Best Protest/Political Songs

[MannyIsGod]

I think I'm adding this one.

Sex Kills by Joni Mitc

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]

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]

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 ing 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]

THAT is too funny.

[Shelly]

Well, ! 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 . 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 '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 supers ion
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
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 is amusin'
es 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
Gook run when the minigun spit, won't miss
Kill , 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, 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