List of songs about the Vietnam War

This is a list of songs concerning, revolving around, or directly referring to the Vietnam War, or to the Vietnam War's after-effects. For a more complete listing see "Vietnam on Record",^[1] and the "Vietnam War Song Project".^[2]

Some popular songs of this variety include:

0-9

• "19" by Paul Hardcastle
• "1954 Cha Bỏ Quê, 1975 Con Bỏ Nước" by Phạm Duy [about the two large migrations: in 1954 and 1975.]
• "2 + 2 = ?" by The Bob Seger System
• "50,000 Names" by George Jones [about the Vietnam Memorial wall]
• "500 Miles Away From Home by Bobby Bare
• "53rd & 3rd - The Ramones [about The Green Berets describing them and what they do]
• "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" by Simon & Garfunkel
• "8th of November" by Big & Rich
• "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson

A

• "Anh phi công ơi!" - Xuân Giao (a children's song about communist airmen protecting Vietnam)
• "Anh Quân Bưu Vui Tính" - Đàm Thanh (about communist military postal men)
• "Anh lái xe đường dây" - Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn (about the couragement of communist transport driver driving on ropes to supply for communist troops)
• "Anh vẫn hành quân" - Huy Du (about communist troops still marching towards the battlefields for the national reunification despite of attacks and bombardment from the US army and the ARVN)
• "Agent Orange" by Grinder
• "Agent Orange" by Sodom
• "Agent Orange Song" by Maan Shah
• "Alice's Restaurant Massacre" by Arlo Guthrie
• "All Along The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan
• "All My Children of the Sun" by Pete Seeger
• "Am I Ever Gonna See My Baby Again" by The Sweet Inspirations
• "Amerika the Brutal" by Six Feet Under
• "America, F**k Yeah" by Trey Parker
• "An American Draft Dodger in Thunder Bay" by Sam Roberts
• "Another Christmas Without My Son" by Reverend Oris Mays
• "Artefucked" by Nargaroth
• "Article IV" by Good Riddance (About US soldiers during The Tet-Offensive fighting for survival and protesters back in the states)

B

• "Bà Mẹ Phù Sa" (all you need is love) Phạm Duy [about a peasant woman who hides a government agent when she sees a Vietcong, and in turn hides the Vietcong when she sees a government platoon coming.]
• "Bài Ca Dành Cho Những Xác Người" (Song for the Corpses) by Trịnh Công Sơn [about the Battle of Huế]
• "Bác Đang Cùng Chúng Cháu Hành Quân" - Huy Thục (about communist troops on Ho Chi Minh trail)
• "Bài ca bên cánh võng" - Nguyên Nhung
• "Bài ca chiến sĩ hải quân" - Văn Cao (about Vietnamese shipmen protecting Vietnam)
• "Bài ca Đường 9" - Huy Du (about communist troops in battle of Khe Sanh)
• "Bài ca Hà Nội" - Vũ Thanh (about Hanoi under bombardment of the US)
• "Bài ca hy vọng" - Văn Ký (about the hope on the national reunification)
• "Bài Ca Người Chiến Sĩ Hải Quân" - Thanh Trúc
• "Bài Ca Người Săn Máy Bay" - Văn Lưu (about Vietnamese pilots shooting down US fighter jets)
• "Bài ca người nữ tự vệ Sài Gòn" - Phạm Minh Tuấn (about Saigon's female urban commandos fighting against the US and the ARVN)
• "Bước chân trên dãy Trường Sơn" - Vũ Trọng Hối (about communist troops surpassing Trường Sơn mountains)
• "Bài ca không quên" - Phạm Minh Tuấn (about deaded companions in the communist army)
• "Back in Vietnam" by Lenny Kravitz
• "Back to Vietnam" by Television Personalities
• "Back to the World" by Curtis Mayfield
• "Ballad of a Crystal Man" by Donovan
• "Ballad for a Soldier" by Leon Russell & Marc Benno
• "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler
• "Ballad of Vietnam" by Ludvick Rummel
• "Battalions of Fear" by Blind Guardian
• "The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by Terry Nelson
• "The Battle of Vietnam" by Hal Willis
• "Beach Party Vietnam" by The Dead Milkmen
• "The Big Parade" by 10,000 Maniacs
• "Big Time in the Jungle" by Old Crow Medicine Show
• "Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Paper Lace
• "Blackmail the Universe" by Megadeth
• "Black Flame" by Renaissance
• "Black Wall" by Dennis DeYoung (about the fear of being drafted, the fear during the war, and going "back to the world"^[3])
• "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan
• "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen [references the Siege of Khe Sanh among other things.]
• "Born on the Fourth of July" by Tom Paxton
• "Broken Heroes" by Saxon
• "The Boy Who's Never Found" by The Katydids
• "Brainwashed" by The Bossmen (tells what happens to the people who come back from the war in Vietnam, and shows the post war trauma that happens)
• "Bring the Boys Home" by Freda Payne
• "Bring Them Home" by Pete Seeger
• "Brother Did You Weep" by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
• "Brothers Under the Bridge" by Bruce Springsteen
• "Bungle in the Jungle" by Jethro Tull
• "Burning Bridges" by Pink Floyd
• "Burnt Alive" by Rocket from the Crypt
• "Burnt Out Souls" by Despair
• "Business Goes on as Usual" by the Chad Mitchell Trio

C

• "Ca Dao Mẹ" (Mother's Lullaby) by Trịnh Công Sơn [about a mother's sacrifices during wartime]
• "Câu hò bên bến Hiền Lương" - music: Hoàng Hiệp, lyric: Hoàng Hiệp - Đằng Giao (about the wish for the national reunification)
• "Chào Anh Giải Phóng Quân" - Hoàng Vân (celebration for the PLAF troops)
• "Chào Anh Giải Phóng Quân, Chào Mùa Xuân Đại Thắng" - Hoàng Vân Trình (celebration for the PLAF troops and the national reunification)
• "Chú Giải phóng quân cháu xin tặng chú một bài ca" - Vũ Thanh (a children's song for celebration to the PLAF troops)
• "Chúng ta đã đứng dậy" - Tôn Thất Lập (about the uprising of South Vietnamese youth against the ARVN and the US army)
• "Chiếc gậy Trường Sơn" - Phạm Tuyên (about the determination of communist troops on liberating South Vietnam)
• "Chiến sĩ Rađa trên chốt biên thùy" - Thuận Yến (about the fighting of communist radar soldiers)
• "Chim hòa bình" - (about the hope on peace)
• "Chú bộ đội" - Hoàng Hà (about communist troops in Vietnam war)
• "Chưa hết giặc ta chưa về" - Huy Du (about the determination of communist troops on destroying the enemy)
• "Cô Gái Mở Đường"-Xuân Giao (about communist female army engineers)
• "Cô Gái Pa - Kô" - Huy Thục (about minority ethnic girls supporting communist troops)
• "Cô gái Sài Gòn đi tải đạn" - Lư Nhất Vũ (about Saigon girls supporting communist troops)
• "Cô Gái vót chông" - Hoàng Hiệp (about minority ethnic girls supporting communist troops)
• "Cho Một Người Vừa Nằm Xuống" - Trịnh Công Sơn
• "Camouflage" by Stan Ridgway
• "Carried by Six" by Internal Void
• "Charlie Boy" by the Lumineers
• "Charlie Don't Surf" by The Clash
• "Charlie Freak" by Steely Dan
• "Child in Time" by Deep Purple
• "Cho Một Người Vừa Nằm Xuống" (For a Person Just Fallen Down) by Trịnh Công Sơn [dedicated to Lưu Kim Cương, a friend of the author who died in battle. Who is a South Vietnamese Air Force pilot.]
• "Christmas in Vietnam" by Johnny and Jon
• "Chuyện hai người lính" (Story about two soldiers) by Phạm Duy [1968, about two soldiers on different front lines who "kill each other because of love of Vietnam"]
• "Clean Cut Kid" by Bob Dylan ((tells how a normal American boy is changed to a fierce fighting boy by the use of drugs, pills, and alcohol))
• "Coming Home Soldier" by Bobby Vinton
• "Commando" by The Ramones
• "Compared To What" by Gene McDaniels
• "Compulsory Hero" by 1927 [deals with conscription in Australia during the Vietnam War]
• "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
• "Cops of the World" by Phil Ochs
• "Cowboys on Horses with Wings" by Hoyt Axton
• "Cousin Randy" by Infectious Grooves
• "Cùng anh tiến quân trên đường dài" - Huy Du và Xuân Sách (about Nguyễn Viêt Xuân, a hero in fighting against the US)
• "Cùng hành quân giữa mùa xuân" - Hoàng Hà (about happiness, beliefs on victories of communist troops on Ho Chi Minh trail)
• "Cream Puff War" by Grateful Dead

D

• "Daddy Won't Be Home Anymore" by Dolly Parton
• "Dậy mà đi" - Nhạc: Nguyễn Xuân Tân (Tôn Thất Lập), thơ: Tố Hữu (encourages for uprings against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
• "Đất nước trọn niềm vui" - Hoàng Hà (about happiness of Vietnamese on the national reunification)
• "Đại Bác Ru Đêm" (Cannon's Night Lullaby) by Trịnh Công Sơn [about bombardment in the city]
• "Dancing in the Ashes" by Psychotic Waltz
• "Dân Ta Vẫn Sống" (Our People Still Lives) by Trịnh Công Sơn
• "Daniel" by Elton John [the verse dealing most specifically with the Vietnam War was removed by lyricist Bernie Taupin shortly before being recorded.]
• "Đêm Trường Sơn" - Huy Du (about nights and communist troops at Trường Sơn mountains)
• "Đêm Trường Sơn nhớ Bác" - Trần Chung (about the thinkings on Ho Chi Minh of communist troops surpassing Trường Sơn mountains)
• "Dead Yankee Drawl" by Manic Street Preachers
• "Dear Uncle Sam" by Loretta Lynn
• "Dear Mr. President" by Pink
• "Death" by The Pretty Things
• "Death Sound" by Country Joe and the Fish
• "Deathbed" by Relient K
• "Death Tone" by Manowar
• "Desperation Part IV" by Redemption
• "Did You Ever See Me" by Shrubs
• "Did You Hear What They Said?" by Gil Scott-Heron
• "Do the Russians Want War?" by Mark Bernes
• "Does Anybody Know I'm Here?" by The Dells
• "Đợi Có Một Ngày" (Wait Until the Day) by Trịnh Công Sơn [expressing the author's desire for peace]
• "Doin' All Right" by The Fugs
• "Đồng Dao Hoà Bình" (Children's Song of Peace) by Trịnh Công Sơn
• "Don't Cry My Love" by The Impressions
• "Don't Cry My Soldier Boy" by Thelma Houston
• "Don't Walk Away" by Shrubs
• "Down On The Base" by Leon Russell & Marc Benno
• "Đường chúng ta đi - Huy Du và Xuân Sách (about the determinations of communist troops)
• "Đường Trường Sơn xe anh qua" - Văn Dung (about Ho Chi Minh trails)
• "Draft Dodger Rag" by Phil Ochs
• "Draft Morning" by The Byrds
• "Draft Resister" by Steppenwolf
• "Drive On" by Johnny Cash

E

• "Echoes" by Pink Floyd
• "El Derecho de Vivir en Paz" by Víctor Jara
• "Edge of Darkness" by Iron Maiden
• "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire [written by P. F. Sloan]
• "Everyday Combat" by Lostprophets
• "Em Bé Giải Phóng Quân" - Thanh Trúc (about the love of children for PLAF troops)
• "Era Um Garoto Que Como Eu Amava os Beatles e os Rolling Stones" by Os Incríveis (about an American boy, guitarist, that was sent to Vietnam, losing his youth, career, and life fighting)

F

• "Fear of Napalm" by Terrorizer
• "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish
• "Fellows in Vietnam" by Inez and Charlie Foxx
• "Fightin' for the U.S.A." by Jerry Reed
• "The Fightin' Side of Me" by Merle Haggard
• "Fight to be Free" by Nuclear Assault
• "Find the Cost of Freedom" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• "First Blood" by Evile
• "First Vietnamese War" by The Black Angels
• "Forget Me Not" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas^[4]
• "For Fuck's Sake" by The Almighty
• "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "Front Line" by Stevie Wonder
• "Future Shock" by Evildead .
• "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield

G

• "Galveston" by Glen Campbell
• "Galveston Bay" by Bruce Springsteen
• "Giải phóng miền Nam" (Liberate the South) by Huỳnh Minh Siêng
• "Gặp nhau trên đỉnh Trường Sơn" - Hoàng Hà (about meetings between communist troops at Ho Chi Minh trails)
• "Gia Tài Của Mẹ" (A Mother's Legacy) by Trịnh Công Sơn
• "Giọt Nước Mắt Cho Quê Hương" (A Teardrop for Homeland) by Trịnh Công Sơn
• "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones^[5]
• "Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon (Plastic Ono Band)
• "Godspeed" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• "Going to Vietnam" by Big Amos
• "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel
• "The Great Goodnight" by Magellan
• "The Great Mandala" by Peter, Paul and Mary
• "Greetings" by The Valadiers (also recorded by The Monitors)^[4]
• "Grey October" by Peggy Seeger
• "Gunya Down" by Pro-Pain

H

• "Hà Nội - Điện Biên Phủ" - Phạm Tuyên (about victories of North Vietnam in Operation Linebaker II)
• "Hành khúc không quân Việt Nam" - Văn Cao
• "Hàng em mang tới chiến hào" - Lư Nhất Vũ (about logistics brought to communist troops at battlefields)
• "Hành Khúc Giải Phóng" - Long Hưng và Lưu Nguyễn
• "Hành khúc ngày và đêm" - Phan Huỳnh Điểu (about the love of a communist couple temporarily divided by the war)
• "Hát cho dân tôi nghe" Tôn Thất Lập (about South Vietnamese youth against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
• "Hát mãi khúc quân hành" - Diệp Minh Tuyền (about the love toward peace and hatred toward war of communist troops)
• "Hát trên đường tranh đấu" -
• "Hát trong tù" - (the song of South Vietnamese youth being in prison because of against the US and the ARVN)
• "Hãy giữ gìn lấy Việt Nam" - Văn Chung
• "Hãy ca dạy lên" -
• "Hò kéo pháo" - Hoàng Vân (the song communist troops singing while pulling artilleries by hand)
• "Hoan hô chú bộ đội" - Nguyễn Thanh Tùng (celebration communist troops shooting down the US fighter jets)
• "Huế Sài Gòn Hà Nội" - Trịnh Công Sơn
• "Hallelujah Day" by The Jackson 5
• "Hand of Doom" by Black Sabbath
• "Handsome Johnny" by Richie Havens
• "Hands Off Vietnam!" by Dzhilda Mazheykayte
• "Hanoi Hannah" by Roger McGuinn
• "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by John Lennon
• "Hát Trên Những Xác Người" (Singing on Corpses) by Trịnh Công Sơn [written following the Tet Offensive]
• "Hallå Där Bonde" (Hello there Farmer) by Knutna Nävar
• "He Wore the Green Beret" by Nancy Ames
• "Heart of Darkness" by Grave Digger
• "Hello Vietnam" by Johnnie Wright (also recorded by Dave Dudley)
• "Hello Vietnam (Goodbye My Love)" by Ray Hildebrand
• "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" by Phil Ochs
• "High" by Richard Marx
• "Home" by Mac Davis. Also recorded by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
• "Home from the War" by Lugh Damen
• "Ho Chi Minh City" by Shrubs
• "Huế Sài Gòn Hà Nội" (Huế, Saigon, Hanoi) by Trịnh Công Sơn [expresses the author's desire for a peaceful, united Vietnam.]
• "Human Being Lawnmower" by MC5
• "Hungry for Blood" by Virus
• "Huyền Sử Một Người Mang Tên Quốc" (Ballad of a Person named Quốc) by Phạm Duy [about Phạm Phú Quốc, a RVAF pilot who bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon. He was shot down in North Vietnam in a mission to bomb the North.]

I

• "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs
• "I Believe I'm Gonna Make It" by Joe Tex
• "I Can't See You No More (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)" by Joe Tex
• "I Can't Write Left-Handed" by Bill Withers
• "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish
• "I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam" by John Lee Hooker
• "I Gotta Go To Vietnam" by John Lee Hooker
• "I Have Seen the Rain" by James T. Moore (featuring Pink, his daughter)
• "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" by Grand Funk Railroad
• "In the Name of John" (Russian: "Во имя Джона") by unknown Soviet military advisor
• "Inoculated City" by The Clash
• "Into the Fire" by Sabaton
• "I Should Be Proud" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
• "Is This War a Useless War" by Moore & Napier
• "It Better End Soon" by Chicago
• "It's America, Love It or Leave It" by Ernest Tubb
• "It's for God, and Country, and You, Mom (The Ballad of Vietnam)" by Ernest Tubb
• "It's Good News Week" by Hedgehoppers Anonymous
• "I Want to Come Home for Christmas" by Marvin Gaye
• "I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)" by Redgum
• "Imagine" by John Lennon
• "I've Seen All Good People" by Yes

J

• "Jacknife Johnny" by Alice Cooper
• "Jimmy Mack" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas^[4]
• "Jimmy Newman" by Tom Paxton
• "Jimmy's Road" by Willie Nelson
• "Johnny Come Lately" by Steve Earle
• "Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel" by The Fugs

K

• "Keep a Light in the Window Until I Come Home" by James W. Alexander
• "Keep the Flag Flying" by Johnnie Wright
• "Kentucky Kid" by Yuri Vizbor
• "Khe Sanh" by Cold Chisel
• "Kill for Peace" by The Fugs
• "King Henry" by Pete Seeger
• "Kuiama" by the Electric Light Orchestra
• "Khi đất nước thanh bình"
• "Không ai ngăn nổi lời ca" - La Hữu Vang (about encouragement that nobody can stop South Vietnamese youth fighting against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
• "Khúc Hát Côn Đảo" - Hoài Tố Hạnh (about communist prisionors at Côn Đảo island)

L

• "Lá đỏ" - Hoàng Hiệp (about the desire for the national reunification)
• "Last Train to Clarksville" by The Monkees
• "Last Train to Nuremberg" by Pete Seeger
• "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" by Melanie Safka
• "A Letter From My Son" by Melverine Thomas
• "A Letter from Vietnam (To Mother)" by Hank Snow
• "Letters from Vietnam" by B.o.B
• "Little Becky's Christmas Wish" by Becky Lamb
• "A Little Dog and His Boy" by The Sunrays (written by Rick Henn)
• "Living in the Shadow" by Demon
• "Lonesome Vietnam" by George Riddle
• "Lost in the Flood" by Bruce Springsteen
• "Lời Bác dặn trước lúc đi xa" - Trần Hoàn (about Ho Chi Minh's recommendations on the national reunification)
• "Lời ca cho người đi giữ quê hương" -
• "Lửa cháy lên rồi" - (about the opportunities for the national reunification)
• "Luang Prabang", by Dave Van Ronk
• "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" by Tom Paxton

M

• "M-16" by Sodom
• "Màu hoa đỏ" - Thuận Yến (about the love between a communist troop and his wife)
• "Magic Dragon" by Sodom
• "Machine Gun" by Band of Gypsys (Jimi Hendrix)
• "March to the Witch's Castle" by Funkadelic
• "Marching Off to War" by William Bell
• "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan
• "Mẹ Việt Nam Anh Hùng" - An Thuyên (about mothers of sacrificed communist troops)
• "Medieval" by James
• "Meneer de president" by Boudewijn de Groot
• "Memento Mori" by Patti Smith
• "The Minute Men (Are Turning in Their Graves)" by Stonewall Jackson
• "Monk Time" by The Monks
• "Monster" by Steppenwolf
• "Moratorium" by Buffy Sainte-Marie
• "More Than a Name on a Wall" by The Statler Brothers
• "Mỗi bước ta đi" - Thuận Yến (about the determination for the national reunification of communist troops)
• "Một Buổi Sáng Mùa Xuân" (One Spring Morning) by Trịnh Công Sơn [about a child killed by landmine]
• "The Motor City Is Burning" by John Lee Hooker
• "Mother, Where Is My Father" by David Peel & the Lower East Side
• "Mountains" by Manowar^[6]
• "Mùa xuân nho nhỏ" - Thơ: Thanh Hải; Nhạc: Trần Hoàn (about the happiness on fighting of communist troops)
• "Mùa xuân trên quê hương" - Hoài Mai
• "Mùa xuân trên thành phố Hồ Chí Minh" - Xuân Hồng (about Vietnamese happiness on the national reunification)
• "My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas" by Toni Wine
• "My Name is Lisa Kalvelage" by Pete Seeger about a mother, a War-bride from Germany, who speaks out against the war
• "My Son John" by Tom Paxton
• "My Uncle" by The Flying Burrito Brothers
• "Mr. Lonely" by Bobby Vinton (#1 - 1964)

N

• "Năm Anh Em Trên Một Chiếc Xe Tăng" - Doãn Nho (about communist tankmen)
• "Ngày Mai Chúng Mình Ra Trận" - Nhạc: Hoài Tố Hạnh, lời: Trần Đăng Khoa (nhà thơ) (about the feeling, believes in victory and the national reunification of Vietnamese communist youth, who was to join the war)
• "Người mẹ Bàn Cờ" - Nhạc: Trần Long Ẩn, thơ: Nguyễn Kim Ngân (about Vietnamese mothers wanting peace)
• "Người mẹ miền Nam tay không thắng giặc" - Thuận Yến (about South Vietnamese mothers fighting against the US army and the ARVN)
• "Napalm in the Morning" by Sodom
• "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" by El-P
• "Near Thái Nguyên Bridge" by Alexander Gusev
• "Như có Bác Hồ trong ngày vui đại thắng" (Uncle Ho likely was Here On the Day of Victory) by Phạm Tuyên (about the feelings that Ho Chi Minh being appear on the national reunification day).
• "Nối Vòng Tay Lớn" (Joining Hands) by Trịnh Công Sơn [expresses the author's wish for peace and national solidarity. This song was played on the radio after the communist forces took over Saigon's radio station during the Fall of Saigon.]
• "No One to Follow" by Anvil
• "A Nurse in the U.S. Army" by Connie Francis
• "Napalm Sticks to Kids" by Unknown
• "Những Bông Hoa Trên Tuyến Lửa" - Đỗ Trung Quân (about the happiness of communist troops on fighting against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
• "Những ngày hội đấu tranh" - (about the uprising against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)

O

• "Oh! Camil (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)" by Graham Nash
• "Ohio" by Neil Young
• "Okie from Muskogee" by Merle Haggard
• "Old Hippie" by The Bellamy Brothers
• "Old Porch Swing" by Eddy Arnold
• "One Tin Soldier" by The Original Caste
• "An Open Letter to My Teenage Son" by Victor Lundberg
• "Open Letter to the President" by Roy C
• "Orange Crush" by R.E.M.
• "Over and Out" by Alkaline Trio

P

• "Paint It Black" by Rolling Stones
• "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens
• "Peace Will Come" by Tom Paxton
• "Peace Will Come (According to Plan)" by Melanie Safka
• "Pencil Marks on the Wall" by Henson Cargill
• "Penny Evans" by Steve Goodman
• "People Get it Together" by Eddie Floyd
• "People, Let's Stop the War" by Grand Funk Railroad
• "Permission to Fire" by Holy Moses
• "Phantom" (Russian: "Фантом") [Russian song by unknown author.]
• "Phi đội ta xuất kích" - Tường Vy (about the airman against the US airforce)
• "Pieces of a Man" by Gil Scott-Heron
• "Play Little Music Box Play" by Donna Loren (written by Billy Page)
• "Please Mr Kennedy (I Don't Wanna Go)" by Mickey Woods^[4]
• "Please Mr President" by King Solomon
• "Please Settle in Vietnam" by Lightnin' Hopkins
• "Please Uncle Sam (Send Back My Man)" by The Charmels
• "Please Wait For Me (My Darling)" by Masters Of Soul
• "Premature Burial" by Mercenary
• "Pretty Little Vietnamese" by Johnny Wright
• "Price of Paradise" by The Minutemen
• "Private Wilson White" by Marty Robbins
• "Pull Out the Pin" by Kate Bush
• "Purple Heart" by Sabaton

Q

• "Quê hương đau nặng" (Our country in pain) by Trịnh Công Sơn.
• "Quê hương ta ngày chiến thắng" (about Vietnam with the happiness on the national reunification)
• "Question" by The Moody Blues

R

• "Rachel’s Coming Home" (aka "Rachel") by Russell Morris
• "Rapture" by Impaled Nazarene
• "Raymond" by Brett Eldredge
• "The Rebel" by Carl Hauck
• "Readjustment Blues" by Bill Danoff, sung by John Denver
• "Red" by Barefoot Truth
• "Reflected Prayer" by Shrubs
• "Reflections of My Life" by The Marmalade
• "Remember" by Biohazard
• "Remember the Heroes" by Sammy Hagar
• "Requiem for the Masses" by The Association
• "Return to Vietnam" by Master
• "Revolution" by The Beatles
• "Revolution 1" by The Beatles
• "Ricochet" by Bionic Jive
• "Riding With Private Malone" by David Ball
• "Rooster" by Alice in Chains
• "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
• "Running Gun Blues" by David Bowie

S

• "Saigon" by John Prine
• "Saigon Bride" by Joan Baez
• "Saigon Ơi Vĩnh Biệt" (Saigon, Goodbye) by Nam Lộc [an song for Vietnamese refugees having to flee their homeland after the Fall of Saigon.]
• "Saigon Shrunken Panorama" by The Mountain Goats
• "Sài Gòn Quật Khởi" - Hồ Bắc (about the determination against the US and the Republic of Vietnam of people in Saigon)
• "Sẵn sàng bắn" - Tô Hải (about communist antiaircraft gunmen fighting against the US airforce and the ARVN)
• "Sam Stone" by John Prine
• "Sandman" by America
• "Save the Country" by Laura Nyro, also recorded by The Fifth Dimension
• "Sean Flynn" by The Clash
• "Search and Destroy" by The Stooges
• "Sergeant Death" by Fate
• "The Seductive Nature of Female Sexuality" by Buried Inside
• "Shapes of Things" by The Yardbirds
• "Shell Shock" by Manowar
• "Shut Out the Lights" by Bruce Springsteen [deals with Post-traumatic stress disorder of a returning veteran]
• "Simple Song of Freedom" by Bobby Darin
• "Singin' in Vietnam Talkin' Blues" by Johnny Cash
• "Sit Down Young Stranger" by Gordon Lightfoot
• "Skies on Fire" by AC/DC
• "Sky Pilot", written by Eric Burdon, recorded by The Animals
• "Slaughter" by Billy Preston
• "Smiley" by Ronnie Burns
• "Soldier" by Stephen Stills
• "Sợi nhớ sợi thương" - Phan Huỳnh Điểu (about the love of a communist couple)
• "Sức mạnh nhân dân" - (about the power of Vietnamese in the war against the US)
• "Soldier" by Neil Young
• "Soldier Boy" by The Shirelles^[4]
• "Soldier of Misfortune" by Ogre
• "Soldier's Goodbye" by William Bell
• "Soldier's Plea" by Marvin Gaye^[4]
• "A Soldier's Prayer, 1967" by Archie Bell & the Drells
• "Some Gave All" by Billy Ray Cyrus
• "Someday at Christmas" by Stevie Wonder
• "Something to Believe In" by Poison
• "Son of the Freeway" by Gravestone
• "Song About the Vietnamese Friend" by Edmund Iodkovsky & Vano Muradeli
• "South Carolina" by Gil Scott-Heron
• "Spiral of Violence" by Whiplash
• "Spitting" by Rocket from the Crypt
• "Standing on the Corner" by Watson & The Sherlocks
• "Still in Saigon" by the Charlie Daniels Band
• "Stop the War" by Edwin Starr
• "Stop the War in Vietnam" by Laurel Aitken
• "Straight to Hell" by The Clash [deals with the abandonment of Vietnamese children fathered by American soldiers]
• "Student Demonstration Time" by The Beach Boys
• "Summer Side of Life" by Gordon Lightfoot
• "Sunshine" by Jonathan Edwards
• "Surf Nicaragua" by Sacred Reich
• "Surrender" by Cheap Trick

T

• "Ta là chiến sĩ Giải Phóng quân" - Văn Lưu và Triều Dâng (about the pride of being the PLAF troops fighting against the US and the Republic of Vietnam)
• "Ta đã thấy gì trong đêm nay" - Trịnh Công Sơn
• "Take Good Care" by Tony Mason
• "Take the Star Out of the Window" by John Prine
• "Talking Vietnam" by Phil Ochs
• "Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues" by Tom Paxton
• "Ta Phải Thấy Mặt Trời" (We Must See the Sun) by Trịnh Công Sơn
• "That Black Wall" by Danny Barnes
• "Tên lửa ta đáng rất hay" - Huy Thục (about communist antiaircraft missile soldiers against the US airforce and the ARVN)
• "The Wall" by Tim Murphy
• "The Wall" by Bruce Springsteen
• "Theme for an American Hero" by Chip Taylor
• "Theme for an Imaginary Western" by Jack Bruce
• "There Won't Be Any Snow (Christmas in the Jungle)" by Derrik Roberts
• "This is Radio Clash" by The Clash
• "Three-Five-Zero-Zero" from the musical Hair
• "Through the Ages" by Bolt Thrower
• "Tình Ca Người Mất Trí" (Love Song of Someone Who Lost Their Mind) by Trịnh Công Sơn [about women with lovers who are soldiers]
• "This Ain't Nothing" by Craig Morgan
• "This Cowboy's Hat" by Lee Kernaghan [talks about his uncle dying in 1969 in Vietnam]
• "Tiến bước dưới quân kỳ" - Doãn Nho
• "Tiến lên chiến sĩ đồng bào" - Huy Thục
• "Tiến Về Sài Gòn" - Lưu Hữu Phước (marching toward Saigon of communist troops)
• "Tiếng nói Hà Nội" - Nhạc: Văn An; Lời: Cảnh Trà (about Hanoi's voice on the hope towards national peace)
• "Tiếng Đàn Ta Lư" - Huy Thục (the sounds of minority ethnic supporting communist troops)
• "Tin tưởng ca" (the beliefs on national peace and reunification of Vietnamese)
• "Tình ca" - Hoàng Hiệp (about the love of a communist couple in the war)
• "Tình nghĩa Bắc Nam" - (about the love between North and South Vietnamese)
• "Tiếng hát những đêm không ngủ" - Phạm Tuyên
• "Tiếng Hát Người Nữ Du Kích Củ Chi" - Lưu Cầu (nhạc sĩ) (about female communist guerilla at Củ Chi)
• "Tiểu đoàn 307" - Nguyễn Hữu Trí (about the 307 Battalion of the PLAF)
• "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" by Donovan
• "Travelin' Soldier" by Bruce Robison (popularized by the Dixie Chicks)
• "Train to Vietnam" by The Rudies
• "Trường Sơn Đông - Trường Sơn Tây" by Hoàng Hiệp [from a poem by Phạm Tiến Duật, about the love and the life of communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh trail.]
• "The Road of Life from Hanoi" by unknown Soviet military transportation officer
• "Thề quyết bảo vệ Tổ quốc" - Huy Du
• *Thuyền em đi trong đêm" Nguyễn Phú Yên
• "Tổ quốc ơi đã ta nghe" - La Hữu Vang
• "Tôi Là Lê Anh Nuôi" - Trần Hiếu (about cooks in communist armies)
• "Từ mặt đất thân yêu" - Tô Hải (about communist airmen fighting against the US army and the ARVN)
• "Tự nguyện" - Trương Quốc Khánh (about voluntary spirits of delication for Vietnam of communist youth)
• "Trên dòng sông lịch sử" - Nguyễn Nam
• "Trên đỉnh Trường Sơn ta hát" - Huy Du (the happiness of communist troops on Truong Son mountains)

U

• "Uncle Sam" by Jimmy Hughes
• "Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story" by Jedi Mind Tricks
• "Universal Soldier" by Buffy Sainte-Marie; also recorded by Donovan
• "Unknown Soldier" by The Doors
• "Unknown Soldier" by Breaking Benjamin
• "Unnatural Selection" by Ayreon
• "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd

V

• "Vaya con Dios-Fellow in Vietnam" by Inez and Charlie Foxx
• "Verbal Razors" by Exodus
• "Viet Nam Blues" by Dave Dudley
• "Vietnam" by Abner Jay
• "Vietnam" by Phil Ochs
• "Vietnam" by J. B. Lenoir
• "Vietnam" by The Satellites
• "Vietnam" by Jimmy Cliff
• "Vietnam" by Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
• "Vietnam" by T-Bone Walker
• "Vietnam Blues" by J. B. Lenoir
• "Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh" by Ái Vân and The Blue Guitars
• "Vietnam Talkin' Blues" by Johnny Cash
• "Vietnam Vets" by Circle One
• "Vietnamerica" by The Stranglers
• "Vietnamese Baby" by New York Dolls
• "Vietnow" by Rage Against The Machine
• "Violence and Bloodshed" by Manowar
• "Việt Nam - đất nước tình yêu" - Lệ Giang (about the love of Vietnam)
• "Việt Nam Ơi! Mùa Xuân Đến Rồi" - Huy Du (about the national reunification)
• "Vết chân tròn trên cát" - Trần Tiến (about a communist handicap veteran, who was a teacher before and after the war, he usually told his students about the happiness of the national reunification, the couragement and the sacrifice of communist troops)
• "Vì nhân dân quên mình" - Doãn Quang Khải (about the sacrifice for Vietnamese of communist troops)
• "Volunteers" by Jefferson Airplane

W

• "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" by Pete Seeger
• "Wait For Me" by Brothers of Soul
• "Walking on a Thin Line" by Huey Lewis and the News
• "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine
• "Wandering the swamps of Vietnam" by unknown Soviet military advisor
• "War" by Edwin Starr (also recorded by The Temptations and performed by Bruce Springsteen)
• "War Games" by The Monkees
• "The War Drags On" written and recorded by Mick Softley; also recorded by Donovan
• "War Is a Card Game" by Nancy Ames
• "The War Is Over" by Phil Ochs
• "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath [written about the politicians who were responsible for the war.]
• "War Song" by Neil Young
• "War Sucks" by The Red Krayola
• "Watergate Blues" by Gil Scott-Heron
• "We Just Did What We Were Told" by Don Forbes
• "Welcome the Boys Back Home" by Bill Moss & the Celestials
• "Welcome to the Real World" by Sweet Savage
• "Welcome Wagon" by Nasty Savage
• "Welterusten Meneer de President" by Boudewijn de Groot
• "What Are You Fighting For" by Phil Ochs
• "What We're Fighting For" by Dave Dudley
• "What's Going On?" by Marvin Gaye
• "When the Hunter Becomes Hunted" by Tank
• "When You're only nine" by The Toe River Valley Boys^[7]
• "Where Are You Now, My Son?" by Joan Baez
• "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by Pete Seeger
• "White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land" by Phil Ochs
• "The Willing Conscript" by Tom Paxton
• "The Windows of the World" by Dionne Warwick
• "Wild Irish Rose" by George Jones [about a homeless, alcoholic Vietnam veteran]^[8]
• "Wish You Were Here, Buddy" by Pat Boone
• "Working for the Yankee Dollar" by The Skids
• "Winning the Hearts and Minds" by Good Riddance (About the violence committed by US soldiers against Vietnamese peasants)

X

• "Xmas in February" by Lou Reed
• "Xuân Chiến Khu" - Xuân Hồng (about spring and happiness in communist military camps)

Y

• "Yellow River" by Christie
• "Youngstown" by Bruce Springsteen
• "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" by John Prine
• "Your Heart Belongs To Me" by The Supremes^[4] & The Velvelettes
• "Yesterday Died, Tomorrow Won't Be Born" by Good Riddance (about a POW slowly losing his mind)

See also

• List of anti-war songs
• Songs and poetry of Soviet servicemen deployed to Vietnam
• Vietnam War

References