I have compiled a list of songs I consider anti-war songs. Many of them either state or imply that peace is preferable or even attainable: At the Elbe, Fred Small Ballad of the Soldier's Wife, Brecht/Weill Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle Before the War, Sydney Carter Between the Wars, Bill Bragg Christmas in the Trenches, John McCutcheon Come Seamus and Ivy, Meg Davis Come Away Melinda, Hellerman/Minkoff Cranes Over Hiroshima, Fred Small Dancing At Whitsun, John Austin Marshall Song about the saving of Denmark's Jews (title?) Dona Nobis Pacem Flowers of the Forest From a Distance, Julie Gold Give Peace a Chance, Lennon and McCartney Green Fields of France, Eric Bogle Green Grass of Shiloh, Beers Family Hills of Shiloh, Shel Silverstein Hoe, the Gun or the Guitar, The (author?) House of Orange, Stan Rogers I Ain't a-Marching Any More, Phil Ochs I Come and Stand at Every Door (Dead Girl of Hiroshima) Nazim Hikmet Journey, The, Linda Allen Joy, Love and Peace Kiri's Piano, James Keelaghan Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream Let Those Who Want to Fight, Fight Let the Band Play Dixie Mothers, Daightrs, Wives, Judy Small Never Again Shall We Allow Another Atomic Bomb to Fall No Mas No More Vietnams, Fred Small Pacem in Terres Peacable Kingdom Peace Call, Woody Guthrie Peace Is, Fred Small Peace Dragon, Fred Small Peace Round, Jean Ritchie Peace Will Come, Tom Paxton Rosemary's Sister, Huw Williams Study War No More Take Off Your Clothes, Mark Levy There Is More Peace Somewhere Universsal Soldier, Buffy Sainte-Marie Wall, The (Vietnam Memorial) Walls and Windows, Judy Small/Pat Humphries War, Chief Joseph When Johnny Comes Marching Home When the Lady Mary Sails Where Have All the Flowers Gone? With God On Our Side, Dylan
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