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| Billy Bragg – Which Side Are You On? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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these lyrics have been rewritten except for the chorus but that would make sense because Florence Reese wrote the original during the Harlan County War in Kentucky which involved bombings, assasinations, strikes, and intended strikes. The two fighting sides were coal miners/labor organizers vs. law enforcement and business owners. |
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| Dropkick Murphys – Far Away Coast Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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You guys are only half right. If you took American History you would know barbed wire, trenches, and mustard gas are what characterized World War I. Maybe, it was inspired by the Middle East and Central Asian (Afghanistan) but the references are of World War I. Trenches were often reinforced with barbed wire to snag people trying to clear a trench. Enemy shelling was also used heavily during World War I. Dropkick Murphys have always heavily referenced historical references to war and labor and sometimes cover other songs. The lyrics they covered in No Man's Land/Willie Mcbride/Green Fields of France the lyrics ("The trenches have vanished from under the plow. There's no gas no barbed wire, no guns firing now." World War I was particuarly atrocious and brutal ("to man's blind indifference to his fellow man") and a rather large numbers of soldiers perished. (ie Galipoli, the Somme) That's covered with lines like "to a whole generation that were butchered and damned." The most obvious reference to WWI is "Did they really believe that this war would wars." and the song title "No Man's Land" which is the nickname to the space in between trenches during the Great War. This is why the lyrics are very clearly a reference to World War I. |
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