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In reply to the discussion: What are your favorite songs of Resistance, Refusal to Give In? [View all]Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)62. The Partisan
By Leonard Cohen.
My favorite versions are by Joan Baez
And by Leslie Fish with somebody named Garcia Aritzmendi. I heard that at an SCA event, they sang the English parts together, the bit that is usually in French or Greek, was sung by Aritzmendi in Euskara.
A song called IIRC 'N Kommando Gesang by somebody I forget. It's about a small farmer fighting with the Boer Commandos against the British.
I remember these bits.
"The cold queen of England wants gold and bright diamonds,
She's sending her redcoats to plunder and kill.
She'll find that dear bought are the gems of the Transvaal,
Where Boer commandos haunt every hill."
"My wife and three children were caught by the English.
Behind the barbed wire they sickened and died.
But soon we sweep down like a fire from the highveld,
And burn the death camps with the English inside."
"I sleep with a Mauser and rise before cockcrow,
And go on commando my neighbors and me.
We'll live as we can and we'll fight as we're able,
Till England's defeated and the Transvaal is free."
Wolf
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I love Muse-they have many songs that speak to the struggles we face in life against power, evil,
FrankfurtCat
Dec 2016
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