I would second (or third) the suggestion of "And the Band Played
Waltzing Matilda." It's a great song which manages to be anti-war
while still being respectful of the sacrifices made by those who
served. And the version by the Pogues is not lame at all.

http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RumSodomy/Waltzing.html

-Rich


--- In billybragg@yahoogroups.com, Sam Fisher <sam.fisher@p...>
wrote:
>
> Ratty asked
> > I am looking for some appropriate (yet not lame) music for our
> > Remembrance Day ceremony this week (I am a teacher by the
> > way). Does anyone have any suggestions . . . Braggy or
> > otherwise???
> >
> > thanks and I hope everyone is well!
> >
> > Ratty
> >
>
> Ratty
> 1 I think 'tender comrade' might be worth considering and I
back Tim on
> "Everywhere". I seem to remember Sting had a couple of anti war
songs.
> Someone stole my CD at a party I had some years back but it's an
earlier
> one.... about the Russians loving their children too, someone will
know.
> Bruce Cockburn also had a couple of anti war beauties. There's an
Aussie
> song about WW1 which used to get played here by the peace movement
about 20
> years ago called "the Band played Waltzing Matilda". I seem to
remember it
> at every bloody peace rally I went to in my teens. hardly the
thing for
> young radicals today.
>
> Personally though I love Jackson Browne's CD - lives in the
Balance. The
> album is pretty much anti US intervention in central America and a
couple of
> songs border on being anti capitalist. Still too fuddy duddy for
your
> classes but maybe a bit more with it then some of my other
suggestions.
>
> If you don't need a song I'd play them the last episode of
Blackadder 4.
>
> 2 very well thanks.
>
> Cheers
> Sam
>
> Who put you in charge of a class of students?
>