And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda

One of the most poignant anti-war songs was written about Australian soldiers who went through World War I with some of the worst injuries and crises of the war.

The song And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, among the top 30 of Australian songs ever written, is not the light-hearted and familiar folk song but instead a song about war composed by Eric Bogle in 1971 and performed variously by many groups around the war, including John Currie, Katie Noonan, The Irish Rovers, Joan Baez, Priscilla Herdman, Liam Clancy, the Dulbiners and others including Garrison Keillor in a Prairie Home Companion, Phil Coulter, the Pogues, The Weavers and John Kerry when he was elected to the United States Senate. 

A poignant tune, And the Song Played Waltzing Mathilda it is considered to be among the world's greatest songs of wars, protesting the honoring of battle celebrations instead of the peace that comes later.

It is performed here, as I wear a hat of some of the great heroes of World War II, as a reminder of those who have suffered the most.  The song is done with guitar, harmonica, vocals.