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15 Apr 04 - 08:44 AM (#1162290) Subject: Protest Songs From: GUEST,MalariaMoon Dear All, I am composing a short collection of songs themed around protest music from the past and present. Does anyone have any suggestions for traditional (rather than those written in the 60s protest movement and folk revival) songs that I could feature. They can be about specific issues, or of the 'state of the world today' kind. I look forward to your suggestions. |
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15 Apr 04 - 09:15 AM (#1162317) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Snuffy Entering @protest into the search box gets you a score of songs (mostly modernish) and hundreds of discussion threads. Try also: Hard Times of Old England, Hard Times Come Again No More Handloom Weaver's Lament Song of the Western Men (Trelawney) |
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15 Apr 04 - 02:25 PM (#1162578) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: InOBU Also try the songs of Lorcan Otway... in a number of InOBU posts.... here is one.... (All rights reserved... if you want to use it contact Lorcan Otway at InOBU@aol.com) Home of the Brave and Land of the Free By Bennington's fields in the steel light of dawn crouched by a stone wall, where I knew they'd come on Musket primed for a foe from far over the wave in the land of the free and the home of the brave In this fledgling nation, just learning to fly we rallied to Shays vowing live free or die George Washington's killers felled thousands like me our crime being brave, our intent to be free In tobacco fields my mother's labor pains brought me to the life of the lash and slave chains I fled north to Canada from slavery to the home of brave and the land of the free See Crazy Horse riding now over the plain To greasy grass battle, a victory to gain From Yellow Hair's murders his people to save the Lakota live free in the home of the brave In a dark prison cell, I barely can see Hans Yoder who lies bruised and tortured like me We Quakers and Amish no Great War will fight We bravely sought freedom from tyranny's might With great grandfather's musket I offered the fight to a coward in a jet plane who struck in the night My forefathers in these mountains like me made Afghanistan home to the brave and the free So now in these days when the banners all wave ask yourself what is freedom and where are the brave have courage to stand with the brave and the free when your nation strays from the path of liberty |
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15 Apr 04 - 04:30 PM (#1162656) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Once Famous "Take This Job and Shove it" by Johnny Paycheck Why limit yourself to traditional? |
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15 Apr 04 - 05:12 PM (#1162679) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Georgiansilver Folk song from the first world war era.. "The Green Fields of France" is a favourite of mine and am sure you would find the lyrics somewhere on line. |
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15 Apr 04 - 05:27 PM (#1162689) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Georgiansilver Folk song from the first world war era.. "The Green Fields of France" is a favourite of mine and am sure you would find the lyrics somewhere on line. |
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16 Apr 04 - 03:06 AM (#1162906) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: fat B****rd See this month's MOJO mag for the top 100 protest songs. |
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16 Apr 04 - 08:40 AM (#1163095) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Snuffy Our guest is asking for pre-1960s protests. RTFM |
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16 Apr 04 - 08:58 AM (#1163109) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Dave Hanson Georgiansilver, ' Greenfields of France ' or to give it it's proper name, ' No Mans Land ' was only written a few years ago by eric Bogle. Still a great song though. eric |
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16 Apr 04 - 11:19 AM (#1163232) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: maire-aine "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" comes to mind. |
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16 Apr 04 - 11:28 AM (#1163236) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: maire-aine What I really meant was "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye". Also check out "Will Ye Go To Flanders"-- it's in the database, too. Maryanne |
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16 Apr 04 - 12:38 PM (#1163280) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: GUEST,georgiansilver Thanks Eric, nice to know the truth, even if it dashes the belief in old protest songs a bit. Best wishes. |
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21 Apr 04 - 04:06 PM (#1167203) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Macha The band played Walzting Matilda and Paddy's Lamention are really good anti-war songs. |
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21 Apr 04 - 04:13 PM (#1167210) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: s6k i dont know if you want songs before 1960 but anyway the following i have picked because they are by musicians you maybe wouldnt expect to write fantastic lyrics, but these truly are. i didnt think anyone else would mention them so here goes. deep purple - soldier of fortune iron maiden - paschendale black eyed peas - where is the love and billy bragg - bush war blues they really are excellent lyrics |
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22 Apr 04 - 04:13 PM (#1168319) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Macha Tom Leher did a few protest songs |
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22 Apr 04 - 11:32 PM (#1168583) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: toadfrog Well, try I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL, a protest song from the 1860's. Or search for "Joe Hill" in the Forum. Lots of union songs beginning in the 1890's and running through the 1940's. Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Butch Hawes et al., the Almanac Singers, used to sing those. Then there are all those Jacobite songs. But as for "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye," there is a thread on that, and it appears that an older song was transformed into a Song of Protest in the 1960's, by adding a final verse that changed its meaning. |
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30 Nov 04 - 08:26 AM (#1343097) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: John in Brisbane Refresh for my benefit. |
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30 Nov 04 - 08:40 AM (#1343105) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: freda underhill Paul Spencer is an Australian singer songwriter currently living and working in the UK. here is a link to his site: paul spencer and the stuff he's done and also a link to his site's links page, which links to a lot of other good sites for protest music. paul spencer links page Paul is a great songwriter and a lovely man. His music is highly regarded in Australia, and is performed by a lot of folkies here. |
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30 Nov 04 - 08:54 AM (#1343126) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Chumbawamba's 'English rebel songs' CD contains a good selection of old trad songs of resistance and dissent.. and is a beautifully crafted & harmoniously sung feast of an album for a good old fashioned trad family xmas sipping brandy and cider around a warm glowing logfire.. [or nicely burning local conservative club building..] |
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30 Nov 04 - 09:12 AM (#1343152) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker all the lyrics to "English Rebel Songs 1381—1984" http://www.chumba.com/_rebelstext2.htm |
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14 Feb 05 - 08:44 AM (#1409155) Subject: RE: Protest Songs From: Weasel Books Sic a Parcel of Rogues in the Nation. Burnes's reworking of a song about the closure of the Scottish Parliament, but it's still relevant whenever there are dirty politics. Blake's Jerusalem. He would turn in his grave if he knew it were part of the Anglican Hymnal. Maybe Burnes's Is There for Honest Poverty qualifies too, but I'm not sure. Just for the comic aide of things (perhaps best way to protest?) you've got Awa' Whigs Awa'. Paraphrasing part from memory: My love had a garden and bonny bloomed the roses Whigs came by and withered a' the posies. |