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Thread #42441 Message #1721603
Posted By: Songster Bob
18-Apr-06 - 11:57 PM
Thread Name: Songs about truly pissed-off people
Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people
Some from my songbag:
I am a good old rebel, now that's just what I am. For this 'fair land of freedom,' I do not give a damn. I'm glad I fit against it, I only wish we'd won. I don't want no pardon for anything I done.
I hates the Freedman's Bureau, and everything they do! I hates the Constitution, the "Great Republic," too; I hates that nasty eagle, with all its brags and fuss, Them lyin', thievin' yankees, I hates 'em wuss and wuss.
I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do! I hates the Declaration of Independence, too. Etc. (From "Unreconstructed Rebel" [O I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL] trad. from a poem published after the Civil War)
And:
It's time to turn the boat around, that's what the people say. The course our leader's setting is exactly the wrong way. The compass reads disaster, he's run us hard aground; It's time to fire the skipper, and then turn the boat around.