Know of any songs that mention historical figures in the lyrics?

THE MACARENA! :rofl:

1-Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Joseph Stalin
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena
Hey Macarena

Macarena tiene un novio que se llama
Que se llama de apellido Vitorino,
Que en la jura de bandera el muchacho
Se metio con dos amigos
Macarena tiene un novio que se llama
Que se llama de apellido Vitorino,
Napoleon Bonaparte
Y en la jura de bandera el mucacho
Se metio con dos amigos
(rpt 1)

Macarena sueña con El Corte Ingles
Abraham Lincoln
Que se compra los modelos mas modernos
Le gustaria vivir en Nueva York
Y ligar un novio nuevo
Macarena sueña con El Corte Ingles
Que se compra los modelos mas modernos
Le gustaria vivir en Nueva York
Y ligar un novio nuevo
 
The Beatles, of course.

Dr. Robert was about a notorious pharmaceutical dispensing MD whose patients included JFK and many celebrities.

Ring my friend I said you'd call Dr. Robert,
Day or night he'll be there anytime at all Dr. Robert.

Dr. Robert, your a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does everything he can, Dr. Robert.

If your down he'll pick you up Dr. Robert,
Take a drink from his special cup Dr. Robert

Dr. Robert, he's a man you must believe,
Helping everyone in need,
No one can succeed like Dr. Robert

Well, well, well your feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he'll make you Dr. Robert

My friend works for the national health Dr. Robert,
Don't take money to see yourself with Dr. Robert

Dr. Robert, your a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does everything he can Dr. Robert

Well, well, well, your feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he'll make you Dr. Robert

Ring my friend I said you'd call Dr. Robert (2x)
Dr. Robert!

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Sexy Sadie was John Lennon feeling scammed by the Maharishi

Sexy Sadie what have you done
You made a fool of everyone
You made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sadie ooh what have you done.

Sexy Sadie you broke the rules
You layed it down for all to see
You layed it down for all to see
Sexy Sadie oooh you broke the rules.

One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover
She came along to turn on everyone
Sexy Sadie the greatest of them all.

Sexy Sadie how did you know
The world was waiting just for you
The world was waiting just for you
Sexy Sadie oooh how did you know.

Sexy Sadie you'll get yours yet
However big you think you are
However big you think you are
Sexy Sadie oooh you'll get yours yet.

We gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table
Just a smile would lighten everything
Sexy Sadie she's the latest and the greatest of them all.

She made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sadie.

However big you think you are
Sexy Sadie.
 
They Might Be Giants - Meet James Ensor (James Ensor was a famous Belgian painter)

They Might Be Giants - James K. Polk (Song about the 11th president of the United States. A rock song based on the actions of a president...good stuff!)

Mono Puff - Nixon's The One
 
The Beatles had a reverse historical significance in that Charles Manson claimed that several songs on the White Album provided a blueprint for fomenting a race war, after which things would somehow be better.
 
Panic in Detroit by David Bowie
"He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van..."

Tumble and Twirl by David Bowie
"Some wear Bob Marley, others in Playboy, or Duvalier..."

Andy Warhol by David Bowie
"Andy Warhol looks a scream, hang him on my wall; Andy Warhol, silver screen, can't tell them apart at all..."

Candidate by David Bowie
"Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay..."

China Girl by David Bowie
"I feel a-tragic like I'm Marlon Brando..."

Diamond Dogs by David Bowie
"Tod Browning's freak you was..."

Goodbye Mr. Ed by David Bowie/Tin Machine
"Someone sees it all, Goodbye Mr. Ed..."
"Icarus takes his pratfall, Bruegel on his head, Goodbye Mr. Ed..."

Young Americans by David Bowie
"Do you remember, your President Nixon?"

Thru These Architect's Eyes by David Bowie
"Stomping along on this big Philip Johnson; is delay just wasting my time? Looking across at Richard Rogers; scheming dreams to blow both their minds."

Bowie is a bit of a name-dropping ho. ;)

Jenbowie
 
[quote name='Whambamm']I didn't feel like reading all the posts, so if this has been suggested, disregard. The song is Cult of Personality by Living Colour. It mentions Stalin, Kennedy, Mussolini, and Ghandi.[/quote]

Damn, can't believe I forgot that one.
 
[quote name='jenbowie']Panic in Detroit by David Bowie
"He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van..."

Tumble and Twirl by David Bowie
"Some wear Bob Marley, others in Playboy, or Duvalier..."

Andy Warhol by David Bowie
"Andy Warhol looks a scream, hang him on my wall; Andy Warhol, silver screen, can't tell them apart at all..."

Candidate by David Bowie
"Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay..."

China Girl by David Bowie
"I feel a-tragic like I'm Marlon Brando..."

Diamond Dogs by David Bowie
"Tod Browning's freak you was..."

Goodbye Mr. Ed by David Bowie/Tin Machine
"Someone sees it all, Goodbye Mr. Ed..."
"Icarus takes his pratfall, Bruegel on his head, Goodbye Mr. Ed..."

Young Americans by David Bowie
"Do you remember, your President Nixon?"

Thru These Architect's Eyes by David Bowie
"Stomping along on this big Philip Johnson; is delay just wasting my time? Looking across at Richard Rogers; scheming dreams to blow both their minds."

Bowie is a bit of a name-dropping ho. ;)

Jenbowie[/quote]

Congrats on your first post, lurker. ;)
 
It's kind of rock/pop, but how about Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" from 1989 - Album titled "Storm Front". It's on iTunes if you want to hear a clip. You can't fit anymore historical names into a song.
Here's the lyrics:

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
 
Frank Zappa did 'St. Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast' but there are several saints with that name and it isn't clear if he was referring to a real church and thus a specific saint.

Zappa's "Trouble Every Day' doesn't reference any specifc people but is about the Watts Riots.

Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friends
Is anybody's guess

So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Wednesday I watched the riot...
I seen the cops out on the street
Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff
And chokin' in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin' 'round
Seen the smoke & fire
And the market burnin' down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn

And I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Well you can cool it,
You can heat it...
'Cause, baby, I don't need it...
Take your TV tube and eat it
'N all that phony stuff on sports
'N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head began to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They'll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat

And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They'll send some joker with a brownie
And you'll see it all complete

So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Hey you know something people
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white

Well, I seen the fires burnin'
And the local people turnin'
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite 'em
And they say it served 'em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it's the same across the nation
Black & white discrimination
They're yellin' "You can't understand me!"
And all the other crap they hand me
In the papers and TV
'N all that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
(No matter if it's black or white)
Because he's out for blood tonight
You know we gotta sit around at home
And watch this thing begin
But I bet there won't be many left
To see it really end
'Cause the fire in the street
Ain't like the fire in my heart
And in the eyes of all these people
Don't you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now's the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree
There ain't no great society
As it applies to you and me
Our country isn't free
And the law refuses to see
If all that you can ever be
Is just a lousy janitor
Unless your uncle owns a store
You know that five in every four
Just one amount and nothin' more
Don't watch the rats go across the floor
And make up songs about being poor
Blow you harmonica son!
 
[quote name='epobirs']The Beatles, of course.

Dr. Robert was about a notorious pharmaceutical dispensing MD whose patients included JFK and many celebrities.

[/quote]

I never knew that, I alwasys figured it was just an ode to one of their personal dealers :lol:
 
[quote name='jenbowie']Panic in Detroit by David Bowie
"He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van..."

Tumble and Twirl by David Bowie
"Some wear Bob Marley, others in Playboy, or Duvalier..."

Andy Warhol by David Bowie
"Andy Warhol looks a scream, hang him on my wall; Andy Warhol, silver screen, can't tell them apart at all..."

Candidate by David Bowie
"Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay..."

China Girl by David Bowie
"I feel a-tragic like I'm Marlon Brando..."

Diamond Dogs by David Bowie
"Tod Browning's freak you was..."

Goodbye Mr. Ed by David Bowie/Tin Machine
"Someone sees it all, Goodbye Mr. Ed..."
"Icarus takes his pratfall, Bruegel on his head, Goodbye Mr. Ed..."

Young Americans by David Bowie
"Do you remember, your President Nixon?"

Thru These Architect's Eyes by David Bowie
"Stomping along on this big Philip Johnson; is delay just wasting my time? Looking across at Richard Rogers; scheming dreams to blow both their minds."

Bowie is a bit of a name-dropping ho. ;)

Jenbowie[/quote]

Jean Genie, about Iggy Pop, albeit not by name.

A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city
Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers
Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters
Talking bout Monroe and walking on Snow White
New York's a go-go and everything tastes nice
Poor little Greenie, woh ho
Get back home

The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls
Jean Genie let yourself go!

Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile
She love him, she love him but just for a short while
She'll scratch in the sand, won't let go his hand
He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition
And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear
Poor little Greenie, woh ho

The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls
Jean Genie let yourself go oh

He's so simple minded he can't drive his module
He bites on the neon and sleeps in the capsule
Loves to be loved, loves to be loved
Woh ho
Woh ho

Aoo Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
And he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls
The Jean Genie let yourself go! go

Go

Jean Genie lives on his back
Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
And he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls
Jean Genie let yourself go woh go
Go go
 
[quote name='RaekwonThaChef'][quote name='epobirs']The Beatles, of course.

Dr. Robert was about a notorious pharmaceutical dispensing MD whose patients included JFK and many celebrities.

[/quote]

I never knew that, I alwasys figured it was just an ode to one of their personal dealers :lol:[/quote]

How do you think they knew him? Like many performers the Beatles were often faced with exhaustion during tours. Guess who could fix you right up?
 
Alexander The Great

[(Harris) 8:35]

"My son ask for thyself another
Kingdom, for that which I leave
is too small for thee"
(King Philip of Macedonia - 339 B.C.)

Near to the east
In a part of ancient Greece
In an ancient land called Macedonia
Was born a son
To Philip of Macedon
The legend his name was Alexander

At the age of nineteen
He became the Macedon King
And he swore to free all of Asia Minor
By the Aegian Sea
In 334 B.C.
He utterly beat the armies of Persia

[Chorus:]
Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a legend 'mongst mortal men

King Darius the third
Defeated fled Persia
The Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes
Then Egypt fell to the Macedon King as well
And he founded the city called Alexandria

By the Tigris river
He met King Darius again
And crushed him again in the battle of Arbela
Entering Babylon
And Susa, treasures he found
Took Persepolis the capital of Persia

[Chorus:]
Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a God amongst mortal men

A Phrygian King had bound a chariot yoke
And Alexander cut the 'Gordian knot'
And legend said that who untied the knot
He would become the master of Asia

Helonism he spread far and wide
The Macedonian learned mind
Their culture was a western way of life
He paved the way for Christianity

Marching on, marching on
The battle weary marching side by side
Alexander's army line by line
They wouldn't follow him to India
Tired of the combat, pain and the glory

Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
He died of fever in Babylon



Bruce Dickinson - Vocals
Dave Murray - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Guitar Synth
Adrian Smith - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Guitar Synth, Backing Vocals
Steve Harris - Bass, Bass Synth
Nicko McBrain - Drums

Up the Irons!
 
Nas - I Can

It mentions prominent kingdoms/empires, such as the Kush kingdom, through out the song.

"I Can"

[Kids]
I know I can (I know I can)
Be what I wanna be (be what I wanna be)
If I work hard at it (If I work hard at it)
I'll be where I wanna be (I'll be where I wanna be)

[Nas]
Be, B-Boys and girls, listen up
You can be anything in the world, in God we trust
An architect, doctor, maybe an actress
But nothing comes easy it takes much practice
Like, I met a woman who's becoming a star
She was very beautiful, leaving people in awe
Singing songs, Lina Horn, but the younger version
Hung with the wrong person
Got her strung on that
Heroin, cocaine, sniffin up drugs all in her nose...
Coulda died, so young, now looks ugly and old
No fun cause now when she reaches for hugs people hold they breath
Cause she smells of corrosion and death
Watch the company you keep and the crowd you bring
Cause they came to do drugs and you came to sing
So if you gonna be the best, I'ma tell you how,
Put your hands in the air, and take a vow

[Chorus - 2x (Nas and Kids)]
I know I can (I know I can)
Be what I wanna be (be what I wanna be)
If I work hard at it (If I work hard at it)
I'll be where I wanna be (I'll be where I wanna be)

[Nas]
Be, B-Boys and girls, listen again
This is for grown looking girls who's only ten
The ones who watch videos and do what they see
As cute as can be, up in the club with fake ID
Careful, 'fore you meet a man with HIV
You can host the TV like Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be
Rapists, so act your age, don't pretend to be
Older than you are, give yourself time to grow
You thinking he can give you wealth, but so
Young boys, you can use a lot of help, you know
You thinkin life's all about smokin weed and ice
You don't wanna be my age and can't read and write
Begging different women for a place to sleep at night
Smart boys turn to men and do whatever they wish
If you believe you can achieve, then say it like this

[Chorus]

[Nas]
Be, be, 'fore we came to this country
We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys
There was empires in Africa called Kush
Timbuktu, where every race came to get books
To learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans
Asian Arabs and gave them gold when
Gold was converted to money it all changed
Money then became empowerment for Europeans
The Persian military invaded
They heard about the gold, the teachings, and everything sacred
Africa was almost robbed naked
Slavery was money, so they began making slave ships
Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went
He was so shocked at the mountains with black faces
Shot up they nose to impose what basically
Still goes on today, you see?
If the truth is told, the youth can grow
Then learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe
Ghetto children, do your thing
Hold your head up, little man, you're a king
Young Princess when you get your wedding ring
Your man is saying "She's my queen"

[Chorus]

Save the music y'all, save the music y'all
Save the music y'all, save the music y'all
Save the music
 
In the song 'Dirty Laundry' Don Henley supposedly had a certain blonde LA anchorwoman in mind:
I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em all around

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry

You don’t really need to find out what’s going on
You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re stiff
Kick ’em all around

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_2/104-1153795-8854344?v=glance&s=books
 
And we can't forget this song which itself is now a historical artifact:
Der Fuehrer's Face

Spike Jones and the City Slickers

When Der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race"
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Der Fuehrer's face
Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we HEIL! HEIL! Right in Der Fuehrer's face
When Herr Gobbels says, "We own der world und space"
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Herr Goring's face
When Herr Goring says they'll never bomb this place
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Herr Goring's face

Are we not the supermen
Aryan pure supermen
Ja we ist der supermen
Super-duper supermen
Ist this Nutzi land not good?
Would you leave it if you could?
Ja this Nutzi land is good!
Vee would leave it if we could

We bring the world to order
Heil Hitler's world New Order
Everyone of foreign race will love Der Fuehrer's face
When we bring to der world disorder

When Der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race"
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Der Fuehrer's face
When Der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race"
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Der Fuhrer's face
 
Oh yeah. The last track on Abbey Road

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl,
but she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
but she changes from day to day

I want to tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a bellyful of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm going to make her mine, oh yeh,
someday I'm going to make her mine.
 
The Who

The Seeker

I've looked under chairs
I've looked under tables
I've tried to find the key
To fifty million fables

chorus:
They call me The Seeker
I've been searching low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die

I asked Bobby Dylan
I asked The Beatles
I asked Timothy Leary
But he couldn't help me either

chorus

People tend to hate me
'Cause I never smile
As I ransack their homes
They want to shake my hand

Focusing on nowhere
Investigating miles
I'm a seeker
I'm a really desperate man

I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die

I learned how to raise my voice in anger
Yeah, but look at my face, ain't this a smile?
I'm happy when life's good
And when it's bad I cry
I've got values but I don't know how or why

I'm looking for me
You're looking for you
We're looking in at other
And we don't know what to do

chorus
 
Biko by Peter Gabriel

September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try and sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now
 
[quote name='CrimGhost']Bullet-Misfits
About Kennedy's assassination.[/quote]

Its actually mostly about danzigs fetish with Jackie- O...the assisination just is relevent seeing as she wouldnt be married to him anymore
 
Wow, thank you guys so much. I got about a page and a haf of songs I'm gonna have to look up now. Thanks to everyone that helped.

Could someone post the lyrics to this Misfits song I keep hearing about? I'll show them to my teacher and try to get his approval.
 
"Bullet" by "The Misfits"

President's bullet-ridden body in the street
Ride, Johnny ride
Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete
Ride, Johnny ride

Johnny's wife is floundering
Johnny's wife is scared
Run, Jackie run

Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead
Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head
Texas is the reason that the president's dead
You gotta suck, suck, Jackie suck

President's bullet-ridden body in the street
Ride, Johnny ride
Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete
Ride, Johnny ride

Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead
Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head
Texas is the reason that the president's dead
You gotta suck, suck, Jackie suck

Arise Jackie O, Jonathon of Kennedy
Well, arise and be shot down
The dirt's gonna be your dessert
My cum be your life source
And the only way to get it
Is to suck or fuck
Or be poor and devoid
And masturbate me, masturbate me
Then slurp it from your palm
Like a dry desert soaking up rain
Soaking up sun
Like a dry desert soaking up rain
Soaking up sun
 
[quote name='karmapolice620']"Bullet" by "The Misfits"

President's bullet-ridden body in the street
Ride, Johnny ride
Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete
Ride, Johnny ride

Johnny's wife is floundering
Johnny's wife is scared
Run, Jackie run

Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead
Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head
Texas is the reason that the president's dead
You gotta suck, suck, Jackie suck

President's bullet-ridden body in the street
Ride, Johnny ride
Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete
Ride, Johnny ride

Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead
Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head
Texas is the reason that the president's dead
You gotta suck, suck, Jackie suck

Arise Jackie O, Jonathon of Kennedy
Well, arise and be shot down
The dirt's gonna be your dessert
My cum be your life source
And the only way to get it
Is to suck or shaq-fu
Or be poor and devoid
And masturbate me, masturbate me
Then slurp it from your palm
Like a dry desert soaking up rain
Soaking up sun
Like a dry desert soaking up rain
Soaking up sun[/quote]

I'm not even gonna show it to him. But is it a good song?
 
Its a very good song...One of the best Misfits songs...If your teacher is at all cutting edge or very loose about things you should show it to him
 
"Vow" by Garbage makes a refference to Joan Of Arc, and "Long Way To Go" by Gwen Stefani f/ Andre 3000 not only refferences MLK Jr., but also contains a sample of one of his speeches.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Does Jesus even count? That one just seems too easy.[/quote]

IDK. I'm just sayin. And they say Dahmer... He's historical...
 
There's also Bonzo goes to Bitburg by the Ramones, about Reagan's visit to the gravesite at Bitburg, which some of the graves were that of SS soldiers.

Bonzo Goes To Bitburg
by Ramones


You've got to pick up the pieces C'mon, sort your trash
You better pull yourself back together Maybe you've got too much cash
Better call, call the law When you gonna turn yourself in? Yeah
You're a politician Don't become one of Hitler's children

Bonzo goes to bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down ohh yeah.
My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down

Shouldn of wish you happiness, wish her the very best Fifty thousand dollar dress
Shaking hands with your highness See through you like cellophane
You watch the world complain, but you do it anyway Who am I, am I to say

Bonzo goes to bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces

My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down ohh yeah.
My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down

If there's one thing that makes me sick It's when someone tries to hide behind politics
I wish that time could go by fast Somehow they manage to make it last

My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down ohh yeah.
My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down ohh yeah.
My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down ohh yeah.
My brain is hanging upside down I need something to slow me down ohh yeah.
 
I may be the only one, but the first thing I thought of was bill and teds excellent adventure and them singing a song with all the historic figures.
 
If you're looking for older songs (for comparative purposes) "John Brown's Body" is one of the best. It's pre-civil war and eventually was turned into the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
 
"The World Isn't Fair" by Randy Newman

When Karl Marx was a boy
he took a hard look around
He saw people were starving all over the place
while others were painting the town (buh, buh, buh)
The public spirited boy
became a public spirited man
So he worked very hard and he read everything
until he came up with a plan

There'll be no exploitation
of the worker or his kin
No discrimination 'cause of the color of your skin
No more private property
It would not be allowed
No one could rise too high
No one could sink too low
or go under completely like some we all know

If Marx were living today
he'd be rolling around in his grave
And if I had him here in my mansion on the hill
I'd tell him a story t'would give his old heart a chill

It's something that happened to me
I'd say, Karl I recently stumbled
into a new family
with two little children in school
where all little children should be
I went to the orientation
All the young mommies were there
Karl, you never have seen such a glorious sight
as these beautiful women arrayed for the night
just like countesses, empresses, movie stars and queens
And they'd come there with men much like me
Froggish men, unpleasant to see
Were you to kiss one, Karl
Nary a prince would there be

Oh Karl the world isn't fair
It isn't and never will be
They tried out your plan
It brought misery instead
If you'd seen how they worked it
you'd be glad you were dead
just like I'm glad I'm living in the land of the free
where the rich just get richer
and the poor you don't ever have to see
It would depress us, Karl
Because we care
that the world still isn't fair
 
[quote name='Stoneage']Alexander The Great

[(Harris) 8:35]

"My son ask for thyself another
Kingdom, for that which I leave
is too small for thee"
(King Philip of Macedonia - 339 B.C.)

Near to the east
In a part of ancient Greece
In an ancient land called Macedonia
Was born a son
To Philip of Macedon
The legend his name was Alexander

At the age of nineteen
He became the Macedon King
And he swore to free all of Asia Minor
By the Aegian Sea
In 334 B.C.
He utterly beat the armies of Persia

[Chorus:]
Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a legend 'mongst mortal men

King Darius the third
Defeated fled Persia
The Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes
Then Egypt fell to the Macedon King as well
And he founded the city called Alexandria

By the Tigris river
He met King Darius again
And crushed him again in the battle of Arbela
Entering Babylon
And Susa, treasures he found
Took Persepolis the capital of Persia

[Chorus:]
Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a God amongst mortal men

A Phrygian King had bound a chariot yoke
And Alexander cut the 'Gordian knot'
And legend said that who untied the knot
He would become the master of Asia

Helonism he spread far and wide
The Macedonian learned mind
Their culture was a western way of life
He paved the way for Christianity

Marching on, marching on
The battle weary marching side by side
Alexander's army line by line
They wouldn't follow him to India
Tired of the combat, pain and the glory

Alexander the Great
His name struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
He died of fever in Babylon



Bruce Dickinson - Vocals
Dave Murray - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Guitar Synth
Adrian Smith - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Guitar Synth, Backing Vocals
Steve Harris - Bass, Bass Synth
Nicko McBrain - Drums

Up the Irons![/quote]

Damn it, you beat me to it!!!

I actually passed a test in high school singing these lyrics to myself!!
 
[quote name='karsh'][quote name='sblymnlcrymnl'][quote name='karsh'][quote name='Ebraum']We didn't start the fire. Billy Joel[/quote]

I'm surprised it took that many posts to get to this song. It's like the ultimate "Here's some history" songs.[/quote]

The problem is that it's a shitty song.[/quote]

I don't want to hear any knocking on Billy Joel. He's the man.[/quote]

You know, I love Billy Joel, but he did make some crappy songs... and this one lands firmly in that category.
 
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