List of calypso songs about war

1900s

• "Boer War", Duke of Marlborough

1910s

• "Argos Papers", Lord Inventor - The Argos newspaper published an article on allowing carnival again after closure during WWI
• "Kaiser William, Run your Run", Lord Inventor - ''WWI''

1930s

• "Abyssinian Lament", King Radio - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
• "Advantage Mussolini", Roaring Lion - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
• "African War Call" - "African War Song" - Roaring Lion
• "Carnival Again", Lord Executor
• "Chamberlain Says Peace", Lord Beginner - Prelude to WWII
• "Civil War in Spain", Growling Tiger - Spain's civil war
• "Ethiopian War Drums", Wilmoth Houdini - Mussolini’s attack on Abyssinia
• "Germany Invade Poland", King Radio - WWII
• "Gold of Africa ", Growling Tiger - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
• "Hitler", Lord Ziegfield - WWII
• "Hitler Demands", Mighty Growler - WWII
• "Horrors of War ", Atilla the Hun - Prelude to WWII
• 'How Hitler Invaded Poland', Lord Ziegfield - WWII
• "Let Them Fight for Ten Thousand Years" - "Let the White People Fight", Growling Tiger - Economic consequences of WWII in Trinidad
• "Poland, Poland", Roaring Lion - WWII
• "Poppy Day", Lord Executor
• "Selassie Is Held by the Police", Lord Caresser - Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia
• "Two Bad Men in the World", Lord Executor - ''WWII''

1940s

• "Admiral Graf Spee ", Atilla the Hun
• "Adolf Hitler", Mighty Destroyer - WWII
• "Air Raid Shelters", King Radio - WWII
• "Black Market", Lord Beginner - WWII
• "Britain Will Never Surrender", Mighty Growler - WWII
• "Chinese Never Had a V.J. Day" - "Lay Fung Lee" - "Chinese Calypso" - "Chinese Memorial" - "Lai Fook Lee", Lord Kitchener
• "Fall of France", Mighty Growler - WWII
• "Farmer and Breadfruit Tree", Mighty Growler - Economic consequences of WWII in Trinidad
• "Germany Invade Poland", King Radio - WWII
• "Hitler Demanded Trinidad", Lord Invader - WWII
• "Hitler’s Attitude", Roaring Lion - WWII
• "Hitler's Mistake", Roaring Lion - WWII
• "Hitler’s Moustache", Lord Invader - WWII
• "Invasion of Britain", Atilla the Hun - WWII
• "Invasion of Poland " - "Poland, Poland", Roaring Lion - WWII
• "Mr. Neville Chamberlain", Roaring Lion - WWII
• "Nazi Spy Ring", Mighty Growler - WWII
• "Norah the War Is Over", Lord Beginner
• "Ode to Russia", Atilla the Hun - WWII
• "Red Cross Society ", Atilla the Hun
• "Reply to Englishman", Atilla the Hun - Answer to an Englishman who said Trinidadians did not do enough for the war effort
• "Rise of the British Empire", Roaring Lion
• "Rum and Coca-Cola", Lord Invader - American soldier's presence in Trinidad
• "Run Your Run Hitler", Lord Beginner - WWII
• "Send Hitler to St. Helena", Atilla the Hun - WWII
• "Soldiers Came and Broke Up My Life ", Lord Invader - American soldier's presence in Trinidad
• "Winston Churchill", Roaring Lion - WWII
• "Yankee Harvest Is Over", Lord Beginner - ''American soldier's presence in Trinidad''

1950s

• "Housewives", Lord Beginner - Economic hardship following WWII
• "Sauerkraut Calypso", Herbert Howard
• "Warning to Russia ", Mighty Viking
• ”Wars of Long Ago”, Mighty Spoiler
• "Hydrogen Bomb ", Mighty Terror

1960s

• "Kennedy and Khrushchev", Mighty Sparrow - Cold war
• ”Make Love Not War”, The Mighty Duke
• "Send Me Instead", King Fighter - ''Vietnam war''

1970s

• "Chinese Love Affair", Mighty Sparrow - Vietnam war, interracial relationship
• "My Lai Incident ", The Shah - ''Vietnam war''

1980s

• "Boots", Mighty Gabby - Government resources used for military spending
• "Children World", Chalkdust - General comment on wars
• "Grenada" - "Under Siege", Mighty Sparrow
• "Peace in de World", Black Stalin
• "War Mongers", Johnny King

2000s

• "Stop D War", Singing Sandra
• "Weapons of Mass Dis-Illusion", Mighty Sparrow

2010s

• War of Worlds", Ras Commanda

2020s to present

Books

Journals

• Austin, Roy. . Caribbean Quarterly 22, no. 2/3 : 74–83.
• Bilby, Kenneth. . Newsletter - Institute for Studies in American Music; Brooklyn; Vol. XXXIV; Issue 1 : 4–5.
• Boxill, Ian. . Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 33–56. Published By: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies.
• Brown, Ernest. . The Black Perspective in Music 18, no. 1/2 : 81–100.
• Charles, C. N.. Calypso music : identity and social influence : the Trinidadian experience. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/45260.
• Cowley, John. . Cambridge University Press, Popular Music, Vol.5, Continuity and Change, pp. 81–96.
• Cowley, John Houston. . University of Warwick.
• Cowley, John Houston. . Occasional Papers In Ethnic Relations, No. l, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, Coventry.
• Crowley, Daniel. Ethnomusicology, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 117–124. Published by: University of Illinois Press.
• Floyd, Samuel A. . University of Illinois Press, 1999, volume 17, number 1, pages 1–38.
• Liverpool, Hollis. . Black Music Research Journal.
• Rampaul, Giselle. . Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, Volume 9, number 2.
• Regis, Louis . Caribbean Journal of Cultural studies. Volume 2, number 1. The University of the West Indies.

Articles

• Bowles, Paul. . Modern Music, 1940, 17/3 154–159
• Brown Boy in the ring. . March 22, 2007
• Dowrich-Phillips, Laura. .
• Jacob, Debbie. Caribbean Beat Magazine, January 2011.
• Unknown. .
• Unknown. . Trinidad & Tobago government, 2015/07.
• Unknown. . Musical Traditions, number 4, 1985.