List of anti-war songs
Some anti-war songs lament some aspects of war, while others satirize war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole. Many of these songs are considered protest songs, and some have been embraced by war-weary people, various peace movements, and peace activists.
General peace
American Civil War
Year | Song | Artist |
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1960 | "Civil War Trilogy" | Gibson & Camp |
2009 | "Abraham Lincoln" | Clutch |
2013 | "Accidental Racist" | Brad Paisley (featuring L.L. Cool J) |
1861 | "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" | Ethel Lynn Beers |
2003 | "Cross The Green Mountain" | Bob Dylan |
1969 | "Arkansas Grass" | Axiom |
1995 | "Ben McCullough" | Steve Earle |
1962 | "The Big Battle" | Johnny Cash |
1974 | "Billy Don't Be a Hero" | Paper Lace |
2013 | "Bloodshed" | Soulfly |
2011 | "Broken Hymns" | Dropkick Murphys |
1984 | "Charleston Town" | Rob Lincoln |
2004 | "The Devil to Pay" | Iced Earth |
1987 | "Gettysburg" | The Brandos |
1983 | "God Bless Robert E. Lee" | Johnny Cash |
1963 | "In the Hills of Shiloh" | Shel Silverstein |
1959 | "Johnny Reb" | Johnny Horton |
1968 | "The Klan" | Richie Havens |
2008 | "Lone Pine Hill" | Justin Townes Earle |
1865 | "Marching through Georgia (e.g. 1896 version by Gilmore's Band)" | Henry Clay Work |
1969 | "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | The Band |
1863 | "Poor Kitty Popcorn" | Henry C. Work |
1991 | "Rebel Soldier" | Waylon Jennings |
1999 | "Shiloh Town" | Tim Hardin |
1998 | "Silent Reign of Heroes" | Molly Hatchet |
1978 | "The Southland's Bleeding" | Waylon Jennings |
1986 | "Swan Swan H" | R.E.M. |
2004 | "Tears of God" | Josh Turner |
1993 | "Two Soldiers" | Bob Dylan |
World War I
Mexican–American War
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1845 | "Once to Every Man and Nation" | James R. Lowell |
Spanish Civil War
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1997 | "1936" | Sin Dios |
1998 | "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" | Manic Street Preachers |
1937–1939 | "Jamie Foyers" | Ewan MacColl |
2010 | "Last Lincoln Vet" | Lev Svetek-Zorin |
1990 | "Lorca's Novena" | The Pogues |
2003 | "Skeletons of Quinto" | The Folksmen |
1983 | "Sketches of Spain" | The Nits |
1979 | "Spanish Bombs" | The Clash |
1983 | "Viva la Quinta Brigada" | Christy Moore |
Spanish–American War
Year | Song | Artist |
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1926 | "The Battleship Maine" | Mary C. Mann |
1969 | "Galveston" | Glen Campbell |
1975 | "Lequi of the National Guard" | Bob Connely |
American Indian Wars
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1964 | "Apache Tears" | Johnny Cash |
2008 | "Battle at Little Big Horn" | White Lion |
1980 | "Buffalo Soldier" | Bob Marley |
1997 | "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" | Walela |
2010 | "Calico Indians" | Rasputina |
1967 | "Castles Made of Sand" | Jimi Hendrix |
1986 | "Cherokee" | Europe |
1960 | "Comanche (The Brave Horse)" | Johnny Horton |
1997 | "Cowboy Dan" | Modest Mouse |
2004 | "Creek Mary's Blood" | Nightwish |
1969 | "Custer Died for Your Sins" | Floyd Westerman |
2007 | "Custer Got His... (Anti-Custer Song)" | S-cuk Gogs |
1992 | "Freedom" | Rage Against the Machine |
1977 | "Indian Man" | The Charlie Daniels Band |
1971 | "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" | Paul Revere & The Raiders |
1987 | "Indians" | Anthrax |
1971 | "Indian Sunset" | Elton John |
1973 | "The Lone Ranger" | Oscar Brown |
1971 | "Then Came the White Man" | The Stampeders |
2001 | "Mick Ryan's Lament" | Tim O'Brien and Robert Dunlap |
1960 | "Mr. Custer" | Larry Verne |
1964 | "Now That The Buffalo's Gone" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
2006 | "Noble Indian Chief" | Hand Full of Peter |
1982 | "Run to the Hills" | Iron Maiden |
1971 | "Soldier Blue" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
1962 | "Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me" | The Kingston Trio |
2001 | "Stars and Stripes" | Anti-Flag |
2002 | "Wampum Prayer" | Tori Amos |
1973 | "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee" | Redbone |
1976 | "White Man" | Queen |
World War II
Korean War
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1974 | "The Door" | George Jones |
1970 | "Suicide Is Painless" | Johnny Mandel from the film, M*A*S*H |
Vietnam War era
Vietnam War era: Kent State shootings
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1970 | "Ohio" | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
1971 | "Student Demonstration Time" | The Beach Boys |
Dominican Republic
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1966 | "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo" | Phil Ochs |
The Troubles of Northern Ireland
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1978 | "78 RPM" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1978 | "90 Miles From Dublin" | Christy Moore |
1978 | "Alternative Ulster" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1991 | "La Ballade Nord-Irlandaise" | Renaud |
1989 | "Belfast Child" | Simple Minds |
1995 | "Belfast" | Elton John |
1998 | "Blood Stained Emerald" | Day of the Sword |
1979 | "Bloody Sunday" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1986 | "Corridor of Cells" | Test Dept |
1982 | "Damned to Be Free" | Bad Religion |
2002 | "Drunken Lullabies" | Flogging Molly |
1991 | "Each Dollar A Bullet" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1989 | "Easter" | Marillion |
1979 | "Ether" | Gang of Four |
1980 | "Fly the Flag" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1967 | "Four Green Fields" | Tommy Makem |
1990 | "Fuck Religion" | The Exploited |
1989 | "Get Out of Ireland" | Blaggers ITA |
2012 | "Get Your Dead Hand Off My Shoulder" | Therapy? |
1972 | "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" | Paul McCartney and Wings |
1998 | "Heal This Land" | Maire Brennan |
1990 | "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" | Megadeth |
1976 | "If They Come in the Morning" aka "No Time for Love" | Jack Warshaw |
1979 | "Into the Valley" | The Skids |
1981 | "Invisible Sun" | The Police |
1985 | "The Island" | Paul Brady |
1996 | "Minds Locked Shut" | Christy Moore |
1982 | "The More I See (The Less I Believe)"[8] | Fun Boy Three |
1984 | "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" | Mary Black |
1979 | "No More of That" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1979 | "Oliver's Army" | Elvis Costello and the Attractions |
1985 | "Out in the Fields" | Gary Moore and Phil Lynott |
1999 | "Paper Sun" | Def Leppard |
2000 | "Peace on Earth" | U2 |
1997 | "Please" | U2 |
2014 | "Raised by Wolves" | U2 |
1978 | "The Saints Are Coming" | The Skids |
1987 | "Scaling The Derry Wall" | The Exploited |
1983 | "Section 31" | Christy Moore |
1975 | "Sniper's Promise" | Joe McCann |
1972 | "Soldier" | Harvey Andrews |
1979 | "State of Emergency" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1988 | "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" | The Pogues |
1983 | "Sunday Bloody Sunday" | U2 |
1998 | "Sunrise" | The Divine Comedy |
1992 | "Ten Men Dead" | Blaggers ITA |
1985 | "There Were Roses" | Tommy Sands |
1997 | "This is Not Your Country" | Morrissey |
1986 | "Through the Barricades" | Spandau Ballet |
1973 | "The Town I Loved So Well" | Phil Coulter |
2014 | "The Troubles" | U2 |
1981 | "Troops Out" | The Passage |
1977 | "Ulster" | Sham 69 |
1978 | "Wasted Life" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1979 | "White Noise" | Stiff Little Fingers |
1987 | "Wild Frontier" | Gary Moore |
1994 | "Zombie" | The Cranberries |
Anti-draft
Cold War/nuclear annihilation
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1954 | "Thirteen Women and Only One Man in Town" | Bill Haley and the Comets |
1957 | "Talking Atom" | Oscar Brand |
1961 | "Do the Russians Want War?" | Mark Bernes |
1961 | "A Mushroom Cloud" | Sammy Salvo |
1962 | "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" | Bonnie Dobson |
1963 | "Come Away Melinda" | Harry Belafonte |
1963 | "The Sun is Burning" | Ian Campbell Folk Group (also covered by Luke Kelly and Simon and Garfunkel) |
1964 | "My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen)" | George McKelvey |
1965 | "Who's Next?" | Tom Lehrer |
1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | P.F. Sloan (also recorded by Barry McGuire and The Turtles) |
1965 | "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" | Tom Lehrer |
1966 | "I Come and Stand at Every Door" (based on a poem by Nazım Hikmet) | Pete Seeger |
1967 | "20 Tons of TNT" | Flanders and Swann |
1968 | "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
1970 | "Electric Funeral" | Black Sabbath |
1971 | "Hiroshima" | Wishful Thinking |
1971 | "Children of the Grave" | Black Sabbath |
1973 | "Kuiama" | Electric Light Orchestra |
1974 | "Future Legend"/"Diamond Dogs" | David Bowie |
1978 | "Curfew" | The Stranglers |
1979 | "Armageddon" | Prism |
1979 | "They've Got a Bomb" | Crass |
1980 | "Seven Minutes to Midnight" | Wah! Heat |
1980 | "Stop the World" | The Clash |
1980 | "Breathing" | Kate Bush |
1980 | "Crazy Train" | Ozzy Osbourne |
1980 | "Final Day" | Young Marble Giants |
1981 | "Under Pressure" | Queen ft. David Bowie |
1981 | "When Two Worlds Collide" | Simple Minds |
1981 | "Fire in the Sky" | Saxon |
1981 | "Dumb All Over" | Frank Zappa |
1981 | "Mutually Assured Destruction" | Gillan |
1981 | "It Only Takes Two to Tango" | The Stranglers |
1981 | "Let's All Make a Bomb"[9] | Heaven 17 |
1982 | "1999" | Prince |
1982 | "Ein bißchen Frieden" | Nicole Seibert |
1982 | "I've Known No War" | The Who |
1982 | "Why Did I Fall For That?" | The Who |
1982 | "US Forces" | Midnight Oil |
1982 | "Heatwave" | Fay Ray |
1982 | "Red Skies" | The Fixx |
1983 | "Rival Leaders" | The Exploited |
1983 | "Seconds" | U2 |
1983 | "Moya" | Southern Death Cult |
1983 | "New Year's Day" | U2 |
1983 | "East at Easter" | Simple Minds |
1983 | "It's a Mistake" | Men at Work |
1983 | "99 Luftballons" and "99 Red Balloons" | Nena |
1983 | "Standing in the Dark" | Patinum Blonde |
1983 | "Strike Zone" | Loverboy |
1983 | "Time After Time" | Electric Light Orchestra |
1983 | "Two Suns in the Sunset" | Pink Floyd |
1983 | "Overkill" | Men at Work |
1983 | "Balls to the Wall" | Accept |
1983 | "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" | Nik Kershaw |
1984 | "Be Not Always" | The Jacksons |
1984 | "Beyond the Black" | Metal Church |
1984 | "Two Tribes" | Frankie Goes To Hollywood |
1984 | "2 Minutes to Midnight" | Iron Maiden |
1984 | "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes" | Ultravox |
1984 | "Fight Fire with Fire" | Metallica |
1984 | "Hammer to Fall" | Queen |
1984 | "Forever Young" | Alphaville |
1985 | "America" | Prince |
1985 | "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" | Bruce Cockburn |
1985 | "Warnings Moving Clockwise" | Do-Re-Mi |
1985 | "Black Planet" | The Sisters of Mercy |
1986 | "Christmas at Ground Zero" | "Weird Al" Yankovic |
1986 | "Land of Confusion" | Genesis |
1986 | "Let Us Begin" | John Denver with Alexander Gradsky |
1986 | "Survival of the Fittest" | Slave Raider |
1986 | "Thank God For the Bomb" | Ozzy Osbourne |
1986 | "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" | Timbuk3 |
1986 | "John Wayne" | Zuma II |
1986 | "Killer of Giants" | Ozzy Osbourne |
1988 | "Blackened" | Metallica |
1988 | "Battalions of Fear" | Blind Guardian |
1988 | "Fallout" | Liege Lord |
1988 | "Eagle Fly Free" | Helloween |
2000 | "Cold War" | Funker Vogt |
1999 | "Destruction Preventer" | Sonata Arctica |
2005 | "Fuel the Hate" | Soulfly |
1988 | "Killing Fields" | Scanner |
1989 | "Leningrad" | Billy Joel |
1984 | "Minutes to Midnight" | Midnight Oil |
1987 | "No Nuclear War" | Peter Tosh |
1988 | "Part IV (The Index Fossil)" | Bad Religion |
1984 | "People are People" | Depeche Mode |
1985 | "Manhattan Project" | Rush |
1988 | "Pre-War America" | The Beatnigs |
1987 | "Radio K.A.O.S." | Roger Waters |
1985 | "Russians" | Sting |
1990 | "Rust in Peace... Polaris" | Megadeth |
1991 | "The American" | Simple Minds |
1988 | "Set the World Afire" | Megadeth |
1987 | "Showdown at Big Sky" | Robbie Robertson |
1987 | "Wartime" | Pentagram |
1988 | "Surfin' USSR" | Ray Stevens |
1986 | "Воля и Разум" ("Will and Reason") | Aria |
1990 | "Wind of Change" | Scorpions |
1992 | "Atomic Garden" | Bad Religion |
2007 | "No One Would Riot For Less" | Bright Eyes |
2000 | "Nuclear Winter" | Funker Vogt |
2007 | "Big Joe Blues" | Pete Seeger |
1988 | "World Leader Pretend" | R.E.M. |
2008 | "Down from the Sky" | Trivium |
2010 | "Burning in the Skies" | Linkin Park |
2011 | "Paint Your Windows White" | Alien Stash Tin |
Philippine–American War
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1901 | "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" | Mark Twain |
Turkish invasion of Cyprus
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1976 | "Panagia Mou, Panagia Mou" | Mariza Koch and Michael Fotiades |
Falklands War
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1990 | "The Ballad of Robbie Jones" | Levellers |
1985 | "Brothers in Arms" | Dire Straits |
"Comunicado #166" | Los Violadores | |
1983 | "Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert" | Pink Floyd |
1982 | "Gotcha" | Crass |
1983 | "How Does It Feel To Be The Mother of 1000 Dead?" | Crass |
1984 | "Island of No Return" | Billy Bragg |
1983 | "Let's Start a War" | The Exploited |
"No Bombardeen Buenos Aires" | Charly Garcia | |
1983 | "The Post War Dream" | Pink Floyd |
1982 | "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" | Crass |
1983 | "Shipbuilding" | Elvis Costello and the Attractions |
1983 | "Southampton Dock" | Pink Floyd |
1984 | "Spirit of the Falklands" | New Model Army |
1985 | "Eddie" | Latin Quarter |
1983 | "Yes Sir, I Will" | Crass |
1984 | "Wha Dat" | Yellowman |
Contras, Latin America
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1984 | "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" | Don Henley |
1982 | "Bleed for Me" | Dead Kennedys |
1987 | "Bullet the Blue Sky" | U2 |
1983 | "El Salvador" | Noel Stookey and Jim Wallis |
1985 | "El Salvador" | White Lion |
1986 | "Flowers of Guatemala" | R.E.M. |
1984 | "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" | Bruce Cockburn |
1985 | "Lives in the Balance" | Jackson Browne |
1984 | "Nicaragua" | Bruce Cockburn |
1990 | "Nicaragua, Nicaraguita" | Billy Bragg |
1984 | "No Más!" | John McCutcheon |
2007 | "Student Visas" | Corb Lund |
1984 | "Untitled Song For Latin America" | The Minutemen |
1980 | "Washington Bullets" | The Clash |
1989 | "Wish I Was in El Salvador" | Jello Biafra with DOA |
1992 | "Young Willie" | Garnet Rogers |
Yugoslav Wars
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1991 | "Stop the War in Croatia" | Tomislav Ivčić |
1992 | "Bili cvitak" (White flower) | Jura Stublić |
1994 | "Crv" | Angel's Breath |
1993 | "Čovek sa mesecom u očima" | Đorđe Balašević |
2000 | "Dok gori nebo nad Novim Sadom" | Đorđe Balašević |
1995 | "Dead Winter Dead" The entire album is about the war in Sarajevo. | Savatage |
1993 | "Gde si" | Bajaga i Instruktori |
1993 | "Krivi smo mi" | Đorđe Balašević |
1995 | "Kad sve ovo bude juče" | Dino Merlin |
1995 | "Miss Sarajevo" | Passengers |
1995 | "Neću III svetski" | Babe |
1991 | "Nebo, nebo plavo je" | Obojeni Program |
2006 | "No Bravery" | James Blunt |
1993 | "Ovo je Balkan" | Bajaga i Instruktori |
1996 | "Regruteska" | Đorđe Balašević |
2000 | "Sevdalinka" | Đorđe Balašević |
1991 | "Isabelle" | Greg Johnson |
Gulf War(s), Iraq, 9/11, and the War on Terror
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
2002 | "11th Hour" | Lamb of God |
2008 | "20 Dollar Nose Bleed" | Fall Out Boy |
2016 | "The Threat Is Real" | Megadeth |
2009 | "21 Guns" | Green Day |
2002 | "911 For Peace" | Anti-Flag |
2002 | "911" | Gorillaz |
2014 | "A Song to Stifle Imperial Progress" | The Used |
2007 | "A Farewell to Arms" | Machine Head |
2004 | "Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)" | Saul Williams |
1992 | "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" | Iron Maiden |
2005 | "All the Young Fascists" | Shihad |
2003 | "America (Just Say No)" | Alien Stash Tin – Also covered by Betty Swallaux (2011) |
2005 | "America First" | Merle Haggard |
2008 | "American Blood" | Reckless Kelly |
2003 | "American Life" | Madonna |
2004 | "American Idiot" | Green Day |
1993 | "American Jesus" | Bad Religion |
2007 | "Amerikhastan" | Megadeth |
2009 | "Another Bag of Bones" | Kevin Devine |
2004 | "Apocalypse Please" | Muse |
2008 | "Audience of One" | Rise Against |
1992 | "Atomic Garden" | Bad Religion |
1993 | "Autopista de Basora" | Siniestro Total |
1991 | "Baghdad" | The Offspring |
1991 | "Believe" | Stryper |
1989 | "Beneath The Remains" | Sepultura |
2005 | "Bin Laden" | Immortal Technique |
2007 | "Black Rain" | Ozzy Osbourne |
2008 | "Blessed are the Landmines" | Brave Saint Saturn |
2007 | "Bloodsports" | New Model Army |
2000 | "BOB" | Outkast |
2002 | "Boom!" | System of a Down |
1992 | "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" | Roger Waters |
2006 | "Brother's Song" | Brand New |
2003 | "Bush" | David Banner |
2003 | "The Bushes and The President" | Dawn Called Malice |
2005 | "BYOB" | System of a Down |
2005 | "Camilo" | State Radio |
2008 | "Can't Happen Here" | Atreyu |
2004 | "Caped Crusader" | Jello Biafra with the Melvins |
2007 | "Capital G" | Nine Inch Nails |
2007 | "Captain Sterling's Little Problem" | The Coup |
2008 | "Cheney's Toy" | James McMurtry |
2004 | "Cinnamon Girl" | Prince |
2009 | "Civilian Ways" | Rancid |
2007 | "Clenching the Fists of Dissent" | Machine Head |
2004 | "Condi, Condi" | Steve Earle |
2008 | "Confrontation" | OTEP |
2004 | "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" | A Perfect Circle |
2013 | "Crash This Train" | Joshua James |
2007 | "Dad's Gonna Kill Me" | Richard Thompson |
1999 | Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta | Geto Boys |
2006 | "Dangerous Game" | Bill Madden |
2007 | "Dark Side of the Sun" | Tori Amos |
2004 | "Day After Tomorrow" | Tom Waits |
2007 | "Dead Man Walking" | Bloodsimple |
2007 | "Dear Mr. President" | Pink |
2004 | "Deja Vu (All Over Again)" | John Fogerty |
1991 | "Desert Angel" | Stevie Nicks |
2005 | "Devils & Dust" | Bruce Springsteen |
1991 | "Die for Oil Sucker" | Jello Biafra |
2006 | "Dirty Bombs" | Body Count |
2005 | "Dirty Harry" | Gorillaz |
2007 | "Don't Make Me a Target" | Spoon |
2007 | "Dress Blues" | Jason Isbell |
2008 | "The Drums of War" | Jackson Browne |
2006 | "Everybody's Gone to War" | Nerina Pallot |
2004 | "The Empire Strikes First" | Bad Religion |
2007 | "Empty Walls" | Serj Tankian |
2005 | "The Evil Has Landed" | Testament |
2006 | "Exit Strategy" | Valient Thorr |
2003 | "Façade of Reality" | Epica |
2006 | "For the Greater Good of God" | Iron Maiden |
2002 | The Rising | Bruce Springsteen |
2003 | "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" | David Bowie |
2011 | "Fallujah" | Terry Sutton Conspiracy |
2009 | "Far from Home" | Five Finger Death Punch |
1991 | "Fertile Crescent" | Bad Religion |
2004 | "Final Straw" | REM |
2006 | "Final Transmission" | Street Dogs |
1993 | "Follow The Leader" | Pete Kronowitt |
2003 | "Franco Un-American" | NOFX |
2008 | "Friends in the Armed Forces" | Thursday |
2005 | "Frontlines" | Soulfly |
1991 | "Fuck a War" | Geto Boys |
2006 | "Fun and Games" | Barenaked Ladies |
1998 | "The General" | Dispatch |
2007 | "George W. Told The Nation" | Tom Paxton |
2006 | "The Getaway" | Voivod |
2008 | "God is not with You !" | Ira dei (Belgium) |
1994 | "Gulf War Song" | Moxy Früvous |
2007 | "Gunslinger" | Avenged Sevenfold |
2008 | "Hammerhead" | The Offspring |
2005 | "The Hand That Feeds" | Nine Inch Nails |
2006 | "Hard-On for War" | Mudhoney |
2006 | "Harrowdown Hill" | Thom Yorke |
2007 | "Hands Held High" | Linkin Park |
1992 | "Heaven is Falling" | Bad Religion |
2008 | "Hero of War" | Rise Against |
2008 | "Hey Ma" | James |
1991 | "Highwire" | Rolling Stones |
2004 | "Holiday" | Green Day |
1991 | "Holy War" | Matthew Sweet |
2008 | "Home Front" | Drive-By Truckers |
2004 | "Home to Houston" | Steve Earle |
2006 | "The Holidays Are Here (And We're Still at War)" | Brett Dennen |
2003 | "How Much Do You Suck?" | The Jeevas |
1991 | "How Much Longer" | Paul Leary |
2007 | "I Can't Take It No More" | John Fogerty |
2003 | "I Saw Him Laying There" | Dawn Called Malice |
2004 | "If Wishes Were Horses" | David Baerwald |
2007 | "Illegal Attacks" | Ian Brown |
2003 | "In a World Gone Mad" | Beastie Boys |
2003 | "Into the Fire" | Bruce Springsteen |
2002 | "Jacob's Ladder" | Chumbawamba |
2002 | "Jerusalem" | Steve Earle |
2004 | "Jesus Walks" | Kanye West |
2002 | "John Walker's Blues" | Steve Earle |
1991 | "Job Well Done" | Rob Lincoln |
2004 | "Kimdir O" | Barış Akarsu |
2004 | "Leaving Beirut" | Roger Waters |
2007 | "Last to Die" | Bruce Springsteen |
2004 | "Left Right" | The Chemical Brothers |
2004 | "Let Them Eat War" | Bad Religion |
2003 | "Let's Get Free" | Sheryl Crow |
2006 | "Let's Impeach the President" | Neil Young |
2012 | "Letter from a Soldier" | Andy T. |
2006 | "Letter from Iraq" | Bouncing Souls |
2004 | "Letters from Home" | John Michael Montgomery |
2006 | "Lift the Veil, Kiss the Tank" | The Blood Brothers |
2006 | "Light Up Ya Lighter" | Michael Franti |
2008 | "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" | Kevin Devine |
2006 | "Mama" | Godsmack |
2004 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Dio |
2009 | "Medals of Gold" | Robert Lawrence |
2003 | "Midnight Oil" | Dawn Called Malice |
2004 | "The Mob Goes Wild" | Clutch |
2004 | "Mosh" | Eminem |
2003 | "My Girlfriend is a Lefty" | Dawn Called Malice |
2006 | "Never Knew" | Tony Dowe |
1999 | "No End in Sight" | Toto |
2002 | "No Human No Fly" | April Hole |
2006 | "No More" | Bob Seger |
2005 | "No Time Flat" | Kevin Devine |
2003 | "No War" | Esham |
2013 | "Not a Bad Man" | Patty Griffin |
2003 | "Not in My Name" | Saul Williams |
2003 | "Nothing Man" | Bruce Springsteen |
2004 | "Now You've Got Something to Die For" | Lamb of God |
2011 | "On The Backs of Angels" | Dream Theater |
2007 | "On With the Song" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
2001 | "Open Invitation (I Hate You bin Laden)" | Jackyl |
2002 | "Osama Yo' Mama" | Ray Stevens |
2003 | "Out of Time" | Blur |
2005 | "Overburdened" | Disturbed |
2003 | "Paradise" | Bruce Springsteen |
2009 | "People of the Lie" | KMFDM |
2003 | "Planet of the Rice" | Dawn Called Malice |
2003 | "Please Freeze Me" | Dawn Called Malice |
2003 | "Politik" | Coldplay |
2002/3 | "The Price of Oil" | Billy Bragg |
2007 | "Prophets of War" | Dream Theater |
1996 | "Redemption Day" | Sheryl Crow |
2017 | "Refuge" | Steven Wilson |
2015 | "Rhinoceros" | Sky Destroyers |
2004 | "Rich Man's War" | Steve Earle |
2007 | "Rumors of War" | High on Fire |
2005 | "Sacrificed Sons" | Dream Theater |
2005 | "Sacred Lie" | Disturbed |
2004 | "Saraba" | The Gazette |
2006 | "Shock and Awe" | Neil Young |
2002 | "Skylines and Turnstiles" | My Chemical Romance |
1991 | "Slap Leather" | James Taylor |
2008 | "Sleep Through the Static" | Jack Johnson |
2002 | "Square Dance" | Eminem |
2007 | "Stand Up" | Flobots |
2002 | "Still Waiting" | Sum 41 |
2005 | "Succexy" | Metric |
2003 | "A Taste of Money" | Dawn Called Malice |
1989 | "Tehran" | The Offspring |
2006 | "Take a Bow" | Muse |
2008 | "That Man I Shot" | Drive-By Truckers |
2007 | "The Little Things Give You Away" | Linkin Park |
2005 | "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show" | Pet Shop Boys |
2003 | "This Is War" | Smile Empty Soul |
2009 | "This Is War" | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
2006 | "Trot Out the Dead" | Hammers of Misfortune |
2004 | "To Kill the Child" | Roger Waters |
1991 | "Too Many Puppies" | Primus |
1992 | "Too Much Rope" | Roger Waters |
1994 | "Turkey Shoot" | Killdozer |
2005 | "Twenty" | Robert Cray |
2006 | "Two Weeks From Twenty" | Yellowcard |
2011 | "Victory Stinks" | Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine |
2008 | "Violent & Young" | Iglu & Hartly |
2003 | "Walk On" | Hilltop Hoods |
2002 | "War on War" | Wilco |
1992 | "Wargasm" | L7 |
2012 | "Warzone" | Pagoda |
2005 | "War Is a Wonderful Thing" | Real West |
2005 | "We Don't Want Your War" | Jynkz {Jeff Neugebauer} |
2003 | "What Are We Fighting For" | Live |
2001 | "What More Can I Give" | Michael Jackson & Various Artists |
2005 | "When the President Talks to God" | Bright Eyes |
2004 | "Where Is the Love?" | The Black Eyed Peas (Featuring Justin Timberlake) |
2001 | "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" | Alan Jackson |
2006 | "Where'd You Go" | Fort Minor |
2007 | "White People For Peace" | Against Me! |
2010 | "White Flag Warrior" | Flobots ft. Tim McIlrath |
2005 | "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face" | Our Lady Peace |
2011 | "Words I Never Said" | Lupe Fiasco |
2006 | "World Wide Suicide" | Pearl Jam |
2006 | "Waiting on the World to Change" | John Mayer |
2006 | "Worker Bees" | Billy Talent |
2003 | "WWIII" | KMFDM |
2006 | "Yellowcake" | Ministry |
1992 | "Yellow Ledbetter" | Pearl Jam |
2007 | "Yo George" | Tori Amos |
1991 | "You Shoulda Killed Me Last Year" | Ice-T |
2003 | "Your Silence" | Suicide Machines |
2007 | "Sweet Neo Con" | Rolling Stones |
General Middle East
Year | Song | Artist |
---|---|---|
1982 | "Rock the Casbah" | The Clash |
Traditional music
Apart from the various genres of modern music, some traditional and contemporary folk songs reflect the futile efforts of war and the attitudes of objectors prior to the major wars of the 20th century. Some of these include:
- "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" also known as "Down by the Riverside", and with a similar tune as "Hand Me down My Walking Cane" – African-American traditional anti-war song recorded by The Weavers and many others.
- "Arthur McBride" – While first curated in the 19th century, this song likely came into existence during the 17th century in response to the War of the Grand Alliance, or especially the Williamite War in Ireland, after which the Irish Jacobite army was sent to France as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691.
- "The Cruel War" – Made famous in its current form by Pete Seeger and Peter Paul and Mary, this anti-war song has roots at least as far back as the American Civil War, and can probably be traced to an older English song.[10]
- "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" – Irish traditional anti-war and anti-recruiting song that was the basis for the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", and recorded as "Fighting for Strangers" by Steeleye Span.
- "Kannoneer Jabůrek" – popular Czech song mocking war heroism, referring to the events of the 1866 Austro-Prussian War
- "Lincoln's Army" – The Irish Rovers
- "Lowlands of Holland" – traditional recorded by Martin Carthy
- "Mrs. McGrath" – an Irish song describing a young man named Ted who goes to fight in the Navy, only to lose his legs to a cannonball. Bruce Springsteen recorded a version of this song on his album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, and it appears on the subsequent live album Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin
- "Paddy's Lamentation" – an Irish song dating back to the US Civil War.[11]
- "The Foggy Dew" – an Irish song comparing the loss of Irish soldiers killed during the 1916 Easter Rising and World War 1, made famous by The Dubliners
- "I Didn't Raise My Son To Be A Soldier"[12]
See also
References
- ↑ https://www.opednews.com/articles/Antiwar-Song--Candyland--by-T-M-Elkins-Anti-war_Antiwar_Antiwar-Movement_Antiwar-Resolution-140713-767.html
- ↑ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B9!
- ↑ Harding, Mike. "Christmas 1914 | Mike Harding". Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ↑ Lynn Van Matre (1 May 1986): "Deyoung Answers Call For Vets". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ↑ "Independence". Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. 4 July 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ↑ Andresen, Lee (1 May 2003). Battle Notes: Music of the Vietnam War. Savage Press. p. 129.
- ↑ Cusic, Don (30 July 2008). Discovering Country Music. ABC-CLIO. p. 97.
- ↑ Ives, Simon (2003). "Fun Boy Three". In Buckley, Peter. The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). London: Rough Guides. p. 401. ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ↑ "The paranoid rhetoric of the Cold War was parodied in much popular music during the 19805, from Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Two Tribes' (1981), Nena's '99 Luft Ballons' (1982), Heaven 17's 'Let's All Make a Bomb'..." Jane Milling, Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations, Methuen Drama, 2012. ISBN 9781408129609. 2013 (p.83)
- ↑ "The Cruel War (Version 1)". Contemplator.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ↑ "69th New York Songs". 69thnewyork.co.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ↑ http://folkstream.com/reviews/anticonscription.html
External links
- Anti-war Songs a website collecting thousands of antiwar songs from all over the world
- Folk&More: Songbook & Tabs a growing collection of chords, tabs, and lyrics of anti-war songs from Bob Dylan to Bob Marley
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