Personally, I like Alan Jackson's song "Where were you (When the world stopped turning)"
2006-07-31 06:56:49 · 15 answers · asked by osunumberonefan 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
none of them..they are all cashing in on a tragedy.
2006-07-31 06:59:44 · answer #1 · answered by Jenny A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite song from 9-11 was written long before the tragedy. I listened to it often and wept every time I heard it.
It's "America," by Simon and Garfunkel. Here are the lyrics. Listen to it sometime and see if it speaks to you at all.
America
By Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigaret I think there's one in the raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
2006-07-31 14:03:40 · answer #2 · answered by SurferRose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was way before 9/11, Merle Haggard's "The Fightin' Side of Me" written in 1970.
Also, Charlie Daniels' "In America" and Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA"
2006-08-08 03:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by Ding-Ding 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. I was in NYC when it happened and watched it from Brooklyn Heights just across the river. I lost close friends in the disaster. So, although I don't think it's wrong to sing about it, or make a tasteful movie about it, or whatever else, I personally don't enjoy remembering it in that way. 5 years later, I still have nightmares about it every now and then.
2006-08-05 14:35:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Alan Jackson's song is terrific.
2006-08-02 13:52:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"--subtitled on the album, for unknown reasons, "The Angry American." We had every right to be angry on that tragic day, but the song is not an angry song, but a song of defiance. It says, "We'll never back sown in the face of terrorism; we'll fight back, and we'll beat you down"--exactly what President Bush has been doing for the last five years.
2006-08-02 10:57:42 · answer #6 · answered by nacmanpriscasellers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I quite like Toby Keith's Courtesy of the Red White and Blue. It is not maudlin or weepy. It plays to our strengths. Americans began their quest for freedom under the banner "Don't Tread on Me." Keith's lyrics reflect that unwillingness to quietly submit to the heinous acts of terrorists. Instead we "Lit up their world like the fourth of July."
2006-07-31 23:10:23 · answer #7 · answered by anonymourati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos' theme song of the Philippines. That's his birthday.
2006-08-06 09:31:37 · answer #8 · answered by hanna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Melissa Etheridge's "Tuesday Morning"
2006-07-31 14:44:46 · answer #9 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burning for You...no, wait, Disco Inferno...or maybe Jet Airliner...hmm, maybe Fly Me Courageous...
Just kidding, folks. Lighten up.
2006-08-07 18:26:05 · answer #10 · answered by Modest intellect 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Where You Are" sung by Josh Groban. it came out shortly after the attacks. while it's not specific, it really gets to the heart of the matter and sudden loss. just try to listen to it without getting choked up.
2006-07-31 14:22:54 · answer #11 · answered by madlibs37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋