Political songs

[quirk]

Post your favourite political songs here and also preferably a youtube video and lyrics.

[quirk]

Not a great video but I think this version by Allister Hulett is the best version.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=t1kDw_fh3VA

The Internationale [variant words in square brackets]

Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions]
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And give to all a happier lot.
Each [those] at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.

[quirk]

A good song if somewhat utopian and idealistic.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts

Revolution

You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We'd all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We'd all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know you that can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be alright [x3]

You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We'd all want to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright [x4]

You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
We'd all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know know it's gonna be alright [x3]
Alright [x7]

[socrates]

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=yPudiBR15mk

Born in the USA

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up

[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man

[chorus]

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"

[chorus]

I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

[Enver]

Dead Kennedys ~ California Uber Alles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqESwzCGg4

[Enver]

Rage Against the Machine ~ Vietnow (Live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJzXLL4890

[Enver]

Rage Against the Machine ~ Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqcM5lVoteQ

[Nationalrevolutionär]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H8FtlrzCI Die Toten Hosen - Pushed Again

Great song with a great video.

[Nationalrevolutionär]

Los Fastidios - Antifa Hooligans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ4jtmHaFHA

[Nationalrevolutionär]

@ Enver Hoxha
What the hell? California über alles? Do you knwo from which "song" the "über alles" part is taken?

Ska-P - Intifada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL1kmwb5kGs

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From Woodstock.. Jefferson Airplane...

We can be together....

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

We can be together
Ah you and me
We should be together
We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred 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
Our life's too fine to let it die and
* * *
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 fred (motherfucker)
Tear down the walls
[these lyrics are found on http://www.songlyrics.com]
Tear down the walls
Come on now together
Get it on together
Everybody together
We should be together
We should be together my friends
We can be together
We will be
We must begin here and now
A new continent of earth and fire
Come on now gettin higher and higher
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Won't you try


and more modern

U2 & Pavarotti.. Miss Sarejevo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VM41immWI

A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with the day
Is there a time for kohl and lipstick
A time for cutting hair
Is there a time for high street shopping
To find the right clothes to wear

Here she comes
Heads turn around
Here she comes
To take her crown

Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find so hard to spell
Is there a time for first communion
A time for synagogue
Is there a time to turn to Mecca
A beauty queen before God

Here she comes
Beauty plays the clown
Here she comes
Surreal in her crown

Dici che il fiume trova la via al mare
E come il fiume giungerai a me
Oltre i confini e le terre assetate
Dici che come fiume
Come fiume l'amore giungera
L'amore e non so piu pregare
E nell'amore non so piu sperare
E quell'amore non so piu aspettare

Is there a time for shared values
A time to turn this aside
Is there a time
A time for human rights

English translation of the Italian lyrics:

You say that as a river finds its way to the sea
And as the river you'll find your way back to me
Beyond the borders and the thirsty lands
You say that as the river
As the river, you say that love will find a way
But love, I'm not a praying man
And in love I can't believe anymore
And for love I can't wait anymore

[bay]

The Ballad of Joe Hill.... every good revolutionary should know about him........


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

[IrishRepublican]

Damien Dempsey - Colony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKp5v0B3IwE

[bay]

I got a "this video is no longer available" message

[IrishRepublican]

I got it to, I don't know whats wrong with it..try clicking on youtube on top of the video

[bay]

it worked that time. Go raibh maith agat.

OMG, I think I'm hooked on Damien Dempsey now....

"Hold me" sends shivers down my spine.