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livetohike

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40. Machine Gun - Hendrix (warning....graphic pictures of war in video)
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 08:40 PM
Aug 2013



"Machine Gun"


"Happy new year first of all. I hope we'll have
A million or two million more of them... if we
Can get over this summer, he he he. right I'd
Like to dedicate this one to the draggin' scene
That's goin' on all the soldiers that are fightin'
In chicago, milwaukee and new york... oh yeas, and
All the soldiers fightin' in vietnam. like to do
A thing called 'machine gun'."

Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart

Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart

Evil man make me kill ya
Evil man make you kill me
Evil man make me kill you
Even though we're only families apart

Well I pick up my axe and fight lik a bomber
(you know what I mean)
Hey and your bullets keep knocking me down

Hey I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now
Yeah but you still blast me down to the ground

The same way you shoot me down baby
You'll be going just the same
Three times the pain
And your own self to blame
Hey machine gun

Oooooooooo

I ain't afraid of your mess no more, babe
I ain't afraid no more
After a while your your cheap talk don't evern cause me pain
So let your bullets fly like rain

'cause I know all the time you're wrong baby
And you'll be goin' just the same
Yeah machine gun
Tearing my family apart
Yeah yeah alright
Tearing my family apart

Don't you shoot him down
He's about to leave here
Don't you shoot him down
He's got to stay here
He ain't going nowhere
He's been shot down to the ground
Oh where he can't survive no no

Yeah that's what we don't wanna hear any more, alright
No bullets
At least here, huh huh
No guns, no bombs
Huh huh
No nothin', just let's all live and live
You know instead of killin'


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I don't think we'e going, but a good excuse to post Sam Stone anyway BeyondGeography Aug 2013 #1
I hope you're right. I fear you're wrong. cali Aug 2013 #2
+1000 kentuck Aug 2013 #17
For mockery of jingoistic douchebags, go for America! Fuck Yeah! backscatter712 Aug 2013 #3
I can't stop laughing cali Aug 2013 #5
I used to hang out at this piano bar and I'd get them to play that every time. Initech Aug 2013 #73
"I Ain't Marching Anymore"- Phil Ochs enigmatic Aug 2013 #4
This is completely brilliant. limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #63
We had this great thread back in 2007 malaise Aug 2013 #6
"King Of The Hill"- Minutemen enigmatic Aug 2013 #7
oohh that was good limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #53
Ministry's good if you're into industrial metal backscatter712 Aug 2013 #8
chemical warfare: KittyWampus Aug 2013 #9
Suicide - Rocket U.S.A. BOG PERSON Aug 2013 #10
thanks. that's new to me. cali Aug 2013 #11
And of course, by the same guys, there's always "Frankie Teardrop": nomorenomore08 Aug 2013 #46
From WWI chieftain Aug 2013 #12
That was written by a guy I played a festival with in 1975 DFW Aug 2013 #58
I love Eric Bogle. chieftain Aug 2013 #75
Ineffective response, but it can warm the heart . . . Journeyman Aug 2013 #13
Green Day, American Idiot. PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #14
done catnhatnh Aug 2013 #15
Here's an original song Zorra Aug 2013 #16
that's lovely, thank you. cali Aug 2013 #18
Thanks, glad you like it. Zorra Aug 2013 #29
"Wooden Ships" - Crosby, Stills & Nash lastlib Aug 2013 #19
"We Can't Make it Here" - James McMurtry IDemo Aug 2013 #20
Excellent choice! nt adirondacker Aug 2013 #60
Anything by Utah Phillips, and his collabs with Ani DiFranco HarveyDarkey Aug 2013 #21
Jackson Browne Lives In the Balance Ptah Aug 2013 #22
a couple more cali Aug 2013 #23
Traveling solider: easttexaslefty Aug 2013 #24
This is really good. limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #57
The Ballad of Penny Evans struggle4progress Aug 2013 #25
Devils and dust easttexaslefty Aug 2013 #26
Masters of War... PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #27
War. What is it good for? easttexaslefty Aug 2013 #28
Sting ~ This War Shankapotomus Aug 2013 #30
Neil young easttexaslefty Aug 2013 #31
Monster / Steppenwolf annabanana Aug 2013 #32
Every time I think of an anti-war song Curmudgeoness Aug 2013 #76
Universal Soldier ~ 1964 Zorra Aug 2013 #33
Against Me! From her lips to God's ears a la izquierda Aug 2013 #34
American Idiot alarimer Aug 2013 #35
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by the Pogues WilliamPitt Aug 2013 #36
The Call: "The Walls Came Down" VOX Aug 2013 #37
"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #38
"The Cruel War" and "The Times They Are a Changing" gopiscrap Aug 2013 #39
Machine Gun - Hendrix (warning....graphic pictures of war in video) livetohike Aug 2013 #40
Blowing in the Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary... TeeYiYi Aug 2013 #41
Eve of Destruction pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #42
Marvin Gaye...What's Goin' On ? kelliekat44 Aug 2013 #43
Gun Shy by 10,000 Maniacs... TeeYiYi Aug 2013 #44
The band Op-Critical, it's all they do HarveyDarkey Aug 2013 #45
Cabaret Voltaire - "Sensoria" nomorenomore08 Aug 2013 #47
CCR PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #48
Eddie Vetter's No More - the theme song for the movie Body of War, which is about kas125 Aug 2013 #49
perfect. limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #52
Thanks. I love it, too. What has been done to Tomas and so many other kids kas125 Aug 2013 #66
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Barlow says he wrote Throwing Stones after meeting Cheney and that it's about him. kas125 Aug 2013 #64
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I guess what they always said is true - kas125 Aug 2013 #67
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LOL, we had a lot of them. But to be serious for a second, do you realize just how lucky we are? kas125 Aug 2013 #69
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Some from The Clash MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #51
More Anti-flag - 911 For Peace limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #54
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down-Joan Baez Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2013 #55
"Search and Destroy" Iggy and the Stooges,"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"RAMONES, "Dead Heroes".Red Rockers Tikki Aug 2013 #56
When Johnny Comes Rolling Home Again (Iraq, Iraq) by The Freedom Toast DFW Aug 2013 #59
War Pigs covered by Cake... adirondacker Aug 2013 #61
Several by Phil Ochs, of course: Ken Burch Aug 2013 #62
Thumbs up! Heidi Aug 2013 #72
A few: Heidi Aug 2013 #71
System Of A Down Initech Aug 2013 #74
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker "WAR" notadmblnd Aug 2013 #77
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda zipplewrath Aug 2013 #78
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