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Vietnam War Songs

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  • "8th of November" - Big and Rich (2006)
  • "19" – Paul Hardcastle (1985)
  • "2 + 2 = ?" – Bob Seger System (1968)
  • "50,000 Names" - George Jones (2001)
  • "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" – Arlo Guthrie (1967)
  • "All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles (1967)
  • "American Woman" – The Guess Who (1970)
  • "Back in Vietnam – Lenny Kravitz
  • "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" – The Temptations (1970)
  • "Ballad of Ho Chi Minh* Ewan MacColl (1958)
  • "Ballad of Penny Evans" - Steve Goodman (1971)
  • "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by Terry Nelson (1971)
  • "Baba O'riley" by The Who (1971)
  • "The Big Parade" - 10,000 Maniacs (1989)
  • "Big Time In The Jungle" - Old Crow Medicine Show (2004)
  • "Billy Don't Be a Hero" – Paper Lace (also recorded by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods) (1974)
  • "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" – Public Enemy (1989)
  • "Born in the USA" – Bruce Springsteen (1984)
  • "Bring The Boys Home" – Freda Payne (1971)
  • "Bring Them Home" – Pete Seeger (1966)
  • "Calley" - Dog Faced Hermans (1994)
  • "Charlie Don't Surf" – The Clash (1980)
  • "Child in Time" - Deep Purple (1970)
  • "Commando - The Ramones (1977)
  • "Copperhead Road - Steve Earle (1988)
  • "Daddy Won't Be Home Anymore" - Dolly Parton (1988)
  • "Dear Uncle Sam" - Loretta Lynn (1965)
  • "Disk of Sun" Ewan MacColl (1969)
  • "Duty Called" - Greg Wilson (2000)
  • "Eve of Destruction" - Barry McGuire and P.F. Sloan (1965)
  • "Five To One" - The Doors (1968)
  • "Fixin to Die Rag" Country Joe McDonald (1967)
  • "Fortunate Son" – Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
  • "For What It's Worth (Stop, What's That Sound?)" - Buffalo Springfield (1967)
  • "The Grave" – Don McLean (1971)
  • "Galveston" - Glen Campbell (1969)
  • "Galveston Bay" - Bruce Springsteen (1995)
  • "Gimme Shelter" - Rolling Stones (1969)
  • "Give Peace a Chance" - The Plastic Ono Band
  • "Goodnight Saigon" - Billy Joel (1981)
  • "The Great Compromise" - John Prine (1972)
  • "Guns, Guns, Guns" – The Guess Who (1972)
  • "Hallelujah Day" by Jackson 5 (1973)
  • "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" – John Lennon & Yoko Ono/The Plastic Ono Band (1971)
  • "Harvest for the World" – The Isley Brothers (1976)
  • "Hello Vietnam" - Johnnie Wright (1965)
  • "I Ain't Marching Anymore" – Phil Ochs (1965)
  • "I Am a Lucky One" - Barry Sadler (1966)
  • "I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam" – John Lee Hooker (1968)
  • "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" – Country Joe and the Fish (1967)
  • "I Should Be Proud" – Martha and the Vandellas (1970)
  • "I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)" – Redgum (1983)
  • "In The Army Now" – Status Quo (1986)
  • "Inoculated City" – The Clash (1982)
  • "Into The Fire" - Sabaton (2005)
  • "It Better End Soon" - Chicago (1970)
  • "It's All Happening Now" - Peggy Seeger (1968)
  • "Jackknife Johnny" - Alice Cooper (1978)
  • "Jimmy Newman" – Tom Paxton (1969)
  • "Jimmy's Road" - Willie Nelson (1965)
  • "Johnny Come Lately" - Steve Earle (1988)
  • "Kay" — John Wesley Ryles (1968)
  • "Kent State Massacre" Jack Warshaw (1970)
  • "Khe Sanh" - Cold Chisel (1978)
  • "Kill for Peace" – The Fugs (1966)
  • "Kim's Nightmare" - Miss Saigon Soundtrack (1989)
  • "Last Train to Nuremberg" – Pete Seeger (1970)
  • "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)" – Melanie Safka (1970)
  • "Letters From Vietnam" - Barry Sadler (1966)
  • "Live Those Songs Again" - Kenny Chesney (2002)
  • "Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation" – Tom Paxton (1965)
  • "Machine Gun" - Jimi Hendrix (1970)
  • "Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)" - Tom T. Hall (1970)
  • "March to the Witch's Castle" - Funkadelic (1973)
  • "Moratorium" - Buffy Sainte-Marie (1971)
  • "More Than a Name on a Wall" - The Statler Brothers (1989)
  • "My Son John" – Tom Paxton (1966)
  • "One More Parade" - Phil Ochs
  • "Orange Crush" – R.E.M. (1988)
  • "Old Hippie" - The Bellamy Brothers (1985)
  • "Path of Glory" - Petula Clark (1967)
  • "People, Let's Stop the War" – Grand Funk Railroad (1971)
  • "Readjustment Blues" - John Denver (1972)
  • "Rooster" - Alice in Chains
  • "Running Gun Blues" – David Bowie (1970)
  • "Saigon Bride" – Joan Baez (1967)
  • "Salute to the Nurses" - Barry Sadler (1966)
  • "Sam Stone" – John Prine (1971)
  • "Seek And Destroy" – Metallica (1983)
  • "Simple Song of Freedom" – Bobby Darin (1968)
  • "Sky Pilot" – Eric Burdon and The Animals (1968)
  • "Smiley" - Ronnie Burns (1969)
  • "Something to Believe In" - Poison (1990)
  • "Still in Saigon" - the Charlie Daniels Band (1982)
  • "Stoned Love" – The Supremes (1970)
  • "Straight to Hell" – The Clash (1982)
  • "Sunshine" - Jonathan Edwards (1971)
  • "Super Bird" - Country Joe and the Fish (1967)
  • "Susan on the West Coast" - Donovan (1969)
  • "Sweet Cherry Wine" - Tommy James and the Shondells (1969)
  • "Talkin' Vietnam" – Phil Ochs (1964)
  • "That Old Porch Swing" - Eddy Arnold (2005)
  • "The Soldier Has Come Home" - Barry Sadler (1966)
  • "This Ain't Nothing" - Craig Morgan (2010)
  • "This Is My Rifle" - Mark Maysey (1999)
  • "Three-Five-Zero-Zero" from the musical, Hair (1968)
  • "To Susan On The West Coast Waiting" – Donovan
  • "Travelin' Soldier" – Dixie Chicks (2002)
  • "Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story" – Jedi Mind Tricks (2006)
  • "Unknown Soldier" – The Doors (1968)
  • "Vietcong Blues" - Junior Wells (1966)
  • "Vietnam" – Phil Ochs (1962)
  • "Vietnam" – Jimmy Cliff (1970)
  • "Vietnamerica" - The Stranglers (1981)
  • "Vietnam Blues" - Kris Kristofferson (1966)
  • "Vietnam Glam" - Indochine (1993)
  • "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" - Pete Seeger (1967)
  • "The Wall" - Bruce Springsteen (2003)
  • "War" - Edwin Starr (1970)
  • "War Games" - the Monkees (1968)
  • "The War Is Over" - Phil Ochs (1968)
  • "War Movie" - Jefferson Airplane (1971)
  • "War Pigs" – Black Sabbath (1971)
  • "Wasted Life" – Stiff Little Fingers (1978)
  • "What did you Learn in School?" Tom Paxton (1968)
  • "What's Going On" – Marvin Gaye (1971)
  • "Where Are You Now, My Son?" – Joan Baez (1973)
  • "White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land" – Phil Ochs (1968)
  • "Wild Irish Rose" - George Jones (1998)
  • "Wooden Ships" – Crosby, Stills & Nash and Jefferson Airplane (1969)
  • "World of Trouble" - Molly Hatchet (1998)
  • "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" - John Prine (1971)

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