Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger

[filkertom]

Ninety-four years young. Teacherken at dKos has a great selection of videos. Feel free to link us to more

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[janedit]

John Prine--"Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" and "Sam Stone" (which is not strictly anti-war, except that it is). Also Tom Paxton's "Get Up, Jimmy Newman." Dan votes for "Give Peace a Chance" and Country Joe McDonald's "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag."

[filkertom]

Excellent choices all around. "Sam Stone" always breaks my damn heart.

[janedit]

Mine too.

[maiac]

"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" always makes me cry.

"Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye" is another favorite: "They're rollin' out their guns again, but they'll never take our sons again!"

[jeffr23]

Alice's Restuarant Massacree, without a doubt.

[janedit]

Oh, yes!

[patoadam]

Excellent choices.

Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

Malvina Reynolds, "What Have They Done to the Rain?"

[tigertoy]

There are so many powerful anti-war songs, and I certainly don't have a good enough memory to pull up all the good ones I'm familiar with on a mental list. But a few that come to mind. First, since you lead off mentioning Pete Seeger, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is an amazing song -- so simple, yet it conveys such a punch. I think Bogle's other big hit, "No Man's Land", is an even stronger anti-war message. "Penny Evans" (Steve Goodman, I think) is a heck of a punch in the gut. And for one that doesn't make me cry, but is definitely an indictment of the military-industrial complex, "Hey Ho" by Dave Carter.

[ladymondegreen]

All of the above plus Save the Country by Laura Nyro, Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire, and a bunch more.