Folkies probably won't remember it but there was a song by a soul singer -was it Martha Reeves? about a woman whose son has been killed in Vietnam.She's in the hairdresser when she gets the news - her friends tell her how proud she should be .It's called Should be Proud ,I think :
They tell me I should be proud/ They say I should be proud/but my son wasn't fighting for me /he was fighting for the evil of society.
Are there any soulsters out there know anything about the song?
I agree with all the fine choices on this thread -I'd go along with Jonny I hardly knew you for number one. Burns' Come Ye Jacobites by Name deserves a mention .
What makes heroic strife famed afar famed afar?/what makes heroic strife famed afar?/what makes heroic strife to whet the assassins knife/ and hunt the parents life wi' bloody war ,bloody war/ to hunt the parents life wi' bloody war