Music
The song "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" by Warren Zevon involves the exploits of a Norwegian mercenary in the Congo. Similarly his track "Jungle Work!" does the same, citing "le mercenaire" directly in the lyrics.
The song "Straw Dogs" by The Stiff Little Fingers (as they say themselves in an interview on the re-release of their album Nobody's Heroes "a dirty nasty song about a dirty nasty subject") is about mercenaries.
John Cale recorded a song titled "Mercenaries" on his album Sabotage/Live in 1979.
British death metal band Bolt Thrower released an album entitled Mercenary in 1998.
British heavy metal band Iron Maiden has a song titled "The Mercenary", on their album Brave New World. The song's lyrics appear to be inspired by the film Predator.
American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin recorded a song entitled "Mercenaries", which first appeared on his 1977 album Dance Band on the Titanic. A live version of the track appears on 1998's The Bottom Line Encore Collection.
Read more about this topic: Mercenaries In Popular Culture
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“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation’s prayer ever in dumb music ascending.”
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And found myself outside the Hill,
Left alone against my will,
To go now limping as before,
And never hear of that country more!””
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