Afarensis strikes back in the YouTube lazyblog war, with Black Sabbath's War Pigs
Band Played Waltzing Matilda: starts at 13m40s to the end
sung by some drunk punk at a 1985 live gig.
But all 18m59s are worth sitting through!
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Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," originally written in the early '70s, is undoubtedly one of the best modern anti-war "folk" songs. It was first brought to the US by the singing of Priscilla Herdman (available on iTunes).
For those who'd like to see what the lyrics actually are, they can be found here:
http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/songs/banplayd.htm
"Some drunk punk" is Shane McGowan. The band is the Pogues - probably one of the greatest Irish groups of the 80's and certainly forefathers of bands like Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys.
The Pogues were amazing to see live - a fusion of Irish traditional music and punk attitude.
"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is on their first really successful album, the wonderfully titled "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash".
I did know that...