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Thread #71054 Message #1213814
Posted By: emjay
24-Jun-04 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: War Mongering Songs
Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
The song about Colin Kelly started like this:
There's a star-spngled banner waving somewhere
In a distant land of heroes brave and true
Only God's great heroes get to go there
That is where I want to go when I die.
I don't remember any more of it, but oh, I loved that song when I was small. Now I have to sing a verse or two of The Band Played Waltzing Matilda to get it out of my head. (Did anyone hear Garrison Keillor do a version of it, The Band Played the Star-Spnagled Banner?
Another one that has been mentioned was Rodger Young (I think it was spelled with the d).
I remember part of a verse of that, and I remember singing it in an assembly when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade.
On the island of New Georgia in the Solomons
Stands a simple wooden cross alone to tell...
and a line about "grenades against machine guns in the gloom."
At least as many of these as there are the anti-war songs.
And are there songs that are specifically pro-peace more than anti-war?