Song title?: "They passed a law in '64 to give those who ain't got a...

[DuaneBidoux]

little more..."

What are some good songs for progressives and progressive values?

[donco6]

1. That's Just the Way it Is eom

[DuaneBidoux]

5. thanks n/t

[arcane1]

2. anything by Skyclad

:headbang:

[hippiechick]

3. Bruce Hornsby and the Range ...

I think it was from .... 85 ? 86 ?

During Reaganomics, anyway. :hi:

[GeekMonkey]

4. I have several!

I'll have them released soon on the internet.

Titles of the first 3:

"I Don't Need No Religion"

"If There Was a God, There'd Be No Religion"

"Jesus Was Just a Dude"

[Syrinx]

6. the one in my sig n/t

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. love that song..I was gonna post it

[Syrinx]

10. you have great taste!

It is a great song, and it rocks (for Iris DeMent, that is.)

[Syrinx]

11. gotta love these lyrics

Living in the wasteland of the free...

We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
They say they are Christ's disciples
but they don't look like Jesus to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
You may call me old-fashioned
but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
to some third-world country 'cross the sea
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free

We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars
So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors
and we call ourselves the advanced civilization
that sounds like crap to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess
who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test
but if you ask them, they can tell you
the name of every crotch on mTV
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win
Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin
but he's standing up for what he believes in
and that seems pretty damned American to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free

While we sit gloating in our greatness
justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free

[BrotherBuzz]

7. But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot...

...Woody Guthrie shows the paradoxical nature of opportunity for the working person in his "Do Re Mi." In that song he talks of California being "a garden of Eden," a virtual "paradise," a harshly ironic concept considering that no one will be able to reap the harvest of Eden unless he/she has the "do re mi" (i.e., dough)

Do Re Mi. by Woodie Guthrie (1937)

Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home every day,
Beatin' the hot old dusty way to the California line.
'Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin' out of that old dust bowl,
They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find --
Now, the police at the port of entry say,
"You're number fourteen thousand for today."

CHORUS:
Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi, folks, you ain't got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi.

You want to buy you a home or a farm, that can't deal nobody harm,
Or take your vacation by the mountains or sea.
Don't swap your old cow for a car, you better stay right where you are,
Better take this little tip from me.
'Cause I look through the want ads every day
But the headlines on the papers always say:

If you ain't got the do re mi, boys, you ain't got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi.

[leftofthedial]

9. the way it is

great song on a great record

[jeepster61611]

12. Imagine

John Lennon nailed it

[newyawker99]

14. Hi jeepster61611!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[adnelson60087]

13. Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics

The lyrics and mood really fits with America under Bush, and we're the underground

"Teach the children silently, for one day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight where we sat still"


America by Neil Diamond
I listen to this song when I am ashamed of my country's leadership and it helps put it all in perspective.