The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42441   Message #617512
Posted By: Coyote Breath
28-Dec-01 - 03:52 AM
Thread Name: Songs about truly pissed-off people
Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people
Check out some of Barton and Para's stuff. JOHNNY WHISTLETRIGGER for one. The "black flaggers" (guerillas) of the Civil War (USA) had some angry songs. My favorite angry "song" is Ralph Chapin's poem [THE RED FEAST]. Which starts:

"Go fight you fools, tear up the earth with strife,
and spill each other's guts upon the field.
Serve unto death the men you served in life,
so that their wide dominions may not yield."

I heard it set to music once and it comes across as an angry antiwar song. Very powerful. And then there is the parody of The Little Red Song Book known as The Bosses Song Book. It has some angry stuff like:

"Slaves of Wall street here we sit
Covered with reaction's s--t
While our sweat is filling Morgan's filthy till
And the Fascists as they pass
Jam Taft-Hartly up our a--
Well, I guess we've had our G--d---d f-----g fill!"

(sorry about the self-censorship but I don't feel comfortable writing that out and I sing that song only with friends)

CB

I guess I'm not very angry myself...