Does that also apply to translations? Because there’s a song I’d like to translate to English.
Oooh!, another good Prine one, Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore
It’s an allegory of LBJ’s escalation of the Vietnam conflict. It works equally well for other foolhardy wars and leaders, too.
Try this:
Blood on the Risers - The best antiwar songs are ones you’d imagine sung on a march.
The British are the best at bitching to a tune
Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation - Paxton isn’t subtitle but it’s catchy.
Irish by Tonic, not sure if it’s a cover of a traditional tune but it sounds like one.
The Canticle is a recycling of Simon’s earlier “On the Side of a Hill,” referenced by janis_and_c0 above in message #42.
Why don’t you get your fucking facts straight before you spew shit?
The Thresher was on a shakedown cruise (likely unarmed, but why would that even matter?). The sub was slowly diving to check systems, and had what was likely a failure of a water pipe, which caused flooding and a reactor shutdown. The ship sunk below crush depth and was lost.
Your ignorant comment is an insult to the (non-asshole) commander, the Navy, and humanity in general.
Did someone spew shit in your Capt Crunch this morning? Jeez!
Beat me to it. Great song. I knew a couple of military chaplains and introduced it to them.
Minor correction: Eric Burdon and the Animals.
Though inspired by the shootings at Kent State, Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young could be considered an anti-war song since the shootings were in response to protesters who were against the Cambodian Campaign during the Vietnam War.
From The Dawn Patrol (both productions),“Stand to Your Glasses Steady”.
Also from Waits Hell Broke Luce
Yes, it was usedtobe.
Sorry about that.
Tom Paxton’s Jimmy Newman is worth a listen too.
Fortunate Son by CCR
Ed McCurdy’s Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream, which has a stranger history than I ever knew about till I googled it. The song was written in 1950, long before the current anti-war movement, and has been recorded in 76 languages.
Several years ago Wrangler used “Fortunate Son” in a jeans ad. They only used the first few lines:
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Oh they’re red, white and blue
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Fogerty-to-Wrangler-Song-in-ad-ain-t-me-2757730.php
Country Joe and the Fish – I Feel Like I’m Fixing To Die Rag
Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He’s got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We’re gonna have a whole lotta fun.
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(broken because its the Woodstock version of the Fish Cheer)
Tom Lehrer – So Long Mom
This is one of his set-ups for the song
This year we’ve been celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the civil war and the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of world war I and the twentieth anniversary of the end of world war II. All in all it’s been a good year for the war buffs and a number of lps and television specials have come out capitalizing on all this “nostalgia” with particular emphasis on the songs of
various wars. I feel that if any songs are going to come out of world war III we’d better start writing them now. I have one here. you might call it a bit of pre-nostalgia. This is the song that
all of the boys sang as they went bravely of to world war III.
