From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #89 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, March 14 2002 Volume 04 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] anti war songs [jim colbert ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:13:33 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] anti war songs While I don't think of Reunion Hill as an anti-war song myself, you could also argue that virtually any song that deals with the aftermath of war and the suffering, pain, loss and tragedy that follow could conceivably be an anti-war song, in the sense that the perils of war are what caused the loss/longing/need to rebuild the city/shrapnel in the knees/whatever. Somewhat convoluted or roundabout, true, but conceivable. I would venture a guess that's what old Joanie's thinking. So in that vein, Roads to Moscow, Reunion Hill, My Youngest Son Came home Today, Sam Stone, Thought He Was a Hero, 1917 could all be thought of as anti-war songs... I personally think of it as a song of loss and longing , for what that's worth. Beautiful song... but then, I guess you guys knew that! jim colbert somewhere near beaver stadium ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #89 **********************************