Broken token songs aren't political? Hunting songs aren't political? You're joking.

Anything can be political at some time or place.

Chopping down a tree is political. Eating a hamburger is political, Driving a car, or firing a gun is political. Smoking is very political. Hunting is political. Religion is political. Letting your hair grow long or getting it cut short is political. Which footbakll team yo support is. Love is political. Singing songs and making music is political.

All those things can mean the difference between life or death at some time or place.

We could find songs about all these things that everyone would recognise as political. And you can find situations where songs that arer normally thougt of as non-political, and were very lkikely never thought of as being political by the people who wrote them, take on a sharp political meaning.

And when the times change, the same songs seem non-political. Half our nursery rhymes probably started out as political.