Folk Songs About Veterans

Veterans Day is November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada). Formerly known as Armistice Day, this date was chosen because World War I ended on this day in 1918. It is said that Veterans Day honors the living, while Memorial Day honors the dead.

[played in 2009]
Si Kahn  on We're Still Here  Cam Ran Bay (Band 9, 2:59)
John Wort Hannam\ Infantryman\ Two-Bit Suit\ Black Hen\
Burns Sisters\ When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Eric Bogle\ And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda\ Scraps of Paper\ Flying Fish

Paul's Song (Robyn Landis, Larry Murante)
Rod MacDonals: Soldiers, from After the War
Terry Kelly\ A Pittance of Time
The Tom Russell Band\ Veteran's Day\ Poor Man's Dream\ Philo
Johnny Cash\ Veteran's Day\ Wounded Heart of America (VA)\ Hightone (Russell song)
Let Them In, John Gorka
"Tenting Tonight on the Old Campground" by Rhonda & Sparky Rucker
or the Well Tempered String Band
Phil Cooper & Margaret Nelson: "Died in the War" ("The Only Dance We Know", Porcupine)
Johnny Cash: "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" ("Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden", Columbia)
Arlo Guthrie: "When a Soldier Makes it Home" ("Mystic Journey", Rising Son)
DIXIE CHICKS / "Travelin' Soldier" / Home [Open Wide]
Eric Bogle\ No Man's Land\ Scraps of Paper\ Flying Fish\
John Gorka\ Semper Fi\ Jack's Crows\ High Street
Geechie Wiley\ Last Kind Word Blues\ Crumb Soundtrack (VA)\ Ryko
John Prine\ Sam Stone\ John Prine\ Atlantic
Garnet Rogers\ 11:11\ Sparrow's Wing\ Snow Goose
Bob Franke\ The Blind Veteran\ One Evening in Chicago (LP)\ Great Divide
Jim Page\ When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again\ Collateral Damage\ self
Pete Seeger\ Bring Them Home\ Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3\ Appleseed
Gary Ferguson\ Last Day at Gettysburg\ I'm Really Leaving\ Webco
Finest Kind\ A Handful of Maple Leaves\ Lost in a Song\ Fallen Angle
Give Him Time \ WEBBER WEBBER LINDSAY \ Indigo Sky \ Fair Webber
Flying/Spring of '44 \ MARIE LYNN HAMMOND \ Vignettes \ Self
Moose Lodge \ SI KAHN \ Threads \ Self
Round Eyes \ MARAH \ Kids in Philly \ Artemis
The Ballad of Larry \ JOHNATHON BYRD \ The Waitress \ Self
Little Pills \ JIM SAVARINO \ The Man in the Street \ Self
Guy Clark / Soldier's Joy, 1864 / The Dark
BILLY & BRYN BRIGHT-Veterans Day-Billy & Bryn Bright (Blue Corn)
He Walked All the Way Home \ BLUE HIGHWAY \ Midnight Storm \ Rebel
Kris Kristofferson\ What About Me\ Repossessed\ Oh Boy

Bill Monroe/ Soldier's Joy/ Music of Bill Monroe 1936-94 v 3
Larry Sparks/ Undelivered Message/ Special Delivery
Flatt & Scruggs/ Po' Rebel Soldier/ 1959-63
Flatt & Scruggs/ Pray for the Boys/ 1948-59 v 3
New Lost City Ramblers/ Battleship of Maine/ The Early Years 1958-1962
Jim & Jesse/ Weapon of Prayer/ Bluegrass & More v 4
Jim & Jesse/ Too Much Monkey Business/ Bluegrass & More v 3
Doyle Lawson/ More Behind the Picture than the Wall/
    More Behind the Picture than the Wall
Rhonda Vincent/ God Bless the Soldier/ All American Bluegrass Girl
John MeEuen/ Stars & Stripes Forever/ String Wizards