Best Protest/Political Songs

[MannyIsGod]

I'm going to be playing some covers at an event soon, and I need some more songs from which to choose from.

I'm looking for songs with a social message mainly, in the same category as some of these:

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
CCR - Fortunate Son and Who Will Stop The Rain
Lennon - Working Class Hero
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Ohio

etc etc

[dollyllama]

Are you playing at the old retired hippie's home?

[T Park]

John Cougar Mellencamp had a good one, cant remember the name of it offhand.

Huge hit though.

[dollyllama]

Scarecrow?

MiG, it would help if we knew your audience. Is it environmental? Peaceniks? Social justice?

[GoldToe]

Eve Of Destruction
By Barry McGuire, 1965


The eastern world it tis explodin',
violence flarin', bullets loadin',
you're old enough to kill but not for votin',
you don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin',
and even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Can't you see the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be noone to save with the world in a grave,
take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
and marches alone can't bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin',
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Tehn take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
but when your eturn, it's the same old place,
the poundin' of the drums, th pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,
and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

[xcoriate]

Rage Against the Machine... pretty much anything

[dollyllama]

Tracy Chapman off of Crossroads. Marvin Gay off of What's goin' on? NWA. Public Enemy.

[Fat Bones]

Megadeth Peace Sells, Blackmail the Universe

[AlamoSpursFan]

A little too long for a cover, but one of the best ever:

http://media.bestprices.com/content/music/10/107513.jpg

[dollyllama]

Dig through your Jackson Brown sheet, music, too, and for a lighter touch, John Lennon The Ballad of John and Yoko.

[Useruser666]

"In the Year 2525" Zager and Evans

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find...

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to do
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
''Guess it's time for the Judgement day''

In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say ''I'm pleased where man has been''
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing...

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Lesley Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
everything thats wonderful is what I feel
when we're together.
Brighter than a lucky penny.
When you're here the raindrops disappears
dear and i feel so fine.
Just to know that you are mine.
My life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
thats how this refrain goes.
So come on Join In. Everybody.
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
everything thats wonderful is sure to come your way
when your in love to stay.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
everything thats wonderful is what I feel
when we're together.
Brighter than a lucky penny.
When you hear the raindrops disappears
dear and i feel so fine.
Just to know that you are mine.
My life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
thats how this refrain goes.
So come on Join In. Everybody.
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
everything thats wonderful is sure to come your way
cause your in love, your in love
and love is here to stay!

[N.Y. Johnny]

Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth

[Guru of Nothing]

Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
Kenny Rogers
Music & Lyrics : M. Tillis


You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair,
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down,
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.

It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war,
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore,
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be,
Oh Ruby, I still need some company.

It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed,
And the wants and needs of a woman your age really I realize,
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around,
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.

She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door,
The way I know I heard its slams one hundred times before,
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground,
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.

Oh Ruby, for God's sake, turn around

[MannyIsGod]

So far, my setlist is going to include:

Working Class Hero
Ohio

I'm also going to do a slower acoustic version of Fortunate Son.

Actually, all of these are going to be acoustic, but I'm actualy going to mess around with Fortunate Son rather than playing it the same.

I also really want to do Southern Man.

[Duff McCartney]

Civil War-Guns N Roses.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Whatever the hell Van Damme is dancing to in that sig.

[Shelly]

I think you should include

Fuck tha Police

[Drachen]

Eve Of Destruction
By Barry McGuire, 1965


The eastern world it tis explodin',
violence flarin', bullets loadin',
you're old enough to kill but not for votin',
you don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin',
and even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Can't you see the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be noone to save with the world in a grave,
take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
and marches alone can't bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin',
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Tehn take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
but when your eturn, it's the same old place,
the poundin' of the drums, th pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,
and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.


WOW, I was just going to put that one down, and didnt think that anyone would know it! Rock on!

[1369]

Ah, to be young and idealistic again.

[Fat Bones]

Manny, you're playing this gig?

Oh.


Try Neil Young Cortez the Killer.

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.

And his subjects gathered ’round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.

They carried them to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still can’t do today.

And I know she’s living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can’t remember when
Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, cortez
What a killer.

[MannyIsGod]

Ah, to be young and idealistic again.

Heh, try young and idealisticly cynical?

[Jimcs50]

War Pigs

Generals gathered in their masses
just like witches at black masses
evil minds that plot destruction
sorcerers of death's construction
in the fields the bodies burning
as the war machine keeps turning
death and hatred to mankind
poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
they only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning
as the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of god has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, god is calling
on their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
ALL RIGHT NOW!

[Useruser666]

Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees
And begged you not to leave
Because I'd go berserk

Well you left me anyhow
And then the days got worse and worse
And now you see I've gone
Completely out of my mind

And they're coming to take me away ha-haaa
They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa

You thought it was a joke
And so you laughed
You laughed when I said
That losing you would make me flip my lid

Right? You know you laughed
I heard you laugh. You laughed
You laughed and laughed and then you left
But now you know I'm utterly mad

And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa

I cooked your food
I cleaned your house
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind unselfish, loving deeds
Ha! Well you just wait
They'll find you yet and when they do
They'll put you in the A.S.P.C.A.
You mangy mutt

And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
They're coming to take me away ha haaa ho ho hee hee
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats

And they're coming to take me away
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa!

[desflood]

That's always been one of my favorite songs...

[MannyIsGod]

I think I'm adding this one.

Sex Kills by Joni Mitchell

I pulled up behind a cadillac;
We were waiting for the light;
And I took a look at his license plate-
It said, just ice.
Is justice just ice?
Governed by greed and lust?
Just the strong doing what they can
And the weak suffering what they must?
And the gas leaks
And the oil spills
And sex sells everything
And sex kills ...
Sex kills ...

Doctors’ pills give you brand new ills
And the bills bury you like an avalanche
And lawyers haven’t been this popular
Since robespierre slaughtered half of france!
And indian chiefs with their old beliefs know
The balance is undone-crazy ions-
You can feel it out in traffic;
Everyone hates everyone!
And the gas leaks
And the oil spills
And sex sells everything
And sex kills ...
Sex kills ...

All these jackoffs at the office
The rapist in the pool
Oh and the tragedies in the nurseries-
Little kids packin’ guns to school
The ulcerated ozone
These tumors of the skin-
This hostile sun beating down on
This massive mess we’re in!
And the gas leaks
And the oil spills
And sex sells everything
And sex kills ...
Sex kills ...
Sex kills ...
Sex kills ...
Sex kills ...

[CosmicCowboy]

Neil Youngs Needle and the damage done...

OUR LADY PEACE - The Needle and the Damage Done Lyrics

caught you knocking at my cellar door
love you baby can i have some more?
oh... the damage done
i hit the city and i lost my band
watched the needle take another man
gone gone, the damage done
ow... oh my my my...
sing the song because i love the man
know that some of you dont understand
milk blood to keep from running out
ow... oh my my my....
ive seen the needle and the damage done
oh a little part of us in everyone
ive seen the needle and the damage done
a little part, little part, little part
i've seen the needle
oh i
i've seen the needle
seen the needle and the damage done
a little part of us in everyone
every junkie's like a setting sun

[GoldToe]

So when and where is this gig?

[MannyIsGod]

It's more than likely going to be at Cafe Revolucion near Downtown UTSA, and There isn't a date nailed down but more than likely the in late march.

[Guru of Nothing]

I can't believe no one has mentioned what was probably the best known war protest song from the Vietnam War era.


Country Joe and The Fish's Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag.


Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those reds —
The only good commie is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Huh!

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

[Useruser666]

STATUS QUO lyrics - "I Fought The Law"


(Sonny Curtis)

Breakin' rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I needed money 'cause I had none
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won

I miss my baby and I feel so sad
I guess my race is run
She's the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won

Robbin' people with a six-gun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I miss my baby and I miss fun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won

I miss my baby and I feel so sad
I guess my race is run
She's the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won

I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law

I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law

I miss my baby and I feel so sad
I guess my race is run
She's the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won

[Jekka]

How did I forget this one?
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Love Me, I'm A Liberal
by Phil Ochs

"I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
Tears ran down my spine
I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I'm glad the commies were thrown out
of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
as long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I read New republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I vote for the democratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal"

[JoeChalupa]

Born in the U.S.A. - The Boss

[MosesGuthrie]

Abraham, Martin and John- Dion

[Useruser666]

Hell no, we won't go!!!

[Flea]

If you are going to use Neil Young you have to include Powderfinger.


Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river
With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail
I think you'd better call John, 'cause it don't
look like they're here to deliver the mail
And it's less than a mile away
I hope they didn't come to stay
It's got numbers on the side and a gun
and it's makin' big waves.

Daddy's gone, my brother's out
hunting in the mountains
Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy-Lou
Seems the Powers That Be left me here to do the thinkin'
And I just turned twenty two
I was wonderin' what to do
And the closer they got,
The more those feelin's grew.

Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin'
He told me, "Red means run, son,
and numbers add up to nothin'"
When the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin'
Raised my rifle to my eye
Never stopped to wonder why.
Then I saw black, and my face splashed in the sky.

Shelter me from the powder and the finger
Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
Think of me as one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone
Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her.

[Useruser666]

Go here http://www.ocap.ca/lyrics.html

[MannyIsGod]

:lmao

http://www.ocap.ca/songs/wallmart.html

I am the Wal-Mart
by Anonymous

"I am the Walrus" is the tune for this one.

In BC, as you will see, our company can build
a store wherever
See how we grow like a tumor on your soul
See how we bribe, and lyin'

Mega-store mania, comin' down like a urine shower
Southern Asian sweatshops, crooked bloody slavers
Man, you better run and hide we're comin' to your town
I am the pig man, I am too big man
I am the Wal-Mart, poo poo on you

Under-sellers, crushing Zellers, don't you think us
Fellers laugh at you (hoo hoo hoo, hee hee hee, ha ha ha)
See how we spread like lice on your head
See how we slime, and lyin'

Welcome to America, we are buyin' up your backyard
Crawlin' like a virus, you can try and stop us, but
Man, we've got your local council in our sweaty palm
We are the pig-men, greedy and big men
We are the Wal-Mart, poo poo on you

Sitting on a pile of money always opens the door
Stick around and watch us suck 'em in and
Annihilate your downtown core
I am the pig man, too fucking big man
I am the Wal-Mart poo poo on you

It's a shame I actually want to sound decent, or else I'd play that.

[Flea]

:lmao


THAT is too funny.

[Shelly]

Well, hell! Just buy a copy of Neil Young's Decade and you're all set.

[MannyIsGod]

Yeah, I've already got 2 Neil Young songs (Ohio and Southern Man). The man wrote some great shit. I'll probably throw in a Dylan or 2 just because, well, it's Bob.

[midgetonadonkey]

54/46 (was my number)

One of the greatest Rocksteady protest songs by Toots and Maytals.

[shelshor]

Jefferson Airplane--"Volunteers"
Pete Seeger--"Knee(?) Deep In the Big Muddy"
Merle Haggard--"Bright Lights, Big City"
Peter, Paul & Mary--"If I had a Hammer"
various--"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill"
IF you can find an unabridged copy: Woody Guthrie--"This Land Is Your Land"
Most of Bob Dylan's acoustic years

[TheSanityAnnex]

Cunninlynguists- America Loves Gangsters

"It's 6pm again
And i'm tuning into CNN watching marines mow down
Crowds with machine guns
16 weeks training, Atilla the Huns philosophies
And now they're thinking we won't bring peace to these
Streets with the same techniques that shit's hypocrisy
This ain't Democracy it's a Survival of the Fittest
A country built behind closed doors with gods as their witness
Picture this
People can become so blind that their ears can't listen
Trying to save their souls with penitentiareligion superstition
Never done unto others but claiming that they're Christian
While God's children are sittin home praying and wishing
For answers to their questions
Herd of the Armageddon wondering what side that we're destined
Life be a war ain't no time for restin
That's why you give up your seven to five, just to stay alive
Trying to fuel the fire inside before the God in me has died
Eyes, wide, trying to look out through this labyrinth
Hoping to leave this earth with the same presence that we came with
Trying to steer my path in opposite on opposite directions
That man came went
My soul came, spent, I tried to get it back
Thinking that if my heart stopped that my body could relax
But there's no time to be laxed
Because there's a war all through creation
God's Warriors are dying and gangsters are their replacements"



Vietnam Protest


RA the Rugged Man- Uncommon Valor



"True story
Call me Thorburn, John H., staff sergeant
Marksman, skill in killin', illin', I'm able and willin'
Kill a village elephant, rapin' and pillage a village
Illegitimate killers, US Military guerrillas
This ain't no real war, Vietnam shit
World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict
Soothin' drug abusin', Vietnamese women screwin'
Sex, gambling and boozin', all this shit is amusin'
Bitches and guns, this is every man's dream
I don't wanna go home where I'm just an ordinary human being
Special Op, Huey chopper gun ship run shit
Gook run when the minigun spit, won't miss
Kill shit, spit four-thousand bullets a minute
Vic the Charlie, hit trigger, hit it, I'm in it to win it
Get it, the lieutenant hinted, the villain, I been it
The killing, I did it, cripple, did it, pictures I painted is vivid, live it
A wizard with weapons, the secret mission, we 'bout to begin it
Government funded, behind enemy lines
Bullets is sprayin', it's heatin' up a hundred degrees
The enemies the North Vietnamese, bitch please
Ain't no sweat, I'm told, "Be at ease"
Until I see the pilot got hit, and we 'bout to hit some trees
Nail the road, it broke, crash land
American man in Cambodia, right in the enemy hand
Take a swig of the Whiskey to calm us
Them yellow men wearin' black pajamas, they wanna harm us
They all up on us, bang, bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no pain
To my left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brain
Body parts flyin', loss of limbs, explosions
Bad intentions, I see my best friend's intestines
Pray to the one above, it's raining, I'm covered in mud
I think I'm dyin', I feel dizzy, I'm losin' blood
I see my childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother
I see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights
I see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights
Black, Whites, Asians, people of all types
I must've died, then I woke up, surprised I'm alive
I'm in a hospital bed, they rescued me, I survived
I escaped the war, came back, but ain't escape Agent Orange
Two of my kids born handicapped
Spastic, quadriplegia, micro cephalic
Cerebral palsy, cortical blindness, name it, they had it
My son died, he ain't live, but I still try to think positive
'Cause in life, God take, God give"

[leemajors]

land of confusion!

[resistanze]

Bob Marley - Redemption song

[ShoogarBear]

Better two years late than never:

Edwin Starr "War"
Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On?" and "Mercy Mercy Me"

[peewee's lovechild]

Revolution - The Beatles

[peewee's lovechild]

Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon

[peewee's lovechild]

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon

[peewee's lovechild]

B.y.o.b. - System Of A Down

[peewee's lovechild]

B.y.o.b. - System Of A Down


You!

Why do they always send the poor


Barbarisms by Barbaras
With pointed heels
Victorious victories kneel
For brand new spankin' deals


Marching forward hypocritic and
Hypnotic computers
You depend on our protection
Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine


Kneeling roses disappearing into
Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox stealing
Our intentions


Hangers sitting dripped in oil
Crying freedom
Handed to obsoletion
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine


Blast off
It's party time
And we don't live in a fascist nation


Blast off
It's party time
And where the fuck are you?


Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?


Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?


Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?


Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?


Kneeling roses disappearing into
Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox stealing
Our intentions


Hangers sitting dripped in oil
Crying freedom
Handed to obsoletion,
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sun


Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?


Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?


Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?


Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they alwyas send the poor?

They always send the poor
They always send the poor

[Spurminator]

Spearhead - Oh My God

Slam bam I come unseen
but like gasoline you can tell I'm in the tank
like money in the bank
I smell appealing, but I'm toxic, can send ya reeling
without an inklin', keep ya thinkin'
'cause you gave cash to the feds, left your school district for dead
fucked you up in the head, but still they sayin' nothin's wrong
sellin' firewater but outlawing the bong
still believing the system is workin'
while half of my people are still outta workin'
anonymous notes left in the pockets and coats
of judges and juries from 'Frisco to Jersey
threats and protests politicians mob debts
trumped up charges and phoney arrests
stage a lethal injection, the night before the election
'cause he got donations from the prison guard's union

Oh-my, oh-my God!
in my mind they got us livin' suicide
singin' oh-my, oh-my God!
in my mind they got us livin' genocide
oh my my...

Listen in to my stethoscope on a rope
internal lullabies, human cries
thumps and silence, the language of violence
algorithmic, cataclysmic, seismic, biorhythmic
you can make a life longer, but you can't save it
you can make a clone an then you try to enslave it?
stealin' DNA samples from the onborn
and then you comin' after us
'cause we sampled a James Brown horn?
scientists who's God is progress
a four-headed sheep is their latest project
the CIA runnin' like that Jones from Indiana
but they still won't talk about that Jones in Guyana
This ain't no cartoon
no one slips on bananas
do you really think that that car killed Diana
hell I shot Ronald Reagan, I shot JFK,
I slept with Marilyn she sung me happy birthday
singin'

Oh-my, oh-my God!
in my mind they got us livin' suicide
singin' oh-my, oh-my God!
in my mind they got us livin' genocide
oh my my...

Well politicians got lipstick on the collar
the whole media started to holler
but I don't give a fuck who they screwin' in private
I wanna know who they screwin' in public
robbin', cheatin', stealin'
white collar criminal
McDonald eatin', you deserve a beatin'
send you home a weepin', with a fat bill for your
Caribbean weekend
for just about anything they can bust us
false advertising sayin' "halls of Justice''
you tellin' the youth don't be so violent
then you drop bombs on every single continent
mandatory minimum sentencin'
'cause he got caught with a pocket fulla medicine
do that again another ten up in the pen
I feel so mad I wanna bomb an institution
singin'

Oh-my, oh-my God!
in my mind they got us livin' suicide
singin' oh-my, oh-my God!
in my mind they got us livin' genocide
oh my my

[Soul_Patch]

I was going to say fuck the police...but shelly beat me too it.....by 3 years....


:cry

[MannyIsGod]

Dude, old bump.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte

[Spurminator]

Dude, old bump.


Yeah, I just heard that song and was looking for a good thread for the lyrics... I was actually looking for a hip hop lyrcis thread or something but yours came up first.

[DarkReign]

Marvin Gaye - Whats Goin On?

[DarkReign]

Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On?" and "Mercy Mercy Me"

whoops..

[Thunder Dan]

Neil Young- Rockin in the Free World

[mrsmaalox]

The Police--Spirits in a Material World
Bob Marley--Jamming
and of course, The Youngbloods---Get Together


u5ALKAaa-TU

[Viva Las Espuelas]

1DWoJBHibhM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DWoJBHibhM

[Herschel Walker]

If you ever play a church gig you gotta go with "Miracle Man"


I'm looking for a miracle man
who tells me no lies
I'm looking for a miracle man
who's not in disguise
...

[marini martini]

"For What it's Worth" Buffalo Springfield

[Twisted_Dawg]

Here is one by a cat that used to play around here long ago:

Shawn Phillips
"I took a walk"

I took a walk through the fields of America
I'll tell you what I saw in the middle of the garbage and erotica
I saw a man in pain crying to be free
Children in the rain, yelling out their glee
Well, singers on the plain, fused in harmony

Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee

People I have seen in the streets and communities
Running in a mortal fear of the violence and its companies
I saw a man in hand flying to the moon
Well, a rich man of the lands dying all too soon
I say people in the bands you really ought to learn this tune

Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee

I took a walk through the fields of America
I'll tell you what I saw, I saw a murder in a place called Attica
I saw a man called power who said you've got to fit my vision
I saw a man called law said if you don't I'm going to put you in the prison
I saw a man called peace who was shaking with the laughter of derision

Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they're gonna to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they're gonna to love you, please be true to thee

I took a walk through the fields of America
I'll tell you what I saw
I saw the blizzards and the tropics
I saw mountain streams running free and clear, Lord
Creatures of my dreams so beautiful I shed my tears
You great and wondrous land
I wonder why you cannot hear me now

Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America

America, America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America, America

[BigZak]

Freebird!

[ALVAREZ6]

War Pigs by Black Sabbath


Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'til their judgement day comes
Yeah!

Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pig's crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
All right now!

[ALVAREZ6]

land of confusion!I love this song, the cover by disturbed.

[ShoogarBear]

whoops..That's okay. I just realized somebody had beat me to Marvin in the 2005 posts.

[bendmz]

let us not forget that title song from the "BLOCKBUSTER" movie BILLY JACK;

ONE TIN SOLDIER.....

[LocosPorJuana]

john lennon- imagine

Laura pausini- donde el aire es ceniza

wyclef- if i was president

[cherylsteele]

The Charlie Daniels Band:
In America
Still In Saigon
American Farmer
M.I.A.
America, I Believe in You
This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag
Simple Man

[Mr. Peabody]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

[Mr. Peabody]

Best Ad-Libbed Political/Protest Song

o-d5x-CiTUs

[marini martini]

:lmao :lmao :lmao

Oh yea! You try singing those words with no upper teeth!

[marini martini]

The Charlie Daniels Band:
In America
Still In Saigon
American Farmer
M.I.A.
America, I Believe in You
This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag
Simple Man


:toast :toast

[peewee's lovechild]

Rockin' In The Free World
(Neil Young)

--------

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it, any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done to it
There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

[mrsmaalox]

Rockin' In The Free World
(Neil Young)

--------

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it, any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done to it
There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Dammit, I love that song. I didn't post it cuz I thought it was already here!

[LocosPorJuana]

I forgot to add John mayer's "Waiting for the World to change" and Manu chao's "It's raining in paradise."

[leemajors]

Equal Rights, Not Gonna Give it Up - Peter Tosh. Most Peter Tosh songs?