The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119805   Message #2601142
Posted By: kendall
31-Mar-09 - 07:44 AM
Thread Name: Singers and songs which stunned me .
Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
The sun is burning. It's about a nuclear explosion. Powerful message.

...twisted sightless wrecks of men go groping on their knees and cry in pain...(Ian Campbell)


And, of course, The Band played Waltzing Matilda; one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard.(Eric Bogle)

No Man's Land (Eric Bogle) ...for Willy McBride it all happened again, and again, and again and again..

And my favorite poem...home they go up the windy streets; they're thinking their men are homeward bound with anchors hungry for English ground; but the bloody fun of it is, they've all drowned... (The Loch Arcray by John Masefield)