Favorite protest song?

[CubsFan1982]

I was born in 1982, so I missed out on the great protest/folk music of the 60's. But I heard a lot of it growing up, and my favorite has to be Peter, Paul, and Mary's version of "Blowin' in the Wind". I also love "Abraham, Martin and John," but I dunno if that can be considered a protest song. What's your favorite?

[McKenzie]

1. Dylan's "Masters of War"

true then, true now, true always.

"All the money you've made won't ever buy back your soul"

[ok_cpu]

2. "Underdog" by Sly and the Family Stone

Maybe not a protest song per se but it's a mighty fine socially-aware jam. There are other Sly songs that would fit too.

Also "Fight the Power" by Public enemy.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

3. Mine is "Pra Não Dizer Que Não Falei Das Flores"

by Geraldo Vandré (1968). It became an anthem of protest during the darkest days of the military dictatorship in Brazil.

[JimmyJazz]

4. The Call Up - the Clash

[Coventina]

5. from the 60s: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

from the 80s: Free Nelson Mandela
new millenium: Self-Evident

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Hmm so many to choose from... really love "Fortunate Son" though

[intheflow]

7. "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs.

Closely followed by "Ohio" by CSNY.

[MadChatter]

8. Fortunate Son for me, too!

n/t

[Technowitch]

9. "For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield

Lyrics:

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Copyright 1967
By Stephen Stills

[Mojambo]

10. I'm gonna say it now

By Phil Ochs

Oh I am just a student, sir, and only want to learn
But it's hard to read through the risin' smoke of the books that
you like to burn
So I'd like to make a promise and I'd like to make a vow
That when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

Oh you've given me a number and you've taken off my name
To get around this campus why you almost need a plane
And you're supporting Chang Kai-Shek, while I'm supporting Mao
So when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

I wish that you'd make up your mind, I wish that you'd decide
That I should live as freely as those who live outside
Cause we also are entitled to the rights to be endowed
And when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

Ooh, you'd like to be my father you'd like to be my Dad
And give me kisses when I'm good and spank me when I'm bad
But since I've left my parents I've forgotten how to bow
So when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

And things they might be different if I was here alone
But I've got a friend or two who no longer live at home
And we'll respect our elders just as long as they allow
That when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

I've read of other countries where the students take a stand
Maybe even help to overthrow the leaders of the land
Now I wouldn't go so far to say we're also learnin' how
But when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

So keep right on a-talkin' and tell us what to do
If nobody listens my apologies to you
And I know that you were younger once 'cause you sure are older now
And when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

Oh I am just a student sir, and only want to learn
But it's hard to read through the risin' smoke from the books
that you like to burn
So I'd like to make a promise and I'd like to make a vow
That when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now

[On the Road]

11. "We Can be Together", Jefferson Airplane

We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent
And young
But we should be together
Come on all you people standing around
For life's too fine to let it die
We can be together

All your private property is Target for your enemy
And your enemy is We
We are forces of chaos and anarchy Everything they say we are we are
And we are very Proud of ourselves

Up against the wall, up against the wall motherfucker
Tear down the walls, tear down the walls...
We must begin here and now
A new continent of earth and fire
Come on now gettin higher and higher
Tear down the walls...
Won't you try

[jbane]

15. Best song on their best album.

I keep hearing the song "Volunteers" on television. I guess Paul Kantner needed to by a house or something. That doesn't bother me. Any thoughts on that?

[charlyvi]

12. The Times They Are a'Changin....DYLAN

Blowin' in the Wind is pretty good too.

THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

[AlCzervik]

13. I'd love to change the world by Ten years after

[seito]

14. One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)

http://www.thecolefamily.com/onetinsoldier.htm




Listen children to a story that was written long ago
'bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk below.
On the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone,
and the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own.


Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven, justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.


So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill
asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill.
Came an answer from the kingdom: "With our brothers we will share
all the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there."


Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven, justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.


Now the valley cried with anger; mount your horses, draw your sword,
and they killed the mountain people, so they won their just reward.
Now they stood beside the treasure on the mountain, dark and red,
turned the stone and looked beneath it. "Peace on earth" was all it said.


Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven, justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.