Favorite anti-war song?

[LittleClarkie]

Mine is "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding" by Elvis Costello. I played it three times the day the war started.

I remembered that MTV had done that when Desert Storm began -- or at least when Poppy's deadline passed.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Fortunate Son by CCR.

[Initech]

35. .

[qnr]

2. Probably "One Tin Soldier" n/t

[Aristus]

6. That one's my favorite, too.

We used to sing that song in Sunday school; that was, you know, back when churches preached peace instead of war........

[ghostsofgiants]

3. "Overcome" by Rx Bandits

We've had enough
We've had enough
We've had enough of the politicians
We've had enough yeah
Of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
What we need right now is love, come on
We've had enough of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
All we need right now is love

Turn it up
The future is held in the hands
Who right the textbooks
Ignorance is bred when falsified thinking is taught
To the youth instead of
Past mistakes and mind elevation,
Like the graves that manifest destiny has created
So we can build our
Capitalist consumer based economy,
To build, market,
And sell commodities we don't need
But we are trained to believe like celebrity imaging
Well I'm here to take my feelings back and I hope That you will be with me

I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all screaming.
Ahhhhhhhhh,
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all singing together,
Ooooohhhhhh
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all screaming.
Ahhhhhhhhh
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all singing together,
Ahhh,

I can't wait for the day
When I hear us all screaming,
HERE COMES THE REVOLUTION.
When every race color
And creed of militant human beings stand up
With fists together for substance and true meaning
Because right now we got our feet stuck in cement
We're too caught up in
A material status quo punishment
And one thing is for sure
And that's the sun will always set,
Darling you can bet our moon is quite the opposite
So baby take a axe to your makeup kit
Set ablaze the billboards and their advertisements
Love with all your hearts and never forget
How good it feels to be alive
And strive for your desire
Just cause you can't see
Your cage doesn't mean that you are free
When there are laws against nature
But its ok for you to be
Addicted to over the counter prescriptions
And magazines dictate all our human relations

I'm not buying, no I'm not giving in
To a culture that objectifies all of our women
I'm not buying, no I'm not consuming
The apathetic dribble on the news media's chin
I'm not buying, no I'm not giving in
The lies that are sold through textbooks to children
I'm not buying, no I'm not consuming
Cause the positive will
Always overcome the negative right

And we stay inside, its right outside,
We stand in line
We all enjoy the fences to keep it at bay
But I'm not giving in

[name not needed]

9. Yeah, that's an awesome song

[XNASA]

4. I just received a "WSFAPLAU" t-shirt in the mail.

I ordered it off of nicklowe.com

[LynneSin]

5. Imagine

True Story:

I was getting in my car heading for a local protest when I heard we were officially going to war. Now I'm not much for listening to commericial radio, but I happened to turn it on and hit a button to get the war off my radio - and the station I picked started to play "Imagine" by John Lennon

[Beaverhausen]

29. That's my fav too

You may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one...

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. "Six White Horses" Waylon Jennings.

:hi:

[edbermac]

8. Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[sakabatou]

39. Second

[Mz Pip]

10. For What It's Worth

Buffalo Springfield.

"Ohio" (Neil Young, I think)

I also like the Who's "Baba O'Rielly."

Mz Pip:dem:

[qnr]

11. I think Ohio is CSN&Y, but there might be other versions n/t

[Mz Pip]

13. You're right

I was thinking of Neil Young's "Rockin in the Free World"

I knew he did something anti-warish.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[qnr]

15. Well, he might have done that, it was, after all, Crosby, Stills, Nash &

Young.

[mac56]

12. "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" by John Lennon

nm

[taterguy]

14. Black Sabbath's War Pigs

I cringed when I saw Ozzy hob nobbing with W. Guess it's true what Joe Strummer said about he who has relations with nuns. My favorite anti-war lyric is David Allen Coe's "He bought our house on the GI Bill, but it wasn't worth what he had to kill to get it."

[Lilith Velkor]

54. My fave

There's nothing quite like a shitload of people singing that song in front of the White House.

Remember when Ozzy pissed on the Alamo? That's probably the reason why George wanted to have a drink with him.

[Deep13]

16. One

Metallica

[LynzM]

46. The video for that is amazingly disturbing...

I never heard that song the same way again, after seeing the video. Chilling.

[AngryAmish]

17. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[LittleClarkie]

18. ??????????

Eh?

[lady raven]

30. I second that "???"

[MsAnthropy]

19. Woodstock--Country Joe and Fish, I think

and it's one-two-three-four

what are we fighting for
don't ask me I don't give a damn
next stop is Vietnam

and it's five-six-seven-eight

open up the pearly gate
ain't no time to wonder why
whoopee we're all going to die

[LittleClarkie]

20. Feelin' Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag

Woodstock is Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.

[MsAnthropy]

22. That's it!

I meant Country Joe was at Woodstock. I'm showing my age and my Alzheimer's!

[Strawman]

21. "I Wanna Destroy You" by The Soft Boys

I wanna destroy you
I wanna destroy you
I wanna destroy you
I wanna destroy you
I feel it coming on again
Just like it did before
They fill your mind with boredom
And they lead you off to war

The way we treat each other
Really makes me feel ill
And if you're gonna fight
Then you're just dying to get killed

I wanna destroy you
I wanna destroy you
I wanna destroy you
I wanna destroy you

A box upon the media
And everything you read
They tell you your opinions
And they're very good indeed

I wanna destroy you

And when I have destroyed you
I'll come pickin' at your bones
And you won't have a single item
Left to call your own

I wanna destroy you
I wanna destroy you
Wanna destroy you
Wanna destroy you
Wanna destroy you

[ZombieNixon]

23. "Let Them Eat War" by Bad Religion.

That is also my favorite song, period. <- (that dot at the end, that's a period. Period.)

[Parrcrow]

24. Toss up between

Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuirre and For What its Worth by Buffalo Springfield.

so many other great ones too.

[LittleClarkie]

28. I can just about play Eve of Destruction on my guitar

That is a good one.

And I have to admit I like "American Idiot" as well.

[bikebloke]

25. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

by The Pogues

[GalleryGod]

26. Ohio & For What It's Worth....A Tie.

They both make me "tear-up" :cry: some 30+ years later.

If you "lived through the context" it is heart rendering.:patriot:

[vanamonde]

27. Eric Bogle's "No Man's Land" n/t

[Tikki]

31. "King of the Hill".....Minutemen...

King of the Hill
....Minutemen*

"what is peace
to the people
who work the land
and die in wars?
it was learned in a game
that was played by us all
who held the top of the hill
from the rest was called the king
and I can't believe it all
was good for humankind
is it peace
to point the guns?
is it war
to fire the guns?
we would run with all of our might
push the king off to take the hill
and to learn who was king
and who makes the better serf
I can't believe it all
was good for humankind
and i have to read the lies
between the lines
believe in this
we are part
of a whole we call the earth
and i have to read the lies
between the lines"

* D. Boon, guitars, singing
Mike Watt, bass
George Hurley, drums

[mulsh]

32. Do you think the Russians want war?

by dick gaughan, Billy Bragg recorded it too:



Do you think that the Russians want war?
These are the parents of children who died in the last one
Do you think that it's possible, knowing their past
That they'd ever consider repeating the last
When 20 million were slaughtered by Nazi invasion?
They died fighting on our side, you know,
In a fight to defend humankind
Against Nazi terror and hatred

In the name of humanity, bitterly torn
In the name of our children as yet to be born
Before we do that which can never be undone I beg of you
Think, think again, and again and again and again and again

Do you think that the Russians want war?
They're the sons and the daughters of parents who died in the last one
Do you think that they'd want to go through that again
The destruction, the bloodshed, the suffering and pain?
In the second world war out of every three dead one was Russian
If we try with all of our power
Can we not find a way
To peacefully settle our difference?

Do you think that the Russians want war?
Will the voice of insanity lead you to total destruction?
Will you stumble to death as though you were blind?
Will you cause the destruction of all humankind?
Will you die because you don't like their political system?
There will be no survivors you know
No one left to scream in the night
And condemn our stupidity

[KyndCulture]

33. I do an anti-war podcast and I've found lots of new songs...

I get a request for this one about every 2 weeks.... Here's the mp3 for it... it's VERY upbeat and the message is right on!

Teach Peace by The Thomas Connor Band

http://s91177897.onlinehome.us/mp3/108-Teach-Peace.mp3



Here's the website for my "Not in Our Name" Peace and Protest podcast if anybody wants to listen to a couple shows...

http://www.radionewsamerica.com/media/nion/nion.html

[TallahasseeGrannie]

34. Where have all the flowers gone?

And I think Oh Danny Boy is antiwar, really.

And I love Springsteen's version of WAR.

Also, Born in the USA.

[Initech]

36. "WWIII" by KMFDM

[Liberalynn]

37. Okay probably sappy

but "Blowing In the Wind"

[LittleClarkie]

40. Dylan sappy? Nevah!

Good one.

[StellaBlue]

38. Fortunate Son

hands down.

play it, blaring from my car, at least once every fortnight.

[1monster]

41. The Green Fields of France

http://www.aftermathww1.com/stream/ericbogle.html (listen to it here)

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 grave side?
And I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916.
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, 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 ye as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest'?

And 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 always 19?
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind some glass-pane
In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

Chorus

Well the sun's shining now on these green fields of France,
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance.
The trenches are vanished long under the plough
No gas, and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
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 now Willie McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
You really believed that this war would end war?
But the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame -
The killing and dying - it was all done in vain.
For Willie McBride, it's all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again.

Chorus

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

42. "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle

(and covered by The Pogues)

This song made a HUGE impression on me as a kid. My parents picked up an album of Australian folk songs on a visit to Sydney when I was about 5 and this stood out head and shoulders from the rest. Incredible song.

Link to Bogle singing it in a radio station (he talks about it for the first two minutes):
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/bandplayed.ram

--------LYRICS-------

When I was a young man, I carried my pack.
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray's 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,
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 cheers,
Flagwaving and tears
We sailed off for Gallipoli


When I remember that terrible day
When our 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
Oh he primed himself well.
He rained us with bullets,
And he showered us with shells.
And in five minutes flat,
We were all blown to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.

And the band played Waltzing Matilda,
As we stopped to bury our slain.
And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs,
And it started all over again.

Those who were living,
Just tried to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for seven long weeks,
I kept myself alive,
While around us the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell,
Knocked me ass over head
And when I awoke in my hospital bed,
And saw what it had done,
Christ I wished I was dead.
Never knew there were worse things than dying.

And no more I'll go Waltzing Matilda,
All around the green bush far and near
For to hump tent and pegs
A man needs both legs
No more Waltzing Matilda for me.

So they collected the wounded
The crippled, 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 me legs used to be.
And thanked Christ there was no one there 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,
And turned all their faces away

And now every April,
I sit on my porch,
And I watch the parades pass before me.
I see my old comrades,
How proudly they march.
Renewing their dreams of past glories
I see the old men, all tired stiff and sore
The weary old heroes of 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 still answer the call
But year after year,
Their numbers grow fewer
Someday 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 by that billabong
Who'll come a'waltzin' matilda with me?

[painted_black]

43. Holiday

by Green Day

Say, Hey! (pshaaah)

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery"
And bleed
The company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives on holiday.

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line
To find
The money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? Amen.
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men
A gag
A plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

The representative from California has the floor

Zieg heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment,
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang, Bang goes the broken glass, lads
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire seting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws, yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives,
On holiday

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

44. "Golden Ribbons" by Kenny Loggins

L & M did a fantastic live rendition for their "On Stage" double album.

[elshiva]

45. "Let There Be Peace On Earth" --the hymn

[tuvor]

47. DOA's cover of Edwin Starr's "War"

The old farts played it at the Vancouver Art Gallery the day of the worldwide protests just before bush started his war of choice.

[qnr]

50. I just listened to Edwin Starrs version earlier today.

Good God y'all!

[WMliberal]

48. Marx Brothers "We're Going to War!"

Hail Freedonia, yo.

[NoPasaran]

49. I ain't marching anymore---Phil Ochs

[LittleClarkie]

52. Oh yeah, forgot about that one

Good one

[mtowngman]

51. Everywhere-Billy Bragg

Everywhere


<<<
Dig in boys for an extended stay
Those were the final orders to come down that day
Waiting to be saved in the Philippines
You'll wait forever for the young Marines

Now I believe to be here is right
But I have to say I'm scared tonight
Crouching in this hole with a mouth full of sand
What comes first the country or the man

Look at those slanted eyes coming up over the hill
Catching us by surprise, it's time to kill or be killed

Over here, over there, it's the same everywhere
A boy cries out for his mama before he dies for his home

All my life I wanted to be
As clever and strong as my best friend Lee
We grew up together along Half Moon Bay
Lee was Japanese, born in the USA

When Tommy was fighting Jerry along the River Seine
Me and Lee wanted to do the same
Then they bombed Pearl Harbour at the break of day
I was headed for these islands while Lee was hauled away

They said look at his slanted eyes, he's guilty as guilty can be
Sent here as enemy spies to sabatage the Land of the Free

I never got home, my platoon was never saved
That little fox hole became my island grave
Lee got out of jail but a prisoner he remained
Till he ended his own life to lose that ball and chain

And they said Oh Little Slanted Eyes can't you forgive and forget
And he said, Oh Mr Friendly Ghost
Can you catch water in a net?

WORDS & MUSIC: Greg Trooper and Sid Griffin

[LittleClarkie]

53. What, no Alice's Restaurant Massacre? With full orchestration

and four part harmony?

Dang, can't believe I forgot that one myself. I'm working on learning it on the guitar, or as Arlo would say gee-tar.