List of calypso songs about war
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This is a list of Calypso music songs whose lyrics and themes are about war. This type of calypsos derives from the tradition of using this musical form to document and discuss events of interest.[1]
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
- "Abyssinian Lament" (1936), King Radio[7][8] - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
- "Advantage Mussolini" (1936), Roaring Lion[1][9][10] - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
- "African War Call" - "African War Song" (1938) - Roaring Lion[8][11][7]
- "Carnival Again" (1939), Lord Executor[5]
- "Chamberlain Says Peace" (1938), Lord Beginner[1][5] - Prelude to WWII
- "Civil War in Spain" (1938), Growling Tiger[12][11][7] - Spain's civil war
- "Ethiopian War Drums" (1935), Wilmoth Houdini[5][1][9] - Mussolini’s attack on Abyssinia
- "Germany Invade Poland" (1939), King Radio[5] - WWII
- "Gold of Africa (The)" (1935), Growling Tiger[1][5][13][4][2][6][14] - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
- "Hitler" (1939), Lord Ziegfield[8] - WWII
- "Hitler Demands" (1939), Mighty Growler[1] - WWII
- "Horrors of War (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun[1][15][2][11][7] - Prelude to WWII
- 'How Hitler Invaded Poland' (1939), Lord Ziegfield[6][16] - WWII
- "Let Them Fight for Ten Thousand Years" - "Let the White People Fight" (1939), Growling Tiger[5][2][7] - Economic consequences of WWII in Trinidad
- "Poland, Poland" (1939), Roaring Lion[5] - WWII
- "Poppy Day" (1938), Lord Executor[1]
- "Selassie Is Held by the Police" (1937), Lord Caresser[1] - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
- "Two Bad Men in the World" (1939), Lord Executor[8][5] - WWII
1940s
- "Admiral Graf Spee (The)" (1940), Atilla the Hun[5][2]
- "Adolf Hitler" (1941), Mighty Destroyer[5][3] - WWII
- "Air Raid Shelters" (1943), King Radio[5][2] - WWII
- "Black Market" (1945), Lord Beginner[8][14] - WWII
- "Britain Will Never Surrender" (1941), Mighty Growler[8][2] - WWII
- "Chinese Never Had a V.J. Day" - "Lay Fung Lee" - "Chinese Calypso" - "Chinese Memorial" - "Lai Fook Lee" (1948), Lord Kitchener[12][5][17][6][18][14]
- "Fall of France" (1941), Mighty Growler[1][5][6] - WWII
- "Farmer and Breadfruit Tree" (1943), Mighty Growler[1][11][2] - Economic consequences of WWII in Trinidad
- "Germany Invade Poland" (1940), King Radio[8] - WWII
- "Hitler Demanded Trinidad" (1940), Lord Invader[8][7] - WWII
- "Hitler’s Attitude" (1940), Roaring Lion[8][7] - WWII
- "Hitler's Mistake" (1940), Roaring Lion[8][7] - WWII
- "Hitler’s Moustache" (1941), Lord Invader[8][7] - WWII
- "Invasion of Britain" (1941), Atilla the Hun[1][5][2] - WWII
- "Invasion of Poland (The)" - "Poland, Poland" (1940), Roaring Lion[7][1] - WWII
- "Mr. Neville Chamberlain" (1940), Roaring Lion[16] - WWII
- "Nazi Spy Ring" (1940), Mighty Growler[8] - WWII
- "Norah the War Is Over" (1946), Lord Beginner[5]
- "Ode to Russia" (1944), Atilla the Hun[2][1] - WWII
- "Red Cross Society (The)" (1941), Atilla the Hun[5][15]
- "Reply to Englishman" (1944), Atilla the Hun[1][19][2] - Answer to an Englishman who said Trinidadians did not do enough for the war effort
- "Rise of the British Empire" (1940), Roaring Lion[6][16]
- "Rum and Coca-Cola" (1944), Lord Invader[20][12][5][21][22][23][24][3][9][25][26][2][18][27][28][14][29][30] - American soldier's presence in Trinidad
- "Run Your Run Hitler" (1940), Lord Beginner[5][6][2][31] - WWII
- "Send Hitler to St. Helena" (1940), Atilla the Hun[8][7] - WWII
- "Soldiers Came and Broke Up My Life (The)" (1945), Lord Invader[8][1][32][14] - American soldier's presence in Trinidad
- "Winston Churchill" (1941), Roaring Lion[5] - WWII
- "Yankee Harvest Is Over" (1945), Lord Beginner[5] - American soldier's presence in Trinidad
1950s
1960s
- "Kennedy and Khrushchev" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[1][22][34] - Cold war
- ”Make Love Not War” (1969), The Mighty Duke[7]
- "Send Me Instead" (1968), King Fighter[1] - Vietnam war
1970s
- "Chinese Love Affair" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[12] - Vietnam war, interracial relationship (humour)
- "My Lai Incident (The)" (1970), The Shah[1] - Vietnam war
1980s
- "Boots" (1983), Mighty Gabby[17][27] - Government resources used for military spending
- "Children World" (1987), Chalkdust[16] - General comment on wars
- "Grenada" - "Under Siege" (1984), Mighty Sparrow[22]
- "Peace in de World" (1987), Black Stalin
- "War Mongers" (1988), Johnny King[17][35]
1990s
2000s
- "Stop D War" (2008), Singing Sandra
- "Weapons of Mass Dis-Illusion" (2007), Mighty Sparrow[22]
2010s
- War of Worlds" (2018), Ras Commanda[35]