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28 Oct 06 - 08:20 AM (#1870671) Subject: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: oldhippie This song sounds a little like Phil Ochs lyrics, but is not in his discography. Does anybody recognize it? "Years ago in the Belgian Congo mine King Leopold was doing mighty fine Working the people like a bunch of mules He built himself a palace while they had no schools The people they got those exploitation blues Chorus: Please don't burn that limosine Don't throw tomatos at the submarine Think of all we've done for you You know you've just got those exploitation blues" |
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28 Oct 06 - 10:12 AM (#1870741) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: mack/misophist Sounds more like Richard Fariña to me. But I don't recognize it. |
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28 Oct 06 - 11:09 PM (#1871068) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: GUEST,Richie Hi, What source did you get the lyrics from that you posted? Richie |
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31 Oct 06 - 06:52 PM (#1873397) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: oldhippie Richie, transcribed from listening to song. |
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31 Oct 06 - 07:37 PM (#1873430) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: GUEST,Richie Thanks, Who was singing the song? Where did you hear it? What style of instrumentation? Richie |
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01 Nov 06 - 02:54 PM (#1874071) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: oldhippie complete lyrics, mael vocal with guitar EXPLOITATION BLUES Years ago in the Belgian Congo mine King Leopold was doing mighty fine Working the people like a bunch of mules He built himself a palace while they had no schools The people they got those exploitation blues Please don't burn that limousine Don't throw tomatoes at the submarines Think of all we've done for you You know you've just got those exploitation blues Santo Domingo everybody knows We had a little trouble not long ago Shouts of freedom were in the air Democracy threatens us everywhere So we sent them a case of those exploitation blues Please don't burn that limousine Don't throw tomatoes at the submarines Think of all we've done for you You know you've just got those exploitation blues We freed Cuba in the Spanish American war We gave them freedoms they never had before We let them work for free for united fruit Gave La Battista lots of guns to shoot And the people they got those exploitation blues Please don't burn that limousine Don't throw tomatoes at the submarines Think of all we've done for you You know you've just got those exploitation blues We helped those dirty peasants in Vietnam We gave them poison gas and napalm bombs We gave them a chance to fight our war But they don't seem to love us anymore I guess they just got those exploitation blues Please don't burn that limousine Don't throw tomatoes at the submarines Think of all we've done for you You know you've just got those exploitation blues The whole world hates me and I just don't know why I give them aid and trade and apple pie I give their countries a pint of blood Take back a quart and leave them in the mud And the people they got those exploitation blues Please don't burn that limousine Don't throw tomatoes at the submarines Think of all we've done for you You know you've just got those exploitation blues |
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02 Nov 06 - 05:51 PM (#1875022) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: oldhippie lyrics above are transcribed from listening to song, it was copied from a reel to reel tape that had no info on song titles/artists. I don't know who is singing it, hoping that someone here has heard it before and can identify who recorded it. I'm guessing its 1970s vintage. |
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02 Nov 06 - 09:14 PM (#1875099) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: Charley Noble I wouldn't be surprised to find this one printed in a copy of Broadsides Magazine, edited by Sis Cunningham and Gordon Freiser. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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02 Nov 06 - 09:16 PM (#1875100) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: Charley Noble That should be Gordon "Friesen". |
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16 Dec 06 - 10:28 PM (#1911449) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: oldhippie Somebody must have heard this song before, refresh. |
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17 Dec 06 - 01:42 PM (#1911905) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: Charley Noble Oldhippie- Yes, but my collection of Braodside Magazines are even more buried than the last thing I retrieved for you. Have you no mercy? Seriously, are you putting together a songbook or are you just curious about old topical songs? Expoitation Blues is not in HARD HITTING SONGS FOR HARD-HIT PEOPLE and it's not listed in the Index of the early Broadside Magazine #1 to 25, Feb. 1962 to Apr. 1963. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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02 Feb 07 - 06:11 PM (#1956050) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: oldhippie This mystery has been solved. The writer/singer was "Bill Frederick", recorded on LP "Hey, Hey, LBJ" in 1967. I heard from the artist, now singing under his real name, Fred Stanton. |
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03 Feb 07 - 05:57 PM (#1956884) Subject: RE: Origins: Exploitation Blues From: Charley Noble Thanks for the update. Charley Noble |