Songs of war

I thought it would be neat to start a list/thread of songs (from any nation) that have to do with war, the military, or anything similar. From any era. Include song name. Artist/band. Year, etc.

Here are a few I know:

-This is the Army Mr. Jones
-Glenn Miller
-1940

-Boggie Woogie Bugle Boy
-Andrews sisters
-1940

-Shoo Shoo Baby
-Andrews sisters
-1942

-Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
-Kay Kyser
-1943

-They'll Be a Hot time In the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks go Marching In)
-Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
-1945

-Arlington
-Trace Atkins
-2005

 

"The White Cliffs of Dover" (and many other songs) by Vera Lynn. WWII.

JT

 

Lilly Marlene by Lale Anderson

 

the d-day dodgers, sung to lily marlene

bless em all - nice clean version and the naughty soldiers version

 

"Dogface Soldier"
Written By Kent and Gold

"Wing and A Prayer"
Performed By The Four Vagabonds

"Army Air Corp. Song"
Performed By Bing Crosby

"Der Fueher's face"
Written and Performed By Carl Grayson

"Three Little Sisiters"
Perormed By Dinah Shore

"What Do You Do In The Infantry?"
Performed By Bing Crosby

Regards,
MARNE

 

Don't sit under the Apple Tree
Andrews sisters

 

Sink The Bismark
Johnny Horton
1955

Battle Of New Orleans
Johnny Horton
1954

Ragged Old Flag
Johnny Cash
?

 

Polly Jean Harvey - The Ballad of the Soldiers Wife

 

waltzing matilda- The Pogues

war - edwin starr

the longest day - paul anka

 

Nena - 99 Luftballoons (99 Red Balloons) 1983



ah good site Reichslieder_Marching Music

 

Check out Michael Longcor's work at:
Firebird Arts & Music Virtual Catalog: Michael Longcor
Field of Fire is mostly war songs but almost if not all his CD's have some

A fair number of the other artist who are with Firebird also have military themed work although often of an SF nature.

 

Green Fields of France- Dropkick Murphys 2005

First time I heard this song I was staring at the photo of my wife's great grandfather who was in the Candian Army in the Great War..It gave me chills

Art

 

To Nancy ...

We are the D-Day Dodgers, out in Italy ...
Always on the vino always on the spree.
Eighth Army scroungers and their tanks,
we live Rome amongst the Yanks.
We are the D-Day Dodgers, out in Italy

(My dear Lady Astor, you think you're mighty hot,
Standing on the platform, talking tommyrot.
You're England's sweetheart and her pride
We think your mouth's too bleeding wide.
We are the D-Day Dodgers, in sunny Italy.)

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your coffee."

Winnie: "Madam, if I were your husband, I'd drink it!"

 

Universal Soldier - Donovan.
The charge - New Model Army.
Don't let's be beastly to the Germans - Noel Coward.
(N N N N N) Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle.
Camouflage - Stan Ridgeway.
Love Vigilantes - New Order (& the Oysterband!)
Fixin' to die rag - Country Joe & the Fish.
Ballad of Robbie Jones - The Levellers.
Spirit of the Falklands - The Levellers.
War Pigs - Black Sabbath.
Aces High - Iron Maiden (and about half the rest of their output).
(Fighting & Falling) Like Soldiers do - Billy Bragg.
Hot Time in the Town of Berlin - Bing crosby.
A Pair of brown eyes - The Pogues.
Between the Wars - Billy Bragg.
Fiddle or a Gun - The Oysterband.
Partisans - Leonard Cohen.
Final Cut - Pink Floyd (Entire Album).
Freeborn John - Rev Hammer (Entire album).
Battle of Falkirk moor - The battlefield band.
Colours - The Sisterhood.
Paris Island - Billy Joel.
Stukatruppa - Blowzabella.
Bomben auf England - Luftwaffe.
Broken Boy Soldier - The Raconteurs.
Mass Destruction - Faithless.
Cannons - Siouxsie.
Spanish Bombs - The Clash.
Company Policy - Martin Carthy.
Nuclear device - The Stranglers.
Chemical warfare - Dead Kennedy's.
English civil war - The Clash.
Finland Red/Egypt White - The Sisterhood.
Here Comes the War - New Model Army.
Into the Valley - Skids.
Two Little Boys - Rolf Harris.
The Lost Platoon - The Dancing Did.
Shah Shah a Go Go - Stranglers.
War - The Fall.
Stop the Cavalry - Jonah Louie
Swords of 1000 Men. - Tenpole Tudor.
Terror couple kill Colonel - Bauhaus.
Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley.
Waterloo - Abba....
Study War No More - Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Who's gonna win the War? - Hawkwind.
Gentleman Soldier - Pogues (but Trad. really)
Bomber - Motorhead.
Doctor Jeep - Sisters.
For the Band played Waltzing Matilda and Green fields of France I'd go for the June Tabor versions.

And an honourable mention for Robert Calvert's 'Captain lockheed and the Starfighters', an entire album dedicated to the F104G:

"Does anybody want to buy a Starfighter?... Well buy an acre of land... and wait."

Hmmm.
Didn't seem able to stop myself there, apologies for the long list but I can see my record collection from here .

Cheers,
Adam.

 

YouTube - Bryan Adams - Remembrance Day


For our king and our country and the promise of glory
We came from Kingston and Brighton to fight on the front line

Just lads from the farms and boys from the cities
Not meant to be soldiers we lay in the trenches

We'd face the fighting with a smile - or so we said
If only we had known what danger lay ahead

The sky turned to grey as we went into battle
On the fields of Europe young men were fallin'

I'll be back for you someday - it won't be long
If I can just hold on 'til this bloody war is over

The guns will be silent on Remembrance Day
There'll be no more fighting on Remembrance Day

By October of 18 Cambrai had fallen
Soon the war would be over and we'd be returnin'

Don't forget me while I'm gone far away
Well it won't be long 'till I'm back there in your arms again

One day soon - I don't know when
You know we'll all be free and the bells of peace will ring again

The time will come for you and me
We'll be goin' home when this bloody war is ended

The guns will be silent on Remembrance Day
We'll all say a prayer on Remembrance Day

On Remembrance Day - say a little prayer
On Remembrance Day

Well the guns will be silent
oh There'll be no more fighting
we'll lay down our weapons
On Remembrance Day

 

Panzerlied and Blood upon the Risers-my favorites.

http://www.worldwar2aces.com/panzerlied.htm

http://www.west-point.org/greimanj/west_point/songs/bloodontherisers.htm

 

Are You Proud of America and Let's Keep Old Glory Waving

-Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

 

Iron Maiden:

the trooper (crim war)
paschendaele (ww1)
the longest day (ww2)(obvious)
like mentioned before aces high (ww2) (could you give the spit more honor?)
run to the hills (story about indians against the 'invaders')

warrior - helloween

something about the green fields of france. the murphy's have covered the song from this artist but I like the murphys version more myself: YouTube - The Corries - Green Fields Of France ( hope this url works)


further I' would say rent or buy the cd hollywood goes to war. around 40 soundtracks of hollywood warmovies from the civil war untill the cold war.

many greets arne(ken)

 

"God Bless America"​

Irving Berlin, the composer of "God Bless America," lived from 1888 to 1989. He immigrated to New York City from Russia with his family when he was five years old. Young Irving sang songs on the street for money to help his family. Soon he was writing songs with a piano player friend. Irving wrote the lyrics, and his friend wrote the melodies. Then Berlin got a job as a "song plugger" (someone who sings songs so people will want to buy the sheet music).​

Berlin first wrote "God Bless America" in 1918, during World War I. He was working on a musical called Yip, Yip Yaphank. Yaphank is the name of a town on Long Island, New York. The original words to the song seemed too serious for the show, so he put it aside for a while.​

In 1938, the world was headed to war again. Berlin revised "God Bless America." Kate Smith sang it on the radio for the first time on Armistice Day (Veteran's Day), 1938. "God Bless America," a simple song that everyone could understand and enjoy, became an instant hit. Berlin made so much money from the song that, in 1940, he started the "God Bless America Fund" and donated all the royalties (payments to the composer) from the song to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America. Irving Berlin died at age 101.​

History of Patriotic Songs ​