What are your favorite 5 socially/politically-charged songs?

[marmar]

It's amazing the stuff you think to post when you're bored on a Saturday night.....Anyway, here are mine, with snippets from each:


1. Inner City Blues, Marvin Gaye

This ain't livin', This ain't livin'
No, no baby, this ain't livin'
No, no, no
Inflation no chance
To increase finance
Bills pile up sky high
Send that boy off to die
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life


2. White Man in Hammersmith Palais, the Clash

Dress back jump back this is a bluebeat attack
'Cos it won't get you anywhere
Fooling with your guns
The British Army is waiting out there
An' it weighs fifteen hundred tons

White youth, black youth
Better find another solution
Why not phone up Robin Hood
And ask him for some wealth distribution


3. Living for the City, Stevie Wonder

A boy is born in hard-time Mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong moving in the right direction
Living just enough, just enough for the city

His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floor for many
And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny
Living just enough, just enough for the city


4. Red Hill Mining Town, U2

We'll scorch the earth
Set fire to the sky
We stoop so low to reach so high
A link is lost
The chain undone
We wait all day
For night to come
And it comes
Like a hunter child

I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to

Love...slowly stripped away
Love...has seen its better day


5. Rat Race, Bob Marley

Some a gorgon-a, some a hooligan-a, some a guine-gog-a
In this 'ere rat race, yeah!
Rat race!
I'm singin' that
When the cat's away,
The mice will play.
Political voilence fill ya city, ye-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say say;
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.
Rat race, rat race, rat race! Rat race, I'm sayin':
When you think is peace and safety:
A sudden destruction.
Collective security for surety, ye-ah!

[safeinOhio]

1. The Story of Hurricane

Bob Dylan.

[H2O Man]

102. Great song.

Jacques Levy actually wrote all of the lyrics, except the first line. Dylan contributed the music.

[saltpoint]

118. That darn Bob Dylan...

Always tryin' to stir up trouble!

- - -

"...and the all-white jury agreed."

:thumbsup:

[KittyWampus]

2. instead of picking out songs... I'm picking one artist. Pete Seeger

:)

[KittyWampus]

8. Okay- one set of lyrics. Billy Joel's 'The Downeaster Alexa" cause I live here

Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound
I have charted a course to the Vineyard
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone

So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
And I go where the ocean is deep
There are giants out there in the canyons
And a good captain can't fall asleep

I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
They say these waters aren't what they used to be
But I've got people back on land who count on me

So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
And if you work with the rod and the reel
Tell my wife I am trawling Atlantis
And I still have my hands on the wheel

Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
More and more miles from shore every year
Since they tell me I can't sell no stripers
And there's no luck in swordfishing here.

I was a bayman like my father was before
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me

[sabrina 1]

132. I've seen his lobster boat 'Alexa' in the harbor on S.I.

Commercial fishing has all but destroyed the little guys on L.I. and Billy Joel deserves a lot of credit for his continued support of them against big business.

thanks for the lyrics. His boat was pink when I last saw it. And named for his daughter airc.

[Brother Buzz]

30. I'll see that Pete Seeger and raise it a Woody Guthrie

[XemaSab]

88. Said Pete about his songs back in the day:

"Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I."

[LWolf]

154. Good choice. nt

[sendero]

3. Just one..

....

Everlast (Whitey Ford) "What It's Like"


We've all seen the man at the liquor store beggin' for your change
The hair on his face is dirty, dreadlocked and full of mange
He ask the man for what he could spare with shame in his eyes
Get a job you fuckin' slob's all he replied


God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes
'Cause then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues
Then you really might know what it's like

Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom who said he was in love
He said don't worry about a thing baby doll I'm the man you've been dreamin' of
But three months later he said he won't date her or return her call
And she sweared god damn if I find that man I'm cuttin' off his balls
And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin' through the doors
They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore


God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes
'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose
Then you really might know what it's like
I've seen a rich man beg
I've seen a good man sin
I've seen a tough man cry
I've seen a loser win
And a sad man grin
I heard an honest man lie
I've seen the good side of bad
And the down side of up
And everything between
I licked the silver spoon
Drank from the golden cup
Smoked the finest green
I stroked the baddest dimes at least a couple of times
Before I broke their heart
You know where it ends
Yo, it usually depends on where you start

I knew this kid named Max
He used to get fat stacks out on the corner with drugs
He liked to hang out late at night
Liked to get shit faced
And keep pace with thugs
Until late one night there was a big gun fight
Max lost his head
He pulled out his chrome .45
Talked some shit
And wound up dead
Now his wife and his kids are caught in the midst of all of his pain
You know it crumbles that way
At least that's what they say when you play the game


God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news
'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose
Then you really might know what it's like
To have to lose...

[marmar]

5. That was a good song.....and I was completely shocked when I first realized Everlast....

..... was from House of Pain.

[hendo]

7. Yup, Everlast is awesome! nt

[w8liftinglady]

22. omg-that is one of my favorite songs....the video is fantastic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCZ1YteCv5M

[cherokeeprogressive]

135. I was hooked by that song the very first time I heard it. +10

[likesmountains 52]

4. Phil Ochs...could be any number of his songs, but this is my favorite

Phil Ochs
Come, get out of the way, boys
Quick, get out of the way
You'd better watch what you say, boys
Better watch what you say
We've rammed in your harbor and tied to your port
And our pistols are hungry and our tempers are short
So bring your daughters around to the port
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
We pick and choose as please, boys
Pick and choose as please
You'd best get down on your knees, boys
Best get down on your knees
We're hairy and horny and ready to shack
And we don't care if you're yellow or black
Just take off your clothes and lay down on your back
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
Our boots are needing a shine, boys
Boots are needing a shine
But our Coca-Cola is fine, boys
Coca-Cola is fine
We've got to protect all our citizens fair
So we'll send a battalion for everyone there
And maybe we'll leave in a couple of years
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
And dump the reds in a pile, boys
Dump the reds in a pile
You'd better wipe off that smile, boys
Better wipe off that smile
We'll spit through the streets of the cities we wreck
And we'll find you a leader that you can't elect

< From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/cops-of-the-world-lyrics-ochs-phil.html >

Those treaties we signed were a pain in the neck
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
And clean the johns with a rag, boys
Clean the johns with a rag
If you like you can use your flag, boys
If you like you can use your flag
We've got too much money we're looking for toys
And guns will be guns and boys will be boys
But we'll gladly pay for all we destroy
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
Please stay off of the grass, boys
Please stay off of the grass
Here's a kick in the ass, boys
Here's a kick in the ass
We'll smash down your doors, we don't bother to knock
We've done it before, so why all the shock
We're the biggest and the toughest kids on the block
And we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
And when we butchered your sons, boys
When we butchered your sons
Have a stick of our gum, boys
Have a stick of our bubble gum
We own half the world, oh say can you see
And the name for our profits is democracy
So, like it or not, you will have to be free
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World

[Canuckistanian]

9. I was going to mention "Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends"

I really need to find some more Phil Ochs albums.

[PSzymeczek]

37. Anything by Phil.

So many great songs.

[hendo]

6. five? How about two?

Signs - Five Man Electric Band
Anne Braden - Flobots (well really any of the Flobots songs because they are all quite political)

edit: and a third, old but good
Alice's Restaurant Massacree - Arlo Guthrie.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Political Science by Randy Newman

No one likes us-I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens

We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us-so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us

We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too

Boom goes London and boom Paris
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono babe
And there'll be Italian shoes for me

They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5yTYZskz58

[Richardo]

16. !!

:patriot: Jinx!

:yourock:

[PSzymeczek]

53. The Merry Minuet by the Kingston Trio

They're rioting in Africa
They're starving in Spain
There's hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain
the Whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don't like Anybody very much.



But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
For man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud
And we know for certain that some lucky day
Someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away



They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't do to us
Will be done by our fellow Man


-- Sheldon Harnick @1958

[classof56]

143. Been singing that one a lot lately. Awesome song!

Have a bunch of K-Trio albums starting with the first one. Never knew til just now who wrote The Merry Minuet. Thanks for posting, calling up the memories and educating me!

[pitohui]

140. louisiana 1927

i'm not a lyric person and prob. the lyrics of the song you chose are better but for me the classic randy newman song would be this:

What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright

[WorseBeforeBetter]

11. Ohio - CSNY; Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye; The Call Up - The Clash; ...

The Times They Are A-Changin' - Dylan; Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley; and Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday.

Oops, that's six.

[DJ13]

12. The Wall (it has to be considered as a singular piece)

Theres no greater condemnation of modern politics than that album.

[Richardo]

13. Harvest for the World - Isley Brothers

Political Science - Randy Newman
Free Nelson Mandela - Special AKA
Fight the Power that Be - Isley Brothers
Dialog - Chicago

[pinboy3niner]

14. Buffalo Springfield, 'For What It's Worth'

Actually, I don't have a single favorite or even five--I have a long list, which I won't try to recall here.

As a VN vet, I'm partial to my era so I have my own mix, from PPM's "Where have All the Flowers Gone?" to McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" to Fogerty's "Fortunate Son," and much more in the antiwar genre.

For social justice more broadly, I'd favor Woody Guthrie--especially his "This Land is Your Land" (with ALL the lyrics).

Still, there is SO much that fits the bill, and outside of those that became popularized there are many independent works that never got much attention, but were VERY good.

Pick just five? Ha! Lotsa luck...

[Stardust]

114. Surprised to learn what inspired it..

While the song has come to symbolize worldwide turbulence and confrontational feelings arising from events during the 1960s (particularly the Vietnam War), Stills reportedly wrote the song in reaction to escalating unrest between law enforcement and young club-goers related to the closing of Pandora's Box, a club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_What_It%27s_Worth_%28Buffalo_Springfield_song%29

Great song, though. (And probably the most memorable opening notes of all time.)

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Long Dark Night by John Fogerty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meQVh6Yikpo

Georgie's in the jungle
Knockin' on the door
Come to get your children
Wants to have a war

Come on
Lord you'd better run
Be a long dark night
Before this thing is done

Brownie's in the outhouse
Katrina on the line
Government's a disaster
But Georgie, he says it's fine

Come on
Lord you'd better run
Be a long dark night
Before this thing is done

Rummie's in the kitchen
Messin' with the pans
Dickie's in the back
Stealin' everything he can

Come on
Lord you'd better run
Be a long dark night
Before this thing is done

You better run
You better run
Lord you better run
Lord you better run

Runnin' down the highway
Shoutin' to the Lord
Georgie's got religion
And you know we can't
Afford more years

Come on
Lord you'd gotta run
Be a long dark night
Before this thing is done
Be a long dark night
Before this thing is done

[pinboy3niner]

24. BIG Fogerty fan here

I've seen him perform several times, and gathered a group of VN vets to see him at our county fair. "Fortunate Son" always resonated...

He wrote another song about the Iraq War:

Deja Vu (All Over Again) by John Fogerty

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio
Did you try to read the writing on the wall
Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before
It's like Deja Vu all over again

Day by day I hear the voices rising
Started with a whisper like it did before
Day by day we count the dead and dying
Ship the bodies home while the networks all keep score

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio
Could your eyes believe the writing on the wall
Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before
It's like Deja Vu all over again

One by one I see the old ghosts rising
Stumblin' 'cross Big Muddy
Where the light gets dim
Day after day another Momma's crying
She's lost her precious child
To a war that has no end

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio
Did you stop to read the writing at The Wall
Did that voice inside you say
I've seen this all before
It's like Deja Vu all over again
It's like Deja Vu all over again

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. Love that one too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkazf7znllQ

[pinboy3niner]

58. Thanks--that was a good performance

After he left CCR and his contractual obligations went through some weird changes, Fogerty was obligated to PAY ROYALTIES anytime he performed the songs he'd written when he was with CCR--and for years, he refused to perform those songs.

I was in the D.C. area in '86, when HBO staged a "Welcome Home Concert for Vietnam Veterans," with Fogerty as one of the performers. I was there, at the concert, when he said he hadn't performed those songs for years--but he'd do for the Vietnam vets, even if he had to pay for it.

I always loved his music. But that night I really came to love the guy who wrote and performed it...

[proud2BlibKansan]

61. Great songwriter and performer but a sad life story

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Dear Mr. President - Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eDJ3cuXKV4

Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?

Dear Mr. President,
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind.
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?

Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President,
You'd never take a walk with me.
Would you?

[mfcorey1]

85. Dedicated to George Bush...... I loved it. Link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRApNHSRRk

[proud2BlibKansan]

87. Is there a problem with the link in my post?

:shrug:

[archiemo]

97. This gets my vote!!!

[Urban Prairie]

18. Here are a couple of mine

Dogs Of War-Pink Floyd

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
The dogs of war don't negotiate
The dogs of war won't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world



Silent Running-Mike And The Mechanics

Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I'm with the high command

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

There's a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
(Can you hear me) hear me calling you?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running babe?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running?
Calling you, calling you

[H2O Man]

104. Okay, here are a few:

Bob Dyland & Jacques Levy: The Story of the Hurricane (lyrics by Levy, music by Dylan)

Peter Tosh & Bob Marley: Get Up, Stand Up (lyrics by Tosh, music by Marley)

John Lennon: Luck of the Irish

Steppenwolf: Monster

Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun

[Curmudgeoness]

129. So glad you mentioned Monster by Steppenwolf.

Too many to mention, all of my favorite music is political/social.

[XemaSab]

19. Harrowdown Hill

by Thom Yorke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ybWaIvmaM

[MrSlayer]

20. Reaganomics by D.R.I.

Reaganomics killing me!
Reaganomics killing me!
Reaganomics killing me!
Reaganomics killing you!!


Short and to the point.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

21. (1) 'Fight the Power' (Public Enemy); (2) 'Imagine' (John Lennon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_the_Power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(song)

[PSzymeczek]

50. Also

"Working Class Hero" by John Lennon.

[baldguy]

23. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"

An old folk song covered most recently by Bruce Springsteen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYsSVNl8xmE

[iamjoy]

25. Allentown and Born in the USA

those are the only two I can think of now that haven't already been named

Allentown
Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling Out Forms, Standing in Line

....

Every child had a pretty good chance
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Born in the USA
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"

...

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go.

[pinboy3niner]

41. Two more good choices

'Born' is more narrowly focused on the experience of VN vets, but can be extended to encompass veterans generally.

When I made a mix tape that included 'Born,' I juxtaposed it with Neil Diamond's 'America,' about the promise of our country. Seemingly contradictory, but both true--and it seemed fitting to play them back-to-back...

[Lyric]

26. Here are a few I like

Blue Diamond Mines - bluegrass folk song

John L. had a dream
But it's broken, it seems
Mining has had it's day
But they're stripping off my mountain top
and they pay me eight dollars a day

You might get a little poke of welfare meal
a little poke of welfare flour
But I tell you right now you won't qualify
'till you work for a quarter an hour.

In the mines, in the mines
in the Blue Diamond Mines
I worked my life away
In the mines, in the mines
In the Blue Diamond Mines
Oh, fall on your knees and pray.

Allentown - Billy Joel

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved.

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron or coke,
Chromium steel.

End of the Innocence - Don Henley

O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers clean up all details
Since daddy had to lie

Independence Day - Martina McBride

Well she seemed alright by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again
But Daddy left the proof on her cheek
I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day

Well, word gets around in a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man
But Mama was proud, and she stood her ground
She knew she was on the losing end
Some folks whispered, some folks talked
But everybody looked the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day

Let freedom ring
Let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong
Let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away
Let the guilty pay
It's Independence Day

Civil War - Guns n Roses

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"?
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see

So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power hungry, sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Working Class Hero - John Lennon

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function, you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

[deaniac21]

163. Independance Day is Hannitty's theme song.....

[CAG]

27. Woody Guthrie - I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Bob Dylan's Masters of War
Pink Floyd's Dogs of War
Pete Seeger Where Have All the Flowers Gone
John Mellencamp Check It Out

[Wickerman]

28. I'll pick five by The Stiff Little Fingers

Some snippets of lyrics from one of my favorite bands from the early punk era. Best lyrics? Best socially charged songs? Perhaps not, but no discussion of socially/politically-charged songs should exclude Stiff Little Fingers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Gov4tTB7M

"Each Dollar A Bullet"

Oh it must be so romantic
When the fighting's over there
And they're passing round the shamrock
And you're all filled up with tears
"For the love of dear old Ireland"
That you've never even seen
You throw in twenty dollars
And sing "Wearing of the Green


Each dollar a bullet
Each victim someone's son
And Americans kill Irishmen
As surely
As if they fired the gun


---------------------------------
"Fly The Flag"

Gimme a country that's red white and blue
Gimme the British way honest and true
Gimme the chance to be one of the few
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme

Gimme a kingdom where people are free
Free to do and free to be
Free to screw you before you screw me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme


Cos I'm alright
I'm alright, Union Jack
Fly the flag

---------------------------------
"Tin Soldiers"

He joined up to get a job
And show he wasn't scared
Swapped boy scout hat for army cap
At the age of 17 he was forced to choose
Now at the age of 21 he's in Catch 22

He joined up for just three years
It seemed a small amount
But they didn't tell him
That the first two didn't count
At the age of 17 how was he to know
That at the age of 21 he'd still have one to go?


Tin soldier
He signed away his name
Tin soldier
No chance for cash or fame
Tin soldier
Now he knows the truth
Tin soldier
He signed away his youth

---------------------------------
"Suspect Device"

Inflammable material is planted in my head
It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead
Their solutions are our problems
They put up the wall
On each side time and prime us
And make sure we get fuck all
They play their games of power
They mark and cut the pack
They deal us to the bottom
But what do they put back?


Don't believe them
Don't believe them
Don't be bitten twice
You gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out
Suss suspect device


---------------------------------
"Wasted Life"

I could be a soldier
Go out there and fight to save this land
Be a people's soldier
Paramilitary gun in hand
I won't be no soldier
I won't take no orders from no-one
Stuff their fucking armies
Killing isn't my idea of fun


They wanna waste my life
They wanna waste my time
They wanna waste my life
And they've stolen it away

[Urban Prairie]

29. Megadeth has several I like

Symphony Of Destruction, Blackmail The Universe

But my all time favorite of theirs is this song performed live:

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?

What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"?
I talk to him every day.
What do you mean, "I don't support your system"?
I go to court when I have to.
What do you mean, "I can't get to work on time"?
I got nothing better to do
And, what do you mean, "I don't pay my bills"?
Why do you think I'm broke? ...huh?

Chorus
If there's a new way,
I'll be the first in line.
But, it better work this time.

What do you mean, "I hurt your feelings"?
I didn't know you had any feelings.
What do you mean, "I ain't kind"?
I'm just not your kind.
What do you mean, "I couldn't be President...of the United States of America"?!?
Tell me something, it's still "We The People"....Right?!?

Chorus

Can you put a price on peace?
Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
Peace sells...,but who's buying?

[proud patriot]

55. I love megadeth

:-)

[Urban Prairie]

73. Yes!! But I was just a little bit too obsessed with that band in the mid 90s

I still have a massive collection of every commercial CD, VHS, and DVD that the band ever put out including some Japanese imports (Trust+Double CD Cryptic Writings) and many rare promo posters, CDs, and VHS videos(bootlegs too).

:headbang:

[proud patriot]

77. I have all the cds but only one video rusted pieces

:evilgrin:

[demwing]

31. My 5

Bob Marley: "Get Up Stand Up"

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty god is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (what you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah! )


Cat Stevens: "Peace Train" (I know this is probably not considered a "politically charged" song to most, but peace is one of my primary political motivations).

Now I've been crying lately,
thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating,
why can't we live in bliss
Cause out on the edge of darkness,
there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country,
come take me home again


Bob Dylan: "The Times They Are a Changin'"

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'


The Cranberries: "Zombie"

Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...
In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,


Woody Guthrie: "This Land Is Your Land"

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

[flvegan]

32. 5 songs? How about 4 words: Rage Against the Machine.

With an honorable mention to Rise Against.

And a nod to Eminem's "Mosh" and several songs in the Beastie Boys catalog.

[Urban Prairie]

49. My wife and I attended a RATM concert

in the late 90s, some younger kids near our seats told us that they thought we were kinda old to be there.

We laughed and I asked them how many OZZ-fests they had attended.

[w8liftinglady]

34. Sam Stone- John Prine...anti-war to the max

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9ZkYViEIs&feature=related


Sam Stone
©John Prine

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Repeat Chorus:

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.

Repeat Chorus

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. One of the saddest songs ever

[saltpoint]

108. +1

Absolutely.

[Dr Morbius]

138. First one I thought of.

Sam Stone almost made me cry for the first several years I knew it. Brilliant piece of work.

Supertramp's "Bloody Well Right" comes to mind.

[pitohui]

141. wow just looking at the johnny cash performance of sam stone on you tube yesterday!

great song!

truly...so many great songs...

[NeoGreen]

36. Working Class Hero - Lennon

Working Class Hero - Lennon
As soon as your born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career,
When you can't really function you're so full of fear,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
There's room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill,
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be.
If you want to be a hero well just follow me,
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.

[Lindsey]

47. "Working Class Hero" was the first thing that popped into my

mind. It doesn't get more real than that.

[quiller4]

38. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, Union Maid

Draft Dodger Rag, Universal Soldier and Which Side Are You On.

[proud2BlibKansan]

39. American Idiot by Green Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEZs_Kcms

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's going out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

[marmar]

40. Yep. ..... and When September Ends too.

nt

[TBF]

94. Holiday (Green Day)

Say, hey!

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon in flame (Hey!)
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (Hey!)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

(Hey!)
(Say, hey!)

"The representative from California has the floor"

Sieg Heil to the president Gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday

[applegrove]

42. Alice's Restaurant. I forget the name of the writer. I think it was a Guthrie.

[gateley]

45. Arlo. (You're obviously a sweet young thing. :-) nt

[applegrove]

64. I had a summer job on top of a mountain in Lake Louise, Alberta in 1983. One of my workmates

was a real left wing activist and used to play that song all the time. I love it but have not heard it in years.

[gateley]

68. Back In the day, we heard it all the time, too! If you like the song you'd probably

like the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064002/

God - that must have been some job -- Lake Louise is so beautiful!

:hi:

[applegrove]

70. Yes it was a dream job. It was at the Lake Agnes Tea House. I showered every morning in

a waterfall. There was no electricity. The food was amazing, the job was hard work, the customers were w o n d e r f u l (assholes don't climb mountains it seems LOL!). Thanks for the link.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

78. If you stream

www.kser.org in Everett, WA they play "Alices Restaurant" every Thanksgiving day at 2:00pm~ :)

[proud2BlibKansan]

43. Mosh by Eminem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzduPzb5pd4


I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all...
It feels so good to be back..

I scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel, re-energize and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind
I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight, you take it as I'mma whip someone's ass
If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task
And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft
Slash entrepreneur who has helped launch a few more rap acts
Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mr. kisses ass crack, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back


Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)

All the people up top on the side and the middle
Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)



Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is God just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...
Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight.



And as we proceed,
To Mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements, if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And Mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator
Do you guy's hear us...hear us... (Hailie)

[gateley]

44. The one that's currently going through my head:

1. Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_6TU1T7V8

2. Takin' it to the Streets - Doobies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54lfxiid_w

3. Nature's Way - Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRrRMp9FUx4


Those ar ethe three that seem to keep popping into my head lately, but as the horror morphs and changes, so does my mental soundtrack.

[proud2BlibKansan]

48. I wore that Spirit album out

Just loved it.

[gateley]

54. ...

:thumbsup:

[proud2BlibKansan]

56. Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzdnz82TSZw&feature=related

[gateley]

63. Haha! When I was getting the link for Nature's Way Mr. Skin was going through

my head, AND Fresh Garbage AND Mechanical World!

The one I'm really loving now, for some reason, is that Thunderclap Newman one. Never got the '45 thought :7

ETA -- NOW I Got A Line On You is going through my head. I haven't "heard" so much Spirit in years!! :hi:

[ms liberty]

92. Gamma w/Ronnie Montrose did a great cover of #1 on "Gamma 2"

A great album, with a great cover too.

[DBoon]

46. "Know Your Rights" by The Clash

This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights all three of them

Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang

Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it.

Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well..............................

Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You don't have a home to go to
Smush

Finally then I will read you your rights

You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you

Listen to this
Run

[FourScore]

137. ANYTHING by The Clash.

That's not a song...I just mean, literally, anything by The Clash is fantastic.

[tabatha]

51. For more recent times

Merle Haggard - America First
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrHPjm4qKM

Merle Haggard: Where Did America Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgFlX3qUkU4

[proud2BlibKansan]

65. Where Did America Go has become an anthem for the tea party

Good song but I hate that they have basically stolen it.

[tabatha]

66. oops, I did not know that.

It is a 2008 song - referring to Bush.

[proud2BlibKansan]

69. I know that

But you know the teabaggers are stupid and don't know history.

[proud patriot]

52. alrighty then here's mine

The rush limbaugh song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SScW9r0y3c4

Yell Fire Micheal Franti w/ Spearhead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viYdHvYM6ao

Not ready to make Nice Dixie Chicks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI&ob=av2n

Franco American NOFX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzpTmcq7nBg

What it's like Everlast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPoEA43cqKc

Spreading the disease Queensryche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUAekdWSO4

Right in two TOOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzh2f2TWR8

Me and mimi and a hundred nuns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0M8lllqQIA

turncoat Anti flag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa5KJ5C-QP8

[boppers]

57. Only 5?

1. Which side are you on. Florence Reece:

Come all of you good workers,
Good news to you I’ll tell,
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell.

cho: Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner,
And I’m a miner’s son,
And I’ll stick with the union,
Till every battle’s won.

They say in Harlan County,
There are no neutrals there.
You’ll either be a union man,
Or a thug for J.H. Blair.

Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can.
Will you be a lousy scab,
Or will you be a man ?

Don’t scab for the bosses,
Don’t listen to their lies.
Us poor folks haven’t got a chance,
Unless we organize.

2. Mosh by Eminem (posted above)

3. John Henry (too many artists and variations to note).

4. Ball of Confusion (Temptations, I think):
People movin' out
People movin' in
Why, because of the color of their skin
Run, run, run, but you sho' can't hide
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
Vote for me, and I'll set you free
Rap on brother, rap on
Well, the only person talkin'
'Bout love thy brother is the preacher
And it seems,
Nobody is interested in learnin'
But the teacher
Segregation, determination, demonstration,
Integration, aggravation,
Humiliation, obligation to our nation
Ball of Confusion
That's what the world is today

The sale of pills are at an all time high
Young folks walk around with
Their heads in the sky
Cities aflame in the summer time
And, the beat goes on

Air pollution, revolution, gun control,
Sound of soul
Shootin' rockets to the moon
Kids growin' up too soon
Politicians say more taxes will
Solve everything
And the band played on
So round 'n' round 'n' round we go
Where the world's headed, nobody knows
Just a Ball of Confusion
Oh yea, that's what the wold is today

Fear in the air, tension everywhere
Unemployment rising fast,
The Beatles' new record's a gas
And the only safe place to live is
On an indian reservation
And the band played on
Eve of destruction, tax deduction
City inspectors, bill collectors
Mod clothes in demand,
Population out of hand
Suicide, too many bills, hippies movin'
To the hills
People all over the world, are shoutin'
End the war
And the band played on.

5. Eve of destruction, P. F. Sloan:
The eastern world it is explodin',
violence flarin', bullets loadin',
you're old enough to kill but not for votin',
you don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin',
and even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Can't you see the fears that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
and marches alone can't bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin',
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
but when you return, it's the same old place,
the poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,
and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
no no you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

[marmar]

59. And I forgot

Don't Believe the Hype, Public Enemy

Caught you lookin' for the same thing
It's a new thing check out this I bring
Uh Oh the roll below the level
'Cause I'm livin' low next to the bass C'mon
Turn up the radio
They claim that I'm a criminal
By now I wonder how
Some people never know
The enemy could be their friend guardian
I'm not a hooligan
I rock the party and
Clear all the madness, I'm not a racist
Preach to teach to all
'Cause some they never had this
Number one, not born to run
About the gun...
I wasn't licensed to have one
The minute they see me, fear me
I'm the epitome - a public enemy
Used, abused without clues
I refused to blow a fuse
They even had it on the news
Don't believe the hype...

[guruoo]

60. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBeV7l8bnY

[Erose999]

103. I really wish Gram would have written more political songs. I grew up listeing to Ralph Emory and

I think Gram's analysis is pretty much spot on, lol.

[KakistocracyHater]

62. I only have 2, because I like new songs & I haven't listened to the radio much

"I Voted & It Didn't Count" by Fake? aka System Syn & "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" by James McMurty

[Fool Count]

67. Leonard Cohen

"Democracy"

It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.

It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on ...

I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

[lostnfound]

124. Mine too. nt

[gateley]

71. Ooh! Ooh! It Can't Happen Here - Zappa. nt

[GoCubsGo]

101. And, another of his...

"Dumb All Over": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li7FZ6E8HOo&feature=related

[grahamhgreen]

72. "that's the way" - Zeppelin, "Dear Mr President" - Pink, "War Pigs"

I don't know how I'm gonna tell you, I can't play with you no more,
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me, My friend, the boy next door.
I can't believe what people saying, You're gonna let your hair hang down,
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long, You're in the darker side of town.

And when I'm out I see you walking, Why don't your eyes see me?
Could it be you've found another game to play, What did mama say to me?

That's The Way, Oh, That's The Way it oughtta be, yeah, yeah,
Mama say That's The Way it oughtta stay, yeah, yeah, ooh, ooh

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes?
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.  

I don't know what to say about it,
When all your ears are turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?

That's the way... That's the way it oughtta be, oh don't you know now,
Mama said, mama said... that's the way it's gonna stay, yeah. ahh, ahhh, ahhhhhhhh



--------
Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why

Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We're not dumb and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye

Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothin bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Ohhh

How do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
would u






 ----------


"War Pigs"

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away.
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah.

Time will tell on their power minds,
making war just for fun.
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
wait till their judgement day comes, yeah.

Now in darkness world stops turning,
as you hear the bodies burning.
No more War Pigs have the power,
And as God has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, God is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercies for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Oh lord,

(this one is RATHER appropriate for the chicken hawks in the last two administrations)

[GreenArrow]

127. I was hopin' someone would throw in that

Sabbath!

[Urban Prairie]

74. Chicago Transit Authority-Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?

A song on one of the very first albums that I bought, after almost an entire decade (60s) of buying only 45s.

The album had the chants of "The Whole Worlds Watching" from the '68 DNC antiwar protests recorded on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_world_is_watching

after their followup album, the band had shortened their name to Chicago, and went ugh...soft rock.


As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was
on my watch, yeah...
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is?
I don't
Does anybody really care?
care
If so I can't imagine why?
about time
We've all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no

And I was walking down the street one day
A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had
stopped cold dead
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is?
I don't
Does anybody really care?
care
If so I can't imagine why?
about time
We've all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no

And I was walking down the street one day
Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock,
oh, so I just don't know,
I just don't know
And I said, yes I said

Background Vocal:
People runnin' everywhere
Don't know the way to go
Don't know where I am
Can't see past the next step
Don't have to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why?

Does anybody really know what time it is?
I don't
Does anybody really care?
care
If so I can't imagine why?
about time
We've all got time enough to die
Oh no, no!!

[pinboy3niner]

75. Gotta plug The Kenedys

Late one night I met a guy, Pete, at the counter of a coffeee shop in Vienna, VA. We were both writing in notebooks--he, writing songs, and me, writing for a Vietnam veterans' publication. When Pete heard what I was doing, he insisted on getting a booth--and interrogated me about VN all night.

I was 20 when I went, but I told him about how the average age of troops coming in-country was 19, and about how many of us had been influenced by our fathers' service in WWII. I told him about the hellish fighting in and around the A Shau Valley, and how I came to question my beliefs about the war.

As I left, Pete told me, "Welcome home," and said, "Maybe I'll write a song about this. I thought, yeah, some wannabe songwriter.

A couple months later, at a vet event, I overheard someone talking about a new song called, "19 in Vietnam," by a guy named Pete Kennedy. He did a solo acoustic version, and a rock version with his band, "Bound for Glory." And it won Best New Rock Song at the Whammys, the D.C. area version of the Grammys.

Pete's song:

19 in Vietnam
by Pete Kennedy

Well I'm a bushhog scratchin' for a rat underground
in the jungle of the valley A Shau
I gave him 18 rounds and he didn't go down
I'm dealin' with the devil again

I turned 19 in Vietnam
19 in Vietnam

Well we started out thinkin' we were some kind of heroes
Fightin' just like our daddies did
But now the gung-ho crew is very few
and the rest are just frightened kids

I turned 19 in Vietnam
19 in Vietanm

You spend a year in hell feelin' so alone
Seein' more than a kid can bear
Countin' the days 'til they ship you home
But there ain't no welcome there

When you're 19 in Vietnam
19 in Vietnam
And Wond'rin' Why?

Pete later married and he and his wife, Maura, perform as The Kennedys, still doing the folk/rock Pete andf Maura did before, solo or with a band. They are great lib/prog artists, doing commentary during their shows that would cause GOPbaggers to walk out--and that's fine with them.

Google them and check out their music, and you won't be disappointed. The venues they prefer are mostly coffee houses (I once saw them perform at a BBQ joint in MD). No sellouts here--they are a leftist act, and they're proud to proclaim it.

[tabatha]

76. wow, great story

on edit:

here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm0f3tZ1MIY

[pinboy3niner]

79. Thanks for the link, tabatha

A postscript:

After I learned of his recordings, I got together with Pete and he told me he'd put his notes of our meeting away for a while. Until he and a friend were driving in Pete's pickup through the VA countryside one day, and his friend remarked that the treelines bothered him--that was where they usually got ambushed from in Vietnam.

Pete's friend was someone he'd known for many years--he played in Pete's band, and they had even lived together at one time. And Pete never knew, until that drive in the country, that his friend and bandmate and former roommate was a VN vet. So Pete also interrogated HIM about VN, and that's when he came to write the song.

My favorite version of the song is still the first one I heard--on a 45 RPM record that a friend got for me after we learned about it. Also, in some later versions, Pete dropped the last line, "And wond'rin' why?" which I thought was absolutely critical to the message.

Thanks for getting it.

[FourScore]

136. Very cool story. n/t

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

80. This is fun, here's mine;

Compared to What?- Les McCann and Eddie Harris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzvlivbptXk

2 Plus 2 is on my mind-Bob Seger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2tsVBMaTVk

Sam the Alligator- Jim Hinde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHaDiQwGzTM

John Browns War- Bob Dylan
Bob's webpage won't cooperate for the link

Rednecks- Randy Newman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGw_vAnqPI

[pinboy3niner]

81. Another entry--Peter, Paul and Mary: The Great Mandala...

Peter, Paul & Mary: The Great Mandala
Songwriters: Travers, Mary Allin; Grossman, Albert B.; Yarrow, Peter;

So I told him that he'd better shut his mouth
And do his job like a man.
And he answered "Listen, Father,
I will never kill another."
He thinks he's better
than his brother that died
What the hell does he think he's doing
To his father who brought him up right?

Chorus:
Take your place on The Great Mandala
As it moves through your brief moment of time.
Win or lose now you must choose now
And if you lose you're only losing your life.

Tell the jailer not to bother
With his meal of bread and water today.
He is fasting 'til the killing's over
He's a martyr, he thinks he's a prophet.
But he's a coward, he's just playing a game
He can't do it, he can't change it
It's been going on for ten thousand years

(Chorus)

Tell the people they are safe now
Hunger stopped him, he lies still in his cell.
Death has gagged his accusations

We are free now, we can kill now,
We can hate now, now we can end the world
We're not guilty, he was crazy
And it's been going on for ten thousand years!

Take your place on The Great Mandala
As it moves through your brief moment of time.
Win or lose now you must choose now
And if you lose you've only wasted your life.

[eilen]

82. New Band-- New White Trash

http://newwhitetrash.com/album/doublewide

Meltdown
You only wish you could take the money and run
Cash it all in for some fun in the sun
But the bailout came and left you blind
Now the taxman’s comin for your behind

I’m on my my, I’m on my my
I’m on my my meltdown
I’m on my meltdown
I’m on my my, I’m on my my
I’m on my meltdown
I’m on my my meltdown

The New White Trash is your new face
Fallen from the middle and you’re facing a hard race
Sock it to me baby, and you can’t win
Got more goin out than you got coming in
Everything you know is looking like a lie
You only want to work and not one bite
Now you’re selling something
For cash on the side
You’re the New White Trash and you can’t hide

I’m on my my, I’m on my my
I’m on my my meltdown
I’m on my meltdown
I’m on my my, I’m on my my
I’m on my meltdown
I’m on my my meltdown

The New White Trash is your new line
Ain’t no doubt about it, you’re losing big time
When everything was good, it all turned bad
You’re the New White Trash and you’ve been had

You’re the New White Trash
You’re the New White Trash
And you’ve been had

I’m on my my, I’m on my my
I’m on my my meltdown
I’m on my meltdown
I’m on my my, I’m on my my
I’m on my meltdown
I’m on my my meltdown

All the news is fresh from the TV set
You’re the New White Trash, that’s what you’ll get
Being played like a fish made to jump
You’re the New White Trash
And it’s coming round to nothing for you
And you're sunk



COLD LIGHT OF DAY 04:21
You have to see it for yourself
Take a trip from Detroit down to New Orleans
Hear a hundred heartbreak stories
In every one at least a hundred broken dreams
Shuttering all the windows
Melting down into nothing left
But one thing only
How cold it is in the bright
Cold light of day


I’m not running away I’m staying

Everybody’s leaving
They’re already gone
Everybody’s left with the frowns
Run away from this town
From the neon glittering crowd
Run away from this town
From the neon
Cold light of day

Everybody’s leaving
They’re already gone
Run away from this town

Everybody’s leaving
Bye bye bye bye
They’re already gone
Bye bye bye bye

[grasswire]

83. 1854 Hard Times Come Again No More

by Stephen Collins Foster


Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh Hard times come again no more.
Chorus:
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
Hard Times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
Oh hard times come again no more.
While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh hard times come again no more.
(Chorus)
There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,
With a worn heart whose better days are o'er:
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,
Oh hard times come again no more.
(Chorus)
Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Oh hard times come again no more.
(Chorus)

[lovemydog]

84. Those are five great ones!

Off the top of my head I'd pick:

Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday

Working for the Clampdown by the Clash

Satisfaction by the Stones, and

Police and Thieves by Junior Marvin

[Initech]

86. How about albums instead?

#5 - Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire

#4 - Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime

#3 - Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

#2 - Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

#1 - Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way

[laundry_queen]

89. Monster Hospital by Metric. nt

[sohndrsmith]

90. John, Keb', Jack, Stevie... I know there are so many more...

1. KEB' MO'
STAND UP (AND BE STRONG)
Listen up get ready, I'm not gonna
take no more
There's a revolution, a revelation
going on in my soul
Buckle up, get ready, we're not
gonna sit back & wait
And allow ourselves, and each other
to lose control of our fate
There'll be no sacrifice, no more tears
No more pain, no more fears
I'm gonna make my move
get out of my way
Cause we've been waitin' way too long


We don't weep, we don't moan
We've got a mind, of our own
That's right, we can't go wrong
If we, stand up and be strong

Get up everybody, get off your ass
We gotta do something, and we got
to do it fast
Cause the people are hungry, starvin'
and the fuel is low
Don't wait for Jesus, he ain't comin' back no mo'
We gotta sacrifice, have no fear
Shed no blood, shed no tears
We've gotta make our move, get out of our way
'Cause we've been waiting way too long



2. THE BEATLES
REVOLUTION
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

Ah, ah...

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right


3.
JACK JOHNSON
THE HORIZON HAS BEEN DEFEATED
The horizon has been defeated
by the pirates of the new age
alien casinos
The horizon has been defeated
by the pirates of the new age
alien casinos
well maybe it's just time to say
things can go bad
and make you want to run away
but as we grow older
the troubles just seems to stay

future complications
in the strings between the cans
but no prints can come from fingers
if machines become our hands
and then our feet become the wheels
and then the wheels become the cars
and then the rigs begin to drill
until the drilling goes too far

things can go bad
and make you want to run away
but as we grow older
the horizon begins to fade away

thingamajigsaw puzzled
anger don't you step too close
because people are lonely and only
animals with fancy shoes
hallelujah zig zag nothing
misery it's on the loose
because people are lonely and only
animals with too many tools
that can build all the junk that we sell
sometimes it makes you want to yell

things can go bad
and make you want to run away
but as we grow older
the horizon begins to fade away

4. CAT STEVENS
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY
Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes.
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch on summer from a slot machine.
Get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything.

I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.
For your lorryloads pumping petrol gas.
And you make them long, and you make them tough.
But they just go on and on, and it seems you can't get off.

Oh, I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

When you crack the sky, scrapers fill the air.
Will you keep on building higher
'til there's no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

5. BETTE MIDLER
LAUGHING MATTERS
Live at Five and CNN
keep us all abreast
of breaking stories that can tend
to make us anxious and depressed.
Problems with no answers
hang on like some chronic cough.
And every day some brand new issue
rears it's head to piss you off.

Bad guys win.
Optimism's wearing thin.
Things are spinning out of control.
Cynicism's all the fad.
World events could make us mad
as hatters.
Almost every day
some underpinning slips away.
These aren't laughing matters.

Time bombs tick.
People keep on getting sick.
And a nickel's not worth a cent.
Wickedness and greed abound.
Just as peace is gaining ground
it shatters.
Hate is here to stay,
and justice goes to those who pay.
Friend, these aren't laughing matters.

The truth is scarier by far
than anything that Stephen King could write.
The stories in the paper are
the daily small decline and fall
spelled out in black and white.

Oh, what to do, what to do?
how to take a brighter view
when your noodle's totally fried.
Human spirits need to be
leavened by a little levity.
So take those blues
and bounce them off the wall.
Keep your humor please,
'cause don't you know it times like these that
laughing matters most of all.

----
More:

Keb' Mo': "Victims of Comfort"
Queen: "White Man"
Julia Fordham: "Genius"
Stevie Wonder: "Big Brother" (actually has the words "vote" and "election" in it...)
Harry Nilsson: "You're Breaking My Heart" (sardonic listing, yes)

And... in honor of Delaware's Christine O'Donnell....
The Beatles: "Everybody's Got Something To Hide 'Cept For Me And My Monkey (there is so much innuendo here - it speaks for itself).

[aikoaiko]

91. The Who's Young Man Blues -- its simple, but it still gets me going

It still speaks to the youth who see little future or opportunity

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38g1c_young-man-blues-the-who_music

Well a young man
He ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said a young man
Ain't got nothin' in the world these days

In the old days
When a young man was a strong man
All the people stepped back
When a young man walked by

You know nowadays
Well it's the old man's
Got all the money
And a young man
Ain't got nothin' in the world these days

You know nowadays, if you're the young man
You ain't got nothin' in the world these days

[redwitch]

93. So many to choose from!

Wasteland of the Free -Iris DeMent
If I had a Rocket Launcher -Bruce Coburn
Lives in the Balance-Jackson Browne
I Aint Marching Anymore-Phil Ochs
Fire of Freedom-Black 47

[TBF]

95. The Dropkick Murphys -

most of their songs really, this one in particular -

We got the Power

Yeah, we got the power, let's do it tonight! (The power, tonight)
We got a cause and we know that it's right. (A cause to fight)
Yeah, we got the numbers, let's do it tonight! (The numbers, alright!)
Yeah, we got the power, got the power tonight!
We got the power tonight!

19 men were tried and fired, August 26th through 29th
For violation of rule 35
The forbidden right to organize
They suffered the loss of their livelihood that night.
That night!

A city in terror on the thin blue line.
A thousand-plus walked off the job to support their brothers' cause,
The anti-union prohibition clause.
Demanded loyalty at any price
On the thin blue line.

[MH1]

96. 'We can run' by the Dead

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/run.html

it's not just about the environment.

for the other 4, I'd have to think about it. Long list to choose from. :)

[Pathwalker]

98. Here's 2: Eve of Destruction by Sgt. Barry Sadler, I'm Not a Number by Bob Seger.

Don't have the lyrics, sorry. Also, songs by Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, and Billy Joel.
Yep, I'm old.

[Dr Morbius]

142. Old enough to remember Barry Sadler and confuse him with Barry McGuire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRAU11JXcvU

Sgt Barry Sadler did The Ballad of the Green Berets.

[Pathwalker]

160. Sorry about that. Like I said, I AM old, and yeah, my memory sucks.

especially when it comes to old songs. If I could delete my post, I would.

[moriah]

99. "Folded Flags" by Roger Waters

BTW: if you haven't watched the movie this song was used as one of the major themes, "When The Wind Blows" is a gutpunch.

Rock a bye baby
On the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock
Oh babe, hate to see you fall that way
Better speak to the powers that be today

Hey Joe, where you goin'
With that gun in your hand?
You can take your revenge
But you'll still feel bad
There must be more to life than lucky strikes
And some unlucky ones
And folded flags and pipes
And drums

I stood in the wings with you
Our lives in the hands of a second-rate actor
Holding the high ground
Of some old stage
Oh babe, how do these jaded stars get so far away
Will they catch what the moral had to say

Hey Joe, where you goin'
With that dogma in your head?
You can prove your point
But your kids will still be dead
Bring down the curtain
This soap opera must surely close
Before the cold wind blows

Hey Joe, where you going
With that gun in your hand
You can take your revenge
But you'll still feel bad
Bring down the curtain
This show must close
Before the cold wind blows

So rock a bye baby
On the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock
There must be more to life than lucky strikes
And some unlucky ones
And folded flags and pipes
And drums

[alfredo]

100. Black Sky - Sam Phillips

The trees are listening each time a missiles made
They hide three mystics the earth sends from her grave
To tell us the future has been stolen away
By diggers, drillers and sellers
But we wont stop till were under a black sky

He took my picture int he cemetery sun
My body was tempted to crumble into one
Reunion of dust until creations done
Returning ashes to ashes
We wont stop till were underneath a black sky

The commerce the intrigue
Self-slaughtered souls cry out to dead poor men
For a drink at the water hole
But their tongues will burn dry
As the day they were sold for
Forests raped into deserts
We wont stop till were underneath a black sky

A sample of the song. A fan video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7lVNUIO7g

[Erose999]

105. 1.) Elvis Presley - In the Ghetto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw

Theres a reason everybody remember Elvis and Johnny Cash, and nobody remembers the pathetic fuck who wrote "Welfare Cadillac":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRKOmAPejNQ

Guy Drake doesn't even have a wikipedia page. Welfare Cadillac is back in rotation on country music radio now though, thanks to the teabaggers.


2.)Refused - Wormes of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull:

I got a bone to pick with capitalism and a few to break
Grab us by the throat and shake the life away
Human life is not commodity, figures, statistics or make believe

And yeah, I like eating excrement, not getting paid for it
Play the guilt, play the fear & play the anxiety
And yeah, I like eating excrement, not getting paid for it
Play the guilt, play the fear & play the anxiety

Seduced by the opportunity and robbed of hope
Alienation is not commodity, figures, statistics or make believe

Yeah!
One more time. Oh!

Marginalise away the joy and sell us boredom

And yeah, I like working doing nothing, not making anything
Blame the poor, blame the uneducated & blame the sick
And yeah, I like working doing nothing, not making anything
Blame the poor, blame the uneducated & blame the sick

3.) Drive By Truckers - 3 Alabama Icons

An explanation of the George Wallace phenomenon and how southern politicians exploit the issue of race.

4.) John Henry (traditional)

My favorite renditions are Johnny Cash's on "Live at Folsom Prison"

and Jason Isbell's "The Day John Henry Died":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUX4zq3FmU

5.) CCR - Fortunate Son

Anybody seen my Creedence tapes?

[Count Olaf]

106. great thread!!!

have to add SUM 41

SUM 41- No Reason WHEN WE ALL FALL DOWN IT WILL BE TOO LATE

How can we fake this anymore?
We turn our backs away and choose to just ignore
(Some Say) Some say it's ignorance
It makes me feel some innocence
It takes away a part of me
But I won't let go,

Tell me,why can't you see it's not the way
When we all fall down it will be too late
Why is there no reason we can't change?
When we all fall down who will take the blame
Who will it take

If nothing could ever be this real
A life unsatisfied that I could never feel
This futures not so bright
Some can't make the sacrifice
It's much more than just black and white
And I won't fall

Tell me, why can't you see it's not the way
When we all fall down it will be too late
Why is there no reason we can't change
When we all fall down who will take the blame
Who will it take

Times like these I've come to see how
Everything but time is running out




Sum 41- March of the Dogs The root of all evil standing tall Under God and above us all

I don't believe in the politics of chosen fools and hypocrites,
Who walk a line that's tread so fine.
Is it death or glory you have in mind ?

And here we go again it's mass delusion
And no one knows who leads the revolution now.
As tension grows the way to a conclusion.
It's too late there's no time.
All for none, none for one, two, three, four !

March of the dogs to beat of disillusion
Sworn under god, breeding panic and confusion.
The white flag is down, send in the clowns
The carnival of sins is now about to begin.

It may be I'm a pessimist
But I'd say we need an exorcist
The root of all evil standing tall
Under God and above us all.

And here we go again in desperation
And all we know is confusion and frustration now
As tension grows no vision of salvation
It's too late, there's no time.

[saltpoint]

107. Impressive list, marmar.

Let me maybe add, not replace, with:

"Sugar Trade," by James Taylor:

"The Crown and the Cross / The musket and the chain
The white man's religion / The family name
Two hundred years later and who is to blame?
The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane?"


"Bread and Roses," by James Oppenheimer ( I have the recording by Judy Collins ):

"As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too."



"I Am Changing My Name to Chrysler" by Tom Paxton:

"Since the first amphibians crawled out of the slime
We've been struggling in an unrelenting climb
We were hardly up and walking before money started talking
And it's sad that failure is an awful crime
Well it's been that way for a millenium or two
But now it seems that there's a different point of view
If you're a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic
Down to congress there's a safety net for you"


"When All the Slaves Are Free," by Joni Mitchell:

"Oh all around the marketplace
The buzzing of the flies
The buzzing and the stinging
Divinely barren
And wickedly wise
The killer nails are ringing

Enter the multitudes
In Exxon blue
In radiation rose
Tragedy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?"


and


Woody Guthrie & Martin Hoffman's "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos":

"So goodbye, my Juan and goodbye, Rosalita
Adios, mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be 'deportee.' "


marmar. Great post.

Thank you.

[pipi_k]

109. OLDIES...but still appropriate with minor lyric changes to #5 ;)

Somebody's Baby by Pat Benatar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhUHDif9n4




If I Can Dream by Elvis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S3SnFS9EH0



Indian Reservation by Paul Revere and the Raiders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMQbedCZj0



Society's Child by Janis Ian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QPF-duKQro&feature=related




The F-U-C-K Song/Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag by Country Joe & the Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xD8j8ye9k

[WCGreen]

110. I Ain't a Marchin Any More..... Phil Ochs....

[opiate69]

111. Jackson Browne - "Lives in the Balance"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFowNFvmUxw&feature=related

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headline
and the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to her people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interests run

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say their names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us everything from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

[saltpoint]

113. As good as it gets.

It's got teeth and integrity.

Great call.

[saltpoint]

112. Another dozen tunes, just for the hell of it:

Ralph McTell -- "Streets of London"

Have you seen the old man
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper,
with his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
And held loosely at his side
Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind


Gordon Lightfoot – "Mother of a Miner’s Child"

She is my light
In this place where the darkness never ends
She'll guide me where the tunnels twist and bend
She's the only one who listens when I tell her
I got less than I can spend
She knows the pace
Oh mother of a miner's child
Wash away the coal dust from my face


Nina Simone – "Mississippi Goddam"

Can't you see it? Can't you feel it?
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer

Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam


John Hartford – "Steam Whistle Blues"

Well, the city's growing up where it looks all square
Like a crossword puzzle on the landscape.
It looks like an electric shaver now
Where the courthouse used to be.
The grass is all synthetic
And we don't know for sure about the food.
The only thing we know for sure is them steamboat whistle blues.
I'd sit and watch my TV if I thought I could trust the news.
About the only thing I trust these days
Is them steamboat whistle blues.


Elton John & Bernie Taupin -- "Indian Sunset"

Trampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof tracks in the sand
Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands
I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead
He'd been laying down his weapons when they filled him full of lead
Now there seems no reason why I should carry on
In this land that once was my land I can't find a home
It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming
And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running
For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones
Where the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of guns


Walter Robinson – "Harriet Tubman"

One night I dreamed I was in slavery,
'Bout eighteen fifty was the time,
Sorrow was the only sign,
Nothing around to ease my mind.
Out of the night appeared a lady,
Leading a distant pilgrim band.
"First mate," she yelled, pointing her hand,
"Make room on board for this young woman."

Singing: Come on up, mm mm mm, I got a lifeline
Come on up to this train of mine
Come on up, mm mm mm, I got a lifeline
Come on up to this train of mine.
She said her name was Harriet Tubman
And she drove for the underground railroad.


Ben Harper -- "Mama's Got a Girlfriend Now"

You see mama don't watch your damn football
And your beer drinkin' just won't do
You're just stayin' out late
And you're preachin' the hate
And you never have been true

You see mama she want her somebody
Who will let her be herself
So she's leavin' you
And your stinky damn ways
Cause she's found somebody else

And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now


John McCutcheon – "Water From Another Time"

It don't take much, but you gotta have some
The old ways help the new ways come
Just leave a little extra for the next in line
They’re gonna need a little water from another time


Joe South -- "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home"

But there`s a six-lane highway down by the creek
Where I went skinny-dippin` as a child
And a drive-in show where the meadows used to grow
And the strawberries used to grow wild

There`s a drag strip down by the riverside
Where my grandma`s cow used to graze
Now the grass don`t grow and the river don`t flow
Like it did in my childhood days

Don`t it make you wanna go home?
Don`t it make you wanna go home?
All God`s children get weary when they roam
Don`t it make you wanna, wanna go home?


Bob Dylan -- "Political World"

We live in a political world
Where mercy walks the plank
Life is in mirrors
Death disappears
Up the steps into the nearest bank.

We live in a political world
Where courage is a thing of the past
Houses are haunted
Children unwanted
The next day could be your last.


John Prine -- "Hello In There"

We had an apartment in the city,
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."


Pete Townshend -- "The Sea Refuses No River"

The sea refuses no river
No pecking code respected for the damned
The sea refuses no river
Whether starving and ill
Or strung on some pill
Just 'cos you own the land
There's no unique hand plugs the dam
The sea refuses no river
And the river is where I am

[blondeatlast]

115. In no particular order: Billie Holliday, Strange Fruit; Fishbone, UGLY and Party at Ground Zero;

Don Henley, End of the Innocence; Edwin Starr, War,

I could go on and on, btw...

[sfpcjock]

116. Phil Ochs - "I Ain't Marching Any More"

Here's the link on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pgrKSwFJE

[Catshrink]

117. Neil Young: Let's Impeach the President for Lying

"Let's Impeach The President"

Let's impeach the President for lying
And misleading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door

Who's the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
They bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war

Let's impeach the President for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government's protection
Or was someone just not home that day?

Flip - Flop
Flip - Flop
Flip - Flop
Flip - Flop

Let's impeach the president for hijacking
Our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he's cracking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There's lots of people looking at big trouble
But of course our president is clean.

Thank God

[jimlup]

121. I second that one!

Neil Young rocks!

[JustAnotherGen]

119. Cool thread

Shame on You - Indigo Girls (Old song - but so relevant today)
World on Fire - Sarah Machlachlan
Know he's not popular - but I love love love: Peace Train - Cat Stevens. I'm fortunate to have a Natalie Merchant version too.
You Haven't Done Nothing - Stevie Wonder
*hides head in a paper bag* - Something To Believe in by Poison. If you are thinking I've gone off my rocker - listen to it sometime.


One more - I'm part Native American and with our world/environment in distress - it has been known to bring a tear to my eye - Last Resort by The Eagles

[Generic Other]

120. So many great songs!! Thanks for a wonderful thread!!

K&R and Bookmarked!!

Steve Earle

Rich Man's War

Jimmy joined the army ‘cause he had no place to go
There ain’t nobody hirin’
‘round here since all the jobs went
down to Mexico
Reckoned that he’d learn himself a trade maybe see the world
Move to the city someday and marry a black haired girl
Somebody somewhere had another plan
Now he’s got a rifle in his hand
Rollin’ into Baghdad wonderin’ how he got this far
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war

Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there
Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war

When will we ever learn
When will we ever see
We stand up and take our turn
And keep tellin’ ourselves we’re free

Ali was the second son of a second son
Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come
Ain’t nothin’ else to do around here just a game children play
Somethin’ ‘bout livin’ in fear all your life makes you hard that way

He answered when he got the call
Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah
A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bCVoMCeYY

*****************************

The Revolution Starts Now

I was walkin’ down the street
In the town where I was born
I was movin’ to a beat
That I’d never felt before
So I opened up my eyes
And I took a look around
I saw it written ‘cross the sky
The revolution starts now
Yeah, the revolution starts now

The revolution starts now
When you rise above your fear
And tear the walls around you down
The revolution starts here
Where you work and where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do and what you say
The revolution starts now
Yeah the revolution starts now

Yeah the revolution starts now
In your own backyard
In your own hometown
So what you doin’ standin’ around?
Just follow your heart
The revolution starts now

Last night I had a dream
That the world had turned around
And all our hopes had come to be
And the people gathered ‘round
They all brought what they could bring
And nobody went without
And I learned a song to sing
The revolution starts now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG8ZUaLACZ8&feature=related

**************************************************

"The Bell" by Stephan Smith and Pete Seeger

"Oh where are you going?" said the man at his desk
"I'm going to a new world," said the child and he stood
And he stood, and he stood, and t'were well that he stood
"I'm going to a new world," said the child and he stood

"Oh I'm sounding drums of war," said the man at his desk
"Oh, I will not fight your war," said the child and he stood
And he stood, and he stood, and t'were well that he stood
"I will not fight your war," said the child and he stood

"Oh, but don't you love your country?" said the man at his desk
"Yes, I do, but you don't," said the child and he stood
And he stood, and he stood, and t'were well that he stood
"I do but you don't," said the child and he stood

"Oh, but do you know the truth?" said the man at his desk
"Yes, you lie and call it truth," said the child and he stood
And he stood, and he stood, and t'were well that he stood
"You lie and call it truth," said the child and he stood

"Oh, you must be scared to die," said the man at his desk
"No, I'm prepared and you're scared," said the child and he stood
And he stood, and he stood, and t'were well that he stood
"I'm prepared and you're scared," said the child and he stood

"Oh, I think I hear a bell," said the man at his desk
"Yes, it's ringing you to hell," said the child and he stood
And he stood, and he stood, and t'were well that he stood
"Yes, it's ringing you to hell," said the child and he stood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuYlAs054ik

*************************************************

Resistance - David Rovics

You can say that it's about the savages
You can say you have a better way to live
You can call it Manifest Destiny
You can talk of all your civilization will give
You can say that we're a thing of history
And progress is the future you will bring
You can send your armies to these mountains
You can say we'll prosper beneath your king

But there will always be resistance
The next battle will always be near
As long as you have everything
There will be those who have nothing to fear
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
Because our future is not yours to choose

You can say you've got to stop the communists
You can say that our ideals can't succeed
You can say that competition is the only way
And a global system based on greed
You can call yourself a democrat
You can call yourself whatever you will
You can keep on stamping out the fires you start
So you might stay on top of the hill

But there will always be resistance
The next battle will always be near
As long as you have everything
There will be those who have nothing to fear
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
Because our future is not yours to choose

You can say that all of us are traitors
Because we oppose your wars of conquest
And your scheming corporations
And all the crimes that they have not confessed
You can say that we are not patriots
Because our nation is not your empire
Because we refuse to stand idly by
As our cities are rising up in fire

But there will always be resistance
The next battle will always be near
As long as you have everything
There will be those who have nothing to fear
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
Because our future is not yours to choose

You can say that all of us are terrorists
Madmen bent on destroying all that's free
You can say that we are building weapons
As your bombers fly from sea to bloody sea
You can say you're with us or against us
And to die quietly is what we now must do
You can maintain your innocence
You can say that you are many, as you represent the few

But there will always be resistance
The next battle will always be near
As long as you have everything
There will be those who have nothing to fear
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
Because our future is not yours to choose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKuoXbI0wfQ&feature=related

***********************************************

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose

Race hatred cannot stop us
This one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow
And greed has got to go
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose.

All of you fascists bound to lose:
I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
You’re bound to lose! You fascists:
Bound to lose!

People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching ‘cross these fields
Where a million fascists dies
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!

I’m going into this battle
And take my union gun
We’ll end this world of slavery
Before this battle’s won
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ&feature=related

**************************

Utah Phillips - There is Power In The Union

Would you have freedom from wage slavery,
Then join in the grand Industrial band;
Would you from mis'ry and hunger be free,
Then come! Do your share, like a man.

CHORUS:
There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingmen.
When they stand hand in hand,
That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
That must rule in every land --
One Industrial Union Grand.

Would you have mansions of gold in the sky,
And live in a shack, way in the back?
Would you have wings up in heaven to fly,
And starve here with rags on your back?

If you've had "nuff" of "the blood of the lamb,"
Then join in the grand Industrial band;
If, for a change, you would have eggs and ham.
Then come! Do your share, like a man.

If you like sluggers to beat off your head,
Then don't organize, all unions despise,
If you want nothing before you are dead,
Shake hands with your boss and look wise.

Come, all ye workers, from every land,
Come join in the grand Industrial band.
Then we our share of this earth shall demand.
Come on! Do your share, like a man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O93YpTYCWRk&feature=related

*************************************

Joan Baez - Joe Hill


I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead,"
"I never died," says he
"I never died," says he
"In Salt Lake, Joe," says I to him,
Him standing by my bed,
"They framed you on a murder charge,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead."
"The copper bosses killed you, Joe,
They shot you, Joe," says I.
"Takes more than guns to kill a man,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die."
And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
Joe says, "What they forgot to kill
Went on to organize,
Went on to organize."
"Joe Hill ain't dead," he says to me,
"Joe Hill ain't never died.
Where working men are out on strike
Joe Hill is at their side,
Joe Hill is at their side."
"From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine and mill,
Where workers strike and organize,"
Says he, "You'll find Joe Hill,"
Says he, "You'll find Joe Hill."
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead,"
"I never died," says he
"I never died," says he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6SMAJQW8Y

[asdjrocky]

122. Here's a few-

Yell Fire - Michael Franti and Spearhead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viYdHvYM6ao

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm, we come to wake up the snoring

They tellin' you to never worry about the future
They tellin' you to never worry about the torture
They tellin you that you'll never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mommas
The F-15 is a homicide bomber

TV commercials for a popping pill culture
Drug companies circling like a vulture
An Iraqi babies with a G.I. Joe father
Ten years from now is anyboby gonna bother

Yell Fire, yo, yo ,yo
Here we come, here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolour scream
Everybody trying to get their hands on same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All of the riches taken back by needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on the record, you can play us on the CD
All the shit you given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can brutalize them
Tell the corporation you can never globalize you
Like Peter Toss said Legalize It
Girls and boys hear the bass and treble
Rumble in the speakers and it make you wanna rebel
Throw your hands up, take it to another level
And you can never, ever, ever make a deal with the devil

Fortunate Son - Credence Clearwater Revival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief",
oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no senator's son,
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, no,

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves? oh.
But when the taxman come to the door,
Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, no.

Yeh, some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, how much should we give,
oh, they only answer, more, more, more, yoh,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no military son, SON, NO
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, NO NO

Killing in the Name Of - RATM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkuOAY-S6OY

Killing in the name of!
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Huh!

Killing in the name of!
Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
But now you do what they told ya
Well now you do what they told ya

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Uggh!

Killing in the name of!
Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control (7 times)
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
And now you do what they told ya!

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Come on!

Yeah! Come on!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Motherfucker!
Uggh!

That's all I got for now. Give me 5 minutes and I'll think of more.

[tabatha]

123. Lucky Dube

THE WAY IT IS
Didn' t I raised my voice
High enough for you
I was running like a fugitive all the time
Risking rejection from my own people yeah
Now that you got what you wanted
You don' t even know my name
It' s so funny, we don' t talk anymore
be good to the people on your
Way up the ladder
Cause you' ll need them on your way down

Chorus:
That' s the way it is x4

Didn' t I raised my fists high enough for you
I guess I can' t pat myself on the shoulder
For a job well done
Dodging bullets in the streets
I was there
Risking rejection from my own people yeah
Now that you got what you wanted
You don' t even know my name
remember
Be good to the people on your way
Up the ladder 'cause you' ll need
Them on your way down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUkv5FKpN5Y


VICTIMS
Didn, t know she was crying
Until now as she turns to look at me
She said boy o' boy you bring tears to my eyes
I said what, she said
Boy o' boy you bring tears to my eyes
Bob Marley said
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
But little did he know that
Eventually the enemy
Will stand aside and look
While we slash and kill
Our own brothers
Knowing that already
They are the victims of the situation

Still licking wounds from brutality
Still licking wounds from humiliation
She said all these words and the
Wrinkles on her face became
Perfect trails for the tears and she said;

Chorus: (x3)
We are the victims everytime
We got double trouble everytime

She took me outside to the churchyard
Showed me graves on the ground
and she said;
There lies a man who fought for equality
There lies a boy who died in his struggle
Can all these heroes die in vain
While we slash and kill our own brothers
Knowing that already they are the
Victims of the situation

Still licking wounds from brutality
Still licking wounds from humiliation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFQyLYzbV-o

[BluePatriot]

125. BYOB by System of a Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzd9KyIDrM


WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR?

Barbarisms by Barbaras, With pointed heels.
Victorious victories kneel For brand new spankin deals
Marching forward hypocritic
and hypnotic computers.`
You depend on our protection,
Yet you feed us lies from the table cloth.

Lalalalala...ouu...

Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.

kneeling roses disappearing,
into Moses’ dry mouth,
breaking into Fort Knox,
stealing our intentions,
Hangars sitting dripped in oil,
Crying FREEDOM!

Handed to obsoletion,
Still you feed us lies from the table cloth...

[GreenArrow]

126. Woody Guthrie

"1813 Massacre"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz7oguguIZE

Johnny Cash "Ballad of Ira Hayes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKDLQWEvubc

Dead Kennedys -- "Kill the Poor"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8OIl9t9hjk

Sly and the Family Stone -- "Everyday People"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgVOR28iG_o

Loretta Lynn -- "The Pill"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcdONaKSQM

[TonyMontana]

128. Stones - Gimme Shelter, Young - Ohio, and everything by Rage Against The Machine

[Curmudgeoness]

130. Here are some of my suggestions:

Monster-Suicide-America by Steppenwolf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFKphodBQI

(Monster)
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And 'til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog

And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey

(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem generous and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
'Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin'

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

(America)
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster

...........

The Great Compromise by John Prine
(The girl in this song is America. I could choose several Prine songs.)
video is not Prine, but is a good rendition and I couldn't find Prine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkmR-hfAADk&feature=related

I knew a girl who was almost a lady
She had a way with all the men in her life
Every inch of her blossomed in beauty
And she was born on the fourth of July
Well she lived in an aluminum house trailer
And she worked in a juke box saloon
And she spent all the money I give her
Just to see the old man in the moon

Chorus:
I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory
And awake in the dawn's early light
But much to my surprise
When I opened my eyes
I was a victim of the great compromise

Well we'd go out on Saturday evenings
To the drive-in on Route 41
And it was there that I first suspected
That she was doin' what she'd already done
She said "Johnny won't you get me some popcorn"
And she knew I had to walk pretty far
And as soon as I passed through the moonlight
She hopped into a foreign sports car

(Repeat chorus)

Well you know I could have beat up that fellow
But it was her that had hopped into his car
Many times I'd fought to protect her
But this time she was goin' too far
Now some folks they call me a coward
'Cause I left her at the drive-in that night
But I'd druther have names thrown at me
Than to fight for a thing that ain't right

(Repeat chorus)

Now she writes all the fellows love letters
Saying "Greetings, come and see me real soon"
And they go and line up in the barroom
And spend the night in that sick woman's room
But sometimes I get awful lonesome
And I wish she was my girl instead
But she won't let me live with her
And she makes me live in my head

(Repeat chorus)


.........


Little Boxes performed by Pete Seeger, written by Malvina Reynolds
(or almost anything Seeger did.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3rN59GlWw

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

...........

The Loving Kind by Nanci Griffith
(one of her newest, but so many from her too.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PX9eWGGmqY&feature=related

They were the loving kind
She was black and he was white
In Virginia nineteen fifty-eight
They found love amongst the hate

Well the law said they could not wed
They married anyway
The sheriff put them both in jail
Separated 'till they made their bail

They changed the heart of a nation
with their wedding vows
From the highest court in the land
Their union would lawfully stand
Simply Mildred and Richard
That's how they'll be remembered
They proved that love is truly blind
They were the loving kind.

The Lovings lived a quiet life
In their Virginia home
and while the case worked it's way through the courts
They brought three children to this world
Richard died in seventy-five
Mildred kept their love alive
'Till the spring of two thousand-eight
Fifty years beyond the hate

They changed the heart of a nation
with their wedding vows
From the highest court in the land
Their union would lawfully stand
Simply Mildred and Richard
That's how they'd be remembered
They proved that love is truly blind
They were the loving kind.

............

HAVE YOU BEEN TO JAIL FOR JUSTICE? by Peter Paul and Mary, written by Anne Feeney
(too many Peter Paul and Mary to choose from also)

Sorry, can't find a video.


Was it Cesar Chavez or Rosa Parks that day?
Some say Dr. King or Ghandi
Set them on their way
No matter who your mentors are
It’s pretty plain to see
That if you’ve been to jail for justice
You’re in good company

Have you been to jail for justice?
I want to shake your hand
‘Cause sitting in and laying down
Are ways to take a stand
Have you sung a song for freedom
Or marched that picket line?
Have you been to jail for justice?
Then you’re a friend of mine

You law abiding citizens
Come listen to this song
Laws are made by people
And people can be wrong
Once unions were against the law
But slavery was fine
Women were denied the vote
While children worked the mine
The more you study history
The less you can deny it
A rotten law stays on the books
‘til folks with guts defy it!

Have you been to jail for justice?
I want to shake your hand
‘Cause sitting in and laying down
Are ways to take a stand
Have you sung a song for freedom
Or marched that picket line?
Have you been to jail for justice?
Then you’re a friend of mine

Well the law is supposed to serve us
And so are the police
When the system fails
It’s up to us to speak our piece
We must be ever vigilant
For justice to prevail
So get courage from your convictions
Let ‘em haul you off to jail!

Have you been to jail for justice?
I want to shake your hand
‘Cause sitting in and laying down
Are ways to take a stand
Have you sung a song for freedom
Or marched that picket line?
Have you been to jail for justice?
Then you’re a friend of mine
Have you been to jail for justice
Have you been to jail for justice
Have you been to jail for justice
Then you’re a friend of mine

[Atticus]

131. "We Can't Make It Here", James McMurtry (link)

http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com/we_cant_make_it_herelyrics.htm

[saltpoint]

133. Yes. James McMurtry is terrific, but under-rated, IMO.

And his old man writes a hell of a novel, too.

[FourScore]

134. Bye Bye, Miss American Pie.

Even the one with Teddy Kennedy's voice over.

[Juche]

139. The offspring - LAPD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8-Pp8ox18

Aside from that: Sepultura - Refuse/Resist, NIN - Burn, Disturbed - land of confusion

etc

[Radical Activist]

144. Natural Man - Lou Rawls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvoRDZsD078

Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine

Union Burying Ground - Woody Guthrie

Zombie - Fela Kuti

Ass-Breath Killers - The Coup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtl-k6HzWX8

[pitohui]

145. the wind in my heart the dust in my head (3 to add and not exactly 3 obscure ones either!)

what is politics? well everything is politics really...dylan, guthrie, clash, marley, etc. are certainly favorites but you guys have truly neglected some classics haven't you? example...

#1...a little stunned everyone has forgotten the talking heads (we will write music that doesn't involve sex or love, trust me, THAT'S radical/political/impossible)

"listening wind" -- talking heads

i thought about putting the words but the words are too simple, it's the words plus the music that makes this song perfect


#2...rocked back on my rear end stunned that neil young hasn't been mentioned, i mean WTF!????

We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive...

#3 johnny cash... no further comments, you either get it or you don't -- the person who mentioned sam stone has a clue train, youtube cash doing sam stone, that's a total mind blower

[DeSwiss]

146. You Haven't Done Nothin' - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised -- Be Ever Wonderful.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2ma2mfyhU">You Haven't Done Nuthin'

We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you

But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing!"

It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else

And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing"!

Jackson 5 join along with me say
Doo doo wop - hey hey hey
Doo doo wop - wow wow wow
Doo doo wop - co co co
Doo doo wop - naw naw naw
Doo doo wop - bum bum bum
Doo doo wop

We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when mislead who knows a person's mind
Can turn as cold as ice un hum

Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing!"
Yeah

Jackson 5 sing along again say
Doo doo wop
Doo doo wop - oh
Doo doo wop - co co co
Doo doo wop - sing it baby
Doo doo wop - bum bum bum
Doo doo wop - um
Sing it loud for your people say
Doo doo wop - um um um

Doo doo wop - stand up be counted, say
Doo doo wop - co co co
Doo doo wop - ow
Doo doo wop - bum bum bum
Doo doo wop - ah hum


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ3ZG_Wams">"Higher Ground"

People, keep on learnin'
Soldiers, keep on warrin'
World, keep on turnin'
cause it won't be too long.

Powers, a-keep on lyin',
while your people, a-keep on dyin'
World, keep on turnin',
cause it won't be too long.

I'm so darn glad He let me try it again,
'cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin.
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then.
Gonna keep on tryin' till I reach the highest ground.

Teachers, a-keep on teachin'
Preachers, keep on preachin',
World, keep on turnin',
'cause it won't be too long.
oh, no

Lovers, a-keep on lovin'
while believers, keep on believin'.
Sleepers, just stop sleepin'
'cause it won't be too long.
Oh, no!

I'm so darn glad He let me try it again,
'cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin.
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then.
Gonna keep on tryin' till I reach the highest ground.

(Spoken) An' Stevie knows that, uh, no-body's gonna bring me down.
Till I reach the highest ground.
(Spoken) 'cause me 'n' Stevie, see, we're gonna be a sailin' on the funky sound
Till I reach the highest ground.
(Spoken) Bustin' out, an I'll break you out, 'cause I'm sailin' on.
Till I reach the highest ground
(Spoken)Just, uh, sailin' on sailin' on the higher ground
Till I reach the highest ground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM4wvq8MtHA">Jesus, Children of America

Hello Jesus
Jesus children
Jesus loves you
Jesus children
Hello children
Jesus loves you
of America

Are you hearing
What He's saying ?
Are you feeling
What you're praying ?
Are you hearing,
praying, feeling
What you say inside ?

You'd better tell
Your story fast...
And if you lie
It will come to pass...

Tell me!
Tell me holy
Holly roller
Holly roller
Are you standing
Are you standing
Like a soldier ?
Like a soldier ?
Waell...
Are you standing
for everything
you talk about ?
Holly roller...

Say
Transcen-
Transcendental
meditation
Meditation
Speaks of
Speaks of inner
Inner preservation
Preservation
Waell...
Transcendental
meditation gives
you peace of
mind
Peace of mind

You'd better tell
Your story fast...
And if you lie
It will come to pass...

Tell 'em
Don't lie to 'em
Don't tell lies
Tell 'em
Don't lie to 'em

Ooh, hu hu...uh
uh uh...yeah

Tell 'em
Don't lie to 'em
Don't tell lies
Tell 'em
Tell 'em Jesus

Tell me
Tell me junkie
If you're able
If you're able
Playing
Are you playing
your cards
On the table
On the table
Yeah...
Are you happy
when you stick a
needle in your
vein
Hey hey
Tell the children
Hey hey hey

Jesus
Jesus died on
Cross for you
Cross for you
Mary
Mary is just
Looking at you
Looking at you
Yeah...
Mother Mary feels
so much pain
Looking at him

So, you better tell
Tell your story fast...
Tell your story, story!
And if you lie
Yeah, tell your story
It will come to pass
Yeah, tell your
story, story!

Um...um I need you Jesus


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0">The Revoluton Will Not Be Televised - by Gil Scott Heron

‘‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’’

The revolution will not be televised.
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Mendel Rivers to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Keys, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wTeR4fBh8">Be Ever Wonderful

Be ever, wonderful, all right
stay as you are.
Time is right,
for you tonight.
Find your place,
among the broad daylight.
Stay as you are, all right.
And be ever, be ever, wonderful, all right,
stay as you are, all right, all right.

Gonna find a few,
always walk with you -- oh baby.
Many people claim,
but don’t always view the same.

Oh, woo oh, woo oh,
As you live today,
what I wanna say,
is be ever wonderful,
in your own sweet way.

Be ever, be ever, wonderful,
stay as you are, all right.
Time-is-right,
in-your-life-tonight.
Find your place,
in the broad daylight.
Woo yeah, stay as you are.

What I wanna do,
and what I’d like to tell you.
May not be as you see,
as you live today.
What I wanna say,
be ever wonderful.
In your own sweet way.

Mmmm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don’t let the world change your mind.
Don’t let the world change your mind.
change your mind,
change your mind,
change your mind,
change your mind…..

[sweetloukillbot]

147. Christy Moore - No Time for Love

Dunno who wrote it, I'm pretty sure Christy didn't...

You call it the law, we call it apartheid, internment, conscription, partition and silence.
It's the law that they make to keep you and me where they think we belong.
The hide behind steel and bullet-proof glass, machine guns and spies,
And tell us who suffer the tear gas and the torture that we're in the wrong.

CHORUS

No time for love if they come in the morning,
No time to show tears or for fears in the morning,
No time for goodbye, no time to ask why,
And the sound of the siren's the cry of the morning.

They suffered the torture they rotted in cells, went crazy, wrote letters and died.
The limits of pain they endured - the loneliness got them instead.
And the courts gave them justice as justice is given by well-mannered thugs.
Sometimes they fought for the will to survive but more times they just wished they were dead.

CHORUS

They took away Sacco, Vanzetti, Connolly and Pearce in their time.
They came for Newton and Seal, Bobby Sands and some of his friends.
In Boston, Chicago, Saigon, Santiago, Warsaw and Belfast,
And places that never make headlines, the list never ends.

CHORUS

The boys in blue are only a few of the everyday cops on the beat,
The C.I.D., Branchmen, informers and spies do their jobs just as well;
Behind them the men who tap phones, take photos, program computers and files,
And the man who tells them when to come and take you to your cell.

CHORUS

All of you people who give to your sisters and brothers the will to fight on,
They say you can get used to a war, that doesn't mean that the war isn't on.
The fish need the sea to survive, just like your people need you.
And the death squad can only get through to them if first they can get through to you.

[Scuba]

148. Whitey on the moon. Gil Scott-Heron.

[malaise]

149. Lovely thread

I'll post mine later

[Jim Lane]

150. My favorite Fred Small song

Fred Small is another one like Phil Ochs -- so many songs to choose from. But "Denmark, 1943" stands out for me. I still get the catch in the throat and the tear in the eye at this song about how the people of Denmark came together to protect Danish Jews during World War II. Excerpt:

Christian policemen, shopkeepers, and teachers
Tell their friends of the quickening storm.
While students on bicycles race through the streets
Searching for Jews to be warned.

And Katlev the foreman blurts out to the trainman
"My family has no place to hide."
"Well bring em to my house" the stranger replies
"And we'll spit in the damn Nazi's eyes."

Full lyrics are available . (The Øresund is a strait between Sweden and Denmark; Espergaerde is a fishing town on the Danish coast.)

Fred's recording of it is on YouTube but, alas, the sound quality doesn't do justice to his performance.

[saltpoint]

152. Agree, Jim Lane. Fred Small gets it done.

Your pick there is outstanding.

Can I throw in "Heart of the Appaloosa" to the mix? It's one of the greatest compositions about the plight of Native Americans I've ever heard.

[Jim Lane]

162. Yes, "Heart of the Appaloosa" is a great one.

It's the title track for the album that also has "Talking Wheelchair Blues" and "Annie". Fred Small isn't disabled and isn't a lesbian, any more than he's a Native American or a Danish Jew, but he speaks beautifully for all these people.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

151. Black Eyed Peas

Where is the Love?

[LWolf]

153. Five that immediately come to mind, in no particular order:

Abraham, Martin, and John

Imagine

Respect

Eve of Destruction

Masters of War


Others:

This Land is Your Land

My Hero, Mr. President

John Walker's Blues

For what it's worth

Long-haired radical socialist jew

Lacrimae Laramie

Fortunate Son

[saltpoint]

155. From the looks of your lists, LWolf, I'd say you have

a top-drawer music library.

And you can't have a top-drawer music library without top-drawer instincts.

Thumbs up, and then some.

:thumbsup:

[LWolf]

157. I was nursed on protest music growing up.

:)

[saltpoint]

158. Good parenting, healthy child.

Carry on.

[NNN0LHI]

156. Only one comes to mind. Jimi Hendrix Experience - If 6 Was 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczW76rpTbM

Kind of lived my life by that one.

Don

[peekaloo]

159. Blowin' in the Wind/Dylan, A Change is Gonna Come/Sam Cooke,

Rednecks/Randy Newman }(, and Ignoreland/r.e.m.

[Iggo]

161. We've Got A Bigger Problem Now -- Dead Kennedys

"We've Got A Bigger Problem Now"

Last call for alcohol.
Last call for your freedom of speech.
Drink up. Happy hour is now enforced by law.
Don't forget our house special, it's called a Trickie Dickie Screwdriver.
It's got one part Jack Daniels, two parts purple Kool-Aid,
and a jigger of formaldehyde
from the jar with Hitler's brain in it we got in the back storeroom.
Happy trails to you. Happy trails to you.

I am Emperor Ronald Reagan
Born again with fascist cravings
Still, you made me president

Human rights will soon go 'way
I am now your Shah today
Now I command all of you
Now you're going to pray in school
I'll make sure they're Christian too

California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California

Ku Klux Klan will control you
Still you think it's natural
Nigger knockin' for the master race
Still you wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Alexander Haig is near
Vietnam won't come back you say
Join the army or you will pay
Join the army or you will pay

California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California

Yeah, that's it. Just relax.
Have another drink, few more pretzels, little more MSG.
Turn on those Dallas Cowboys on your TV.
Lock your doors. Close your mind.
It's time for the two-minute warning.

Welcome to 1984
Are you ready for the third world war?!?
You too will meet the secret police
They'll draft you and they'll jail your niece

You'll go quitely to boot camp
They'll shoot you dead, make you a man
Don't you worry, it's for a cause
Feeding global corporations' claws

Die of a brand new poison gas
El Salvador, Afghanistan
Making money for President Reagan
Making money for President Reagan
And all the friends of President Reagan

California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California