No protest songs anymore?

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: wdyat12
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 03:24 AM

Now their playin' "Prison Blues." Tell me that ain't no protest.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: Gervase
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 08:01 AM

...and what about our own Kevin McGrath?
He's probably too modest to bring this up, but I heard him sing his song about the Chinese kids asphyxiated in a container at Dover in a session at Sidmouth last year, and you culd have heard a pin drop. The reaction from everyone afterwards was a muted and rather emotional "Wow."
It's powerful stuff - and it's a protest song about something that happened just a year ago.

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 08:19 AM

Today's papers report Pete Seeger is giving royalties from Turn Turn Turn to help resettlement projects in Israel.
RtS

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: LR Mole
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 12:39 PM

Billy Yeats says,"The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity." From this morning's window I think, if Kent happens again, both sides will have guns, and tanks will roll in American streets. Money doesn't even have to pretend it isn't in charge, much less be shared. I've been trying to rhyme this for an hour but there's no song in any of it.

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 12:52 PM

Tin soldiers and Bush LiteTM comin'
We're finally on our own...

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:52 PM

Sang one at church on Sunday, called Rise up o People, for one of these local Broad Based Organisations, a group of local organisations that work together to improve the lot of the local people... Mosques, churches, temples, youth groups, Social centres, that sort of thing, all working together, protesting for better services (council, not church....), better facilites , more local trade/artisans used in local projects (the Millennium Dome used up to 50% local labour), living wage protests and supporting the small local businesses - keeping the big American consortium from buying up all the funeral directors in the area, that sort of thing.....

It's by a lady more known for writing church music, Bernadette Farrell, and it is bloody good, a simple, easy tune to pick up, and very stiring. Best Tolpuddle Martyrs tradition...

LTS

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:57 PM

Gervase...I have heard that most wonderful song on Kevin's site....have been itching to sing it on PalTalk sometime....that is if you do not mind, McGrath...

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: karen jonason
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 09:09 AM

Can anyone enable me to access the sheet music for Mr Basketball Shoes? I haven't got sound so will need the sheet music scanned in. People have kindly done this for me before

Subject: Lyr Add: NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM (from John Lomax)
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 06:01 PM

I would like to know the background on this song, from Cowboy Songs by John Lomax (1910). Is it is a protest song about cattle prices? Inroads of eastern ways? What period?.

LYR ADD: NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM

My country, 'tis of thee,
Land where things used to be
So cheap, we croak.
Land of the mavericks,
Land of the puncher's tricks,
Thy culture-inroad pricks,
The hide of this peeler-bloke.

Some of the punchers swear
That what they eat and wear
Takes all their calves.
Others vow that they
Eat only once a day
Jerked beef and prairie hay
Washed down with tallow salves.

These salty-dogs* but crave
To pull them out the grave
Just one Kiowa spur.
They know they still will dine
On flesh and beef the time;
But give us, Lord divine,
One hen-fruit stir**."

Our father's land with thee,
Best trails of liberty,
We chose to stop.
We don't exactly like
So soon to henceward hike,
But hell, we'll take the pike
If this don't stop.

*"Cowboy Dude," defines Lomax (?). In Adams, salty dog is defined as one who is especially good in his line of endeavor. **pancake
@cowboy @protest

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: simon-pierre
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 11:44 PM

Darn Folksinger

Subject: RE: No protest songs anymore?
From: DougR
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 06:53 PM

Mebbe somebody should write a protest song about the fact that nobody's playing protest songs on the radio anymore! Little Hawk?

DougR