There’s one disturbing thing with it though:
Concidering that Jains are very pacifist I find it hard to believe that they would let someone fight in a war on their behalf.
Yeah, I’ve often questioned that, too. However, I reckon the choice was deliberate, to make the point.
Grand Funk - People Lets Stop The War
OH, and another one: The Message, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
It’s kinda sad to see where rap and hip-hop has gone, considering how it started. The song still sounds fresh and relevant.
I’m a bit surprised nobody’s mentioned Sky Pilot yet.
War Pigs by Black Sabbath.
“The Sun is Burning” by Simon & Garfunkel. I just listened to it to make sure I had the right one, and I was crying by the end.
Let’s give credit where it is due.
Buffy Sainte Marie wrote “The Universal Soldier”.
From Tom Paxton: “The Willing Recruit”, “Jimmy Newman”, and “Talking Viet–Nam Pot Luck Blues”.
And I just gotta add: Tom wrote “The Marvelous Toy” in clerck–typist class at Fort Dix, NJ.
What about Simon & Garfunkle’s Scrborough Fair / Canticle ?
It’s a beautiful song with a protest woven throughout. The lyrics are here:
Shouldn’ t “sky bright” be “sky pilot.” I think someone goofed. I mean, it’s obvious and it’s also * the title of the song *.
Hi to ** Isaac Cashman**, newbie who knows folk music (and esp. Tom Paxton).
I believe Scarborough Fair is a love song turned into a break up song.
But they put an anti-war song (Canticle) “underneath” it so that it would be played on the radio. In the link provided in my previous post, it is in parentheses.
the star spangled banner, as performed by hendrix August 17, 1969 (woodstock).
he added in effects (you know, the sound of bombs dropping followed by the song taps [which is played at military funerals, for all of you who dont know that.]) not only is it a kick ass display of solo electric guitar skills, it has an gets its point across DAMN well.
i also second For What Its Worth (Buffallo Springfield) and Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
Again I must only second something; “Four dead in O-hi-o.”
simple song of freedom by tim hardin
simple song of freedom by tim hardin
“Crow on the Cradle,” “Green Fields of France,” “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye.”
Somewhat more comtemporary, although not applicable to the current conflict, Sting’s “Russians.”
“Give Peace a Chance.” Not the most cerebral of songs, but it gave the antiwar movement the advertising hook it had always needed.
Another Aussie song, country band The Wheel’s Walking in the Shadow of the Man which singer Kim Cheshire introduces as being for all the world’s despots.
From the tribal dance to the light of common wisdom
From some spirit world to the dignity of man
From those voodoo dolls to your rhetoric of reason
We won’t live in peace while there’s money changing hands
We can make believe there’s some method to this madness
We can live in hope while the whole world’s getting numb
We can put our faith in in the politics of reason
We can run for cover when the whole thing comes undone.
I think Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven, Anymore by John Prine is another good one.
Also, The Patriot’s Dream (I think) by Gordon Lightfoot.