Post a song about a historical conflict. I'll start

[Chasstev365]

Warren Zevon: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. (The 1966-1967 Congo War)

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[biophile]

1. The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton

[Maninacan]

19. Jimmy Driftwood

The Jimmy Driftwood version has a somewhat naughty verse in it . Funny

[rampartd]

23. ..."down the mississiippi river to the gulf of america?" n/t

[biophile]

43. Yes I must have listened to that a thousand times in my childhood

My brother was five years older but it might have been my dad’s record.

[True Dough]

2. 'Tear the Fascists Down'

by Woody Guthrie

That song still applies to our modern times, unfortunately.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Please, Mr. Custard by Larry Verne

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[hlthe2b]

4. "The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down" --The Band

(I miss them all, but especially Levon Helm... sigh...)

[unblock]

5. The night Chicago died

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[niyad]

6. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"

[Mad_Dem_X]

7. Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)

[Chasstev365]

17. Great song!

[Ptah]

8. VietNam Song

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. That's the "'Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die' Rag" (n.t.)

[Ptah]

20. It's the Fish Cheer.

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. The Fish Cheer is

"Gimme an 'F'...

[Ptah]

39. Do you enjoy the song?

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. I have

since my sister got the album some 55 years ago.

Why do you ask?

[Ptah]

45. I have joined the Association Against Pendantics.

The song boils my blood.

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Oh

What are pendantics?

[Ptah]

47. They are people that

swing like a pendulum do

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. You don't like Britons?

[Ptah]

53. The uncertainty of those people disappointments me.

[niyad]

9. "March of the Women" Ethel Smyth

[Chasstev365]

10. Two More

The Kinks - Some Mother's Son (WW I)

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Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army (Northen Ireland and the British Empire)

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[Harker]

11. WWII.

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[Easterncedar]

52. First song that came to my mind! I love it

[Harker]

59. Same here.

Al Stewart has a sweet spot for history.

I can't think of anyone else who has Heinz Guderian in their lyrics.

[Wiz Imp]

12. Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2

[Wiz Imp]

13. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues

[Chasstev365]

14. How could I forget? Yes this is real: It was cut from the Blues Brothers movie

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It would have been in the country bar scene. Very sad they cut it.

[Wiz Imp]

15. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

[Wiz Imp]

18. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

[Donkees]

21. Sting - They Dance Alone

One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance

[applegrove]

22. Hamilton. I saw the musical Hamilton last night.

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All the songs were so pretty. The singing and dancing amazing. The humour lovely. It was sublime. I learnt so much history. It covered all the years of the US War of Independence and the first few administrations. It was emotional. It never slowed down. Some of the conflicts were done in rap offs. I will definitely see it again.

[thucythucy]

24. Country Joe--The March of the Dead

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This whole album is about WWI.

[Chasstev365]

25. Phil Ochs

I Ain't Marching Anymore

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Is There Anybody Here?

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[justaprogressive]

26. Song of Roland - written in the 11th century

[Borogove]

27. Ballad of the Alamo, by Marty Robbins.

[Coloradan4Truth]

28. Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

[GreenWave]

29. The wearing of the green

[GreenWave]

30. 3 rules of discipline and 8 rules of attention

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[raging moderate]

31. The Battle Hymn of the Republic. By Julia Ward Howe.

Please, somebody, post a link here. How horrible all this would be for the members of the original Republican Party, such as Julia Ward Howe, or Ulysses S. Grant.

[Eugene]

32. Sink the Bismarck - Johnny Horton

[Chasstev365]

33. See my Blues Brothers version on the tread.

[Eugene]

34. The Price of a Mile - Sabaton

[jmowreader]

35. Anything on Sabaton's "The Great War"

Swedish Metal band Sabaton did an entire concept album about World War I. Sabaton dies a lot of songs about historical battles, but this is their only album that's about one war - there are songs about Lawrence of Arabia, the Marines at Belleau Wood and the Red Baron on it.

Since we must pick one, let's post "82nd All The Way" which is abuut 82nd Infantry Division hero Sgt. Alvin York.

[Cloudhopper]

36. Zombie - The Cranberries

[ZDU]

37. The Lebanon

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[Rastapopoulos]

40. Fernando

Although it's not clear what ABBA was singing about, I'm guessing the Spanish Civil War.

[JoseBalow]

42. I'm surprised you chose that ABBA song...

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[synni]

55. It's about the Mexican revolution

Longtime ABBA fan here...my DU user name is Frida's middle name.

[JoseBalow]

41. Trouble Every Day

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[NoPasaran]

49. So Long Mom I'm Off To Drop The Bomb

The great Tom Lehrer

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[LogDog75]

50. Comanche (The Brave Horse)

By Johnny Horton. It's about a Comanche Indian (Brave Horse) who died at Custer's feet.

[Skittles]

51. Winds of Change

symbolizing the end of the Cold War

[Bayard]

54. James Taylor, "Far Afghanistan"

Back home Indiana, we just learn to get along
Civilized and socialized they teach you right from wrong
How to hold your liquor and how to hold your tongue
How to hold a woman or a baby or a gun

But nothing will prepare you for the far Afghanistan
You can listen to their stories and pick up what you can
You listen to their stories maybe read a book or two
Until they send you out there, man you haven’t got a clue

Oh the Hindu Kush, the Band-e Amir, the Hazara

They tell you a tradition in the hills of Kandahar
They say young boys are taken to the wilderness out there
Taken to the mountain alone and in the night
If he makes it home alive they teach him how to fight

They fought against the Russians, they fought against the Brits
They fought old Alexander, talking ‘bout him ever since
And after 9/11 here comes your Uncle Sam
Another painful lesson in the far Afghanistan

I was ready to be terrified and ready to be mad
I was ready to be homesick, the worst I’ve ever had
I was ready to be terrified and ready to be mad
I was ready to be homesick, the worst I’ve ever had
I expected to be hated and insulted to my face
But nothing could prepare me for the beauty of the place

No matter what they tell you all soldiers talk to God
It’s a private conversation written in your blood
The enemy’s no different, badass holy wind
That crazy bastard talks to God and his God talks back to him

[LeftInTX]

56. Billy Don't Be a Hero...(Sorry I was just watching a YouTube video on worst songs from the 70s)

[Chasstev365]

57. LOL!

[10 Turtle Day]

58. Leningrad

By Billy Joel

[some_of_us_are_sane]

60. Joan Baez, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train
Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well

Last year of the Civil War.