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Are you playing at the old retired hippie's home?
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
Are you playing at the old retired hippie's home?
John Cougar Mellencamp had a good one, cant remember the name of it offhand.
Huge hit though.
Scarecrow?
MiG, it would help if we knew your audience. Is it environmental? Peaceniks? Social justice?
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.
Rage Against the Machine... pretty much anything
Tracy Chapman off of Crossroads. Marvin Gay off of What's goin' on? NWA. Public Enemy.
Megadeth Peace Sells, Blackmail the Universe
A little too long for a cover, but one of the best ever:
Dig through your Jackson Brown sheet, music, too, and for a lighter touch, John Lennon The Ballad of John and Yoko.
"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
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!
Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth
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
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.
Civil War-Guns N Roses.
Whatever the Van Damme is dancing to in that sig.
I think you should include
tha Police
Last edited by Shelly; 02-20-2005 at 10:42 PM. Reason: correct spelling of the
WOW, I was just going to put that one down, and didnt think that anyone would know it! Rock on!
Ah, to be young and idealistic again.
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.
Heh, try young and idealisticly cynical?
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!
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!
That's always been one of my favorite songs...
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