Most poignant anti-war song?

Another Man's Cause by The Levellers

"Your Daddy well he died in the Falklands, fighting for another man's cause..."

Sums it all up fairly well...

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is a fantastic song it's gotta be said and anything by Dylan that runs along those lines...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Edwin Starr!!!

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos by Public Enemy and Nineteen by Paul Hardcastle - perhaps not poignant but certainly anti-war...

 

Another Man's Cause by The Levellers

"Your Daddy well he died in the Falklands, fighting for another man's cause..."

Sums it all up fairly well...

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is a fantastic song it's gotta be said and anything by Dylan that runs along those lines...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Edwin Starr!!!

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos by Public Enemy and Nineteen by Paul Hardcastle - perhaps not poignant but certainly anti-war...

 

huh, say it again!

War! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker
War! It’s got one friend, that’s the undertaker
War has shattered many a young mans dreams
Made him disabled bitter and mean
Life is much to precious to spend fighting wars these days
War can’t give life, it can only take it away

War! Huh – Good God y’all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again

 

I got a letter from the government...

...the other day,
I opened it and read it - it said the were suckers,
They wanted me for their army or whatever,
Picture me giving a damn I said never...

 

Nineteen by Paul Hardcastle

In 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war, but it wasn't. It was different in many ways, as so were tose that did the fighting. In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26... In Vietnam he was 19. In inininininin Vietnam he was 19. (TV announcer's voice) The shooting and fighting of the past two weeks continued today 25 miles west of Saigon I really wasn't sure what was going on (Vet's Voice) Nininini Nineteen, 19, Ni-nineteen 19 19,19,19,19 In Vietnam the combat soldier typicaly served a twelve month tour of duty but was exposed to hostile fire almost everyday Ninininininininininin 19 nininininninin 19 Hundreds of Thousands of men who saw heavy combat in Vietnam were arrested since discharge Their arrest rate is almost twice that of non-veterans of the same age. There are no accurate figures of how many of these men have been incarcerated. But, a Veterans Administration study concludes that the greater of Vets exposure to combat could more likely affect his chances of being arrested or convicted. This is one legacy of the Vietnam War (Singing Girls) All those who remember the war They won't forget what they've seen.. Destruction of men in their prime whose average was 19 Dedededededede-Destruction Dedededededede-Destruction War, War Dededede-Destruction, wa-wa-War, wa-War, War Dedededededede-Destruction War, War After World War II the Men came home together on troop ships, but the Vietnam Vet often arrived home within 48 hours of jungle combat Perhaps the most dramatic difference between World War II and VietNam was coming home.. .none of them received a hero's welcome None of them received a heroes welcome, none of them, none of them Nenene Nenene None of them, none of them, none of them (etc...) None of them received a hero's welcome None of them received a hero's welcome According to a Veteran's Administration study Half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffered from what Psychiatrists call Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder Many vets complain of alienation, rage, or guilt Some succumb to suicidal thoughts Eight to Ten years after coming home almost eight-hundred-thousand men are still fighting the VietNam War (Singing Girls) Dedededededede-Destruction Nininininininininin Nineteen, 19, Ni-nineteen 19 19,19,19,19 Nininininininininin Nineteen, 19, Ni-nineteen 19 19,19,19,19 (Soldiers Voice) When we came back it was different.. Everybody wants to know "How'd it happenned to those guys over there There's gotta be something wrong somewhere We did what we had to do There's gotta be something wrong somewhere People wanted us to be ashamed of what it made us Dad had no idea what he went to fight and he is now All we want to do is come home All we want to do is come home What did we do it for All we want to do is come home Was it worth it

 

Metallica- Disposable heros

Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
A servant `til I fall

[Chorus:]
Soldier boy, made of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, Greeting Death
He's yours to take away

Back to the front
You will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blindman
[End Chorus]

Barking of machinegun fire, does nothing to me now
Sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you wear, glory seeker trends
Bodies fill the fields I see
The slaughter never ends

[Chorus]

{Why, Am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, Hell is here} x2

I was born for dying

Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
had no chance to see myself, molded day by day
Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun

 

Let's Start A War (Said Maggie One Day) by The Exploited

Lets start a war said maggie one day
With the unemployed masses we'll just do away
They won't mind, like sheep they'll go
They won't suss us, they'll never know
Lets start a war said maggie one day
Lets start a war said maggie one day
Lets start a war said maggie one day
You fight for your country
You die for their gain
Death and destruction all around
Shops and houses are razed to the ground
Burnt out houses empty shells
Here on earth it's just a mortal hell
Lets start a war said maggie one day
Lets start a war said maggie one day
Lets start a war said maggie one day
You fight for your country
You die for their gain
How they died no one will ever know
They said they would save us as deterrents they would be used
Except they brought destruction to an earth grows no food
No we are gone forever no tombs can hold your names
Lets start a war said maggie one day
Lets start a war said maggie one day
Lets start a war said maggie one day
You fight for your country
You die for their gain

 

Country Joe McDonald & the Fish

1 2 3 what are we fighting for, dont ask me i dont give a dam next stop is Vietnam. 5 6 7 open up the pearly gates. Well I aint got time to wonder why whoopee were all going die

 

To paraphrase Kurt Vonnegutt...

...you might as well write an anti glacier song. Although that was written in the 1950's, and look at glaciers now... melt melt

 

don't suppose Vera lynn'' we'll meet again count's does it? we'll it were sung and made for our forces in 2nd world and me father loved it .. i'm wrong again i think (dunno) ....oh well fook it ....(blaze)

 

Steve Re phone call

Sorted mate, got a plasterer who was between jobs, started when i wanted an in fact he's nearly finished.  </p>



cheers anyway dude.. </p>

PS </p>

PM your address mate, i got summat for you!</p>

 

RE: Steve Re phone call

that's ok ady no probs mate ....(Y)

 

RE: Steve Re phone call

 

When the tigers broke free

<p class="lyrics">It was just before dawn one miserable morning
in black forty-four
when the forward commander was told to sit tight
when asked that his men be withdrawn
And the generals gave thanks as the other ranks
held back the enemy tanks - for a while
And then the Anzio beachhead was held for the price
of a few hundred ordinary lives </p><p class="lyrics">And kind old King George sent mother a note
when he heard that father was gone
It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll
with golden leaf and all
And I found it one day in a drawer of old
photographs hidden away
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp </p><p class="lyrics">It was dark all around
There was frost in the ground
When the tigers broke free
And noone survived from the Royal Fusiliers Company C
They were all left behind
Most of them dead
The rest of them dying
And that's how the High Command took my Daddy from me
</p>

 

The fletcher memorial home

<font size="2">take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings
and they can appear to themselves every day
on closed circuit t.v.
to make sure they're still real
it's the only connection they feel
&quot;ladies and gentlemen, please welcome reagan and haig
mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
mr. brezhnev and party
the ghost of mccarthy
the memories of nixon
and now adding colour a group of anonymous latin
american meat packing glitterati&quot;
did they expect us to treat them with any respect
they can polish their medals and sharpen their
smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while
boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead
safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
with their favourite toys
they'll be good girls and boys
in the fletcher memorial home for colonial
wasters of life and limb
is everyone in?
are you having a nice time?
now the final solution can be applied</font>

 

Goodbye blue sky..

&quot;Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky&quot;
Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the
promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue
sky?

Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all gone, but the pain lingers on.

Goodbye, blue sky
Goodbye, blue sky.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.

 

RE: Zappa lyrics in your signature?

Knebworth, 1978.

What a day............ I think

 

Masters of war - 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
</p>

 

Shipbuilding, Green Fields of France,

any of plenty by Billy Bragg and Da Bomb by The Bucketheads (although it had no lyrics and a catchy tune, it could've been about war, or summat)

Frankie - Two Tribes, and Edwin Starr - War.

Probably, Green Fields of France then, TMTCH version.

 

Easter Parade by the Faith Brothers

about the Falklands War