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i need help for a school assignment.

i need the lyrics from 3 songs dealing with any of the following themes: Love, War and Youth.

i tried but none of the songs i listen to seem to deal with these themes, i think.

i just need the names of the songs right now, lyrics can be found anywhere.

so if you can take time out from your buisy schedule to help me i would realy realy appreciate it.

Thank You

Do you have to have them all in one song.

Black Sabath War Pigs is a good war song.

The new Asia had a cool song about love. What about Love and the human race.



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MagicZ4941A

Try this link. It may help. It lists songs from WWII and give synopses.



http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/images/b/ ... titles.htm



Example:



Back Home for Keeps (1945)

Composed by: Carmen Lombardo

Performed by: Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians

Label: Decca 18672-B (1945)

"The song concerns a wife or sweetheart who longs for the day when her man will be back home with her. The mood of the song is sentimental. The woman thinking of the future when her loved one will sweetly kiss the angry years away and they can revel in the old familiar things. The melody is sweet and smooth. The style and content work very well together because you feel as though she is daydreaming and we are hearing the thoughts that she is thinking." Eleanor Thoet

Cleanin' My Rifle (And Dreamin' of You) (1943)

Composed by: Allie Wrubel

Performed by: Lawrence Welk & his Orchestra

Label: Decca 4428-A (1943) "Cleanin' My Rifle is about a soldier who dreams of his sweetheart's kiss while cleaning his rifle in camp. He is presented as a sentimental lover who misses his girl and cannot wait to see her again. The lyrics help to make clear several American values that were prevalent during the war: the attachment to a loved one and the purity of the serviceman." Ann Kardos

American Woman

Theme song from MASH

Doesn't include all three topics, but pertinint war songs. We would get suspended in school if caught singing the MASH song...............of course we tried to whistle it all day long!

chonsigirl wrote: American Woman



Theme song from MASH



Doesn't include all three topics, but pertinint war songs. We would get suspended in school if caught singing the MASH song...............of course we tried to whistle it all day long!
Suicide is Painless is about suicide. It doesn't mention war, love, or youth. I could understand seventh graders watching an influencial teacher singing about ending it all, being of slight concern to the administration. :wah:

Billy Joels early songs cover most scenarios..

You need all 3 in one song, right?

Lyricist John Barlow, a Wyoming native, knew Dick Cheney when he was a young, idealistic, environmentalist freshman congressman, and watched his transformation into warmongering evildoer.

He claims his song Throwin' Stones was inspired by his former fishing buddy, Cheney.

try this link

http://www.aftermathww1.com/mcbride.asp#

you can hear the music as well, it's one of the more maudlin songs around

Well how do you do, Private William McBride

Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave side?

And I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,

I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.

I see by your gravestone you were only 19

When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916.

Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean

Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Chorus:

Did they beat the drum slowly?

Did they sound the fife lowly?

Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down?

Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?

Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest'?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?

In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined

And though you died back in 1916

To that loyal heart are you always 19?

Or are you a stranger without even a name

Forever enshrined behind some glass-pane

In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained

And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?


http://www.raymondscountydownwebsite.co ... _poems.htm

How about lili marlene? It was played over the german radio in the desert during ww2 and became a hit with the british troops as well, the words weren't understood but the sentiment was shared with the english words being written later as it was a bit embarassing having british troops singing in german just cos they liked the song.

GMC i loved that song and the tune is haunting....Underneath the lantern by the barrack gate

Darling I remember the way you used to wait

Twas there that you whispered tenderly

That you loved me

You'd always be

My Lili of the lamplight

My own Lili Marlene



Time would come for roll call

Time for us to part

Darling I'd caress you and press you to my heart

And there 'neath that far off lantern light

I'd hold you tight

We'd kiss good-night

My Lili of the lamplight

My own Lili Marlene



Orders came for sailing somewhere over there

All confined to barracks was more than I could bear

I knew you were waiting in the street

I heard your feet

But could not meet

My Lili of the lamplight

My own Lili Marlene



Resting in a billet just behind the line

Even tho' we're parted your lips are close to mine

You wait where that lantern softly gleams

Your sweet face seems to haunt my dreams

My Lili of the lamplight

My own Lili Marlene



When we are marching in the mud and cold,

And when my pack seems more than I can hold

My love for you renews my might

I'm warm again

My pack is light

It's you Lili Marlene

It's you Lili Marlene

Almost anything by Sarah MacLaughlin would fit your "love" requirements.

Wow thanks for the response.

and no the song can deal with any of the themes.

thanks again it has helped a lot.