Sometimes I'd faint and be lost to our sideīut there's no reward for failure - but death In a G-load disaster from the rate of climb Must these Englishmen live that I might die My Captain Von Ondine is your next patrolĪ flight of English bombers across the canal Said it before, and I'll say it again: ME262 by the Blue Oyster Cult is the best rock song on WW2 out there: Theyre runnin' around like a bunch of wild Indians-heh, heh, heh SPOKEN: I wonder what the injun word for friend is Custer, I don't wanna go (forward HO)-aaww There's a redskin a-waitin' out there, just fixin to take my hairĪ coward I've been called cuz I don't wanna wind up dead or bald (That same brave voice with the trembling word rang loud and clear) (But then from the rear a voice was heard) (They were sure of victory, the men of the 7th Cavalry, as they rode on) Hmm, you're a little bit late on that one, Charlie Custer-you mind if I be excused the rest of the afternoon? They're moving and there's a injun behind every one Custer, I don't wanna go (forward Ho!!)-aaww I had a dream last night about the comin' fightĪnd there I stood with a arrow in my back. (A brave young man with a trembling word rang loud and clear) That famous day in history the men of the 7th Cavalry went riding on) We held the coastline, they held the highlands It didn't matter in the thick of the fight We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob HopeĪnd prayed to Jesus Christ with all our might We had no home front, we had no soft soap Our arms were heavy but our bellies were tight It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on.Ĭlick to expand.How about "Goodnight Saigon", also from Billy Joel:Īnd we were so gung ho to lay down our lives Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore! Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law, "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide,įoreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz, Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock,īegin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline,Īyatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan. JFK blown away, what else do I have to say?īirth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex,
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania, Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land", Starkweather, homicide, children of Thalidomideīuddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia,Ĭhubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev,ĭien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"Įinstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,ĭavy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it. It was always burning since the world's been turning. Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom,īrando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"Įisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new Queen, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away. One miserable morning in black 'forty four. Anyone else know of any songs that pick out specific military engagements like this one does with Anzio in WWII? I may be showing my age here but I've always liked the lyrics to "When the Tigers Broke Free" by Pink Floyd. What other "Historical" themed rock/pop songs do you know? Lost in the night and still you sing your song It’s over you rate two pages in some book How long will this foolish magic carry on Who will love you when the fantasy of youth is goneīabylon is it true that your streets were paved with goldīabylon did you know it would all come down to Whenever they speak your name they’ll say it’s you who broke the golden ruleīut here’s what I really want to know I thought that the history buffs here would like the lyrics to Starship's 80s rock song, "Babylon"įorever, you’ll be remembered as the one who played it cool