Songs on War & Peace
Songs in the "Peace Chapter" in Rise Up Singing: www.riseupandsing.org/songbook/rise-up-singing/peace
Some additional songs in RUS on this subject: Battle of New Orleans, Spoon River, Tenting Tonight, Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore, Arthur MacBride, Old Hundred (new v. by Pete Seeger), The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be (Tom Lehrer song about nuclear weapons), All the Weary Mothers of the Earth, Blowin' in the Wind, Imagine, We Hate to See Them Go, There Are Three Brothers Named Dupont, Turn! Turn! Turn!, Barrett's Privateers, Grey Funnel Line, Your Daughters & Your Sons, Because All Men Are Brothers. There are a number of songs about Irish struggle for independence in the "Struggle" chapter.
Songs in the "Peace Chapter" in Rise Again: www.riseupandsing.org/songbook/rise-again/peace
Some additional songs in RA on this subject include: Safe from Harm, Minstrel Boy, Dance for Nations, Walls, And We Shall Want No More, It's a Hard Life, Eve of Destruction, Let Justice Roll Down
Here are some of our newer favorites:
- Season of Peace - by Si Kahn
- Gonna Take Us All - by Jon Fromer
- How Beautiful Upon the Mountain - by Tom Paxton
- Jerusalem - by Steve Earle
- Salaam (Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu) - by the Isareli band Sheva
- And We Shall Want No More - by Joanna Katzen
- Plant Me a Garden - by Sally Rogers
- Walls (aka "Some Walls") - by Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose & Randy Sharp
- These Hands - by Dave Gunning
- Peace, Salaam, Shalom & We Are One - by Pat Humphries
- One World - by Mike Stern
- More Than Enough - by Robb Johnson
- For the Mothers - by Betsy Rose
- Not by Might - by Linda Hirschhorn
- What Are Their Names? - often performed by David Crosby
And some earlier classics:
- All the Weary Mothers of the Earth - by Joan Baez
- I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - by Phil Ochs
- I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag - by Country Joe MacDonald
- Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream - by Ed McCurdy
- Letter to Eve by Pete Seeger
- Your Daughters & Your Sons - by Tommy Sands
- Turn! Turn! Turn! - by Pete Seeger
- Because All Men Are Brothers - by Tom Glazer & J.S.Bach
- Bonnie Light Horseman (trad. Irish)
- Crow on the Cradle - by Sydney Carter
- Doctor, My Eyes - by Jackson Browne
- For What It's Worth - by Stephen Stills
- Quite Early Morning - by Pete Seeger
