Your Fave Protest Songs (and decade)

[Discord]

Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag (Next Stop Vietnam)

Live at woodstock 1969

Country Joe & the Fish
Come on all of you big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again
he's got himself in a terrible jam
way down yonder in Viet Nam so
put down your books and pick up a gun we're
gonna have a whole lotta fun

(CHORUS)
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for
don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die

Come on generals, let's move fast
your big chance has come at last
now you can go out and get those reds
cos the only good commie is the one that's dead and
you know that peace can only be won when we've
blown 'em all to kingdom come

Come on wall street don't be slow
why man this war is a go-go
there's plenty good money to be made by
supplying the army with the tools of its trade
let's hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
they drop it on the Viet Cong

Come on mothers throughout the land
pack your boys off to Viet Nam
come on fathers don't hesitate
send your sons off before it's too late
and you can be the first ones on your block
to have your boy come home in a box

[InSoMnIaK*]

alabama-niel young

[Gusto]

Imagine.

Also the entire eMOTIVe album by Perfect Circle (mostly protest/anti-war covers).

[Discord]

Originally Posted by Gusto

Imagine.

Also the entire eMOTIVe album by Perfect Circle (mostly protest/anti-war covers).

GOOD CHOICE!

[mapleleaf4ever]

My favorite Protest Song is the wail of the Police Siren and the hiss of the Tear Gas breaking it all up. Nothing like the cacophony of a Riot. The batons, sheilds and resounding thwacks of them agains the Protestors.

I LOVE THE SMELL OF CS IN THE MORNING!

[Mangle]

"Imagine" gets my vote as the greatest song ever written by man.

For protest, though, I still get riled by "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young...as written by Canadian Neil Young.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Great thread!

[Gusto]

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding - Elvis Costello

[InSoMnIaK*]

also...

"police man skank"

auidoweb

[tiedye]

Neil Young -- Southern Man (go to hell Lynard Skynard)
Bob Dylan -- The Times They Are A-Changin'
Five Man Electrical Band -- Signs
Richie Havens -- Freedom (the Woodstock performance especially)