Songs

__**Two songs for each major war which the US has engaged in, with lyrics.**__

**__War in general.__**

__[|Metallica, One]__ I can't remember anything Can't tell if this is true or dream Deep down inside I feel to scream This terrible silence stops with me Now that the war is through with me I'm waking up, I cannot see That there's not much left of me Nothing is real but pain now Hold my breath as I wish for death Oh, please God, wake me They kept my head and chopped off everything Oh, God, please make them hear me They won't listen, they won't hear me They got to wake me up Ill be like this for years, hear me Back in the womb it's much too real In pumps life that I must feel But can't look forward to reveal Look to the time when I'll live Fed through the tube that sticks in me Just like a wartime novelty Tied to machines that make me be Cut this life off from me Hold my breath as I wish for death Oh, please God, wake me It's like a piece of me.

[|Edwin Starr- War]

Edwin Starr had been recording soul hit singles, including the top 10 pop hit "25 Miles," since 1965, but he was not widely recognized as one of America's top soul singers. That all changed when the anthemic protest song "War" went to the top of the charts in 1970. It remains one of the most powerful simple statements about the futility of war. Bruce Springsteen took his live version of the song into the pop top 10 in 1986.

"War - What is it good for? - Absolutely nothing!"

__ **IRAQ War** __

[|Eminem- Mosh]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all... It feels so good to be back..

I scrutinize every word, memorize every line I spit it once, refuel, re-energize and rewind I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as I say to fight, you take it as I'mma whip someone's ass If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask A father who has grown up with a fatherless past Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft Slash entrepreneur who has helped launch a few more rap acts Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half Of his career typical manure moving past that Mr. kisses ass crack, he's a class act Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back.

//[Chorus:]// Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed Carry on, give me hope, give me strength Come with me and I won't steer you wrong Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog To the light at the end of the tunnel We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh Take us right through the doors (c'mon)

All the people up top on the side and the middle Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little Just let it gradually build from the front to the back All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)

//[Chorus]// Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us Mosh pits outside the oval office Someone's tryina tell us something, Maybe this is God just sayin' we're responsible For this monster, this coward, That we have empowered This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin' How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists Now this is our final hour Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six... Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech Let the president answer a higher anarchy Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war Let him impress daddy that way No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero Look in his eyes its all lies The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die If I get sniped tonight you know why, Cause I told you to fight.

//[Chorus]// And as we proceed, To Mosh through this desert storm, In these closing statements, if they should argue Let us beg to differ As we set aside our differences And assemble our own army To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction That we call our President, for the present And Mosh for the future of our next generation To speak and be heard Mr. President, Mr. Senator Do you guy's hear us...hear us...//[laughing]// (Hailie)

[|One Tribe- Black Eyed Peas]

Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooooh! Oh-woah-oh! One Tri... One Tri... One Tribe, One Time, One Planet, One Race Its all one blood, don't care about your face The color of your eye Or the tone of your skin Don't care where you are Don't care where you been Cause where we gonna go Is where we wanna be The place where the little language is unity And the continent is called Pangaea And the main ideas are connected like a spear No propaganda, They tried to upper hand us Cause man I'm loving this peace Man, man, I'm loving this peace Man, man, I'm loving this peace I don't need no leader That's gonna force feed a Concept that make me think I need to Fear my brother and fear my sister And shoot my neighbor Or my big missile If I had an enemy to [enemy] If I had an enemy to [enemy] If I had an enemy Then my enemy is gonna try to come and kill me Cause I'm his enemy There's one tribe ya'll One tribe ya'll One tribe ya'll One tribe ya'll We are one people Let's cast amnesia, forget about all that evil Forget about all that evil, that evil that they feed ya Let's cast amnesia, forget about all that evil That evil that they feed ya Remember that we're one people We are one people One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One tribe, one tribe One tribe, one time, one planet, one [race] Race, one love, one people, one [and] Too many things that's causing one [to] Forget about the main cause Connecting, uniting But the evil is seen and alive in us So our hopes are colliding And our peace is sinking like Poseidon But, we know that the one [one] The evil one is threatened by the sum [sum] So he'll come and try and separate the sum But he dumb, he didn't know we had a way to overcome Rejuvenated by the beating of the drum Come together by the cycle of the hum Freedom when all become one [one] Forever One tribe ya'll One tribe ya'll One tribe ya'll We are one people Let's cast amnesia Forget about all that evil [evil] Forget about all that evil [evil] That evil that they feed ya Let's cast amnesia Forget about all that evil [evil] That evil, that they feed ya [feed ya] Remember that we're one people We are one people One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One love, one blood, one people One heart, one beat, we equal Connected like the internet United that's how we do Lets break walls, so we see through Let love and peace lead you We could overcome the complication cause we need to Help each other, make these changes Brother, sister, rearrange this The way I'm thinking that we can change this bad condition Wait, use you mind and not your greed Let's connect and then proceed This is something I believe We are one, we're all just people One tribe ya'll One tribe ya'll One tribe ya'll We are one people Let's cast amnesia Forget about all that evil Forget about all that evil, that evil that they feed ya Let's cast amnesia Let's cast amnesia, forget about all that evil That evil, that they feed ya We're one tribe ya'll We people, we people One tribe ya'll One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] One people, one people [One People] Lets, lets cast amnesia Lord help me out Trying to figure out what its all about [what its all about] Cause we're one in the same [one in the same] Same joy, same pain And I hope that you're there when I need ya Cause maybe we need amnesia And I don't wanna sound like a preacher But we need to be one One world, one love, one passion One tribe, one understanding Cause you and me can become one.

__**Vietnam war**__


 * [|Paper Lace- Billy Don't be a Hero]**

By 1974 much of American public opinion had turned against prolonging the Vietnam War. The British band Paper Lace first recorded this song that details the story of a soldier dying heroically, but it ends with his fiancee throwing away the note bringing her the news. Paper Lace had a #1 hit with the song in the UK, but the American band Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods beat them to the American charts with the song.

"I heard his fiancee got a letter That told how Billy died that day The letter said that he was a hero She should be proud he died that way I heard she threw that letter away"


 * [|Ssgt Barry Sadler- The Ballad of the green Berets]**

Barry Sadler served as a Green Beret medic and a US Army staff sergeant during the Vietnam War, but he was forced to return home after being seriously wounded. Robin Moore, author of the bestselling book //The Green Berets//, encouraged Sadler to record his songs, often strongly patriotic ones, about being a soldier. This song became the biggest pop hit of 1966. It was revered by those in support of the Vietnam War and reviled by those in opposition. "Put silver wings on my son's chest Make him one of America's best He'll be a man they'll test one day Have him win the Green Beret"

__**WWI**__

__**[|American Quartet- Over There]**__

George M. Cohan’s “biggest song not written for Broadway” became World War I’s most famous song.He penned the patriotic number after reading in the newspaper that the United States had declared war on Germany. He expanded the opening phrase of “Johnny Get Your Gun”, a popular song from 1886, into “a lyric that is both a call to arms and a vow not to come home till ‘it’s over, over there’.”

__**[|"Ashokan Farewell" by michael feinstein]**__

The sun is sinking low in the sky above Ashokan The pines and the willows know soon we will part There's a whisper in the wind of promises unspoken And a love that will always remain in my heart My thoughts will return to the sound of your laughter The magic of moving as one And a time we'll remember long ever after The moonlight and music and dancing are done Will we climb the hills once more? Will we walk the woods together? Will I feel you holding me close once again? Will every song we've sung stay with us forever? Will you dance in my dreams or my arms until then? Under the moon the mountains lie sleeping Over the lake the stars shine They wonder if you and I will be keeping The magic and music or leave them behind

**WW2**

__**[|American Quartet- Over There]**__
George M. Cohan’s “biggest song not written for Broadway” became World War I’s most famous song.He penned the patriotic number after reading in the newspaper that the United States had declared war on Germany. He expanded the opening phrase of “Johnny Get Your Gun”, a popular song from 1886, into “a lyric that is both a call to arms and a vow not to come home till ‘it’s over, over there’.”

**[|Blood on The Risers]**

//He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright,// //He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight;////He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar,////"You ain't gonna jump no more!"////(CHORUS)////Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,////Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,////Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,////he ain't gonna jump no more!////"Is everybody happy?" cried the Sergeant looking up,////Our Hero feebly answered "Yes," and then they stood him up;////He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked,////And he ain't gonna jump no more.////(CHORUS)////He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock,////He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop,////The silk from his reserve spilled out and wrapped around his legs,////And he ain't gonna jump no more.////(CHORUS)////The risers wrapped around his neck, connectors cracked his dome,////Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones;////The canopy became his shroud; he hurtled to the ground.////And he ain't gonna jump no more.////(CHORUS)////The days he'd lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind,////He thought about the girl back home, the one he'd left behind;////He thought about the medics, and wondered what they'd find,////And he ain't gonna jump no more.////(CHORUS)////The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild,////The medics jumped and screamed with glee, rolled up their sleeves and smiled,////For it had been a week or more since last a 'chute had failed,////And he ain't gonna jump no more.////(CHORUS)////He hit the ground, the sound was "SPLAT" his blood went spurting high,////His comrades were all heard to say "A hell of a way to die!"////He lay there rolling round in the welter of his gore,////And he ain't gonna jump no more.////(CHORUS)////(slowly, solemnly; about half the speed of the other verses)////There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute,////Intestines were a'dangling from his Paratrooper suit,////He was a mess, they picked him up and poured him from his boots,////And he ain't gonna jump no more////Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,////Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,////Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,////And he ain't gonna jump no more!//

**__Korean War__**

**__[|Breaking benjamin- So Cold]__**

Crowded streets are cleared away one by one Hollow heroes separate as they run You're so cold, keep your hand in mine Wise men wonder while strong men die Show me how it ends, it's all right Show me how defenseless you really are Satisfied and empty inside Well that's alright, let's give this another try If you find your family don't you cry In this land of make believe, dead and dry You're so cold but you feel alive Lay your hand on me one last time Show me how it ends, it's all right Show me how defenseless you really are Satisfied and empty inside Well that's alright, let's give this another try Show me how it ends, it's all right Show me how defenseless you really are Satisfied and empty inside Well that's alright, let's give this another try It's alright It's alright It's alright

[|Peter Barnes- They would Never Be forgotten]

Korean War 1950 - 1953. The Korean War is often described as 'The Forgotten War'. The memorial song on this video is timeless and honours the memory of those who have died in the service and defence of Australia in war.

Can you hear Australia's heroes marching? Can you hear them as they march into eternity? There will never be a greater love There just couldn't be a greater sacrifice There just couldn't be Can you hear Australia's heroes marching? The ones who fought and gave their all Can you hear Australia's heroes marching? Can you hear them as they march into eternity? There will never be a greater love There just couldn't be a greater sacrifice There just couldn't be Can you hear Australia's heroes marching? They're marching once again Across our great land Can you hear Australia's heroes marching? Can you hear them as they march into eternity? There will never be a greater love There just couldn't be a greater sacrifice There just couldn't be Can you hear Australia's heroes marching?