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Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others satirize war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole. Many of these songs are considered protest songs, and some have been embraced by war-weary people, various peace movements, and peace activists.
General pacifist and anti-war songs
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | "Why Can't We Live Together" | Timmy Thomas |
| 1982 | "Mothers, Daughters, Wives" | Judy Small |
| 1985 | "19" | Paul Hardcastle |
| 1966 | "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 1971 | "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" | Eric Bogle |
| 1980 | "Army Dreamers" | Kate Bush |
| 2023 | "Asteria" | Xandria |
| 1901 | "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" | Mark Twain |
| 1974 | "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" | Paper Lace, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods |
| 2011 | "Bleed Red" | Ronnie Dunn |
| 1985 | "Blossom and Blood" | Midnight Oil |
| 1963 | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Bob Dylan |
| 1980 | "Bombs Away" | The Police |
| 1975 | "Boy Blue" | Electric Light Orchestra |
| 2019 | "British Bombs" | Declan McKenna |
| 1996 | "Bulls on Parade" | Rage Against the Machine |
| 1990 | "Civil War" | Guns N' Roses |
| 2017 | "Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind" | Lana Del Rey |
| 1959 | "La colombe" | Jacques Brel |
| 1969 | "Cranes" (Журавли́) | Rasul Gamzatov / Yan Frenkel / Mark Bernes |
| 1975 | "Den vita duvan" | Mats Rådberg |
| 1954 | "Le Déserteur" | Boris Vian |
| 1986 | "Disposable Heroes" | Metallica |
| 1987 | "The Dogs of War" | Pink Floyd |
| 1967 | "(Don’t Put Your Boys in the Army), Mrs. Ward" | The Idle Race |
| 1980 | "Не стреляй!" ("Don't Shoot!") | DDT |
| 1974 | "The Door" | George Jones |
| 2005 | "Empire"[1][2][3] | Dar Williams |
| 1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | Barry McGuire |
| 1969 | "The Fiddle and the Drum" | Joni Mitchell |
| 1996 | "Floods" | Pantera |
| 1995 | "Foggy Dew" | Sinéad O'Connor |
| 1984 | "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | Metallica |
| 1969 | "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1969 | "Galveston" | Glen Campbell |
| 1980 | "Games Without Frontiers" | Peter Gabriel |
| 1974 | "The Gates of Delirium" | Yes |
| 1998 | "The General" | Dispatch |
| 1980 | "Generals and Majors" | XTC |
| 1989 | "Ghosts of War" | Slayer |
| 1978 | "Gimme Peace" | Tom T Hall |
| 1973 | "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" | George Harrison |
| 1969 | "Give Peace a Chance" | Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon |
| 1964 | "La guerre de 14-18" | Georges Brassens |
| 1987 | "Gods of War" | Def Leppard |
| 2002 | "Going Down in Flames" | 3 Doors Down |
| 1962 | "La Guerre de 14–18" | Georges Brassens |
| 2013 | "Gun." | My Chemical Romance |
| 1987 | "Gun Shy" | 10,000 Maniacs |
| 1983 | "The Gunner's Dream" | Pink Floyd |
| 2007 | "Gunslinger" | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 2010 | "Half a World Away" | Joe Cerisano |
| 1984 | "Hammer to Fall" | Queen |
| 1966 | "Handsome Johnny" | Richie Havens |
| 2010 | "Harmony" | Never Shout Never |
| 1969 | "Harold Land" | Yes |
| 2011 | "A Hero in Harlan" | Tom T Hall |
| 2008 | "Hero of War" | Rise Against |
| 2007 | "Heroes and Martyrs" | Bad Religion |
| 2004 | "Holiday" | Green Day |
| 2010 | "Holy War" | Asia |
| 1990 | "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" | Megadeth |
| 2013 | "Horse Riding" | the HIATUS |
| 1968 | The House At Pooneil Corners | Jefferson Airplane |
| 1985 | "How Many Tears?" | Helloween |
| 2006 | "Hymn for the Dead" | Anti-Flag |
| 1965 | "I Ain't Marching Anymore" | Phil Ochs |
| 1987 | "I Don't Want to Be a Hero" | Johnny Hates Jazz |
| 2012 | "I Drive Your Truck" | Lee Brice |
| 1984 | "I Hope You Get Drafted" | The Dicks |
| 2009 | "I Know" | The Proclaimers[4] |
| 1982 | "I Love a Man in a Uniform" | Gang of Four |
| 1901 | "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again" | Harry Macdonough |
| 1967 | "If I Can Dream" | Elvis Presley |
| 1995 | "In Our Garden" | Naomi Shemer |
| 1981 | "Invisible Sun" | The Police |
| 1982 | "It's a Mistake" | Men at Work |
| 2001 | "Jet Fighter" | Butthole Surfers |
| 1962 | "John Brown" | Bob Dylan |
| 1867 | "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" | Traditional |
| 2013 | "Johnny s'en va en guerre" | Les Sales Majestés |
| 1955 | "Les Joyeux Bouchers" | Boris Vian |
| 2007 | "Just a Dream" | Carrie Underwood |
| 1991 | "Kein Krieg" | Pur |
| 1989 | "Kill the President" | The Offspring |
| 2014 | "Killing Strangers" | Marilyn Manson |
| 2013 | "Krieg kennt keine Sieger" | Saltatio Mortis |
| 1966 | "La guerra di Piero" | Fabrizio De André |
| 1974 | "La La Peace Song" | Al Wilson, O. C. Smith |
| 1980 | "Last Chance" | Shooting Star |
| 1950 | "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" | Ed McCurdy |
| 1973 | "Lay Down Your Arms" | Doron Levinson |
| 1986 | "Lay Down Your Guns" | Emerson, Lake & Powell |
| 2013 | "Letters Home" | Radical Face |
| 1971 | "Life" | Elvis Presley |
| 1983 | "A Little Good News" | Anne Murray |
| 1979 | "Little Boy Soldiers" | The Jam |
| 1986 | "Live in Peace" | The Firm |
| 2006 | "Living With War" | Neil Young |
| 1990 | "Love Can Build a Bridge" | The Judds |
| 1973 | "Love Train" | The O'Jays |
| 1970 | "Lucky Man" | Emerson, Lake, and Palmer |
| 1973 | "Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (Nero)" | Area |
| 2005 | "M.I.A." | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 2006 | "Mama" | My Chemical Romance |
| 1977 | "Man of War" | The Jacksons |
| 1989 | "Mandatory Suicide" | Slayer |
| 1985 | "The Man's Too Strong" | Dire Straits |
| 1991 | "March for Me, Die for Me" | Cyclone Temple |
| 1997 | "March with Me" | Montserrat Caballé and Vangelis |
| 1963 | "Masters of War" | Bob Dylan |
| 2016 | "A Matter of Habit" | Moddi |
| 1962 | "May There Always Be Sunshine" ("Пусть всегда будет солнце!") | Lev Oshanin / Arkady Ostrovsky / Maya Kristalinskaya |
| 2003 | "Meneer de president" | K3 |
| 1986 | "Method to Your Madness" | Metal Church |
| 1971 | "Military Madness" | Graham Nash |
| 1961 | "Miss Guéguerre" | Léo Ferré |
| 1992 | "Mouth for War" | Pantera |
| 1993 | "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" | Jean-Jacques Goldman |
| 1970 | "Never Kill Another Man" | Steve Miller Band |
| 1980 | "No Dudaría" | Antonio Flores |
| 1984 | "No Fuckin' War" | The Dicks |
| 1976 | "No Man's Land" | Eric Bogle |
| 2018 | "No More" | Disturbed |
| 1978 | "No More Trouble" | Bob Marley & The Wailers |
| 2018 | "Non mi avete fatto niente" | Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro |
| 1983 | "Not Now John" | Pink Floyd |
| 2009 | "One Day" | Matisyahu |
| 1997 | "One More Parade" | Phil Ochs |
| 1969 | "One Tin Soldier" | The Original Caste, Coven |
| 2007 | "Our Solemn Hour" | Within Temptation |
| 1961 | "Pacific Blues" | Léo Ferré |
| 1982 | "Part III" | Bad Religion |
| 1988 | "Part IV (The Index Fossil)" | Bad Religion |
| 1972 | "The Patriot's Dream" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 2002 | "Paz y Amor" ("Peace and love") | Gisela |
| 1981 | "Peace" | Roger Lee Hall |
| 1986 | "Peace Sells" | Megadeth |
| 1971 | "Peace Train" | Cat Stevens |
| 1977 | "Peace Will Come" | Tom Paxton |
| 1970 | "Peace Will Come (According To Plan)" | Melanie Safka |
| 2003 | "Peacekeeper" | Fleetwood Mac |
| 1972 | "People, Let's Stop the War" | Grand Funk Railroad |
| 2000 | "Pick Up the Bones" | Alice Cooper |
| 1982 | "Pipes of Peace" | Paul McCartney |
| 1986 | "Plantas Embaixo do Aquário" | Legião Urbana |
| 2002 | "Poor Places" | Wilco |
| 1983 | "Power & the Glory" | Saxon |
| 1958 | "Prayer for Peace" | Perry Como |
| 2002 | "Prisoners of War" | Funker Vogt |
| 1976 | "Protocol" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 2015 | "Psycho" | Muse |
| 1987 | "Put Down That Weapon" | Midnight Oil |
| 1981 | "Rainbow Stew" | Merle Haggard |
| 1979 | "Ratziti Sheteda" | Uzi Hitman |
| 2018 | "Raise Your Banner" | Within Temptation |
| 1992 | "Rest in Peace" | Extreme |
| 1967 | "Requiem For The Masses" | The Association |
| 1985 | "Ride Across The River" | Dire Straits |
| 2006 | "Right in Two" | Tool |
| 2005 | "Road to Joy" | Bright Eyes |
| 1992 | "Rooster" | Alice in Chains |
| 1986 | "Russian Roulette" | Accept |
| 1995 | "Sacrifice" | Motörhead |
| 1962 | "Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind" | Marlene Dietrich |
| 2006 | "Saraba" | The Gazette |
| 1974 | "I'm Asking You, Sergeant, Where's Mine?" | Billy Connolly |
| 1993 | "Shades of Grey" | Billy Joel |
| 1970 | "Shir LaShalom" | Lehakat HaNachal |
| 1982 | "Short Memory" | Midnight Oil |
| 1984 | "Showdown" | Jefferson Starship |
| 1966 | "The Side of a Hill" | Paul Simon |
| 1968 | "Six White Horses" | Henson Cargill |
| 1970 | "Sloth" | Fairport Convention |
| 1984 | "Soldados" | Legião Urbana |
| 1971 | "Soldier Blue" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 2005 | "Soldier Side" | System of a Down |
| 1986 | "Soldier of Plenty" | Jackson Browne |
| 2011 | "Soldier's Angel" | Stevie Nicks |
| 2006 | "Soldier's Poem" | Muse |
| 1981 | "Soldiers" | ABBA |
| 1987 | "Soldiers of Love" | Liliane Saint-Pierre |
| 1971 | "Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes" | Rod McKuen |
| 1969 | "Some Mother's Son" | The Kinks |
| 1995 | "Still Spinning Shrapnel" | Skyclad |
| 2010 | "Stop the War" | Sugar Blue |
| 1970 | "Stop the War Now" | Edwin Starr |
| 1982 | "Stories of a Hero" | Frank Marino |
| 1985 | "Stupid, Stupid War" | Dirty Rotten Imbeciles |
| 2011 | "Survivor Guilt" | Rise Against |
| 1992 | "Sweet Harmony" | The Beloved |
| 1992 | "Systematic Execution" | Malevolent Creation |
| 1990 | "Take No Prisoners" | Megadeth |
| 1991 | "Tell Me Why" | Genesis |
| 1985 | "Territories" | Rush |
| 1971 | "That's What I'd Like To Know" | Colonel Bagshot |
| 1964 | "There but for Fortune" | Phil Ochs |
| 1967 | "There Won't Be Many Coming Home" | Roy Orbison |
| 1981 | "They All Look The Same" | Grace Slick |
| 2009 | "'Til the Last Shot's Fired" | Trace Adkins |
| 2009 | "This is War" | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2011 | "The Cruel Wars" | The Dreadnoughts |
| 2018 | "The Reckoning" | Within Temptation |
| 2017 | "This is War" | Bush |
| 1990 | "Too Many Puppies" | Primus |
| 1993 | "Too Young to Die" | Jamiroquai |
| 2010 | "Trigger-Happy Hands" | Placebo |
| 1959 | "Turn! Turn! Turn!" | Pete Seeger |
| 1993 | "Under The Same Sun" | Scorpions |
| 1971 | "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" | The Temptations |
| 1964 | "Universal Soldier" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 2006 | "Unknown Soldier" | Breaking Benjamin |
| 1973 | "Us and Them" | Pink Floyd |
| 2008 | "Violet Hill" | Coldplay |
| 1993 | "Vrede" | Ruth Jacott |
| 1967 | "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" | Pete Seeger |
| 2021 | "Waiting On A War" | Foo Fighters |
| 1979 | "Walked in Line" | Joy Division |
| 1976 | "War" | Bob Marley & The Wailers |
| 1970 | "War" | Edwin Starr |
| 1988 | "Война" ("War") | Kino (band) |
| 1994 | "War Again" | Oingo Boingo |
| 1987 | "War Baby" | Mick Jagger |
| 1990 | "War Ensemble" | Slayer |
| 1970 | "War Pigs" | Black Sabbath |
| 1997 | "War Pimp Renaissance" | Lard |
| 1984 | "The War Song" | Culture Club |
| 1972 | "War Song" | Neil Young and Graham Nash |
| 2006 | "War Sucks, Let's Party!" | Anti-Flag |
| 2001 | "War Zone" | Slayer |
| 2017 | "War TV" | Gerry Cinammon |
| 1980 | "Wardance" | Killing Joke |
| 1992 | "Wargasm" | L7 |
| 2008 | “Warm Winter” | Seth Sentry |
| 2004 | "Warrior" | Steve Earle |
| 2015 | "Wars for Nothing" | Boggie |
| 1980 | "Washington Bullets" | The Clash |
| 2023 | "Watergun" | Remo Forrer |
| 2007 | "The Way the Wind Blows" | Rush |
| 1981 | "We Don't Need the Army" | Slime |
| 2005 | "We've Got Nothing But Love to Prove" | Faith Hill |
| 2011 | "Welcome To Your Wedding Day" | The Airborne Toxic Event |
| 2002 | "What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?" | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 1965 | "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | Hal David/Burt Bacharach |
| 1971 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye |
| 2002 | "What's Left of the Flag" | Flogging Molly |
| 1974 | "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" | Nick Lowe |
| 1990 | "When Hell Breaks Loose" | Peer Günt |
| 1989 | "When the Children Cry" | White Lion |
| 1961 | "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" | Pete Seeger |
| 2003 | "Where Is the Love?" | Black-Eyed Peas |
| 2010 | "White Flag Warrior" | Flobots |
| 1980 | "Who's Gonna Win the War?" | Hawkwind |
| 1975 | "Why Can't We Be Friends? (song)" | War (band) |
| 1964 | "With God on Our Side" | Bob Dylan |
| 2011 | "The Words That Maketh Murder" | PJ Harvey |
| 2014 | "World Peace Is None of Your Business (song)" | Morrisey |
| 2004 | "World War" | Yellowman |
| 2006 | "Worthless War" | The Gazette |
| 1981 | "Wozu sind Kriege da?" | Udo Lindenberg |
| 1969 | "The Yard Went on Forever" | Richard Harris |
| 1979 | "Yihye Tov (It Will Be Good/Things Will Be Better)" | David Broza |
| 2003 | "Your Revolution is a Joke" | Funeral for a Friend |
| 1971 | "Yours Is No Disgrace" | Yes |
| 2007 | "Zero Sum" | Nine Inch Nails |
| 1976 | "Zombie" | Fela Kuti |
| 1994 | "Zombie" | The Cranberries |
| 1968 | "Zor and Zam" | The Monkees |
American Civil War
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "Abraham Lincoln" | Clutch |
| 1861 | "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" | Ethel Lynn Beers |
| 1969 | "Arkansas Grass" | Axiom |
| 1995 | "Ben McCullough" | Steve Earle |
| 1962 | "The Big Battle" | Johnny Cash |
| 1974 | "Billy Don't Be a Hero" | Paper Lace |
| 2013 | "Bloodshed" | Soulfly |
| 2011 | "Broken Hymns" | Dropkick Murphys |
| 2003 | "Cross The Green Mountain" | Bob Dylan |
| 2004 | "The Devil to Pay" | Iced Earth |
| 1987 | "Gettysburg" | The Brandos |
| 1983 | "God Bless Robert E. Lee" | Johnny Cash |
| 1963 | "In the Hills of Shiloh" | Shel Silverstein |
| 1959 | "Johnny Reb" | Johnny Horton |
| 1968 | "The Klan" | Richie Havens |
| 1993 | "Lincoln's Army" | Johnny McEvoy |
| 2008 | "Lone Pine Hill" | Justin Townes Earle |
| 1865 | "Marching through Georgia (e.g. 1896 version by Gilmore's Band)" | Henry Clay Work |
| 1969 | "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | The Band / Joan Baez |
| 1863 | "Poor Kitty Popcorn" | Henry C. Work |
| 1991 | "Rebel Soldier" | Waylon Jennings |
| 1999 | "Shiloh Town" | Tim Hardin |
| 1998 | "Silent Reign of Heroes" | Molly Hatchet |
| 1968 | "Six White Horses" | Henson Cargill |
| 1978 | "The Southland's Bleeding" | Waylon Jennings |
| 1986 | "Swan Swan H" | R.E.M. |
| 2004 | "Tears of God" | Josh Turner |
| 1863 | "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" | Walter Kittredge |
| 1993 | "Two Soldiers" | Bob Dylan |
| 1861 | "The Vacant Chair" | George F. Root |
American Indian Wars
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | "Apache Tears" | Johnny Cash |
| 2008 | "Battle at Little Big Horn" | White Lion |
| 1980 | "Buffalo Soldier" | Bob Marley |
| 1997 | "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" | Walela |
| 2010 | "Calico Indians" | Rasputina |
| 1967 | "Castles Made of Sand" | Jimi Hendrix |
| 1986 | "Cherokee" | Europe |
| 1960 | "Comanche (The Brave Horse)" | Johnny Horton |
| 1997 | "Cowboy Dan" | Modest Mouse |
| 2004 | "Creek Mary's Blood" | Nightwish |
| 1969 | "Custer Died for Your Sins" | Floyd Westerman |
| 1992 | "Freedom" | Rage Against the Machine |
| 1980 | "Genocide (The Killing of the Buffalo)" | Thin Lizzy |
| 1977 | "Indian Man" | The Charlie Daniels Band |
| 1971 | "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" | Paul Revere & The Raiders |
| 1987 | "Indians" | Anthrax |
| 1971 | "Indian Sunset" | Elton John |
| 1991 | "Little Big Horn" | Running Wild[5] |
| 1973 | "The Lone Ranger" | Oscar Brown |
| 1971 | "Then Came the White Man" | The Stampeders |
| 2001 | "Mick Ryan's Lament" | Tim O'Brien and Robert Dunlap |
| 1960 | "Mr. Custer" | Larry Verne |
| 1964 | "Now That The Buffalo's Gone" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1979 | "Pocahontas" | Neil Young |
| 1982 | "Run to the Hills" | Iron Maiden |
| 1971 | "Soldier Blue" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1962 | "Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me" | The Kingston Trio |
| 2001 | "Stars and Stripes" | Anti-Flag |
| 2002 | "Wampum Prayer" | Tori Amos |
| 1973 | "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee" | Redbone |
| 1976 | "White Man" | Queen |
World War I
Spanish Civil War
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | Metallica |
| 1998 | "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" | Manic Street Preachers |
| 1990 | "Lorca's Novena" | The Pogues |
| 2003 | "Skeletons of Quinto" | The Folksmen |
| 1983 | "Sketches of Spain" | The Nits |
| 1979 | "Spanish Bombs" | The Clash |
| 1963 | "Spanish Civil War Song" (or "Spanish Lament") | Phil Ochs |
World War II
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | "1944" | Jamala |
| 1984 | "Aces High" | Iron Maiden |
| 2004 | "Alive With the Glory of Love" | Say Anything |
| 1989 | "Ausgebombt" | Sodom |
| 1986 | "Angel of Death" | Slayer |
| 1979 | "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)" | Pink Floyd |
| 1945 | "At Mail Call Today" | Gene Autry |
| 1964 | "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" | Johnny Cash |
| 1979 | "Bring the Boys Back Home" | Pink Floyd |
| 1968 | "Corporal Clegg" | Pink Floyd |
| 1980 | "Enola Gay" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark |
| 1979 | "Goodbye Blue Sky" | Pink Floyd |
| 1982 | "Kristallnaach"" | BAP |
| 1979 | "In the Flesh" | Pink Floyd |
| 1985 | "Manhattan Project" | Rush |
| 1969 | "Mr. Churchill Says" | The Kinks |
| 1984 | "Red Sector A" | Rush |
| 1973 | "Roads to Moscow" | Al Stewart |
| 1993 | "Sullivan" | Caroline's Spine |
| 2010 | "Thank You, Mr. Churchill" | Peter Frampton |
| 1979 | "Vera" | Pink Floyd |
| 2005 | "The War" | Angels and Airwaves |
| 1982 | "War Is Hell (On the Homefront Too)" | T.G. Sheppard |
| 1982 | "When the Tigers Broke Free" | Pink Floyd |
Cold War and nuclear annihilation
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | "2 Minutes to Midnight" | Iron Maiden |
| 2007 | "4 Minute Warning" | Radiohead |
| 1967 | "20 Tons of TNT" | Flanders and Swann |
| 1983 | "99 Luftballons" and "99 Red Balloons" | Nena |
| 1968 | "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 1982 | "1999" | Prince |
| 1982 | "America" | Au Pairs |
| 1985 | "America" | Prince |
| 1984 | "Amerika" | Herbert Grönemeyer |
| 1991 | "The American" | Simple Minds |
| 1985 | "And Then There Were None" | Exodus |
| 1979 | "Armageddon" | Prism |
| 1978 | "Atomic Bomb" | William Onyeabor |
| 1992 | "Atomic Garden" | Bad Religion |
| 1988 | "Battalions of Fear" | Blind Guardian |
| 1981 | "Battalions of Strangers" | Fischer Z |
| 1984 | "Be Not Always" | The Jacksons |
| 1984 | "Beyond the Black" | Metal Church |
| 2007 | "Big Joe Blues" | Pete Seeger |
| 1988 | "Blackened" | Metallica |
| 1992 | "Born to End" | Manic Street Preachers |
| 1980 | "Breathing" | Kate Bush |
| 2006 | "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" | Iron Maiden |
| 1985 | "Burning Heart" | Survivor |
| 2010 | "Burning in the Skies" | Linkin Park |
| 1971 | "Children of the Grave" | Black Sabbath |
| 1986 | "Christmas at Ground Zero" | "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| 2000 | "Cold War" | Funker Vogt |
| 1963 | "Come Away Melinda" | Harry Belafonte |
| 1960 | "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" | Sheldon Allman |
| 1980 | "Crazy Train" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 1981 | "Cruise Missiles" | Fischer-Z |
| 1984 | "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" | Ultravox |
| 1982 | "De Bom" | Doe Maar |
| 1984 | "De bom valt nooit" | Herman van Veen |
| 1981 | "Fire in the Sky" | Saxon |
| 1999 | "Destruction Preventer" | Sonata Arctica |
| 1982 | "Der Blaue Planet" | Karat |
| 1961 | "Do the Russians Want War?" ("Хотят ли русские войны?") | Mark Bernes |
| 2008 | "Down from the Sky" | Trivium |
| 1981 | "Dumb All Over" | Frank Zappa |
| 1988 | "Eagle Fly Free" | Helloween |
| 1983 | "East at Easter" | Simple Minds |
| 1982 | "Ein bißchen Frieden" | Nicole Seibert |
| 1970 | "Electric Funeral" | Black Sabbath |
| 1969 | "Epitaph" | King Crimson |
| 1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | P.F. Sloan (also recorded by Barry McGuire and The Turtles) |
| 1985 | "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" | Tears for Fears |
| 1989 | "Fabulous Disaster" | Exodus |
| 1988 | "Fallout" | Liege Lord |
| 1990 | "Famous Last Words" | Tears for Fears |
| 1984 | "Fight Fire with Fire" | Metallica |
| 1980 | "Final Day" | Young Marble Giants |
| 1984 | "Forever Young" | Alphaville |
| 2005 | "Fuel the Hate" | Soulfly |
| 1974 | "Future Legend" | David Bowie |
| 1986 | "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" | Timbuk3 |
| 1980 | "Fylingdale Flyer" | Jethro Tull |
| 1980 | "Going Underground" | The Jam[7] |
| 1984 | "Hammer to Fall" | Queen |
| 1994 | "A Great Day for Freedom" | Pink Floyd |
| 1962 | "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" | Bob Dylan |
| 1982 | "Heatwave" | Fay Ray |
| 1971 | "Hiroshima" | Wishful Thinking |
| 1966 | "I Come and Stand at Every Door" (based on a poem by Nazım Hikmet) | Pete Seeger |
| 1982 | "I Melt with You" | Modern English |
| 1983 | "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" | Nik Kershaw |
| 1982 | "I've Known No War" | The Who |
| 1983 | "It's a Mistake" | Men at Work |
| 1986 | "Killer of Giants" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 1988 | "Killing Fields" | Scanner |
| 1973 | "Kuiama" | Electric Light Orchestra |
| 1986 | "Land of Confusion" | Genesis |
| 1989 | "Leningrad" | Billy Joel |
| 1986 | "Let Us Begin" | John Denver with Alexander Gradsky |
| 1981 | "Let's All Make a Bomb"[8] | Heaven 17 |
| 1980 | "Living Through Another Cuba" | XTC |
| 1985 | "Manhattan Project" | Rush |
| 1984 | "Minutes to Midnight" | Midnight Oil |
| 1965 | "MLF Lullaby" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1983 | "Moya" | Southern Death Cult |
| 1981 | "Mutually Assured Destruction" | Gillan |
| 1983 | "New Year's Day" | U2 |
| 1985 | "Nikita" | Elton John |
| 2007 | "No One Would Riot For Less" | Bright Eyes |
| 1986 | "No Nuclear War" | Peter Tosh |
| 1987 | "Nuclear War" | Nuclear Assault |
| 1987 | "Nuclear Winter" | Sodom |
| 2000 | "Nuclear Winter" | Funker Vogt |
| 1982 | "Nuku pommiin" | Kojo |
| 1946 | "Old Man Atom" | Vern Partlow |
| 1988 | "Part IV (The Index Fossil)" | Bad Religion |
| 1985 | "Party at Ground Zero" | Fishbone |
| 1988 | "Pre-War America" | The Beatnigs |
| 1987 | "Protect and Survive" | The Dubliners |
| 1987 | "Radio K.A.O.S." | Roger Waters |
| 1986 | "Ready or Not" | Bananarama |
| 1982 | "Red Skies" | The Fixx |
| 1981 | "Red Skies over Paradise" | Fischer Z |
| 1990 | "Reduced to Ash" | Annihilator |
| 1979 | "Remember Russia" | Fischer-Z |
| 1990 | "Right Here, Right Now" | Jesus Jones |
| 1983 | "Rival Leaders" | The Exploited |
| 2009 | "Ruination" | Job for a Cowboy |
| 1985 | "Russians" | Sting |
| 1990 | "Rust in Peace... Polaris" | Megadeth |
| 1986 | "SDI" | Bonfire |
| 1983 | "Seconds" | U2 |
| 1988 | "Set the World Afire" | Megadeth |
| 1980 | "Seven Minutes to Midnight" | Wah! Heat |
| 1987 | "Showdown at Big Sky" | Robbie Robertson |
| 1984 | "Since Yesterday" | Strawberry Switchblade[9] |
| 1965 | "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1983 | "Somethin's Goin' On" | Ian Hunter |
| 1983 | "Sonderzug nach Pankow" | Udo Lindenberg |
| 1983 | "Standing in the Dark" | Platinum Blonde |
| 1963 | "The Sun Is Burning" | Ian Campbell Folk Group |
| 1988 | "Surfin' USSR" | Ray Stevens |
| 1986 | "Survival of the Fittest" | Slave Raider |
| 1957 | "Talking Atom" | Oscar Brand |
| 1986 | "Thank God For the Bomb" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 1979 | "They've Got a Bomb" | Crass |
| 1954 | "Thirteen Women and Only One Man in Town" | Bill Haley and the Comets |
| 1983 | "Time After Time" | Electric Light Orchestra |
| 1983 | "Two Suns in the Sunset" | Pink Floyd |
| 1984 | "Two Tribes" | Frankie Goes To Hollywood |
| 1982 | "US Forces" | Midnight Oil |
| 1983 | "Vamos a la playa" | Righeira |
| 1986 | "Воля и Разум" ("Will and Reason") | Aria |
| 1983 | "Walking In Your Footsteps" | The Police |
| 1985 | "Warnings Moving Clockwise" | Do-Re-Mi |
| 1987 | "Wartime" | Pentagram |
| 1984 | "Watching Joey Glow" | Steve Goodman |
| 1966 | "Welterusten meneer de president" | Boudewijn de Groot |
| 1959 | "We Will All Go Together" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1986 | "When the Wind Blows" | David Bowie |
| 1981 | "When Two Worlds Collide" | Simple Minds |
| 1965 | "Who's Next?" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1982 | "Why Did I Fall For That?" | The Who |
| 1985 | "Will the Sun Rise" | Dokken |
| 1990 | "Wind of Change" | Scorpions |
| 1988 | "World Leader Pretend" | R.E.M. |
| 1984 | "World War III" | Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five |
Vietnam War
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 1985 | "19" | Paul Hardcastle |
| 1968 | "2 + 2 = ?" | Bob Seger System |
| 1969 | "21st Century Schizoid Man" | King Crimson |
| 1973 | "Aladdin Sane" | David Bowie |
| 1967 | "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" | Arlo Guthrie |
| 1970 | "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" | The Temptations |
| 1972 | "The Ballad of Penny Evans" | Steve Goodman |
| 1986 | "Black Wall"[10] | Dennis DeYoung |
| 1984 | "Born in the USA" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1977 | "Born on the Fourth of July" | Tom Paxton |
| 1971 | "Bring the Boys Home" | Freda Payne |
| 1966 | "Bring Them Home" | Pete Seeger |
| 1965 | "Business Goes on as Usual" | Chad Mitchell Trio |
| 1966 | "C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones" | Gianni Morandi |
| 1970 | "Child in Time" | Deep Purple |
| 1989 | "Compulsory Hero" | 1927 (band) |
| 1988 | "Copperhead Road" | Steve Earle |
| 1973 | "Daniel" | Elton John |
| 1965 | "Dear Uncle Sam" | Loretta Lynn |
| 1969 | "Declaration"[11] | The Fifth Dimension |
| 1969 | "Disk of Sun" | Ewan MacColl |
| 1968 | "Draft Morning" | The Byrds |
| 1970 | "Draft Resister" | Steppenwolf |
| 1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | Barry McGuire and P.F. Sloan |
| 1969 | "The Fiddle and the Drum" | Joni Mitchell |
| 1967 | "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" / "Fixin to Die Rag" | Country Joe McDonald |
| 1967 | "For What It's Worth" | Buffalo Springfield |
| 1969 | "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1970 | "Frightened Lady" | The Hollies |
| 1977 | "Front Line" | Stevie Wonder |
| 1966 | "Get It While You can" | Janis Joplin |
| 1969 | "Gimme Shelter" | Rolling Stones |
| 1969 | "Give Peace a Chance" | The Plastic Ono Band |
| 1972 | "Golden Ribbons" | Loggins and Messina |
| 1981 | "Goodnight Saigon" | Billy Joel |
| 1971 | "The Grave" | Don McLean |
| 1972 | "The Great Compromise" | John Prine |
| 1972 | "Guns, Guns, Guns" | The Guess Who |
| 1970 | "Hand of Doom" | Black Sabbath |
| 1973 | "Hallelujah Day" | Jackson 5 |
| 1971 | "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" | John Lennon & Yoko Ono/The Plastic Ono Band |
| 1965 | "I Ain't Marching Anymore" | Phil Ochs |
| 1968 | "I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam" | John Lee Hooker |
| 1970 | "I Should Be Proud" | Martha and the Vandellas |
| 1983 | "I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)" | Redgum |
| 1971 | "I'd Love to Change the World" | Ten Years After |
| 1970 | "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" | Grand Funk Railroad |
| 1981 | "In the Army Now" | Status Quo |
| 1988 | "Johnny Come Lately" | Steve Earle |
| 1968 | "Kay"[12][13] | John Wesley Ryles |
| 1978 | "Khe Sanh" | Cold Chisel |
| 1966 | "Kill for Peace" | The Fugs |
| 1970 | "Kill Your Sons" | Lou Reed |
| 1974 | "La La Peace Song" | Al Wilson, O. C. Smith |
| 1970 | "Last Train to Nuremberg" | Pete Seeger |
| 1970 | "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" | Melanie Safka |
| 1973 | "Luang Prabang" | Dave Van Ronk |
| 1965 | "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" | Tom Paxton |
| 1970 | "Machine Gun" | Jimi Hendrix |
| 1970 | "Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)" | Tom T. Hall |
| 1971 | "Man in Black" | Johnny Cash |
| 1973 | "March to the Witch's Castle" | Funkadelic |
| 1969 | "Monster" | Steppenwolf |
| 1971 | "Moratorium" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1966 | "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage" | Pete Seeger |
| 1966 | "My Son John" | Tom Paxton |
| 1972 | "Napalm Sticks To Kids" | Covered Wagon Musicians |
| 1972 | "Now or Never" | Yoko Ono |
| 1985 | "Old Hippie" | The Bellamy Brothers |
| 1967 | "On the Path of Glory" | Petula Clark |
| 1964 | "One More Parade" | Phil Ochs |
| 1971 | "One Tin Soldier" | Coven |
| 1988 | "Orange Crush" | R.E.M. |
| 1972 | "The Patriot's Dream" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 1971 | "People, Let's Stop the War" | Grand Funk Railroad |
| 1968 | "Por Vietnam" | Quilapayún |
| 1970 | "Question" | The Moody Blues |
| 1972 | "Readjustment Blues" | John Denver |
| 1967 | "Requiem for the Masses" | The Association |
| 1992 | "Rooster" | Alice in Chains |
| 1970 | "Running Gun Blues" | David Bowie |
| 1967 | "Saigon Bride" | Joan Baez |
| 1971 | "Sam Stone" | John Prine |
| 1970 | "Silent Homecoming" | Ringo Starr |
| 1968 | "Simple Song of Freedom" | Bobby Darin |
| 1971 | "Singing in Vietnam Talking Blues" | Johnny Cash |
| 1970 | "Sit Down Young Stranger" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 1971 | "Six White Horses" | Waylon Jennings |
| 1968 | "Sky Pilot" | Eric Burdon and The Animals |
| 1969 | "Smiley" | Ronnie Burns |
| 1976 | "Soldier" | Stephen Stills[14] |
| 1990 | "Something to Believe In" | Poison |
| 1969 | "Someday (August 29, 1968)" | Chicago |
| 1983 | "Song for the Dead" | Randy Newman |
| 1982 | "Still in Saigon" | The Charlie Daniels Band |
| 1970 | "Stoned Love" | The Supremes |
| 1969 | "Story of Isaac" | Leonard Cohen |
| 1971 | "Student Demonstration Time" | The Beach Boys |
| 1971 | "Sunshine" | Jonathan Edwards |
| 1967 | "Super Bird" | Country Joe and the Fish |
| 1969 | "Sweet Cherry Wine" | Tommy James and the Shondells |
| 1967 | "Take It Back" | Cream |
| 1964 | "Talkin' Vietnam" | Phil Ochs |
| 1968 | "Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues" | Tom Paxton |
| 1968 | "Three-Five-Zero-Zero" | from the musical, Hair |
| 1969 | "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" | Donovan |
| 2002 | "Travelin' Soldier" | The Chicks |
| 1968 | "Unknown Soldier"[15] | The Doors |
| 1984 | "Viet Nam" | Minutemen |
| 1966 | "Vietcong Blues" | Junior Wells |
| 1962 | "Vietnam" | Phil Ochs |
| 1970 | "Vietnam" | Jimmy Cliff |
| 1966 | "Vietnam Blues" | Kris Kristofferson |
| 1967 | "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" | Pete Seeger |
| 1970 | "War" | Edwin Starr |
| 1968 | "War Games" | The Monkees |
| 1965 | "The War Drags On" | Donovan |
| 1968 | "The War Is Over" | Phil Ochs |
| 1971 | "War Movie" | Jefferson Airplane |
| 1970 | "War Pigs" | Black Sabbath |
| 1969 | "Wasted Words" | The Motions with Robbie van Leeuwen |
| 1965 | "We Didn't Know" | Tom Paxton |
| 1966 | "Welterusten meneer de president (Sleep Well Mr. President)" | Boudewijn de Groot |
| 1964 | "What Did You Learn in School Today?" | Tom Paxton |
| 1971 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye |
| 1973 | "Where Are You Now, My Son?" | Joan Baez |
| 1968 | "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" | Phil Ochs |
| 1965 | "The Willing Conscript" | Tom Paxton |
| 1969 | "Wooden Ships" | Crosby, Stills & Nash and Jefferson Airplane |
| 1970 | "Woodstock" | Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| 1971 | "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" | John Prine |
| 1971 | "Yours Is No Disgrace" | Yes |
| 1967 | “The Windows of the World (song)” | Dionne Warwick |
Dominican Civil War
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo" | Phil Ochs |
Soviet-Afghan War
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | "Группа крови" ("Blood Type") | Kino |
| 1988 | "Афганский синдром" ("Afghan Syndrome") | Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu |
The Troubles of Northern Ireland
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | "78 RPM" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1978 | "90 Miles From Dublin" | Christy Moore |
| 1978 | "Alternative Ulster" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1991 | "La Ballade Nord-Irlandaise" | Renaud |
| 1995 | "Belfast" | Elton John |
| 1989 | "Belfast Child" | Simple Minds |
| 1979 | "Bloody Sunday" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1994 | "Bomb" | Bush[16] |
| 1986 | "Corridor of Cells" | Test Dept |
| 1982 | "Damned to Be Free" | Bad Religion |
| 2002 | "Drunken Lullabies" | Flogging Molly |
| 1989 | "Easter" | Marillion |
| 1980 | "Fly the Flag" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1983 | "Forgotten Sons" | Marillion |
| 1967 | "Four Green Fields" | Tommy Makem |
| 1989 | "Get Out of Ireland" | Blaggers ITA |
| 2012 | "Get Your Dead Hand Off My Shoulder" | Therapy? |
| 1972 | "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" | Paul McCartney and Wings |
| 1998 | "Heal This Land" | Maire Brennan |
| 1990 | "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" | Megadeth |
| 1983 | "The House of Orange" | Stan Rogers |
| 1976 | "If They Come in the Morning" a.k.a. "No Time for Love" | Jack Warshaw |
| 1979 | "Into the Valley" | Skids |
| 1981 | "Invisible Sun" | The Police |
| 1985 | "The Island" | Paul Brady |
| 1981 | "It's Going to Happen!" | The Undertones |
| 1992 | "Look Mum, No Hands!" | Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine |
| 1996 | "Minds Locked Shut" | Christy Moore |
| 1982 | "The More I See (The Less I Believe)"[17] | Fun Boy Three |
| 1984 | "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" | Mary Black |
| 1979 | "No More of That" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1995 | "North and South Of The River" | Christy Moore |
| 1979 | "Oliver's Army" | Elvis Costello and the Attractions |
| 1985 | "Out in the Fields" | Gary Moore and Phil Lynott |
| 1999 | "Paper Sun" | Def Leppard |
| 2000 | "Peace on Earth" | U2 |
| 1997 | "Please" | U2 |
| 1978 | "The Saints Are Coming" | The Skids |
| 1987 | "Scaling The Derry Wall" | The Exploited |
| 1983 | "Section 31" | Christy Moore |
| 1979 | "State of Emergency" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1988 | "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" | The Pogues |
| 1972 | "Sunday Bloody Sunday" | John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
| 1983 | "Sunday Bloody Sunday" | U2 |
| 1998 | "Sunrise" | The Divine Comedy |
| 1992 | "Ten Men Dead" | Blaggers ITA |
| 1989 | "That's Just the Way It Is" | Phil Collins |
| 1985 | "There Were Roses" | Tommy Sands |
| 1997 | "This is Not Your Country" | Morrissey |
| 1986 | "Through the Barricades" | Spandau Ballet |
| 1973 | "The Town I Loved So Well" | Phil Coulter |
| 1981 | "Troops Out" | The Passage |
| 1977 | "Ulster" | Sham 69 |
| 1978 | "Wasted Life" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1987 | "Wild Frontier" | Gary Moore |
| 1994 | "Zombie" | The Cranberries |
Falklands War
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | "Tango Atlantico" | Joe Jackson |
| 1995 | "2 de Abril" | Attaque 77 |
| 1991 | "Another Man's Cause" | Levellers |
| 1990 | "The Ballad of Robbie Jones" | Levellers |
| 1985 | "Brothers in Arms" | Dire Straits |
| 1998 | "Como Estais Amigos" | Iron Maiden |
| 1985 | "Comunicado #166" | Los Violadores |
| 1983 | "Death 'n' Glory Boys" | Ian Hunter |
| 1985 | "Eddie" | Latin Quarter |
| 1982 | "El Banquete" | Virus |
| 1998 | "El Visitante" | Almafuerte |
| 1983 | "Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert" | Pink Floyd |
| 1984 | "Island of No Return" | Billy Bragg |
| 1983 | "La Isla de La Buena Memoria" | Alejandro Lerner |
| 1983 | "Let's Start a War" | The Exploited |
| 1982 | "No Bombardeen Buenos Aires" | Charly Garcia |
| 1983 | "The Post War Dream" | Pink Floyd |
| 1982 | "Postkort fra Port Stanley" | C.V. Jørgensen |
| 1983 | "Reina Madre" | Raúl Porchetto |
| 1983 | "The Right Side Won" | What Fun! |
| 1982 | "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" | Crass |
| 1983 | "Shipbuilding" | Elvis Costello and the Attractions |
| 1983 | "Southampton Dock" | Pink Floyd |
| 1984 | "Spirit of the Falklands" | New Model Army |
| 1984 | "Wha Dat" | Yellowman |
| 1983 | "Yes Sir, I Will" | Crass |
Contras, Latin America
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" | Don Henley |
| 1982 | "Bleed for Me" | Dead Kennedys |
| 1987 | "Bullet the Blue Sky" | U2 |
| 1983 | "El Salvador" | Cybotron |
| 1983 | "El Salvador" | Noel Stookey and Jim Wallis |
| 1985 | "El Salvador" | White Lion |
| 1986 | "The Flowers of Guatemala" | R.E.M. |
| 1984 | "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" | Bruce Cockburn |
| 1985 | "Lives in the Balance" | Jackson Browne |
| 1984 | "Nicaragua" | Bruce Cockburn |
| 1990 | "Nicaragua, Nicaraguita" | Billy Bragg |
| 1984 | "No Más!" | John McCutcheon |
| 1984 | "Untitled Song for Latin America" | Minutemen |
| 1980 | "Washington Bullets" | The Clash |
| 1989 | "Wish I Was in El Salvador" | Jello Biafra with DOA |
Yugoslav Wars
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | "Bili cvitak" ("White flower") | Jura Stublić |
| 1996 | "Bosnia" | The Cranberries |
| 1997 | "Bosnia" | Spinetta y Los Socios del Desierto |
| 1995 | "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| 1993 | "Čovek sa mesecom u očima" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1994 | "Crv" | Angel's Breath |
| 2000 | "Dok gori nebo nad Novim Sadom" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1995 | "Dead Winter Dead" | Savatage |
| 1993 | "Gde si" | Bajaga i Instruktori |
| 1991 | "Isabelle" | Greg Johnson |
| 1995 | "Kad sve ovo bude juče" | Dino Merlin |
| 1993 | "Krivi smo mi" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1997 | "Lucky" | Radiohead |
| 1995 | "Miss Sarajevo" | Passengers |
| 1991 | "Nebo, nebo plavo je" | Obojeni Program |
| 1995 | "Neću III svetski" | Babe |
| 2006 | "No Bravery" | James Blunt |
| 1993 | "Ovo je Balkan" | Bajaga i Instruktori |
| 1995 | "Peppers and Tomatoes" | Ralph McTell |
| 1995 | "Prayer of the Children" | Kurt Bestor |
| 1999 | "Pretty Good Day" | Loudon Wainwright III |
| 1996 | "Regruteska" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1993 | "Schöne neue Welt" | Böhse Onkelz |
| 2000 | "Sevdalinka" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1992 | "Slušaj 'vamo" | Rimtutituki |
| 1991 | "Stop the War in Croatia" | Tomislav Ivčić |
| 1995 | "Vrbana Bridge" | Jill Sobule |
Gulf Wars, Iraq, 9/11, and the War on Terror
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "21 Guns" | Green Day |
| 2002 | "911" | Gorillaz and D12 |
| 2002 | "911 For Peace" | Anti-Flag |
| 2004 | "Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)" | Saul Williams |
| 1992 | "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" | Iron Maiden |
| 1991 | "New Damage" | Soundgarden |
| 2003 | "Aftermath" | Strapping Young Lad |
| 2005 | "All the Young Fascists" | Shihad |
| 2005 | "America First" | Merle Haggard |
| 2004 | "American Idiot" | Green Day |
| 1993 | "American Jesus" | Bad Religion |
| 2003 | "American Life" | Madonna |
| 2004 | "Amerika" | Rammstein |
| 2007 | "Amerikhastan" | Megadeth |
| 2009 | "Another Bag of Bones" | Kevin Devine |
| 2004 | "Apocalypse Please" | Muse |
| 2019 | "Arabesque" | Coldplay |
| 2007 | "As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be" | Exodus |
| 2004 | "Ashes of the Wake" | Lamb of God |
| 1992 | "Atomic Garden" | Bad Religion |
| 2008 | "Audience of One" | Rise Against |
| 2000 | "B.O.B" | Outkast |
| 2005 | "B.Y.O.B." | System of a Down |
| 1991 | "Baghdad" | The Offspring |
| 2005 | "Bin Laden" | Immortal Technique |
| 2007 | "Black Rain" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 2008 | "Blessed are the Landmines" | Brave Saint Saturn |
| 2007 | "Bloodsports" | New Model Army |
| 2002 | "Boom!" | System of a Down |
| 1992 | "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" | Roger Waters |
| 2006 | "Brother's Song" | Brand New |
| 2005 | "Camilo" | State Radio |
| 2008 | "Can't Happen Here" | Atreyu |
| 2004 | "Caped Crusader" | Jello Biafra with the Melvins |
| 2007 | "Capital G" | Nine Inch Nails |
| 2007 | "Captain Sterling's Little Problem" | The Coup |
| 2008 | "Cheney's Toy" | James McMurtry |
| 2004 | "Cinnamon Girl" | Prince |
| 2009 | "Civilian Ways" | Rancid |
| 2007 | "Clenching the Fists of Dissent" | Machine Head |
| 2004 | "Condi, Condi" | Steve Earle |
| 2008 | "Confrontation" | OTEP |
| 2009 | "Contractor" | Lamb of God |
| 2004 | "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" | A Perfect Circle |
| 2007 | "Dad's Gonna Kill Me" | Richard Thompson |
| 2006 | "Dangerous Game" | Bill Madden |
| 2007 | "Dark Side of the Sun" | Tori Amos |
| 2004 | "Day After Tomorrow" | Tom Waits |
| 2007 | "Dead Man Walking" | Bloodsimple |
| 2004 | "Dear America" | N.EX.T (featuring Psy) |
| 2007 | "Dear Mr. President" | Pink |
| 2004 | "Deja Vu (All Over Again)" | John Fogerty |
| 1991 | "Desert Angel" | Stevie Nicks |
| 2005 | "Devils & Dust" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2008 | "Devour" | Shinedown |
| 1991 | "Die for Oil Sucker" | Jello Biafra |
| 2006 | "Dirty Bombs" | Body Count |
| 2005 | "Dirty Harry" | Gorillaz |
| 2002 | "Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb" | Blur |
| 2007 | "Don't Make Me a Target" | Spoon |
| 2008 | "Down from the Sky" | Trivium |
| 1993 | "A Drug Against War" | KMFDM |
| 2008 | "The Drums of War" | Jackson Browne |
| 1999 | "Easily" | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| 2004 | "The Empire Strikes First" | Bad Religion |
| 2007 | "Empty Walls" | Serj Tankian |
| 2006 | "Everybody's Gone to War" | Nerina Pallot |
| 2006 | "Exit Strategy" | Valient Thorr |
| 2003 | "Façade of Reality" | Epica |
| 2003 | "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" | David Bowie |
| 2009 | "Far from Home" | Five Finger Death Punch |
| 2007 | "A Farewell to Arms" | Machine Head |
| 1991 | "Fertile Crescent" | Bad Religion |
| 2004 | "Final Straw" | R.E.M. |
| 2006 | "Final Transmission" | Street Dogs |
| 2006 | "For the Greater Good of God" | Iron Maiden |
| 2003 | "Franco Un-American" | NOFX |
| 2008 | "Friends in the Armed Forces" | Thursday |
| 2005 | "Frontlines" | Soulfly |
| 2009 | "Fuck You" | Lily Allen |
| 2006 | "Fun and Games" | Barenaked Ladies |
| 2007 | "George W. Told the Nation" | Tom Paxton |
| 2006 | "The Getaway" | Voivod |
| 2005 | "God's Army" | Smile Empty Soul |
| 2003 | "Good Song" | Blur |
| 2009 | "Ground Zero" | Chris Cornell |
| 1994 | "Gulf War Song" | Moxy Früvous |
| 2007 | "Gunslinger" | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 2008 | "Hammerhead" | The Offspring |
| 2005 | "The Hand That Feeds" | Nine Inch Nails |
| 2007 | "Hands Held High" | Linkin Park |
| 2006 | "Hard-On for War" | Mudhoney |
| 2006 | "Harrowdown Hill" | Thom Yorke |
| 1992 | "Heaven is Falling" | Bad Religion |
| 2012 | "Hell Broke Luce" | Tom Waits |
| 1992 | "Hero" | Ministry |
| 2008 | "Hero of War" | Rise Against |
| 2008 | "Hey Ma" | James |
| 1991 | "Highwire" | Rolling Stones |
| 2004 | "Holiday" | Green Day |
| 2006 | "The Holidays Are Here (And We're Still at War)" | Brett Dennen |
| 1991 | "Holy War" | Matthew Sweet |
| 2008 | "Home Front" | Drive-By Truckers |
| 2004 | "Home to Houston" | Steve Earle |
| 1991 | "How Much Longer" | Paul Leary |
| 2007 | "I Can't Take It No More" | John Fogerty |
| 2003 | "I Will" | Radiohead |
| 2006 | "If This Is Goodbye" | Mark Knopfler with Emmylou Harris |
| 2004 | "If Wishes Were Horses" | David Baerwald |
| 2007 | "Illegal Attacks" | Ian Brown |
| 2003 | "In a World Gone Mad" | Beastie Boys |
| 2003 | "Into the Fire" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2002 | "Is It Any Wonder?"[18] | Keane |
| 2002 | "Jacob's Ladder" | Chumbawamba |
| 2002 | "Jerusalem" | Steve Earle |
| 2002 | "John Walker's Blues" | Steve Earle |
| 2009 | "Kid Next Door" | The Bottle Rockets |
| 2004 | "Kimdir O" | Barış Akarsu |
| 2007 | "Last to Die" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2005 | "Later That Year" | Straylight Run |
| 2004 | "Leaving Beirut" | Roger Waters |
| 2004 | "Left Right" | The Chemical Brothers |
| 2004 | "Let Them Eat War" | Bad Religion |
| 2011 | "Let's Be Real" | Soulja Boy |
| 2003 | "Let's Get Free" | Sheryl Crow |
| 2006 | "Let's Impeach the President" | Neil Young |
| 2002 | "Let's Roll" | Neil Young |
| 2006 | "Letter from Iraq" | Bouncing Souls |
| 2004 | "Letters from Home" | John Michael Montgomery |
| 2006 | "Lift the Veil, Kiss the Tank" | The Blood Brothers |
| 2006 | "Light Up Ya Lighter" | Michael Franti |
| 2007 | "The Little Things Give You Away" | Linkin Park |
| 2008 | "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" | Kevin Devine |
| 2001 | "Makeshift Patriot" | Sage Francis |
| 2006 | "Mama" | Godsmack |
| 2004 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Dio |
| 2002 | "Manhattan-Kaboul" | Axelle Red and Renaud |
| 2004 | "The Mob Goes Wild" | Clutch |
| 2004 | "Mosh" | Eminem |
| 2003 | "New Killer Star" | David Bowie |
| 2006 | "No More" | Bob Seger |
| 2005 | "No Sure Way" | Loudon Wainwright III |
| 2005 | "No Time Flat" | Kevin Devine |
| 2003 | "No War" | Esham |
| 2003 | "Not in My Name" | Saul Williams |
| 2003 | "Nothing Man" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2004 | "Now You've Got Something to Die For" | Lamb of God |
| 2011 | "On the Backs of Angels" | Dream Theater |
| 2007 | "On with the Song" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 2003 | "Out of Time" | Blur |
| 2005 | "Overburdened" | Disturbed |
| 2003 | "Paradise" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2009 | "People of the Lie" | KMFDM |
| 2002 | "Politik" | Coldplay |
| 2002/3 | "The Price of Oil" | Billy Bragg |
| 2017 | "Refuge" | Steven Wilson |
| 2004 | "Rich Man's War" | Steve Earle |
| 2002 | "The Rising" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2007 | "Rumors of War" | High on Fire |
| 2007 | "S-O-R-R-Y" | The Proclaimers[19] |
| 2005 | "Sacred Lie" | Disturbed |
| 2005 | "Sacrificed Sons" | Dream Theater |
| 2006 | "Shock and Awe" | Neil Young |
| 2003 | "Sick City Sometimes" | Buzzcocks |
| 2005 | "Sixteen Military Wives" | The Decemberists |
| 2002 | "Skylines and Turnstiles" | My Chemical Romance |
| 1991 | "Slap Leather" | James Taylor |
| 2008 | "Sleep Through the Static" | Jack Johnson |
| 2005 | "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show" | Pet Shop Boys |
| 2014 | "A Song to Stifle Imperial Progress" | The Used |
| 2002 | "Square Dance" | Eminem |
| 2007 | "Stand Up" | Flobots |
| 2002 | "Still Waiting" | Sum 41 |
| 2004 | "Support Our Troops OH! (Black Angels OH!)" | Xiu Xiu |
| 2007 | "Sweet Neo Con" | Rolling Stones |
| 2008 | "That Man I Shot" | Drive-By Truckers |
| 2003 | "This Is War" | Smile Empty Soul |
| 2009 | "This Is War" | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2016 | "The Threat Is Real" | Megadeth |
| 2004 | "To Kill the Child" | Roger Waters |
| 1992 | "Too Much Rope" | Roger Waters |
| 2006 | "Trot Out the Dead" | Hammers of Misfortune |
| 1994 | "Turkey Shoot" | Killdozer |
| 2005 | "Twenty" | Robert Cray |
| 2006 | "Two Weeks From Twenty" | Yellowcard |
| 2004 | "Unknown Soldier" | The Casualties |
| 2011 | "Victory Stinks" | Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine |
| 2006 | "Waiting on the World to Change" | John Mayer |
| 2003 | "Walk On" | Hilltop Hoods |
| 2007 | "War" | Emigrate |
| 1994 | "War Again" | Oingo Boingo |
| 2003 | "War All The Time" | Thursday (band) |
| 2002 | "War on War" | Wilco |
| 1992 | "Wargasm" | L7 |
| 2008 | “Warm Winter” | Seth Sentry |
| 2012 | "Warzone" | Pagoda |
| 2013 | "Waves" | Portugal. The Man |
| 2003 | "What Are We Fighting For" | Live |
| 2005 | "When the President Talks to God" | Bright Eyes |
| 2004 | "Where Is the Love?" | The Black Eyed Peas (Featuring Justin Timberlake) |
| 2001 | "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" | Alan Jackson |
| 2006 | "Where'd You Go" | Fort Minor |
| 2010 | "White Flag Warrior" | Flobots ft. Tim McIlrath |
| 2007 | "White People for Peace" | Against Me! |
| 2011 | "Words I Never Said" | Lupe Fiasco |
| 2006 | "World Wide Suicide" | Pearl Jam |
| 2003 | "WWIII" | KMFDM |
| 1992 | "Yellow Ledbetter" | Pearl Jam |
| 2006 | "Yellowcake" | Ministry |
| 2007 | "Yo George" | Tori Amos |
| 1991 | "You Shoulda Killed Me Last Year" | Ice-T |
| 2003 | "Your Silence" | Suicide Machines |
| 2005 | "Zerstören" | Rammstein |
Russian invasion of Ukraine
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | "Crushed" | Imagine Dragons |
| 2022 | "Don't Give Up" | Erekle Getsadze and Helen Kalandadze |
| 2022 | "Freedom" | Tvorchi |
| 2023 | "GASOLINE" | Måneskin |
| 2022 | "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" | Pink Floyd ft. Andriy Khlyvnyuk |
| 2022 | "I'm Alive" | Ruslana |
| 2022 | "Imagine"[20] | Julian Lennon ft. Nuno Bettencourt |
| 2022 | "Kalyna" | Go_A |
| 2022 | "Love Is All We Got" | The Roop |
| 2022[a] | "Mistsya shchaslyvykh lyudey" (Місця щасливих людей) | Skryabin[b] |
| 2023 | "Mama ŠČ!" | Let 3 |
| 2022 | "Nasze Domy" | Kalush Orchestra and Szpaku |
| 2022 | "Ne zalyshay" (Не залишай) | Anna Trincher |
| 2022 | "Nezlamna" (Незламна) | Zlata Dziunka |
| 2022 | "Soldier" | Manizha[21] |
| 2023 | "Stiny" (Стіни) | Kalush and Jerry Heil |
| 2023 | "Tango" | Tananai |
| 2022 | "What They Fighting For?" | EES ft. Ras Sheehama |
Anti-draft
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" | Arlo Guthrie |
| 1989 | "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" | Public Enemy |
| 1974 | "Botas Locas" | Sui Generis |
| 1980 | "The Call Up" | The Clash |
| 1965 | "Draft Dodger Rag" | Phil Ochs |
| 1967 | "Draft Morning" | The Byrds |
| 1969 | "Draft Resister" | Steppenwolf |
| 1969 | "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1981 | "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" | Frank Zappa |
| 1986 | "Nein, meine Söhne geb' ich nicht" ("No, I Will Not Give [You] My Sons") | Reinhard Mey |
| 1971 | "One Man Rock and Roll Band" | Roy Harper |
| 1994 | "Refuse/Resist" | Sepultura |
| 1991 | "Sgt. Baker" | Primus |
| 1984 | "State of the Nation" | Industry |
| 2002 | "Square Dance" | Eminem |
| 1967 | "Take it Back" | Cream |
| 1990 | "Train" | Uncle Tupelo |
| 1982 | "War Party" | Eddy Grant |
| 1980 | "When Ya Get Drafted" | Dead Kennedys |
Traditional music
Apart from the various genres of modern music, some traditional and contemporary folk songs reflect the futile efforts of war and the attitudes of objectors prior to the major wars of the 20th century. Some of these include:
- "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" also known as "Down by the Riverside", and with a similar tune as "Hand Me down My Walking Cane" – African-American traditional anti-war song recorded by The Weavers and many others.
- "Arthur McBride" – While first curated in the 19th century, this song likely came into existence during the 17th century in response to the War of the Grand Alliance, or especially the Williamite War in Ireland, after which the Irish Jacobite army was sent to France as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691.
- "The Cruel War" – Made famous in its current form by Pete Seeger and Peter Paul and Mary, this anti-war song has roots at least as far back as the American Civil War, and can probably be traced to an older English song.[22]
- "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" – Irish traditional anti-war and anti-recruiting song that was the basis for the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", and recorded as "Fighting for Strangers" by Steeleye Span.
- "Join the British Army" – Irish rebel song, recorded by Ewan MacColl and The Dubliners.
- "Kannoneer Jabůrek" – popular Czech song mocking war heroism, referring to the events of the 1866 Austro-Prussian War
- "Lincoln's Army" – The Irish Rovers
- "Lowlands of Holland" – traditional recorded by Martin Carthy
- "Mrs. McGrath" – an Irish song describing a young man named Ted who enters the British Army and returns seven years later having lost his legs to a cannonball while fighting against Napoleon presumably at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (fought between 3 and 5 May 1811). Bruce Springsteen recorded a version of this song on his 2006 album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, and it appears on the subsequent live 2007 album Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin
Musicals
| Year | Title | Artist | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Hair | Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Galt MacDermot | The Vietnam War |
| 1936 | Johnny Johnson | Kurt Weill | World War I |
| 1989 | Miss Saigon | Claude-Michel Schönberg | The Vietnam War |
| 1963 | Oh, What a Lovely War! | Joan Littlewood | World War I |
See also
- Anti-war movement
- Protest songs
- List of anti-war books
- List of anti-war films
- List of anti-war plays
- List of peace activists
- Vietnam War Song Project
Notes
- ^ The song had been previously released but was re-released with amended lyrics to raise money to support charities aiding those affected by the conflict.
- ^ Features uncredited vocals from Oleksandra Zaritska, Artem Pivovarov, Sergii Tanchynets, Fahot, Nataliya Mogylevska, Ivan NAVI, and Ruslana.
References
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- ^ "Anti-war songs (AWS) – Empire".
- ^ Yanik, Sophia K. (2016) "A Narrative Inquiry of Protest Songs: Comparing the Anti-War Music of Vietnam and Iraq" Sociology and Criminal Justice Undergraduate Honors Theses. 2.
- ^ Quinn, Michael. "The Proclaimers – Notes & Rhymes – Review". BBC – Music. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
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- ^ Harding, Mike. "Christmas 1914 | Mike Harding". Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ "These Are Paul Weller's 10 Best Songs". Radio X. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "The paranoid rhetoric of the Cold War was parodied in much popular music during the 1980s, from Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Two Tribes' (1981), Nena's '99 Luft Ballons' (1982), Heaven 17's 'Let's All Make a Bomb'..." Jane Milling, Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations, Methuen Drama, 2012. ISBN 9781408129609. 2013 (p.83)
- ^ Graham, Ben (15 September 2015). "All Her Yesterdays: Rose McDowall Interviewed". thequietus.com. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ Lynn Van Matre (1 May 1986): "Deyoung Answers Call For Vets". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ "Independence". Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. 4 July 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ Andresen, Lee (1 May 2003). Battle Notes: Music of the Vietnam War. Savage Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-886028-59-3.
- ^ Cusic, Don (30 July 2008). Discovering Country Music. ABC-CLIO. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-313-35246-1.
- ^ Stephen Stills – Illegal Stills
- ^ Greenwald, Matthew. "The Doors: 'The Unknown Soldier' – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ Schlansky, Evan (27 September 2011). "Gavin Rossdale Discusses Bush's Critics, Nirvana Comparisons". American Songwriter. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ Ives, Simon (2003). "Fun Boy Three". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). London: Rough Guides. p. 401. ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ^ "Keane Tackle the War on "Iron Sea"?". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ McLean, Craig (16 August 2007). "The sun is shining again on the Proclaimers". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ Hernandez, Joe (11 April 2022). "John Lennon's son, Julian, performs 'Imagine' for the 1st time, in support of Ukraine". NPR. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
- ^ "A new reality reverberates through Russia's music scene". NPR.org. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "The Cruel War (Version 1)". Contemplator.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
External links
- Anti-war Songs a website collecting thousands of antiwar songs from all over the world
- Folk&More: Songbook & Tabs a growing collection of chords, tabs, and lyrics of anti-war songs from Bob Dylan to Bob Marley
- Vietnam War Song Project, a collection of over 5000 Vietnam War songs, including hundreds containing anti-war / peace sentiment.
- [1] The page contains an interview with Judy Small the writer and composer of Mothers, Daughters, Wives.