That's the way it was in the 60's and early 70's. Why? Because there was a war going on and in a war, no one wins. Everybody loses.
1. Barry McGuire – "Eve of Destruction(1965)
2.Donovan – “Universal Soldier” (1965)
3.Eric Burdon and the Animals – “Sky Pilot” (1968)
4.Edwin Starr – “War” (1969)
5.Rare Earth – “If I Die” (1971)
Of course. There are lots of revolutionary songs. Here are just a few:
The Internationale.
The Jolly Ploughboy.
Scotland the Brave.
Men of Harlech
La Marseilleise
Personal Preference:
"Imagine" by Lennon
"One Vision" by Queen
"Death Machine" by Fiction Plane
"Running the Country" by Fiction Plane
Ah, if you lived back then who wasn't moved by the protest songs of the late folk music era in the '60s. I had 2 older brothers who went off to Viet Nam then - and frustrated by this, myself, torn between two ideologies as an aspiring amateur folksinger, what could I do but try to write and play songs with hidden and not so hidden messages? I can't believe my lyrics as I look back on them, playing and singing them at my college. We sang others' songs, too.
The protest songs that best survive are the ones that lament the losses caused by wars, for ex. "Where Have all the Flowers Gone" Listen to Dolly Parton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-J2ybUGNPU
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