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Songs about War

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  19 Paul Hardcastle
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  1967 Don McLean

  "In Nineteen Sixty Seven the draft caught up with me,
  me and my pal Joe went off to war.
  We might find hero's heaven, but we'd keep the country free.
  We would surely win just like before."

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  21 Guns Green Day
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  A Soldier's Poem Muse
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  Aces High Iron Maiden
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  Army Dreamers Kate Bush
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  Ashes in Your Mouth Megadeth
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  B.Y.O.B. System of a Down
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  Ballad of the Green Berets Barry Sadler
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  Billy Don't Be a Hero Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods

  "Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life
  Billy, don't be a hero, come back and make me your wife
  And as he started to go,
  She said Billy keep your head low
  Billy, don't be hero, come back to me"

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  Blow Me Away Breaking Benjamin
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  Boom! System of a Down
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  Born in the U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen

  "I got in a little hometown jam
  Someone put a rifle in my hands
  Sent me off to a foreign land
  To go and kill the yellow man"

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  Chicken Farm Dead Kennedys
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  Civil War Guns N' Roses
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  Civilian Ways Rancid
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  Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums A Perfect Circle
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  Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue Toby Keith
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  Dear Mr. President Pink
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  Disposable Heroes Metallica
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  Draft Dodger Rag Phil Ochs

  "And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red
  But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:
  Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen
  And I always carry a purse"

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  Everywhere Billy Bragg

  "I never got home, my platoon was never saved
  That little fox hole became my island grave
  Lee got out of jail but a prisoner he remained
  Till he ended his own life to lose that ball and chain"

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  Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival

  "Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
  Ooh, they send you down to war, lord,
  And when you ask them, 'how much should we give?'
  Ooh, they only answer 'more! more! more!' yeah
  It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son."

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  Games without Frontiers Peter Gabriel
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  Helicopters Barenaked Ladies
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  Hero Of War Rise Against
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  I Don't Want to Wait Paula Cole

  "She had two babies, one was six months, one was three
  In the war of '44...
  Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging
  When she thought it was God calling her
  Oh, would her son grow to know his father?"

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  If You're Reading This Tim McGraw

  "Looks like I only got a one way ticket over here
  Sure wish I
  Could give you one more kiss
  And war was just a game we played when we were kids"

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  Kids with Guns Gorillaz
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  Mandatory Suicide Slayer
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  Masters Of War Bob Dylan

  "You put a gun in my hand
  And you hide from my eyes
  And you turn and run farther
  When the fast bullets fly."

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  Mosh Eminem
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  Navy Song Billy Talent

  "I gave my life to save her
  The ocean turned to red
  In the fall, in the fall, when the tide took them all
  Cut down like lambs at slaughter,
  Good men were left for dead
  In the fall, in the fall, when the tide took them all"

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  New Divide Linkin Park
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  Ohio Neil Young
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  One Hell Of An Amen Brantley Gilbert

  "Preacher said he died too young
  Over there totin' that gun
  For Uncle Sam and our freedom
  Mom and Daddy dressed in black
  They folded up that flag
  Handed it to dad
  Started prayin'
  Yeah he went out 21 guns blazin'"

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  One Tin Soldier Skeeter Davis
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  Pencil Rain They Might Be Giants
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  Radioactive Imagine Dragons
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  Rainy Day Women Bob Dylan
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  Remenissions Avenged Sevenfold
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  Road Movie to Berlin They Might Be Giants
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  Run Through The Jungle Creedence Clearwater Revival
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  Run to the Hills Iron Maiden
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  Scarborough Fair/Canticle Simon & Garfunkel
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  Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) Mike + The Mechanics
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  Sky Pilot Animals
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  Soldier Side (Intro) System of a Down
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  Soldier's Song Lucinda Williams
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  Soldiers Otherwise
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  Some Gave All Billy Ray Cyrus

  "All gave some and some gave all
  And some stood through for the red, white and blue
  And some had to fall
  And if you ever think of me
  Think of all your liberties and recall
  Some gave all"

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  Some Nights Fun.
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  Sunday Bloody Sunday U2
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  Survivor Guilt Rise Against
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  The Day That Never Comes Metallica
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  The Last Farewell Roger Whittaker
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  The Rooster Alice In Chains
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  The Soldiering Life Decemberists, The
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  The Sun is Burning Simon & Garfunkel
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  The Times They Are A-changin' Bob Dylan
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  The War Is Over Phil Ochs
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  This Is War 30 Seconds To Mars
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  Unknown Soldier Breaking Benjamin
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  War Edwin Starr
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  War Pigs Black Sabbath
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  War? System of a Down
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  We Gotta Get out of This Place Animals
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  Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Peter Paul & Mary
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  White Flag Warrior Flobots
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  Who'll Stop The Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival
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  Worker Bees Billy Talent
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  Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Decemberists, The
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  Zombie Cranberries, The

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