OT: Songs that reference historical events

[RoadMaster]

 

[JavaMan]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[64Zcode]

Coal mine disaster in West Virginia, 1910
MSB - Fire In The Hole -

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[64Zcode]

Bruce wrote this in the aftermath of Sept 11
The Rising
Live version.

 

[Aluminny69]

Irish band Simple Minds chronicles Ireland’s bloody history with their single ‘Belfast Child.’ Though Ireland was a united country until 1920, due to religious differences playing a significant role in the country’s political makeup, Ireland’s government decided to split the country in two. Guerilla warfare between parties such as the IRA and the British government controlling Northern Ireland commenced over the next several decades. ‘Belfast Child’ grapples with the personal tragedies experienced by the people of Ireland during these times.

 

[meyers7]

Based, loosely, on the Zoot Suit Riots of LA in the 1940's between American servicemen and Mexican-American youths.

Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies

 

[cullaville]

Woodstock - CSNY

 

[Jackcatscal]

 

[Hoops66]

 

[Jackcatscal]

Irish famine immigrants fighting for the Union in the American Civil War. (The experience of my paternal great-grandfather, who fought with New York's Irish Brigade.)

 

[Hoops66]

Still a bit hard to listen to the lyrics/story....

 

[cullaville]

From American Songwriter website

Evermore” is even more directly inspired by the fifteenth and sixteenth century Anglo-Scottish wars, mostly fought along the border of the two countries, which Plant had been reading about prior to writing the lyrics.

 

[Jackcatscal]

Howlin' Wolf watching steam locomotives pass by when he was a kid.

 

[Ozimoto]

An Ian Tyson song about a crime spree in late 19th Century Canada

 

[cullaville]

From Genius.com website:

The Gates of Delirium” is the first track on Yes’s 1974 album, Relayer.
The song is based on Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace,

 

[cullaville]

From Wikipedia

"When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

 

[cullaville]

From the History Channel website:

The anthem’s history began the morning of September 14, 1814, when an attorney and amateur poet named Francis Scott Key watched U.S. soldiers—who were under bombardment from British naval forces during the War of 1812—raise a large American flag over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

[Sonny44]

Start at 1:18n if you don't want the story.

 

[darkstar1]

Anyone from Cleveland?

 

[meyers7]

Coal mine disaster in West Virginia, 1910
MSB - Fire In The Hole -

You get a like for MSB. Saw them open for Foreigner way back in the day.

 

[Kaizen]

A old sad song...
"In the Summer of His Years" is a 1963 pop song with lyrics written by Herb Kretzmer and music by David Lee. Kretzmer and Lee composed the song as a tribute hours after learning that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

 

[meyers7]

About a now ghost town, Calico, CA. Was a silver mining town back in the Silver rushes. King Mining Co. produced the most silver in CA during the 1880's.

Ghosts of Calico - Enter the Haggis