i need to find a song that is writen about any thing to do with the United States. Whether it is a movement, a war, a time period, a feeling, anything...
2007-05-24 18:23:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The battle hymn of the republic was written by Julia Ward Howe. It was inspired by the actions of and eventual martying of John Brown just prior to the Civil War.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
Chorus
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on."
Chorus
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Chorus
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Chorus
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
2007-05-24 18:31:17 · answer #1 · answered by jimdamailman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lorena - Goober Peas - When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again - Casey Jones - Yankee Doodle - When The World Turned Upside Down - Marching Through Georgia - Dixie - Crawdad Song - Tenting Tonight - Onward Christian Soldiers - Sing, Sing, Sing With A Swing - Take The A - Train - When the Saints Go Marching In - My Old Kentucky Home - Back Home Again In Indiana - Sweet Georgia Brown - Green Berets - Any Military Branch Song - Gary Owen - Black Demin Trousers and Motorcycle Boors - Sweet Little 16 - Hot Rod Lincoln - Side Car Cycle - X - 15 - Rum and Coca Cola - Lime house Blues - 5 feet two - Don't Bring Lulu - Old Black Magic - Hello Dolly - Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me - String of Pearls - Pennsylvania 6 - 5000 - Little Brown Jug - John Henry - The A Team - We Are Coming Father Abraham - Bonnie Blue Flag - I'm A Good Old Rebel - Taps - Tenting Tonight - Just Before The Battle Mother - Poor Weary Soldier -
2007-05-25 10:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over there! World War I
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Pearl Harbor
Yankee Doodle. Revolutionary period
Star Spangled Banner. War of 1812
Battle Hymn of the Republic. Civil War
Proud to be an American. The First Gulf War
When Johnny comes marching home again. Civil War
Sink the Bismarck. World War II
O' Susannaha. California Gold Rush
2007-05-25 01:39:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wreck of the Old 97 (Recounting an actual train crash).
Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel (Those are the words anyway) - Bull Run.
Ghost Riders in the Sky - Apparitions seen in Texas Skies depicting famous cattle stampede.
Battle of New Orlenes
If Your going to San Fransisco.
California (Damn I am showing my hippy roots).
Rock Island Line.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
OK, this could take for ever. Basically, most american folk songs will typically have a historical background (Don't confuse with country and western, which requires a dog, getting left by wife and a broken truck.)
Try a Yahoo audio search by country artists, you should get a good historical cross section.
Luck
2007-05-25 04:06:41 · answer #4 · answered by Alice S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. The Spring Hill Mining Disaster
2. I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night (About the execution of the Labor leader Joe Hill)
3. So Long It's Been Good to Know Ya (About the Dust Bowl)
4. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (About the war in Viet Nam)
5. Deportees (About the deaths of several illegal immigrants in the 30's.)
6. Casey Jones (About a train wreck)
2007-05-25 02:08:14 · answer #5 · answered by Artful 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
See the most popular song at the time of the Vietnam War in the United States in the 1960s: 'I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag' (Next Stop Vietnam), as written by Country Joe McDonald and performed by Country Joe and the Fish.
2007-05-25 01:36:56 · answer #6 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Star Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful, Grand Old Flag, This Land is your land, Keep on Rocking in the free world, Young Americans, American Idiot, American Woman,
2007-05-25 01:29:08 · answer #7 · answered by USAhole 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fortunate Son by CCR
The night old Dixie Died
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
American Pie
Sloop John B by the Beach Boys
2007-05-25 02:43:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check on Johnny Horton and you will find several songs about historical events, even one about a horse at Little Big Horn. (Commanche) Charlie Daniels wrote several songs about Vietnam and patriotism.
2007-05-25 01:49:21 · answer #9 · answered by udontreallydou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bye Bye Miss American Pie, took my Chevy to the Levy, but the Levy was dry, ......The Music DIED.
2007-05-25 01:38:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋