Goalscrounger's 30 Day Music Challenge - Day 29 - Wednesday 13th May - A Song Inspired By A Historical Event

Buffalo soldier, nickname given to members of African American cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western United States from 1867 to 1896, mainly fighting Indians on the frontier.
 
The song is an account of the memories of an old Australian man who, as a youngster had travelled across rural Australia with a swag (the so-called Matilda of the title) and tent. In 1915 he had joined the Australian armed forces and been sent to Gallipoli.
 
This song is about an American kid who expects to go off to college and thinks he knows everything about the ghetto ("Braggin that you know how the ni--ers feel cold and the slums got so much soul") and then gets drafted and sent to Vietnam. Pol Pot was the dictator of Cambodia during that time.
 
My favourite song about the death of Princess Diana, though Youtube only have the first couple of lines. Hopefully it turns up on Spotify.

 
In Britain, "Beirut Moon", was withdrawn from sale on the first day of release allegedly because it criticised the government for not acting to free hostage John McCarthy, who had been held in the Lebanon.
 
The song's theme is inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of Welsh volunteers who joined the left-wing International Brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic against Francisco Franco's military rebels. The song takes its name from a Republican propaganda poster of the time written in English and displaying a photograph of a dead young child killed by the Nationalists, under a sky filled with bomber aircraft, with the song's titular warning written at the bottom
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
 
A song about the establishment of law in Babylon, when Hammurabi set out a code of laws around the transaction of goods. This was around 4 thousand years ago, not the 6 or 8 mentioned in the song. They really should have read up on the subject first.

 
Ira Hamilton Hayes was a Pima Native American and a United States Marine who was one of the six flag raisers immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II
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The first two songs on that manics album are brilliant. They're about defeat, getting older, failure to live up to ideals, hypocracy. A band who said they were going to split up after their first album coming to terms with arena tours. Nicky Wires best lyrics. The last decent record they made I think.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
The first two songs on that manics album are brilliant. They're about defeat, getting older, failure to live up to ideals, hypocracy. A band who said they were going to split up after their first album coming to terms with arena tours. Nicky Wires best lyrics. The last decent record they made I think.
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Have you heard Journal For Plague Lovers? It's outstanding.
 
The song is an emotionally charged commentary on the Bitburg controversy from earlier that year, in which U.S. president Ronald Reagan had paid a state visit to a German World War II cemetery where numerous Waffen-SS soldiers were buried.
 
Jagger has claimed the song is more about the evils of mankind than the supernatural devil figure
Some of the historical events mentioned in this song are the crucifixion of Christ, the Russian Revolution, World War II, and the Kennedy assassinations
 
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