Veteran's Day (songs for)

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: S.P. Buck Mulligan
Date: 13 Nov 97 - 12:08 PM

I wasn't going to post these, for reasons I haven't quite figured out, but since someone mentioned Willie McBride, the song is "No Man's Land" by Eric Bogle. That and his "And the Band Played (Waltzing Matilda)" are the best Veteran's songs in the English language, as far as I'm concerned.

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: Pauline Lerner
Date: 12 Nov 97 - 11:22 PM

An appropriate veteran's song from WWI is the one about William MacBride (I can't remember the title), and another is Christmas in the Trenches, which is more commonly associated with Christmas than with Veteran's Day.

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Nov 97 - 10:44 AM

To pummel a point, you can find some songs from the Vietnam war by searching Digitrad for @Vietnam. Similarly for @Korea, @WWI and @WWII.

As I recall, it used to be Armistice day, so appropriate songs would probably be from WWI. Lest we forget.

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: Jon W.
Date: 12 Nov 97 - 10:38 AM

Most songs mentioned so far have been the commercial, well known and popular songs, usually from WWII (a very popular war, everyone got in on it). I'll bet there are plenty of songs made up by the troops in Vietnam which haven't seen the light of day - usually all we hear from that era are "The Ballad of the Green Berets" on the one hand and "The Fish Cheer" on the other. How about it, you Vietnam Vets? Can you give us something? And let's not forget Korea, too.

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: leprechaun
Date: 11 Nov 97 - 11:15 PM

Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me/Over There!/Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy/ My dad used to sing one that went..."Oh she really really loved me till the All Clear came."

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: dwditty
Date: 11 Nov 97 - 10:54 PM

Don't forget all the marching songs...

GI beans and GI gravy
Gee, I wish I joined the navy

Not to mention the uncountable verses about "Jody" taking care of your business back on the block.

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: Gene
Date: 11 Nov 97 - 10:46 PM

AND: There's a Star-Spangled Banner waving somewhere/Seaman's Blues/The Ballad of Rodger Young/Rainbow at Midnight/ Silver Dew on the BLuegrass tonight/Remember Pearl Harbor/ The sinking of the Reuben James/and of course the standard Anchors Aweigh/When the cassions go rolling along/ You're in the army now/Waves in Blue/Roll, Tanks, roll/ Stars and Stripes forever/The Marines Hymn/The U. S. AirForce Song/Just to name a few.

Subject: RE: Veteran's Day
From: Gene
Date: 11 Nov 97 - 08:01 PM

How 'bout: Comin' in on a wing and a prayer/There's a White Cross tonight on Okinawa/When the Yanks rasied the Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima Isle/Soldier's Last Letter/ Let's Go Marine!/The Ballad of Ira Hayes/RTE. 1 Box 144/ There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover/ When the lights come on again all over the world/Rosie, The Riveter/Buy Bonds/eWe did it before and we can do it again/etc....

Subject: Veteran's Day
From:
Date: 11 Nov 97 - 07:35 PM

Hey, today is Veteran's Day in the US. Does anyone have a song in celebration of the dogface, leatherneck, flyboy or (what were sailors called)?