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Protest Songs. The good. The bad..and the ugly
« on: February 11, 2017, 02:46:59 am »

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« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2017, 04:22:57 am »
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« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2017, 06:39:10 am »
At least the left in the 60's had good music... now what do they have?

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Re: Protest Songs. The good. The bad..and the ugly
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2017, 01:57:57 pm »
At least the left in the 60's had good music... now what do they have?

Boy..ain't that the truth.  These new ones...what are the good for. Absolutely nothin.  Say it again.



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« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2017, 11:07:17 pm »
 Barry McGuire, after "Eve of Destruction," became a Christian and started singing about Jesus Christ.
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Re: Protest Songs. The good. The bad..and the ugly
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2017, 11:11:56 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOPQZ_JlsM

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Makes me think of that line from Cracker's "Teen Angst"....."What the world needs now is another Folk Singer, like I need a hole in my head."

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Re: Protest Songs. The good. The bad..and the ugly
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2017, 11:38:09 pm »
Another example of trying to pin Vietnam on Nixon instead of on LBJ.

Never let facts get in the way of a good protest song...

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Re: Protest Songs. The good. The bad..and the ugly
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2017, 11:57:31 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcG3tXYNF8

I think there are a lot of good folk songs without delving into the war protest song genre.  I can set youtube to play the Kingston Trio's songs and find it enjoyable.


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« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2017, 12:15:38 am »
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One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Besides the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains"

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall
The winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey too
You can paddle all around em
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin.
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in.
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws or picks,
I'ma goin' to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the Turk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I'll see you all this coming Fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

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« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2017, 01:04:18 am »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3lYqTAlnE

Songs like this, "This Land Is Your Land" were sung in school.  RHCM is depression era, I guess Woody's may be too.

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« Reply #21 on: February 13, 2017, 01:52:20 am »


Songs like this, "This Land Is Your Land" were sung in school.  RHCM is depression era, I guess Woody's may be too.

I doubt that very many "conservatives" today realize how strong the left was during the 1930s. Then the USSR was our ally, in defeating the Axis powers.

The folk music of the 30s-60s would not have been viewed as "subversive" by any but a tiny sliver of people at most.

In retro tagging it as Pinko is not going to convince many people of anything.
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Re: Protest Songs. The good. The bad..and the ugly
« Reply #24 on: February 13, 2017, 02:45:38 am »
Here is an oddity affirmed by wikipedia, The Guess Who visited the White House in the day but the First Lady, Pat Nixon, requested that they were not to play American Woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Woman


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w

Kind of a nice beat but I never cared for what sounds like the message.

So, tee up "She was an American Girl".