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Sir Walter Scott even penned some lyrics for it ~ which is how I know the song... interesting fact it appeared on Little House on the Prarie sung by Laura Ingolls... it's also the Regimental Quick March for the Calgary Highlanders up here in Canada |
Coven's "One Tin Soldier"
I wouldn't call it anti-war although some could take it that way, but I love SSgt. Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Beret. I remember it was one of my dad's favorites when I was little (he was in the 82nd Airborne before he got married) How can you not lget a kick out of a song with lyrics like: "Fighting soldiers from the sky Fearless men who jump and die Men who mean just what they say The brave men of the Green Berets " |
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"Back at home a young wife waits. Her Green Beret has met his fate. He has died for those oppressed, Leaving her his last request. Put Silver Wings on my son's chest. Make him one of America's best... ...Have him win The Green Beret." It is a good song, though. Unfortunately, SSgt. Sadler, who later became an officer, committed suicide some years ago. |
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You're right, bad film. I'm trying to remember a Motown song with anti-war leanings. Our college marching band actually did a "peace sign" formation while playing it which was pretty daring at a state supported school in those days. I'm sure it will come to me sometime. Maybe. The director went on to the University of Oklahoma and used the song -- but without the formation. Maybe a little too daring for Soonerland. |
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or perhaps you're thinking of Norman Whitfield & Edwin Starr's - War? (it had a marchin beat to it, so it'd be easier for a band to pull off) But I just thought of another song I left off: Buffalo Springfield's - For What Its Worth |
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