All Together Now - The Farm

Any song that can combines a sample from Pachelbel, Canon in Fugue, with the First World War gets my vote. The Farm didn't last long but they did deliver this and another classic, Groovy Train, in the early 90s.

I think I saw them twice live and even then it was a case of waiting through a set of forgettable songs to get to these two as their encore. The lyrics are a bit of a nonsense but you do get drawn into the drama of a Christmas Day cease-fire with English and German troops popping out of their trenches to play football in no man's land...fact ot fiction?

In terms of Christmas anti-war protest songs, it sits comfortably alongside John Lennon's Merry Xmas..War Is Over and who can forget Jonah Lewie's Stop the Cavalry?

All Together Now