What are your favorite songs about the Iraq War? Mine are “Dad’s Gonna Kill Me” by Richard Thompson, “The Home Front” and “The Man I Shot,” both by the Drive-By Truckers. The Dad in “Dad’s Gonna Kill Me” is short for Baghdad. “The Home Front” gets bonus points from me for featuring the lyrics “She felt bitch-slapped and abandoned by a world she thought she knew.” I just like the way that sounds.
Cracker has a couple of Iraq/Afghanistan songs on its latest Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey. “Yalla Yalla” is about Iraq in particular. But “The Home Front” is the best Iraq song I know of.