[Valente]

In need of a list of songs/lyrics (mostly lyrics) that relate to the theme of War, but more specifically civil war. Any help would be appreciated.

Classic Rock would be nice but anything really. Thanks.


Already compiled...

GNR - Civil War (Surprising, I know)

[sean.bonner]

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday ?
Neil Young - War Of Man ?
Anything from his Living With War album ?
Bob Marley - War

those are just the first ones that popped into my head.

[NegPhil]

War Pigs - Black Sabbath
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The Battle of Shiloh Hill- M.G. Smith
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[Bosman]

Depending on which version you want the "War (ugg) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing." song. Edwin Starr is original. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(song)

"Top 10 War Songs" - http://www.ideasfactory.com/music_sound/...ture21.htm

Wikipedia's list - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_war


Sorry... not very civily

And my URL function doesn't seem to want to work.

[Zenith]

Manic Street Preachers - If you tolerate this your children will be next (about the Spainish Civil War)

The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today
But well forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today
But Im a pacifist
Ive walked la ramblas
But not with real intent

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

And on the street tonight an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

Pink Floyd - Dogs of war

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

The dogs of war don't negotiate
The dogs of war won't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

[Lizard King]

Kiss - War Machine

[The Horrible Esthete]

Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" is an essential war protest song

[laliber]

not sure if it is on a list or all ready mentioned (and is folky) but Richie Havens Handsome Johnny is pretty cool ….you can see the song on YouTube - 3:20 mark <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waD2dchFWlk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waD2dchFWlk</a><!-- m -->

also Universal Soldier" by Buffy Sainte-Marie
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[Daryl24]

my fav war song is "eve of destruction" written by P.F. Sloan and performed by Barry McGuire

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[chris]

"1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For?" by Doug Newman

[Tthip]

Prince & the NPG 1998

This is a 26 minute spoken word piece - over some trippy/relaxing/mellow music.
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Chanting, repeated throughout the song:
One, two. Evolution will be colorized.

I can't hear U, say it!
Y'all ain't ready, I can't hear U, say it

Do like this...

One, two. Evolution will be colorized.

This is the War
Right on. [sarcastically]

The war will go on and on and on...
If U don't wanna miss your Saturday morning cartoons...

One, two. Evolution will be colorized.
One, two. Evolution will be colorized.
Yeah... right on. [sarcastically]

The war will go on and on...
Revolution will be...
Revolution will be...
Revolution will be on and on and...

(One, two) {repeated}

The war will go on and on and on
If U do not wish 2 be in the war U should leave now

We are about 2 challenge what U believe
If U do not wish 2 be challenged U should leave now
Saturday morning awaits

Do U love your country?
Do U love God?
Do U love your country as much as U love God?

If the government...
If the government...
If the government wants 2 put a microchip in your neck, heh heh
(Right on)

Do U still love your country?

The war will go on and on
If U do not wish 2 be challenged, leave now
The evolution will be colorized
One, two, the evolution will be colorized

We are running out of the essentials of life:
Oxygen, water, food, fertile earth

Underground right now as we speak, there is a metropolis
Awaiting, waiting... 4 U, me
Clean air, food 2 eat

Will U go, will U go?
Will U go underground 2 this metropolis, this metropolis paradise?

We are running out of the essentials of life here on earth!
Will U go, will U go, will U go?

Don't U love your country?
If your country no longer exists on this earth
But exists under this earth, will U go?

Underneath in this metropolis, there's food 2 eat, clean air
It's a paradise!

One condition: microchip in your neck

One, two, the evolution will be colorized
(Right on)

Would U stay above the metropolis, the microchip city?
Would U stay above and await your fate?

Do U trust your God?

Would U stay on top of the chip and await your fate?

2night U will be challenged, U best leave now
This war will go on and on.

One, two, the evolution will be colorized
One, two, the evolution will be colorized

Without God there is no country
Without God there is no metropolis
Without God there is no oxygen, there is no food to eat
Without God there is no chocolate microchip 4 your neck

Somebody say it!

One, two, the evolution will be colorized
In other words, there'll be a little bit of U and a little bit of me

One, two, the evolution will be colorized
The evolution will be colorized {x2}

1 4 me, 2 4 U
Preach a lie, not the truth
U give me candy and keep the store
Gonna' need it in the war

I said, 1 4 me, 2 4 U
U preach a lie, not the truth
U give me candy and keep the store
Gonna' eat it in the war

Batter up, pitcher down
What your teachers say, it ain't sound
Pledge allegiance 2 your flag
U tie me 2 a truck, 'n' then U drag

1 4 me, 2 4 U
U preach a lie, not a truth
U give me candy and keep the store
U gonna eat it in the war

U give me AIDS, your history
When it comes 2 mine, another name
Many die and this is true
Red, black, yellow, even Jew
Claimin' God was backin' U
All across, what a fool.

1 4 me, 2 4 U
U preach a lie, not the truth
U give me candy, U keep the store
Gonna eat it in the war

Shall I go on?

So U say
U got a cure?
HIV
I'm not sure

Every seed, fruit 2 bear
The great Babylon, I don't care

We know your name, it's the beast
All of God's child is your feast

When the righteous one plant the seed
No more kids with mama please

Only way 2 get there is the truth, y'all
In the war baby, come on me and U!

Come on! One, two. Evolution will be colorized
One, two. Evolution will be colorized
One, two. Evolution will be colorized
Play your organ, son

One Two.
1 4 me, 2 4 U
Preach a lie, not the truth
Give me candy, U keep the store
What the hell is goin' on y'all?

There's a mountain that's mighty high
Can't reach the top unless U fly
Ain't about the money, it's about the gold
21st century, money just got sold, y'all

You hear me?

Money just got sold, y'all
Check the date.
It's has-been
It's all gone
Your pocketbook is next
It's about the gold y'all

One, two, the evolution will be colorized
One, two, the evolution will be
One, two, the evolution will be
The evolution will be
The... evolution... will... be... colorized

(One, two, the evolution will be colorized)
{repeated till end}

[Matchek]

Metallica - One

[prairieman]

not what i'd call classic rock but: the Cranberries, War child

Who will save the war child baby?
Who controls the key?
The web we weave is thick and sordid,
Fine by me.

At times of war we're all the losers,
There's no victory.
We shoot to kill and kill your lover,
Fine by me.

War child, victim of political pride.
Plant the seed, territorial greed.
Mind the war child,
We should mind the war child.

I spent last winter in New York,
And came upon a man.
He was sleeping on the streets and homeless,
He said, "I fought in Vietnam."

Beneath his shirt he wore the mark,
He bore the mark with pride.
A two inch deep incision carved,
Into his side.

War child, victim of political pride.
Plant the seed, territorial greed.
Mind the war child,
We should mind the war child.

Who's the loser now? Who's the loser now?
We're all the losers now. We're all the losers now.

[Zenith]

Metallica - One

Great choice.

[skippy the wonder dog]

Uh.... the most-covered anti-war song there is, or so I've read:

Bob Dylan -- Masters of War

Specifically dealing with civil war:
Bob Dylan -- John Brown (set in US Civil War)
Trad. -- Two Soldiers (US Civil War)
Dire Straits -- side two of Brothers in Arms, esp. One World, Ride Across the River, Brothers in Arms
Bruce Cockburn -- If I Had a Rocket Launcher, Waiting for a Miracle, many others
Woody Guthrie -- Jarama Valley (specific to Spanish Civil War)

Others:
Dylan -- Talkin' WW III Blues, Let Me Die in my Footsteps, With God on our Side, License to Kill
Pink Floyd -- Vera, Bring the Boys Back Home, When the Tigers Broke Free, Goodbye Blue Sky, all of The Final Cut (why anyone would list a Pseudo Floyd song when Waters wrote so many great anti-war songs, I have no idea....)
Roger Waters -- All of Amused to Death
David Gilmour -- Cruise
J. B. Lenoir -- Vietnam Blues
Jimi Hendrix -- Izabella, Machinegun, Earth Blues
Jim Anglin -- Searching for a Soldier's Grave (recorded by Hank Williams, Ralph Stanley, and others)
Pete Seeger -- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (I am sure that, at one time, this was not hopelessly, helplessly sappy....)
The Grateful Dead -- Throwing Stones
Leonard Cohen -- The Partisan
Woody Guthrie -- many pro-WWII songs, such as Lindbergh, The Biggest Thing that Man has Ever Done, Sinking of the Reuben James, Miss Pavilchenko (a lovely ode to a lovely Soviet sniper, with the catchy refrain "nine hundred Nazis you killed with yer gun"), So Long (It's Been Good to Know Ya), When the Yanks go Marching In