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Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
The songs here are lyrically explicit in their denunciation of a particular war or war in general. Songs here may also have been designated anti-war songs by their authors. See also: Category:Peace songs
Starr's version of "War" was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970, and is not only the most successful and well-known record of his career, but it is also one of the most popular protest songs ever recorded. It was one of 161 songs on the no-play list issued by Clear Channel following the events of September 11, 2001. [2]
"Down by the Riverside" (also known as "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" and "Gonna lay down my burden") is an African-American spiritual.Its roots date back to before the American Civil War, [1] though it was first published in 1918 in Plantation Melodies: A Collection of Modern, Popular and Old-time Negro-Songs of the Southland, Chicago, the Rodeheaver Company. [2]
Originally seen as humorous, the song today is considered a powerful anti-war song. Except for an initial framing stanza, the song is a monologue by an Irish woman who meets her former lover on the road to Athy, which is located in County Kildare, Ireland. After their illegitimate child was born, the lover ran away and became a soldier.
"Don't Tread on Me" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their self-titled fifth album. The title is connected with the American Revolutionary War. The words "Don't Tread on Me" constitute the motto of the Gadsden flag, and the snake image on the flag is pictured on the cover of the album.
He officially declared Wessel's march, renamed as the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), to be the Nazi Party anthem, [13] [14] which aided in promoting Wessel as the first of many in the Nazi cult of martyrdom. [15] Wessel was buried on 1 March 1930. Contrary to Nazi claims, there were no attacks on the funeral procession. [16]
The song tells about "hit & carry" task groups, whose purpose was to hit hostile aircraft and then carry up catapulted pilots, fallen hardware, and weaponry, about Soviet surprise bombings by the usage of unexploded U. S. bombs and shells, and about daily war-life. The song summarizes that it has been a long time ago, and not all survivors came ...