Id have to recommend 'Roads to Moscow' by Al Stewart, 'Tojo Told Hitler' by R.L. Burnside is also good. Oh yeah, 'New Year's day by U2 is also good.

Your thoughts ?

CvM

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PT-109 is pretty funny. It says somehting about Jap heathens or something. It's by Jimmy Dean. Billy Bragg does some really
good war stuff, although usually about foxholes or something, so you can't really date them. I know there are some more country ones but can't think of them now. Oh, some punk band did one called "they saved Hitler's Brain" that funny as hell.

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Heres a good one by: Johnny Horton, "Sink The Bismarck"

"In May of 1941, the war had just begun. The Germans had the biggest ship, that had the biggest guns.

The Bismarck was the fastest ship, to sail the seven seas...................

and this one aint ww2 but is good as well: "Battlehymn of New Orleans"

"In 1814 we took a little trip..................

"We fired our guns and the British kept a comin', then we fired once more and they begin to runnin' down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico"

Sorry Bish--Martin--its the only other words to the song I could remember [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 15. November 2002, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: C.Evans ]

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Just off the top of my head:

In 1814 we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
and we caught the bloody in a town near New Orleans.

'Fired or guns but the British kept a comin'
was 'bout as many as there was a while ago
Fired once more and they began to runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Weeeell they ran through the briars and they ran through patches,
they hid in the bushes were the rabbit couldnt go
iut came the dogs and they began to runnin, down to mississippi to the gulf of mexico.

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Thats it--you got it--thanks [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

I must again recommend 'Roads to Moscow' by Al Stewart. Just trust me on this one. Download it! Youll thank me

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Personally, i like "When the Tigers Broke Free Part 2" By Pink Floyd. Its about his father who died fighting for the Royal Fusiliers Company C at Anzio. Its a sad song too, in that sense, but good nontheless.

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How could I have forgotten?

Today your love, tomorrow the world (I'm a shock-trooper in a stupor) and Blitzkreig Bop, both by the Ramones. They did Bonzo goes to Bitberg, too.

Rat Patrol- Naked Raygun

Barbed-Wire love - Stiff Little fingers

1945 by Social Distortion

Zyklon B Movie by the Subhumans

It's a long way from Berlin to Memphis by Elvis Hitler (yes I"m serious)

Back to Bataan by The Maids (the best and hardest to find of all of them.)

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Doc, could you email me Backs to Bataan? I cant find it.

CvM

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I only have it on tape. It is almost impossible to find the original! It was done by an unknown punk band. As far as I know, its only release was on a punk compillation that I believe was called "killed by death". Like I said, the band was the maids (or maybe the mades, my friend told me about it). A couple of years ago, a long lost friend downloaded the song, but I have no idea where he got it from.

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I'll stick with 'With God on our side' by Bob Dylan. Here are the lyrics:

With God On Our Side (Bob Dylan)

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

best regards

Roads to Moscow

They crossed over the border the hour before dawn
Moving in lines through the day
Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay
Waiting for orders we held in the wood - word from the front never came
By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away

Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees
Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze

All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
Smolensk and Viasma soon fell
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel
Closer and closer to Moscow they came - riding the wind like a bell
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill

Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze

In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter
Falling back before the gates of Moscow,
Standing in the wings like an avenger
And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest
Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise
You'll never know, you'll never know
Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us
As we're stealing through the blackness of the night,
You'll never know, you'll never hear us
And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming
The morning roads leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming

Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
At home it will almost be spring
The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin

Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down
And all that I ever was able to see
The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream

I'm coming home, I'm coming home,
Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border
And now they ask me of the time
When I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner
"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say;
They turn and listen closer
I'll never know, I'll never know
Why I was taken from the line and all the others
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia
And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers "Never"
And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever

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Any other ones?

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ME 262, by Blue Oyster Cult.

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The rolling stones had a song called 'sympathy for the devil' where they sung something like 'I rode a tank when the blitzkrieg raged'.

regards

Gary O'Connor: "The Shades of '45" about the atomic bombing of the Japanese by the US military fighter Enola Gay. U.S.chart hit back in 1984.

Pete Seeger: "Where have all the flowers gone" (1955). All-time classic.

Cheers,

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