War Mongering Songs

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:59 PM

I remember another one. "Just Like Washington Crossed The Delaware, So Will Pershing Cross The Rhine". SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Deda
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:51 PM

Over There, or Johnny Get your Gun -- may have already been mentioned. The lyrics are downright chilling:

Johnnie get your gun, get you gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run, on the run, on the run,
Hear them calling you and me;
Every son of Liberty
Hurry right away, no delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.

Chorus:
Over There, Over There
Send the word, send the word,
Over There
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum tumming everywhere
So prepare,
Say a Prayer
Send the word,
Send the word to beware
We'll be over, we're coming over.
And we won't be back till it's over over there!

Johnnie get your gun, get you gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun, you're a Son-of-a-Gun,
Hoist the flag and let her fly
Like true heros do or die
Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit,
Soldiers to the ranks from the towns and the tanks,
Make your Mother proud of you and to Liberty be true.

Chorus:
Over There, Over There
Send the word, send the word,
Over There
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum tumming everywhere
So prepare,
Say a Prayer
Send the word,
Send the word to beware
We'll be over, we're coming over.
And we won't be back till it's over over there!

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:44 PM

Ballad of Rodger Young
Ballad of the Green Berets
Wha would ya nae fight for Charlie?
We Are Coming, Father Abraham
Riding a Raid
Flight of Doodles
La Marseille
Horst Wessel Lieder

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:06 PM

And there was a song about Colin Kelly, the deceased air hero at the beginning of the war. The tale was that he had singlehandedly (singleplanedly?) sunk a Japanese battleship by what we would later call Kamikazi tactics. Much later the naysayers said that he was not a hero but a damfool, that he hadn't sunk anything but killed himself foolishly. I don't remember the details.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 02:53 PM

Another one was "Remember Pearl Harbor", which I am looking for the words to. (If any one has them, please post them here). Also, my mother used to sing a song to me when I was a child, before the end of WWII. Only later on in life did I realize that it was anti- Japanese. The lyrics went like this:

               Jap-a-needle, Jap-a-needle
               I sew with my needle
               And when I get married
               I'll sew by machine

Did anyone ever hear this before ? I would like to trace the origins of this ditty. SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 12:18 PM

Second World War:

They started something,
But we're going to end it
Right in their own back yard

and

Goodbye, Mama
I'm off to Yokohama!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: saulgoldie
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 11:50 AM

"Risin' of the Moon"
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again"

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Flash Company
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 11:33 AM

This is the Army, Mr Jones, Written by Irving Berlin for his wartime show which actually came to Manchester,(England) complete with the man himself. He sang 'Oh how I hate to get up in the morning'.
I was too young to see this myself, but I have a friend who did. She confirms Benny Green's assessment of Berlin's singing 'To hear him , you had to hug him!@

FC

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: GUEST,JOHN of ELSIE`S BAND
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 10:44 AM

Here are two very singable American songs that, no doubt, were heard and played very at the time of the second world war.
"You`re in the Army Mr. Jones"
          and
"Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"
The sort of material to foster confidence and camaraderie amongst green, young men going into a very dangerous conflict and thank the Lord they did.

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 09:14 AM

Awhile back I asked if anyone had the lyrics to a joingoistic song sung, I think, by "The Full Gospel Quartet" (or a name something like that). The chorus goes (and I'm sure only of the first two line and the last one):

The eagle is hurt her feathers are ruffled
Make no mistake she is coming for you
No matter what cave or hole you might hide in
(something) will find you
And America will do what she needs to do.

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: greg stephens
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 08:41 AM

The Hitler war gave rise to a good lot of war-mongering songs.
"We'll hang out our washing on the Siegried Line
If the Siegried Line's still there" was a good one.
Particularly memorable was Spike Jones' classic:
"We'll(.....) right in the Fuehrer's face"
(not sure how to transliterate the relevant noise, Spaw is your man for that sort of thing).
    The finest recording from the English folk revival(IMHO) was the Watersons' "Brave Wolfe" . And there is no denying it is a touch on the warlike side.
"One Monday morning as we set sail
The wind did blow a pleasant gale
To fight the French it was our intent
Through smoke and fire
Through smoke and fire
And it was dark and a gloomy night"
etc etc.

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: greg stephens
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 08:30 AM

Alanabit: I'm sorry to do this, but the lyric you do not wish to hear (read no further, look away NOW) goes:
We dont want to fight
But by Jingo if we do
We've got the ships we've got the men
We've got the money too.

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: Flash Company
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 07:36 AM

My gran used to sing:-
Lord Roberts and Kitchener,
Baden Powell and White,
All went off to South Africa
To have a jolly good fight (or shite, depending on the mood she was in!)

FC

Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:19 AM

Unfortunately there are plenty of songs urging war. I believe the term "jingoism" goes back to a broadsheet ditty which stirred up British passions as the Crimean War was getting under way. The song I am referring to may be called, "By Jingo", but I have no desire to dig it out or read its rabble rousing sentiments again.
I have always thought that "Four Green Fields" and "The Minstrel Boy" also glorify war. The English seem to like songs like "Rule Britannia" and "The British Grenadier". I always cringe when I hear that crass line in "Hearts of Oak" which goes, "For who are as free as the sons of the waves?" The truth was that those men were mainly brutally treated slaves.
I am sad to say that this could be a very long thread.

Subject: War Mongering Songs
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 23 Jun 04 - 11:03 PM

My friend's grandmother used to sing this song when she was a child, to the tune of "There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight".

         Spain Spain Spain
         They ought to be ashamed
         For doing such a thing
         Like blowing up the Maine
         And when be war
         We'll sock them in the jaw
         There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight

This tune was obviously used to provoke the Spanish American War. Does anybody have similar songs such as this ? Please post them here. It does not have to be a war in which the USA was involved. It can relate to any other nation, being that this is an international forum. SOL ZELLER