With God on Our Side

We heard the tune, I Shall Be Released, the Bob Dylan tune.

And then we heard With God On Our Side.

It's a song about how nations invoke divine approval for war.

with God on our side.

Joshua Redman and the Beatles tune, Let It Be.

It comes off the 2013 album, Walking Shadows, and he's got an incredible lineup here, which includes Larry Grenadier, Brian Blade, and also Brad Meldale.

It comes from his Blue Note debut, which is called Memory Bomb.

This is followed up by Michelle N. Degliocello, Bill Callahan, and Chris Dealy with God On Our Side, a new version of the Bob Dylan tune on her brand new album, Synonym.

Oh, my name, it is nothing My age, it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I was taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that the land that I live in Has God on its side Oh, the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalry's charged The Indians fell The cavalry's charged The Indians died Oh, the country was young With God on its side Oh, the Spanish-American War had its day And the Civil War, too Was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I was made to memorize With guns in their hands and God on their side Oh, the first war boys came and it went The reason for fighting I never got straight But I learned to accept it Accept it with pride Before you don't count the dead When God's on your side When the Second World War came to an end We forgave the Germans and we were friends Although they murdered six million in the ovens they fried The Germans now too have God on their side I've learned to hate the Russians all through my whole life If another war starts, it's them we must fight To hate them and fear them, to run and to hide And accept it all bravely, we've got on our side But now we've got weapons of chemical dust If fire them we're forced to, then fire them we must One push of the button and I shock the world wide And you never ask questions when God's on your side.

Through many dark hours, I've been thinking about this.

It's, it was originally sung by Bob Dylan.

It's Bob Dylan's With God On Our Side.

It was written in 1963, and it's a song about how nations justify war and violence by believing God is on their side.

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"It Ain't Me Babe"-

... "and With God on Our Side."

... "and With God on My Side." Yeah.

So it's not like she's doing like, "Like a Rolling Stone" and-