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"Ants Marching" is a song by American rock group Dave Matthews Band. It was released in September 1995 as the second single from their debut studio album Under the Table and Dreaming. It reached #18 on the Billboard Alternative chart and on the Mainstream Rock chart as well. [2] [3] The song was considered a successful hit single.
The 1880 U.S. presidential election campaign featured a campaign song called "If the Johnnies Get into Power," [16] which supported the Republicans James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur against the "Johnnies" (Democrats Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English). [17] The children's songs, "Ants Go Marching", or "Ants Go Marching One By One ...
The band originally recorded the song with lyrics, but they were removed from the final album cut. The album's title comes from a lyric of the song "Ants Marching": "[He] remembers being small / playing under the table and dreaming". The album was dedicated to Matthews' older sister Anne, who was killed by her husband in 1994 in a murder–suicide.
The music video for the song uses CGI to depict an ant-colony, representing leftists, attacking beetles, representing Nazis.The ants in the video are shown doing human-like tasks such as playing football, watching television, and dancing.
The song "English Civil War" from The Clash's 1978 album Give 'Em Enough Rope incorporates melody and lyrics from the original. The Rugby song "I Met a Whore in the Park" goes to the tune of the song. The Dutch song "Vannacht" by Pater Moeskroen also goes by the tune of this song. PJ Harvey's 2011 song "Let England Shake" modifies and ...
The song was originally written by Dave Matthews as a reply to lawsuits brought by Ross Hoffman, a former associate and manager of the band. Hoffman owned rights to a number of the band's songs in the early 1990s; however, due to creative differences, he was eventually fired by the band, and the band's present manager, Coran Capshaw, was hired ...
Ants want to shelter from the pounding raindrops, but their underground colonies can get flooded. They also can be swept away in the downpour, since ants, like most insects, can float.
Ants Marching" is a song by the Dave Matthews Band. The song features the themes of the monotony of everyday life being like ants marching endlessly to and fro. Both the theme and the music of the song are beloved by fans, being played over 1,000 times live in concert. Dave Matthews himself once declared, "This song is our anthem."