favorite political songs

Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance

Lives In The Balance

IÂ’ve been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that youÂ’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And thereÂ’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally canÂ’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

ThereÂ’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we canÂ’t even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But theyÂ’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo4HApLkmZ0[/ame]

Might be the all time political song. It was written in about 20 min. by Steven Stills after the Kent State incident
 
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eots said:
Echo Zulu said:
American Horse said:
Toy Keith - "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"

Echo, as for Neil, anything he does is ok with me. I thrilled with "Lets Roll" just as much as if If it was the national anthem.
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Neil Loves his Country:


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg6kLk38GTE[/ame]
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Neil is canadian..

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZes9fFmXc[/ame]
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Yeah, I know.

But he's also a citizen of the U.S.A. My sister used to ride her horse on his property in Cali.

:cool:
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSeuLsNV4CA&feature=related[/ame]
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG4ndbhOkpI[/ame]
 
Tom Lehrer was always great for political songs...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLON3ddZIw[/ame]
 
here is a great one written by Buffy St. Marie.....
this was out by Donovan around 65...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLzUNDaF00U[/ame]
 
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15th post
this song sums up things....from 67...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulTmmTIlM_o[/ame]
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmvrHoyMZ8[/ame]
 
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