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lastlib

(23,224 posts)
Fri May 11, 2012, 01:40 PM May 2012

Next idea: Best Protest/Anti-war/Pro-Peace songs you know....

...any song that has a "leftist" bent to it...

Like:
"Signs", Five-Man Electrical Band
"Imagine", John Lennon
"One Tin Soldier", Coven
"Eve of Destruction", Barry McGuire

(Add your own__________)

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Next idea: Best Protest/Anti-war/Pro-Peace songs you know.... (Original Post) lastlib May 2012 OP
FWIW OriginalGeek May 2012 #1
Excellent choice, that one! lastlib May 2012 #5
Marlene Dietrich - Where Have All The Flowers Gone? ohiosmith May 2012 #2
Come Away, Melinda hifiguy May 2012 #3
Down By the Riverside - Traditional gratuitous May 2012 #4
"Gulf War Song", Moxy Fruvous MiddleFingerMom May 2012 #6
A few hobbit709 May 2012 #7
clear number 1 SCantiGOP May 2012 #8
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
3. Come Away, Melinda
Fri May 11, 2012, 02:23 PM
May 2012

by the Weavers. Couldn't find a Weavers video, and I sure ain't posting the Uriah Heep version.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
7. A few
Fri May 11, 2012, 04:38 PM
May 2012

Masters Of War-Dylan
Fortunate Son-CCR
Flowers Of the Night-Paul Kantner
Several by Country Joe and The Fish.

SCantiGOP

(13,869 posts)
8. clear number 1
Fri May 11, 2012, 04:44 PM
May 2012

Master of War by Bob Dylan. The last paragraph is especially 'take no prisoners' disgust with the war machine.

"Masters Of War"

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.

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