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    |LGA.3rd|General Clausewitz Member Kaiser of Arabia's Avatar
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    Default Favorite War Songs

    Self Explanitory

    1. Die Panzerlied
    2. So shall they children (old welsh war chant http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~makarov/ant...lsh_guards.mp3)
    3. Men of Harlech
    4. Over the Hills and Far Away

    Ill have more later.
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    Default Re: Favorite War Songs

    When Frontline finally did its big 4-hour summation of the first Gulf War, they had a really great scene: A bunch of tankers had just been informed that the war was over, and they put on the only tape they had laying around, James Brown's "I Feel Good."

    The video of those soldiers dancing in the sand and on their tanks to James Brown left a lasting impression. In an odd way, "I Feel Good" has become the funkiest war song of all time.

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    Default Re: Favorite War Songs

    Go home British soldiers by eire og

    Come out ye black and tans by the wolftones

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    Blind King , thats a bit much for the Frontroom

    "The Green Fields of France" , by anyone with a decent voice .
    "The Band played waltzing Matilda ", the Pogues do it great .

    And of course "War" by Edwin Starr

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    Default Re: Favorite War Songs

    What counts as a war song? Soungs about war or just those that are patriotic songs or official military songs? (ex. the Marine Corps Hymn)

    If songs about war are good as well here are two that I like:

    Sgt Mackenzie
    by Joseph Kilna Mackenzie

    In memory of Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie
    Seaforth Highlanders
    Who along with many others gave up his life
    So that we can live free

    We will remember them


    Parts of the the song Sgt Mackenzie was featured in the movie We Were Soldiers.

    Lyrics

    English Translation:
    Lay me down in the cold cold ground
    Where before many more have gone
    Lay me down in the cold cold ground
    Where before many more have gone

    When they come I will stand my ground
    Stand my ground I’ll not be afraid

    Thoughts of home take away my fear
    Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears

    Once a year say a prayer for me
    Close your eyes and remember me

    Never more shall I see the sun
    For I fell to a Germans gun

    Lay me down in the cold cold ground
    Where before many more have gone
    Lay me down in the cold cold ground
    Where before many more have gone

    Where before many more have gone


    Original Scottish Version

    Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
    Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
    Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
    Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

    When they come a wull staun ma groon
    Staun ma groon al nae be afraid

    Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
    Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

    Ains a year say a prayer faur me
    Close yir een an remember me

    Nair mair shall a see the sun
    For a fell tae a Germans gun

    Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
    Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

    Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
    Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

    Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun



    When the Tigers Broke Free
    by Pink Floyd

    Lyrics

    It was just before dawn one miserable morning
    in black forty-four
    when the forward commander was told to sit tight
    when asked that his men be withdrawn
    And the generals gave thanks as the other ranks
    held be the enemy tanks - for a while
    And then the Anzio beachhead was held for the price
    of a few hundred ordinary lives

    And kind old King George sent mother a note
    when he heard that father was gone
    It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll
    with golden leaf and all
    And I found it one day in a drawer of old
    photographs hidden away
    And my eyes still grow damp to remember
    His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp

    It was dark all around
    There was frost on the ground
    When the tigers broke free
    And noone survived from the Royal Fusiliers Company C
    They were all left behind
    Most of them dead
    The rest of them dying
    And that's how the High Command took my Daddy from me
    Last edited by Longshanks; 11-03-2004 at 03:46.

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    Default Re: Favorite War Songs

    Yeah, those are great, longshanks. Cool.
    Scotland the Brave i think can be classified, right?

    Why do you hate Freedom?
    The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.

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