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PROTEST & REBELLION SONGS.."get it off your chest"

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PROTEST & REBELLION SONGS.."get it off your chest"

The only stipulation here is that the song should be commentary,  controversial, expressing a rebellious, protesting "frame of mind"; generally, or speciffically, about society, culture, economics, wealth, poverty, politics, war, peace, relationships, etc, etc, etc.

 

How about some songs which, when you heard them, you thought, "Yeh, those lyrics tell it like it is!" or maybe you were offended by the controversial lyrics.

 

Your song selection may be from any time period in history and about any topic you choose, old songs and new songs.

 

Please be free to post protest & rebellion songs which either you agreed with or which "honked" you off.

 

Here is an opportunity to "Get it off your chest!" Go ahead and briefly include memorable lyrics of the song if you like [ if you remember 🙂 ]

 

To begin.....here's a protest song:     Subterranean Homesick Blues     Bob Dylan

 

 


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"MAN IN THE MOON"- R EM- ABOUT ANDY KAUFMAN.
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THANKS FOR EXPLAINING.
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@l483260l wrote:
WHAT DOES "MO GHILE MEAR" MEAN?

My Dashing Darling  or My Gallant Hero

 

The song is veiled as a love song but is really about the exile of Bonnie Prince Charlie after the failed Jacobite uprising of 1745. 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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Cool! I did not know that, either!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw Gil Scott Heron- "the Revolution will not be Televised"- classic!
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For What it's worth by Buffalo Springfield

 

A Change is going to come by Sam Cooke

 

Give Peace a Chance by Plastic Ono Band

 

Born in the U.S.A. by Springsteen (yes, it's a protest song!)

 

Born to Run by Springsteen

 

Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman

 

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Student Demonstration Time     The Beach Boys (yep, even they protested)


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What you gonna do about me?

Quicksilver Messinger Service

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For what its worth. By buffalospringfield. THe song that is played evertime the 1960s is shown on tv. I lived it 

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Take This Job And Shove It     Johnny Paycheck


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"REVOLUTION NO. 9 "- BEATLES
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"Point of No Return" by Kansas   God Help US!  "If I Could Change the World" by Eric Clapton

 

 

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The House of the Rising Sun by the Animals

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incense and peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock

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Summer of love   1969       If your going to San Francisco be sure to wear spme flowers in your hair  by Scott McKenzie

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Sunday Bloody Sunday -- U2

 

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Give Ireland Back To the Irish -- Sir Paul McCartney & Wings

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"SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY" -U2
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Invisible Sun -- The Police

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"ORANGE CRUSH" -R.E.M.
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I Shall Be Released -- Joe Cocker

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anything by Dylan

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"ONE TIN SOLDIER"- BUFFY ST. MARIE
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ANYTHING BY JOHN TRUDELL, ESPECIALLY "TALK WITH GOD"
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"Cod'ine" - Buffy Ste Marie

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Cruel War -- Peter, Paul, & Mary

 

The Great Mandella -- Peter, Paul, & Mary 

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The Town I Loved So Well -- Phil Coulter

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Revolution by the Beatles- no one can sing that song like John Lennon! 

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Give guns to teachers?  How about giving guns to kids too!  Just like Tom Paxton sang about in the ‘60s.

 

Buy a Gun for Your Son

Words and Music by Tom Paxton

 

“Hallelujah, Dads and Mommies,
Cowboys, Rebels, Yanks and Commies
Buy yourselves some real red blooded fun.
If you want to make the grade,
You've got to have a hand grenade,
And a fully automatic G.I. Gun.

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Buy a gun for your son right away, Sir
Shake his hand like a man and let him play, Sir.
Let his little mind expand, Place a weapon in his hand,
For the skills he learns today will someday pay, Sir.

 

Pound that kid into submission
'Till he's mastered Nuclear Fission
Buy him plastic warheads by the score,
Once he's got the taste of blood,
He's gonna sneak up on his buddies
Starting his own thermo-nuclear war.

[Cho.]

 

Buy him khakis and fatigues,
And sign him up in little leagues,
Give him calisthenics as a rule.
Once you've banished fear and dread,
Then pat his seven year-old head,
And send him off to military school.

[Cho]

 

Once he's grown to be a man,
He might get tired of blasting Granny,
Then you'll see a crisis coming on.
Don't get worried, don't get nervous.
Send that kid into the service,
Let him rise into the Pentagon.

[Cho]

 

At the Pentagon he'll rise.
The President he will advise,
His reputation growing all the while.
With his picture on the wall,
He'll get that long-awaited call,
And press the firing buttons with a smile.

[Cho]“

 

God speed to the kids who will do what needs to be done to end this madness.

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...and another Tom Paxton - "What did you Learn in School Toady?"

 

(or "Jimmy Neumann" still give me chills)

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