The Jimmy Driftwood version has a somewhat naughty verse in it . Funny

My brother was five years older but it might have been my dad’s record.

by Woody Guthrie

That song still applies to our modern times, unfortunately.

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(I miss them all, but especially Levon Helm... sigh...)

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"Gimme an 'F'...

since my sister got the album some 55 years ago.

Why do you ask?

The song boils my blood.

What are pendantics?

swing like a pendulum do

The Kinks - Some Mother's Son (WW I)

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Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army (Northen Ireland and the British Empire)

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Al Stewart has a sweet spot for history.

I can't think of anyone else who has Heinz Guderian in their lyrics.

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It would have been in the country bar scene. Very sad they cut it.

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All the songs were so pretty. The singing and dancing amazing. The humour lovely. It was sublime. I learnt so much history. It covered all the years of the US War of Independence and the first few administrations. It was emotional. It never slowed down. Some of the conflicts were done in rap offs. I will definitely see it again.

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This whole album is about WWI.

I Ain't Marching Anymore

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Is There Anybody Here?

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Please, somebody, post a link here. How horrible all this would be for the members of the original Republican Party, such as Julia Ward Howe, or Ulysses S. Grant.

Swedish Metal band Sabaton did an entire concept album about World War I. Sabaton dies a lot of songs about historical battles, but this is their only album that's about one war - there are songs about Lawrence of Arabia, the Marines at Belleau Wood and the Red Baron on it.

Since we must pick one, let's post "82nd All The Way" which is abuut 82nd Infantry Division hero Sgt. Alvin York.

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Although it's not clear what ABBA was singing about, I'm guessing the Spanish Civil War.

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Longtime ABBA fan here...my DU user name is Frida's middle name.

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The great Tom Lehrer

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By Johnny Horton. It's about a Comanche Indian (Brave Horse) who died at Custer's feet.

symbolizing the end of the Cold War

Back home Indiana, we just learn to get along
Civilized and socialized they teach you right from wrong
How to hold your liquor and how to hold your tongue
How to hold a woman or a baby or a gun

But nothing will prepare you for the far Afghanistan
You can listen to their stories and pick up what you can
You listen to their stories maybe read a book or two
Until they send you out there, man you haven’t got a clue

Oh the Hindu Kush, the Band-e Amir, the Hazara

They tell you a tradition in the hills of Kandahar
They say young boys are taken to the wilderness out there
Taken to the mountain alone and in the night
If he makes it home alive they teach him how to fight

They fought against the Russians, they fought against the Brits
They fought old Alexander, talking ‘bout him ever since
And after 9/11 here comes your Uncle Sam
Another painful lesson in the far Afghanistan

I was ready to be terrified and ready to be mad
I was ready to be homesick, the worst I’ve ever had
I was ready to be terrified and ready to be mad
I was ready to be homesick, the worst I’ve ever had
I expected to be hated and insulted to my face
But nothing could prepare me for the beauty of the place

No matter what they tell you all soldiers talk to God
It’s a private conversation written in your blood
The enemy’s no different, badass holy wind
That crazy bastard talks to God and his God talks back to him

By Billy Joel

Last year of the Civil War.