[livetohike]

40. Machine Gun - Hendrix (warning....graphic pictures of war in video)

"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]

41. Blowing in the Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary...

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Written by Bob Dylan, I love this version by Peter, Paul and Mary.

TYY

[pinboy3niner]

42. Eve of Destruction

[kelliekat44]

43. Marvin Gaye...What's Goin' On ?

[TeeYiYi]

44. Gun Shy by 10,000 Maniacs...

TYY

[HarveyDarkey]

45. The band Op-Critical, it's all they do

[nomorenomore08]

47. Cabaret Voltaire - "Sensoria"

Not "anti-war" per se but certainly political...

[PowerToThePeople]

48. CCR

[kas125]

49. Eddie Vetter's No More - the theme song for the movie Body of War, which is about

someone I love, Tomas Young.

[limpyhobbler]

52. perfect.

love it

[kas125]

66. Thanks. I love it, too. What has been done to Tomas and so many other kids

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...

[kas125]

64. Barlow says he wrote Throwing Stones after meeting Cheney and that it's about him.

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.

[kas125]

67. I guess what they always said is true -

we really ARE everywhere!

[kas125]

69. LOL, we had a lot of them. But to be serious for a second, do you realize just how lucky we are?

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.

[MannyGoldstein]

51. Some from The Clash

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]

54. More Anti-flag - 911 For Peace

"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]

55. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down-Joan Baez

[Tikki]

56. "Search and Destroy" Iggy and the Stooges,"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"RAMONES, "Dead Heroes".Red Rockers

Tikki

[DFW]

59. When Johnny Comes Rolling Home Again (Iraq, Iraq) by The Freedom Toast

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 he’ll never roam again, IRAQ, IRAQ!
His legs don’t work, and his shoulder droops.
But that’s 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!
We’ll wonder why he ever went, IRAQ, IRAQ!
Dick Cheney got all his contracts done
And Dubya proved he’s the favorite son
But we’ll 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 he’s more dead than alive, IRAQ, IRAQ!
He joined to fight for the U S A,
He never thought he’d get tossed away
And we’ll all wake up when Johnny comes rolling home!

[adirondacker]

61. War Pigs covered by Cake...

[Ken Burch]

62. Several by Phil Ochs, of course:

Draft Dodger Rag

One More Parade

Cops of the World

Song Of A Soldier

The War Is Over

[Heidi]

72. Thumbs up!

[Heidi]

71. A few:

[Initech]

74. System Of A Down

[notadmblnd]

77. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker "WAR"

[zipplewrath]

78. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Eric Bogle wrote it in 1971.

A close second would be his "Willie McBride" aka No Mans Land