Veteran's Day Playlist

[dreamshark]

I was loading songs on my iPod to listen to at the gym, when it occurred to me that it was Veteran's Day. I was listening to "My Son John," a heartbreaking and unusually subtle anti-war song, when it occurred to me to make a Veteran's Day playlist.

But the 44 songs I came up with run the gamut from that lovely, lugubrious song about Willie McBride to "The Battle of New Orleans."  I made no effort to prune or arrange them, leading to odd juxtapositions of boisterous Scottish war songs with plaintive anti-war tunes. Now I guess I'll go off to the gym and see if the ratio of marching songs to tearful protests is sufficiently rousing to get me through a workout.



March Of The Toy Soldiers
My Son, John
Cruel War
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Warrior Maid
Wartime Encounter
Masters of War
Civil War
Blacksmith Of The Brandywine
Clampherdown
The Grog Song
Pirates In England
Dane Geld
The Battle Of New Orleans
The Battle Of Harlaw
The Big Battle
The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
The Partisan
Bloody Mary
The Army's Tired Now
Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
Engineer's Hymn
Universal Soldier
The Unknown Soldier
We Be Soldiers Three
Buffalo Soldier
Pat Murphy Of The Irish Brigade
The Irish Volunteers
The Mulligan Guard
The Lowlands Of Holland
Gallowa' Hills
No Man's Land
O'Sullivan's March
Willie's Gan Tae Melville Castle
The Bonnie Lass O' Fyvie
Fiddler's Green
The Black Douglas
Stirling Brig
The Patriot Game
With God On Our Side
Song Of The Gunners
Old Fighting Men
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Swordsman

Comments

[drblkcrab.livejournal.com]

I have a personal preference for the Earth Wind and Fire version of "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" great playlist~

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I might add Wife of the Soldier by Steeleye Span, but I suppose that's more a Memorial Day song, like Danny Boy. I have no idea how this list would be to exercise to.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

It works better than you might expect, although I had to skip past a few slow ones.

[carbonel]

Unlike many playlists, I actually know and like most of the songs on this one. Nice to know there are still folkies (and filkies) around.

Am I correct in remembering that "Patriot Game" and "With God on Our Side" are the same tune?

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Yes.

In fact, I located that one in my iTunes library by looking in a Playlist I put together once called "Dylan's Roots." This playlist consists of Dylan songs paired with the source he "borrowed" from when he wrote the song. That's one of the pairs. :-)

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

I just added "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer."

Some other songs that would have been in there if I had recordings of them:
* The Army, Navy and Marine fight songs (or whatever they call them)
* Barrett's Privateers
* Bonnie Dundee
* Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
* The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (which I think is actually called something else)