War Pigs

[mcroft]

Seen many places: when you see this, post an anti-war song in your lj.

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away.
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah.

Time will tell on their power minds,
making war just for fun.
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
wait till their judgement day comes, yeah.

Now in darkness world stops turning,
ashes where the bodies burning.
No more War Pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, God is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercies for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Oh lord, yeah!
--Black Sabbath, War Pigs

Most recently heard in the bluegrass style, by Hayseed Dixie

Comments

[tryslora]

At some point, if you have that on CD, please play it for Kev. We were talking last night about good covers and bad covers, and he was saying that one of the worst covers is Faith No More's of that song because when he closes his eyes and doesn't think about it, they're impossible to tell apart. It imparts nothing to the cover. I bet he'd like to hear a good cover of it.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Hayseed Dixie encourages taping their shows and posting them to the Internet Archives.

I haven't heard this yet, but here's a live version of War Pigs

[mcurry.livejournal.com]

The best cover of War Pigs I've heard so far was by the Dresden Dolls (http://www.dresdendolls.com?), with Amanda on piano and vocals and Brian just kicking ass on drums. There's an excellent performance of it on their live DVD, and there another version available online here (http://www.video-c.co.uk/videovaultwatch.asp?vidref=dres002).

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oooh, one I hadn't thought of yet.

And INTERESTING covers!