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"Songs with a bit of history"

Can anyone think of any songs with references to well known moments in history - ie ABBA singing about Waterloo.

Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman

It's about riots in France (in the 60's I think...) where the rioters sucked on lemons to reverse the effects of CS gas that the riot police were using. I think...

'Her old man... he don't like black or queers
But he's proud we beat the Nazis?
How queer...'

The Libertines - Arbeit Macht Frei

Relavence - Auschwitz/Holocaust

monkey_man wrote:
> [URL]http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp[/URL]

Of course, the hartlepool locals are a bit ape-like themselves, so it must have been an easy mistake to make.



Nitin Sawhney: Broken Skin - Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Anything by roger Waters and anything from The Final Cut by Pink Floyd.

Actually, almost anything by Pink Floyd, come to think of it.

[URL]http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp[/URL]

Check it:
[URL]http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/downloads/monkeysong.mp3[/URL]

Teletubbies Say Eh Oh harks back to when people grunted at each other and didn't use any intelligable language.

down wrote:
> "we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when"

Vera Lynn. And it's an absolute tune.

Queen - Flash

"Flash - saviour of the universe!"

That has relevance, no?

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday?