What is, in your opinion, the most poignant anti-war song?

Question

I don't have much knowledge on this subject, but for me it'd be impossible to pick between:

'With God On Our Side'- Bob Dylan (but I like the Manfred Mann cover)

or

'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda'- Eric Bogle (or the Pogues cover)

Thanks

Answer 1

Rolf Harris 2 little boys.

Answer 2

Let's Impeach the President- Neal Young
Mrs. McGrath-Bruce Springsteen's version
Baby, Let's Have a Baby, Before Bush Do Something Crazy- the Coup
Soldier Side-System of a Down

Answer 3

Let's Impeach The President, Neil Young

Actually, the entire album that song is on, which is called "Living With War"

Blowin' In the Wind, Bob Dylan

Answer 4

I'll stick with Eric Bogle but I'd choose 'The Green Fields Of France'

Answer 5

Melanie-Lay Down
Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth
CCR- Fortunate Son

Answer 6

Masters of War-Bob Dylan

Answer 7

Try "The Grave " Don Mclean

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.

When the wars of our nation did beckon,
A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
He's gone,
But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we've done.

And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.
And deep in the trench he waited for hours,
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.

But the silence of night was shattered by fire
As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.
And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.
In morgue of Marines, alone standing there.

He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
"They can't let me die! The can't let me die here!
I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
I'll cover myself! I know I'm not brave!
The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave."

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.

Poignant enough.

You might hear this again soon as George Michael is going to cover it.

Answer 8

Listen to the Country Joe McDonald album WAR WAR WAR. There are some wonderful songs on it .Actually its the poems of a W.S Service (I think thats his name) put to music.Another classic is Sky Pilot by Eric Burdon.

Answer 9

Imagine by John Lennon, or maybe Barry Maguire and The Eve of Destruction.

Answer 10

Waiting on the World to Change, by John Mayer
OR
Where is the Love, by Black Eyed Peas