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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Anti War Songs Continued: Vietnam

  • "8th of November" - Big and Rich (2006)

  • "19" – Paul Hardcastle (1985)

  • "2 + 2 = ?" – Bob Seger System (1968)

  • "50,000 Names" - George Jones (2001)

  • "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" – Arlo Guthrie (1967)

  • "American Woman" – The Guess Who (1970)

  • "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" – The Temptations (1970)

  • "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by Terry Nelson (1971)

  • "The Big Parade" - 10,000 Maniacs (1989)

  • "Billy Don't Be a Hero" – Paper Lace (also recorded by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods) (1974)

  • "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" – Public Enemy (1989)

  • "Born in the USA" – Bruce Springsteen (1984)

  • "Bring The Boys Home" – Freda Payne (1971)

  • "Bring Them Home" – Pete Seeger (1966)

  • "Calley" - Dog Faced Hermans (1994)

  • "Civil War" – Guns N' Roses (1990)

  • "Charlie Don't Surf" – The Clash (1980)

  • "Child in Time" - Deep Purple (1970)

  • "Commando - The Ramones (1977)

  • "Copperhead Road - Steve Earle (1988)

  • "Daddy Won't Be Home Anymore" - Dolly Parton (1988)

  • "Dear Uncle Sam" - Loretta Lynn (1965)

  • "Five To One" - The Doors (1968)[citation needed]

  • "Fortunate Son" – Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

  • "For What It's Worth (Stop, What's That Sound?)" - Buffalo Springfield (1967)

  • "The Grave" – Don McLean (1971)

  • "Galveston" - Glen Campbell (1969)

  • "Goodnight Saigon" - Billy Joel (1981)

  • "The Great Compromise" - John Prine (1972)

  • "Guns, Guns, Guns" – The Guess Who (1972)[citation needed]

  • "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" – John Lennon (1971)

  • "Harvest for the World" – The Isley Brothers (1976)

  • "Hello Vietnam" - Johnnie Wright (1965)

  • "I Ain't Marching Anymore" – Phil Ochs (1965)

  • "I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam" – John Lee Hooker (1968)

  • "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" – Country Joe and the Fish (1967)

  • "I Should Be Proud" – Martha and the Vandellas (1970)

  • "I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)" – Redgum (1983)

  • "Inoculated City" – The Clash (1982)

  • "It Better End Soon" - Chicago (1970)

  • "Jimmy Newman" – Tom Paxton (1969)

  • "Jimmy's Road" - Willie Nelson (1965)

  • "Johnny Come Lately" - Steve Earle (1988)

  • "Kill for Peace" – The Fugs (1966)

  • "Kim's Nightmare" - Miss Saigon Soundtrack (1989)

  • "Last Train to Nuremberg" – Pete Seeger (1970)

  • "Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation" – Tom Paxton (1965)

  • "Machine Gun" - Jimi Hendrix (1970)

  • "March to the Witch's Castle" - Funkadelic (1973)

  • "Moratorium" - Buffy Sainte-Marie (1971)
  • Anti War Songs Continued: WWII

    For World War 2:

    Anti War Songs Continued: Mexican-American War (P.S My source for all of these songs and the previous ones are from Wikipedia)

  • "Fernando" - ABBA (1975)[citation needed]





  • Yup....That's it......

    Anti War Songs Continued: WWI

    For World War One:

    Anti War Songs Continued: American Civil War

    Some war songs for the American Civil War:

    Anti-War Songs: General Peace

    Here are somes songs about peace against war in general:

    Friday, February 11, 2011

    Top 5 Reasons I Want War To End.

    5. Bad economical reasons
    4. Can be pointless when we can just use negotiation
    3. Bad relationships between people/nations
    2. Deaths
    1. Torn families

    What is your Top 5 Reasons War Should End? Let me know in the comments section.

    P.S. I need more followers!!!!!! I HAVEN"T GOTTEN A SINGLE COMMENT! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU STUPID ID-

    PLEASE STAND BY. WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.

    Has War Affected You?

    Do you have a loved one currently fighting in a war? Would you love it if he or she came back home? This is why we need war to stop; we have to reduce mortality. We already have too many global issues, and war is the one which is most overlooked because there are already way too many. In the comments section, let me know if war is war has affected you.

    Books On War

    Adult fiction

     Adult non-fiction

     Teen fiction

     Teen non-fiction

    • Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers - Milton Meltzer, 2002
    • Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace - Hoffman and Lassister, eds. essays, stories, poems, 2003
    • Operation Warhawks: How Young People Become Warriors - Terrence Webster-Doyle, 1993
    • Some Reasons for War: How Families, Myths and Warfare Are Connected - Sue Mansfield, 1988

     Children's fiction

    • The Butter Battle Book - Dr. Seuss, 1984
    • Sunrise over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers, 2008
    • War Game: Village Green to No-Man's-Land - Michael Foreman, 1994
    • When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War - Greenfield, Gilchrist poems and illus., 2006

     Children's non-fiction

    • A Little Peace - Barbara Kerley, 2007
    • Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World - Jane Breskin Zalben, 2004
    • Peace One Day - Jeremy Gilley, 2005

    (Thank you Wikipedia for these books)

    What Do You Think Of War?

    All this time I have been expressing my opinion on war. What about you? I may not have a lot of followers, but i think you need to tell me for once what you think about war and what we should do about it.
    Remember to follow: War: The Taint In Human Blood

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