The best Songs about War.

The Sacred War (Священная Война)

Gary Moore and Phil Lynott - Out In The Fields.

Boney M - Belfast (1977):

A song about the historical 40's?

Yeah, the 1240's.

Colonel Bogey March:



Wow, got a bogey in my nose.
Too bad, keep marching.

The President Biden march ...

Oh look flags!

What were we doing again?

Steve Hofmeyr - The Ballad of the Green Berets.

Thin Lizzy - Emerald:

Sabaton - A Lifetime of War.

"Fook me sideways - it is aliens!"
Yeah, but they're just observing.

Shave the nether-regions, and paint the toenails.

We're under observation.

Earthlings should make a good impression.

Er ... maybe a bit late for that?

Let's try anyway.

So, they gonna let us in, the Intergalactic Federation?

"Nope ... just no".

The War of the Worlds:

Iron Maiden - Paschendale:

Def Leppard - Don't shoot shotgun.

The Cult - Soldier Blue:

Written by the Australian Eric Bogle.

Green Fields of France, sung by the accomplished English folk singer June Tabor.



Well how do you do, Private William McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
And I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun?
I've been walkin' all day long, and I'm nearly done.
I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916
Well, I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean,
Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Chorus:
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they sound the fife lowly,
Did the rifles fire o' ye as they lowered you down?
Did the bugle sing The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in 1916,
To that loyal heart are you always 19?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown, leather frame

Chorus:

Well the sun's shining now on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plough
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man’s Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.

Chorus:

And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here, know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you 'The Cause?'
You really believe that this war would end wars?
The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame,
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again!
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they sound the fife lowly,
Did the rifles fire o' ye as they lowered you down?
Did the bugle sing The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Did the bugle sing The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

To second the above ...

Eric Bogle - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.

Manegarm - Odin Owns Ye All.