who knows some anarchist folk songs?

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,Corona Smith
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 04:05 PM

Chumbawumba have been writing lots of lovely Anarchist folk songs, many are destined to become classics of the Genre IMO, check out there last few albums!

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,Dano
Date: 19 May 10 - 03:02 PM

Hey! I got a blog about that!
http://anarchofolk.wordpress.com
Cheers!

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 19 May 10 - 06:01 PM

Somebody should write a song about Saint Emma.

Her associate, Leon Czolgosz was indicated in
the McKinley ballad and may have been mentioned in a verse here and there.

"McKinley, he cried, McKinley he squalled,
The doctor said, "McKinley, I can't find that pistol ball"
From Washington to Buffalo

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: ollaimh
Date: 20 May 10 - 11:26 AM

here's richard bridges with another ignorant and uneducated posting. only right wingers think anarchists don't have rules. they don't have coercive relationships, but lots of rules if you have evr been a member of a collective,

as to songs, try the little red song book by the iww. they have many editions but republished every song ever in the bookma few years back.

anything by utah phillips

the canadian band sabotabby wereagreat anarchist group.

any oof the grreat union organizer joe hills songs.

and in europe there is a whole other tradition with songs in many langusges.

the little red song book is the easiest to find

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: Rog Peek
Date: 20 May 10 - 03:27 PM

'I'm a Better Anarchist Than You'
-David Rovics.

Rog

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 May 10 - 12:06 AM

two minutes and eighteen seconds and he's still not singing...

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,Continuity Jones
Date: 21 May 10 - 01:43 AM

There's a new album of anarchist folk songs called Spades, Hoes & Ploughs just been released by the Welsh folksong singer David Wrench. I only heard one song on the radio, Blackleg Miner, but it sounded very interesting. I'd say it's at the other end of the folk music scale from K Rusby, L McKeenit, J Moray et all.

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,Continuity Jones
Date: 21 May 10 - 02:18 AM

Actually I think you'll find, Mr Continuity Jones, that it's called 'Spades, Hoes & Plows' not 'ploughs' as you so ignorantly posted above. It's on Invada Records.

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,Rog Peek
Date: 21 May 10 - 04:16 AM

It's very simple on utube to move the curser on to the song if you are not interested in how he came to write it leeneia.

Rog

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,SylviaN
Date: 21 May 10 - 09:36 AM

For humour - I am a Feline Anarchist by Graham Miles.

Sylvia

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 10 - 12:15 PM

Seems to me that John Lennon wrote some stuff that was pretty anarchistic in nature. It's not folk, but....

How about "Why Don't We Do It In The Road", "Revolution #9", and "Working Class Hero"?

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: Deckman
Date: 21 May 10 - 12:21 PM

"Banks of Marble"

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: mousethief
Date: 21 May 10 - 01:11 PM

I have to assume that anarchists are incapable of singing in harmony?

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: LadyJean
Date: 22 May 10 - 12:10 AM

We have an Anarchist Marching Band in Pittsburgh. It strikes me as a bit of an oxymoron, but I have heard, seen and smelled them. They don't sound bad.

There are, heaven knows, plenty of IWW songs. If the wobblies count as anarchists.

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 22 May 10 - 08:04 PM

When Adam delved
And Eva span
Who was then
The 'gentleman'?

Subject: Lyr Add: THE RIBALD REBEL'S SONG
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 May 10 - 11:44 PM

THE RIBALD REBEL'S SONG (Fight For Liberation)

In the draft board here we sit
Covered o'er with Nixon's shit
While our sweat is turning Agnew's filthy mill
And the people, as they pass
They jam Melvin up our ass
Well I guess we've had our goddam fucking fill

Cho: Fight, fight, fight for liberation
Break, break, break the social scheme
We will drag the bastards down
And we'll grind 'em in the ground
And replace them with a working class regime

Then we'll send a firing squad
After Cardinal Spellman's God
Henry Kissinger will be the next in line
Then we'll pump some LSD
Into Jackie Kennedy
And we'll make her fuck the workers' overtime

Then we'll get a bloody rope
And we'll hang the fuckin' pope
And we'll burn the Sistine Chapel to the ground
Then we'll turn our tommy-guns
On the screaming, ravished nuns
And the peoples' voice will be the only sound

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 23 May 10 - 11:23 AM

And the last verse Dick is;

If you hate the working class, but you want to save your ass,
You'd better give your money to the poor,
Or we'll sell your mothers twat to some some sailor on your yacht,
And we will turn your favorite daughter to a whore.

Recorded by Pat Sky on SONGS THAT MADE AMERICA FAMOUS. The original version can be found in that wonderful collection THE BOSSES SONGBOOK. I think that Patrick updated it a bit.


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: who knows some anarchist folk songs?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 23 May 10 - 12:16 PM

Mark-
Don't know an original source, but I can testify that the song--at least portions of it---predated The Bosses Songbook by at least a decade.