Pre-1980's Name that tune

Since I don't seem to know most of the songs on the other "name that tune" I am starting one for us more mature (experienced) participants.

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own,
This summer I hear the drumming.......

 

I can name that tune in...........is it Ohio CSNY


How about this Patriotic Classic...

Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say

Name that tune?

 

Men of the Green Beret

 

I actually still have the 45 of The Green Beret

How about this one?

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven
Justify it in the end
There wont be no trumphets blowin
On the judgment day.
On the bloody morning after
....................................

 

Another Classic, you almost had me starting in the middle of the song!
Thank you counselor (prosecutrix2850) for this game, brings back old memories.

Song title is "One Tin Soldier"

Let's try this one next...

Did you write the book of love,
And do you have faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Do you believe in rock ’n roll,
Can music save your mortal soul,
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?

 

American Pie

I will take my life into my hands, and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes, and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire,
And my passion flow like rivers from the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
Oh after all the loves in my life
You'll still be the one
and i ask myself why...

 

Another great tune, I had forgotten that one!

Macarthur Park

One of my favorites.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

 

Stairway to Heaven


I remember every little thing
As if it happened only yesterday
Parking by the lake
And there was not another car in sight
And I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing they were me that night
And now our bodies are oh so close and tight
It never felt so good, it never felt so right
And we're glowing the the metal on the edge of a knife
Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife

 

One of my favs

Paradise By The dashboard Lights Meatloaf.

Heres one that could fit in today

The Eastern world it is explodin
Violence flarin and bullets loadin
Your old enough to kill.
But not for votin.
You don't believe in war
But what's that gun your totin.

 

Yup, coud very well in today.
Barry Muquire's "Eve of Destruction"

When I woke up the rain was pourin down. there were people standin all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes. but somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said. hold me darling, just a little
While. I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss. I found the love that i
Knew I had missed.

Well now shes gone. even though I hold her tight. I lost my love, my life,
That night.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord took her away from me. shes gone
To heaven, so Ive got to be good. so I can see my baby when I leave this
World.

 

A real tear jerker "The Last Kiss" Can't remember who recorded it though.


I was born in the heat of the Desert.
My Mama died giving me life.
Deprived of the love of a Father.
Blamed for the loss of his wife.

You know lord I've been in prison
In prison for somthing that I never done
It's been one hill after another.
But i've climbed them all one by one.

But this time lord .......

 

You Gave Me a Mountain.... several artists.

If I only had a dollar
For evry song Ive sung
And evry time I had to play
While people sat there drunk
You know, Id catch the next train
Back to where I live

 

ok a clue...

Just about a year ago, I set out on the road,
Seekin' my fame and fortune, lookin' for a pot of gold.
Things got bad, and things got worse, I guess you will know the tune.


The man from the magazine said I was on my way.
Somewhere I lost connections, ran out of songs to play.
I came into town, a one night stand, looks like my plans fell through

 

Stuck in Lodi again CCR?

Gonna take a freight train
Down at the station lord
I don't care where it's goin.

Gonna buy me a ticket
a one way ticket
just as long as it's southbound.

 

Can't You See...

I really want to see you
Really want to be with you
Really want to see you lord
But it takes so long, my lord

 

My sweet Lord by George Harrison


Had an apartment in the city
Me and Loretta like living there
It's been years since the kids were grown
Lives of their own
Left us alone.

Old trees just grow stronger
Old rivers grow wilder everyday
but old people they just grow lonesome
waiting for someone to say...

 

Hello In There... That wasn't an easy one!

60's this time.

Were going where the sun shines brightly.
Were going where the sea is blue.
Weve seen it in the movies.
Now lets see if its true.

 

Hint

Everybody has a s..... h......

 

Were all going on a
No more working for a week or two.
Fun and laughter on a
No more worries for me and you.
For a week or two.

Were going where the sun shines brightly.
Were going where the sea is blue.
Weve seen it in the movies.
Now lets see if its true.

Everybody has a
Doing things they always wanted to.
So were going on a
To make our dreams come true
For me and you.

 

Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard and the Shadows




I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they´re blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning