what are some songs with historical connotations? ie. give peace a chance (Lennon) fortunate son(creedence cle

Ohio - CSNY (Kent State Shootings)

American Pie - Don Mclean

Run through the Jungle - CCR (Vietnam War)

Blowin' in the Wind & The Times are a Chaingin' - Bob Dylan (used as Civil Rights Anthems)

Happy X-mas (The War is Over), Power to the People, Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon

BYOB - System of a Down

Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley

Throwing Stones - The Dead

The Pipes of Peace by Paul McCartney - was about WW1

Errr, Mary's Boy Child - Boney M? Was about Jesus I reckon.

Winds of Change by The Scorpions was about the falling of the Berlin Wall or the end of the Cold War, I believe.

Sky Pilot, by the Animals. About a priest praying over World War One pilots before their bombing runs.

Countdown, Rush, about the Space Shuttle launches.

Hurricane, Bob Dylan, about a man wrongly accused of murder.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot.

Alice's Restaraunt, a 20 minute song ultimately protesting the draft.

We Didn't Start the Fire, Billy Joel. ( ThEE song about history.) Here's a fun video about it.

http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html

type 'protest songs' into search, some really good old ones there. 'Abraham, Martin and John', 'Imagine' by John Lennon, 'Blowin' in the Wind' by Peter, Paul and Mary, 'Nikita' by Elton John and 'Get Together' by the Youngbloods are a few.

praise the lord and pass the ammunition ..so we can all stay free ( its really a song ) by the andrews siters