Songfacts
Songs About Historical Events
Found 131 Songs.

1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie

88 Seconds In Greensboro - OMD

99 Luftballons - Nena

A Farewell to Kings - Rush

A Great Day For Freedom - Pink Floyd

A League Of Notions - Al Stewart

American Witch - Rob Zombie

Antarctica - Al Stewart

Ballad Of Derek Bentley - Ewan MacColl

Ballad Of Tim Evans - Ewan MacColl

Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

Belfast Child - Simple Minds

Belsen Was A Gas - The Sex Pistols

Black Day In July - Gordon Lightfoot

Black Friday - Steely Dan

Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

Boston Tea Party - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - Iron Maiden

Bye Bye Badman - The Stone Roses

C.16th - These New Puritans

Calypso - John Denver

Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot

Canvey Island - British Sea Power

Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem

Cherokee - Europe

Children's Crusade - Sting

China - Joan Baez

Cities In Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Cold Harbor - The Outlaws

Cortez The Killer - Neil Young

Countdown - Rush

Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

Don't Drink The Water - The Dave Matthews Band

El Fusilado - Chumbawamba

Face The Fire - Dan Fogelberg

Give Ireland Back To The Irish - Wings

Great Nations Of Europe - Randy Newman

Greed and Gold - Seth Lakeman

Headless Cross - Black Sabbath

Heresy - Rush

History - Funeral For A Friend

Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel

Holy Grail - Hunters & Collectors

I Thought It Was Over - The Feeling

In Memory Of The Martyrs - Barclay James Harvest

Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) - Raiders

Indian Sunset - Elton John

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants

Jack The Ripper - Screaming Lord Sutch

Kenji - Fort Minor

Kill Devil Hill - Bruce Dickinson

Kitty Jay - Seth Lakeman

L.A.P.D. - Ill Wind

Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - Melanie

Lindy Comes To Town - Al Stewart

Little Big Horn - Running Wild

Little Mary Phagan - Rosa Lee Carson

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

London Pride - Noël Coward

Long Hot Summer - The Tom Robinson Band

Lord Grenville - Al Stewart

Me Or Him - Roger Waters

Millennium - Robbie Williams

Mississippi Goddamn - Nina Simone

Monterey - The Animals

Mr. Custer - Larry Verne

Mr. Powell - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Murmansk Run/Ellis Island - Al Stewart

My White Bicycle - Nazareth

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire

Never Again - Remedy

New Speedway Boogie - Grateful Dead

Old Judge Thayer - Woody Guthrie

One Rode To Asa Bay - Bathory

P.L.U.C.K. - System Of A Down

Porton Down - Man's Hate

Pulmonary Archery - Alexisonfire

Red Alert - Saxon

Red Sector A - Rush

Red Wine - Woody Guthrie

Remember - John Lennon

Reverend Charisma - Wedlock

Roulette - Bruce Springsteen

Rubber Bullets - 10cc

Ruby's Shoes - Lori McKenna

Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden

Save The Country - The 5th Dimension

Scarborough Fair / Canticle - Simon & Garfunkel

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

Solomon Browne - Seth Lakeman

Spanish Bombs - The Clash

Suite Madame Blue - Styx

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones

The Battle of Hampton Roads - Titus Andronicus

The Big Three Killed My Baby - The White Stripes

The Dreaming - Kate Bush

The Great 1974 Mining Disaster - Barclay James Harvest

The Gunner's Dream - Pink Floyd

The Infanta - The Decemberists

The Longest Day - Iron Maiden

The Loyalist - Dave Nachmanoff

The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo - Charles Coborn

The Pass - Rush

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

The Visitors (Crackin' Up) - ABBA

The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby

Thirteen Autumns And A Widow - Cradle of Filth

Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio

Trains - Al Stewart

Tupelo Blues - John Lee Hooker

Two Good Men - Woody Guthrie

Vagabond Ways - Marianne Faithfull

Vanzetti's Letter - Woody Guthrie

Vanzetti's Rock - Woody Guthrie

Victor Jara's Hands - Calexico

Vietnow - Rage Against The Machine

Waiting For the Worms - Pink Floyd

We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel

We Welcome You To Heaven - Woody Guthrie

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

When The War Came - The Decemberists

White Riot - The Clash

Wide Awake - Audioslave

Wiener Blut - Rammstein

Witchfinder General - Saxon

Woodstock - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Yankee Rose - David Lee Roth

Zombie - The Cranberries

Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies