Just thought of another one: The brilliant "1917" (subtitle/refrain "Tonight The War Is Over") written by David Olney and sung by Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt on their duo CD "Western Wall".

The central narrator is a world-wise but compassionate French streetwalker who is about to go upstairs with yet another scared young soldier on a night's leave, and she knows she can only give him a few hours' comfort before he has to back again, probably to die. It's a GREAT song, not well enough known.

He speaks to me in schoolboy French
Of a soldier's life inside a trench
Of the look of death and the ghastly stench
I do my best to please him