Mining: "Dark as a Dungeon"and (much more recent) The Band's "Jericho", from the CD by that name.Phil Ochs' "Small Circle of Friends" is a funny song that isn't,, and check out his "Cops of the World". Protest from unlikely places: Elvis' "In the Ghetto" and Jackson Browne's "Lives in the Balance". I'd include as a real protest tune "The Ways of Man" from the LP by that name by Bok/Trickett/Mayo-Muir. But there you tread the line between protest and resignation...