Friday night music is: War & Peace

[Alex321]

The Massacre of Glencoe - The Corries

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_bvTdIEiDU

 

[Alex321]

Bonnie Dundee - The Corries

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av2-A-igOJk

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

His father was in the US Air Force, so he lived around air-bases, & as the first line states
"I grew up in a military town..."

Steve Earle & The Dukes/Duchesses
Waitin For The Sky To Fall

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFP8hwP3M9o

 

[Alex321]

War - Bruce Springsteen

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJAIVsIK_IE

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This has the spoken/tale-telling introduction that features in my box-set

Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
War

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn91L9goKfQ

 

[Alex321]

The Patriots dream - Gordon Lightfoot

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaJYxzTdTA

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Guns N Roses - Civil War

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e3sI5xkA0M

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Ls8HUBWoQ

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I know the Black Sabbath original has already featured, but this surely deserves a honorary mention?
(I think they performed this, when we saw them, at Holmfirth Picturedrome)

Hayseed Dixie
War Pigs

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3peH3ppJKxo

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wEWSUUsUc


or The Who version which I think is better

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgzxF1dooDE

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Roger Whittaker
The Last Farewell

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGWs1HK8iDU

 

[Alex321]

Peace Will Come - Tom Paxton

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tIJEywB4g

 

[iandg]

View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZqag2YbGs&si=ArXQGeH22yIaaGpf

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From the opening images of the Hueys(?) in Vietnam, to the lines like "I volunteered for the Army on my birthday, they draft the white-trash first round here anyway"

Steve Earle & The Dukes
Copperhead Road (from the LP, of the same name, I've still got my vinyl copy)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Blitz era London

Steve Earle & The Pogues (instead of The Dukes, this is on the Copperhead Road LP)
Johnny Comes Lately

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9BbLYERrY