h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

anti-war, anti-violence, peace songs... what have you

here's one to start off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOXqNq7fqc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_by_the_Riverside

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpvLCptAHT8

Real toe-tapper

Peace, Love and Understanding, Nick Lowe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFlPxMTP24

...read the wiki on it and they left out a very important performer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EIzKAGwJ-0 Leadbelly!!

Shipbuilding. Elvis Costello. Definitive cover by Robert Wyatt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6T9qp9XbRY

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For some balance, here's a pro-war song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeJifOXAnA

This is my favourite video on the entire interwebs. It's her defiant at the end that gets me.

Well One by Metallica is about a soldier who´s not feeling all that good. Does that count?

Oh dear oh dear! The fecal word with an e on the end is back to being modded again.

If you can't call that godawful John Lennon song fecal-with-an-e, what can you?

End with a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

Tom Lehrer

'It takes a lot of courage to stand up in a coffee shop and say you're against the same things that everyone else is against.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAl0FRjEzCA ??

Pogues version of same (nothing wrong with that one, mind!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM

Original by Eric Bogle. Another by him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr6OzLJrS2k

This one count?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Gov4tTB7M

Any danger of you guys posting what these links contain?

Videos, I think. Possibly musical ones.

Two by Scots Commie folkie, Dick Gaughan:

This a cover of a Pete Seeger song. Ostensibly about a botched WWII training exercise, but also an allegory for Vietnam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJqeZTijuwA

This by (Commie) folklorist Hamish Henderson. Henderson was an Intelligence Officer in WWII and this is about seeing his regiment depart for the fighting in France as he was posted somewhere safer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8jnHsjS7nw

The obvious one. Edwin Starr. 'War':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv5BYEOQYLo

Ah, can I plug my Edwin Starr entry? A27971715

(Must put it into Peer Review - it doesn't break any guidelines)

I can see at least one Researcher being conflicted here. On the one hand...YouTubes . On the other...a Right On topic .

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