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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.

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

There's a brilliant Outkast song called Rosa Parks.

Oh and the Iron Butterfly song In The Garden Of Eden

If You Tolerate This (Manics) and Spanish Bombs (Clash) are about the Spanish Civil War.

Iron Maiden sing about Jesus in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Not strictly an event in history but it does have some history and it's the nearest my Brain's going to get at this time

There'll be a few Vietnam songs, methinks.

There's a Jay-Z song called Dead Presidents, if that counts. It's about money, rather than actual dead presidents, though.

This is a good start, enough material to keep me going. Thanks.

[URL]http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/vietnam_music.html[/URL]

Also, that world war song -

"we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when"

etc.

That one

Meka Dragon wrote:
> This is a good start, enough material to keep me going. Thanks.

What exactly is this all for?

JFH wrote:
> Meka Dragon wrote:
> This is a good start, enough material to keep me going. Thanks.
>
> What exactly is this all for?

Covering a history lesson. I'm not, but it's a piece of writing I'm working on.

Why do the research myself when you lot are a wealth of information!