list of peace songs
David Dalton
list of peace/anti-war songs?
Some I can think of are John Lennon's
Give Peace a Chance and
Happy Xmas, War is Over.
What are some ones that you know?
Also can any of Sarah McLachlan's songs so far
be poetically interpreted as peace songs?
Perhaps Ice could?
David
Paul Burke
>
> How about in this thread we try to make a long
> list of peace/anti-war songs?
>
> Some I can think of are John Lennon's
> Give Peace a Chance and
> Happy Xmas, War is Over.
>
Leon Rosselson's Stand Firm comes to mind (though it's so terribly
terribly British)...
To show them we're determined that free men will be free
Squat down in your deep shelters and drink lots of cups of tea..
(If caught out in the open, hide behind a tree)
Stand firm, stand firm...
Paul Burke
Marjorie Roswell
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Marjorie Roswell
CHORUS:
Well our hands are strong and our hearts are young.
And the dreamer keeps-a-dreamin' ages on,
Keeps-a-dreaming keeps-a-dreaming along.
(Ba-da-ba-da-dum)
What did we do when we needed a town?
We hammered and we nailed 'til the sun went down.
We hammered and we nailed 'til the sun went down.
CHORUS
What did we do when we needed corn?
We plowed and we sewed 'til the early morn.
We plowed and we sewed 'til the early morn.
CHORUS
What do we do when it's peace we want?
When it's more than a man can build or plant.
We gather our friends from the end of the earth,
To lend a hand in this hour of birth.
We'll plow, we'll sow.
We'll hammer and we'll nail.
We'll work all day, 'til peace is real.
CHORUS
Ray E
"Blowin' in the wind"
"Peace Train"
--
Ray from Rochester, NY
Trombone, Keyboard, Guitar, Mandolin,
and Bass, Player wanna be.
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Mike E
JesiAna
Peace Will Come
When Morning Breaks
Phil Ochs:
I Ain't Marching Anymore
Bob Dylan
With God on Our Side
Masters of War
Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Tommy Sands:
The Music of Healing
There Were Roses
Colum Sands:
The Last House on Our Street
Buskers
The March Ditch
Pete Seeger:
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Big Muddy
Gordon Lightfoot:
The Songs of the Wars
Utah Phillips:
Enola Gay
John McCutcheon:
Christmas in the Trenches
Holly Near:
The Great Peace March
No More Genocide in my Name
Buffy Sainte-Marie:
Universal Soldier
Si Kahn:
Season of Peace
Ed McCurdy:
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
And of course, Eric Bogle:
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
No Man's Land (aka The Green Fields of France)
If I give it some thought I am sure I could come up with many more. I've only
scratched the surface!
Jesiana
"If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."
Auburn Annie
> There are dozens! >
>
> The Songs of the Wars
>
as old as the hills, they cling like the rust on the cold steel that
kills....]
See also: Sit Down Young Stranger, Heaven Help the Devil, and Leaves
of Grass.
Auburn Annie
Valerie Magee
Quixote and Sit Down Young Stranger are the two he considers his best protest songs. They are two of
my favorites.
"See the soldier with his gun
Who must be dead to be admired" ... Don Quixote, c1972 Gordon Lightfoot
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JesiAna
Right...thanks for the mind jog.
And...from Gordon's very first album, I believe...I think it is called "Lost
Children" or something like that, and I am not even sure if he wrote it, but as
I recall it goes something like "Down the halls their voices ring, their feet
are on the run, shadows on the winter sky together they do run, faded lips and
eyes of blue they're scattered in the wind, their laughter filled the
countryside but they'll not laugh again." And there is a line about "their
mothers made the uniforms showing which side they were on." I can't remember
any more of the words ,and I don't have it on CD, but I remember that it was a
lovely condemnation of wars.
Valerie Magee
Concert, which is available on CD, both by itself (the US release from EMI called
Live!) and also combined with other albums in various combinations. The Lost
Children is one of five songs on that album that were never recorded in the studio.
Here are the full lyrics:
The Lost Children, ©1969 by Gordon Lightfoot
Down the hall their voices ring, their feet are on the run
Phantoms on the winter sky, together they do come
Faded lips and eyes of blue they're carried in the wind
Their laughter filled the countryside but they'll not laugh again
All the games are ended now, their voices have been stilled
Their fathers built the tools of war by which they all were killed
Their fathers made the uniforms showing which side they were on
And the young boys were the middle men for the guns to prey upon
You've seen the fires in the night, watched the devil as he smiles
You've heard a mother's mournful cry as she searches for her child
You've seen the lines of refugees, the faces of despair
And wondered at the wise men who never seem to care
Goodbye you lost children, God speed you on your way
Your little beds are empty now, your toys are put away
Your mother sings a lullaby as she gazes at the floor
Your father builds more weapons and marches out once more
Down the hall their voices ring, their feet are on the run
Phantoms on the winter sky, together they do come
Faded lips and eyes of blue they're carried in the wind
Their laughter filled the countryside but they'll not laugh again
JesiAna wrote:
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Valerie Magee
can I blame that on? (Your message doesn't appear here on my news server yet so I
include it below):
In a message dated 4/2/03 5:54:32 AM, vlm...@mindspring.com writes:
<< (The Lost Children) >>
Yes! Thank you so much! I have it on vinyl, but who plays vinyl anymore?
I think the line is "Their MOTHERS made the uniforms showing which side they
were on," isn't it?
Thanks again!
Jesiana
Valerie Magee wrote:
> He wrote that too (The Lost Children). It is on the live album from 1969, Sunday
> Concert, which is available on CD, both by itself (the US release from EMI called
> Live!) and also combined with other albums in various combinations. The Lost
> Children is one of five songs on that album that were never recorded in the studio.
> Here are the full lyrics:
>
> The Lost Children, ©1969 by Gordon Lightfoot
>
> Down the hall their voices ring, their feet are on the run
> Phantoms on the winter sky, together they do come
> Faded lips and eyes of blue they're carried in the wind
> Their laughter filled the countryside but they'll not laugh again
>
> All the games are ended now, their voices have been stilled
> Their fathers built the tools of war by which they all were killed
> Their mothers made the uniforms showing which side they were on - (corrected line)