Military Songs:
Civil War Music
Fine collection of civil war tunes on midi files with links to more music and words.
home.att.net/~dmercado/music.htm
Poetry & Songs of the War Between the States
If you want to understand the thoughts and emotions of the men who fought each other and those who waited for them at home, look to the songs and poems written about the war.
users.erols.com/kfraser/
DAVID KINCAID - The Irish Volunteer - Songs of the Irish Union Soldier, 1861 - 65
The Irish Volunteer is a collection of twelve songs from the American Civil War, centering on the Union army's famed "Irish Brigade".
www.hauntedfieldmusic.com
Dark Laughter - War in Song and Popular Culture
In the first comprehensive work of its kind, Les Cleveland surveys the vast wealth of wartime song, focusing on the warrior's experience as happy, reluctant, bawdy, hungry, and mortal. Ranging from World War I to Vietnam and drawing on his own experience in World War II, Cleveland provides a unique treatment of military folklore and popular song from the perspective of the ordinary soldier.
www.greenwood.com/
World War 1 Songs
Fine collection of vintage recordings from WWI.
www.besmark.com
The D-Day Dodgers - 1
This is the first of three links with different versions of this song. Multiple versions of the same song are common as they get passed vocally through the ranks. It is also common for soldiers to write lyrics to existing, popular melodies. See "Song Histories".
www.warlinks.com/jackcull/ddodgers.htm
The D-Day Dodgers - 2
home.swipnet.se/lato/ballads/ddaydodg.html
In Country
28 songs by Americans in Vietnam. This album is part of the The Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project at Buffalo State College.
grunt.space.swri.edu/vethist.htm
Sarge Lintecum's Vietnam Blues
Sarge Lintecum is a highly decorated, three tour, Vietnam combat veteran. He performs his "Vietnam Blues" and poetry at blues clubs and veterans events... from sea to shining sea!
www.vietnamblues.com
Battle Notes: Songs of the Vietnam War
Battle Notes is likely the only full length book devoted to the music of the Vietnam War and how effectively the songs tell the story of that conflict. Battle Notes includes chapters on Music of Combat, Protest, Patriotism, and the Aftermath of the war.
www.battlenotes.com
Soldiers' Songs from Iraq
And the tradition continues with a technical twist. Never before has music made by soldiers, recorded in a combat zone on laptop computers, been so instantly available to folks back home. As with soldier/songwriters of past wars, these songs capture a wide range of emotions of those fighting far from home.
Additional Song Context:
The Great War 1914 - 1918
Educational goldmine of resources about WWI. Well done
www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/ww1.html
American Military's Partnership with the Red Cross
This site outlines the history of the support of the American Red Cross for the American military. The site provides further historical context for the World War 1 song, "The Rose of No Man's Land".
www.redcross.org/services/afes/partner.html
Aftermath - when the boys came home
A war can never be said to be completely over until there is nobody left who took part in it. The content of this site is a fine context for the understanding of several Soldier's Songs: "Christmas in the Trenches", "The Green Fields of France" and "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
www.aftermathww1.com/
Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project
The Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project is engaged in an ongoing undertaking to collect, preserve and make better known the folklore, especially the folksongs, of Americans in war.
faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs
The History Channel
A great resource for military and other forms of history. Classroom support and videos available.
www.historychannel.com/
