Each morning since this wicked war began, I have spun the same 45 record on our dusty old turntable: Freda Payne’s "Bring the Boys Home," an isolationist anthem if ever there was one. Freda, best known for her bouncy drama of wedding-night impotence, "Band of Gold," recorded "Bring the Boys Home" in 1971 on the Invictus label. It never rose higher than #12 on the charts. But it’s a heartbreaker, one of the best antiwar pop songs because, like Jimmy Webb’s "Galveston" or Eric Bogle’s "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," it measures the cost of war on a human … Continue reading Freda Payne’s Antiwar Anthem