The Eighteenth of June or Poor Boney
anonyme
La canzone si riferisce alla sconfitta di Napoleone a Waterloo il 18 giugno 1815. E' stata interpretata da Norma Waterson con il titolo Poor Boney e da Martin Carthy con il titolo The Eighteenth of June
Testo cantato da Norma Waterson ripreso da Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Vedi anche FolkWorld #57: Songs That Made History
Testo cantato da Norma Waterson ripreso da Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Vedi anche FolkWorld #57: Songs That Made History
All you people who live at home easy
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18/12/2020 - 18:20
Parcours:
Les guerres napoléoniennes
Some Boys Grow Up to Be Soldiers
(2020)
What was the inspiration for “Some Boys Grow Up To Be Soldiers”?
The character in this song is nobody in particular. We all know him. He’s somebody’s uncle, friend, neighbor, father, son. He’s far from perfect, but when he served he was willing to lay down his life. It didn’t come to that, but he lost some essential part of himself along the way. I think of this as an anti-war song. Not a song about the men and women who die in wars, but about the survivors who return to find home is no longer their home. Of course “he’ll never admit what it cost” and so there is nothing to do but soldier on.
January/February Lyric Contest Winner Brian Estes Details "Some Boys Grow Up To Be Soldiers" « American Songwriter
What was the inspiration for “Some Boys Grow Up To Be Soldiers”?
The character in this song is nobody in particular. We all know him. He’s somebody’s uncle, friend, neighbor, father, son. He’s far from perfect, but when he served he was willing to lay down his life. It didn’t come to that, but he lost some essential part of himself along the way. I think of this as an anti-war song. Not a song about the men and women who die in wars, but about the survivors who return to find home is no longer their home. Of course “he’ll never admit what it cost” and so there is nothing to do but soldier on.
January/February Lyric Contest Winner Brian Estes Details "Some Boys Grow Up To Be Soldiers" « American Songwriter
He waves his flag like a martyr
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18/12/2020 - 15:23
Black Soldier
[1972]
Album "Chastisment"
Album "Chastisment"
Well, it filled her old heart full of joy
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18/12/2020 - 11:47
All the Dead Were Strangers
by Clive James and Pete Atkin,
Album: A King At Nightfall (1973)
Album: A King At Nightfall (1973)
I met my buddy Kovacs stripping down his M-16
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17/12/2020 - 21:50
The Veterans Big Parade
1970
On My Way To Where
La grande parata dei veterani, una sfilata di ipocrisia e di menzogne celebrata come una festa da tutti tranne che da una vedova con un bambino piccolo.
On My Way To Where
La grande parata dei veterani, una sfilata di ipocrisia e di menzogne celebrata come una festa da tutti tranne che da una vedova con un bambino piccolo.
In the veterans big parade
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17/12/2020 - 21:36
Ho Chi Minh
1977
The Last Poets With Bernard Purdie – Delights Of The Garden
Praticamente la storia della guerra del Vietnam nello spazio di una canzone.
The Last Poets With Bernard Purdie – Delights Of The Garden
Praticamente la storia della guerra del Vietnam nello spazio di una canzone.
He stood
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17/12/2020 - 21:16
Parcours:
Guerre au Vietnam: vue des USA
Computer sind doof
Riccardo Venturi, 17-12-2020 09:05
Computers are stupid
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17/12/2020 - 09:06
E cantava le canzoni
HE USED TO SING THE SONGS
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envoyé par Riccardo Gullotta 16/12/2020 - 21:35
Les Anarchistes
Riccardo Venturi, 16-12-2020 11:38
Note. An English translation, made by Patty Malesh from The Struggle Site (Ireland), was already included in this site. Overtly labeled as a “tentative”, it has proved unreliable and been removed. This is a new English version (not a real “translation”) I have prepared for this site, even assuming it can (or could) be sung; anyway, a video is included in which a rather literal (and correct) English translation is provided. [RV]
Note. An English translation, made by Patty Malesh from The Struggle Site (Ireland), was already included in this site. Overtly labeled as a “tentative”, it has proved unreliable and been removed. This is a new English version (not a real “translation”) I have prepared for this site, even assuming it can (or could) be sung; anyway, a video is included in which a rather literal (and correct) English translation is provided. [RV]
The Anarchists
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16/12/2020 - 11:39
Outcry
2017
Outcry
Outcry
Truth like love and sleep resents approaches that are too intense, but with a house on fire please wake me up at once.
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envoyé par Dq82 14/12/2020 - 17:49
Parcours:
Donald Trump
White Noise
2018
Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II
Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II
Shits about to get nice
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envoyé par Dq82 14/12/2020 - 17:43
World War 3
1965
2002
Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest
Una canzone del 1965, pubblicata però solo nel 2002 in una riedizione dell'album Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest.
Testo trascritto all'ascolto
2002
Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest
Una canzone del 1965, pubblicata però solo nel 2002 in una riedizione dell'album Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest.
Testo trascritto all'ascolto
As I walk out in the street by myself
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envoyé par Dq82 14/12/2020 - 17:30
There Is a War Going On
1965
2002
Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest
Una canzone del 1965, pubblicata però solo nel 2002 in una riedizione dell'album Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest.
Testo trascritto all'ascolto con l'aiuto della versione spagnola su YT.
Quello ritratto sulla copertina del disco non è Bobby Jameson che qui si fa chiamare Chris Lucey ma... Brian Jones dei Rolling Stones!!
2002
Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest
Una canzone del 1965, pubblicata però solo nel 2002 in una riedizione dell'album Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest.
Testo trascritto all'ascolto con l'aiuto della versione spagnola su YT.
Quello ritratto sulla copertina del disco non è Bobby Jameson che qui si fa chiamare Chris Lucey ma... Brian Jones dei Rolling Stones!!
Don't let your children now to play.
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envoyé par Dq82 14/12/2020 - 16:45
Parcours:
Guerre au Vietnam: vue des USA
Iluminomi b/w There’s A War Going On (2010)
Singles Collection 1992 – 2011 (2011)
Singles Collection 1992 – 2011 (2011)
Don't let your children now to play.
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envoyé par Dq82 14/12/2020 - 17:02
Síðasta blóm í heimi
Riccardo Venturi 13-12-2020 23:12
Translator's Note. James Thurber's poem The Last Flower was written in 1939: that's the reason why, and there's nothing to be added. One peculiarity of the poem is that it has inspired and originated two songs in two different languages: Italian (L'uomo, la donna e il fiore) and Icelandic (Síðasta blóm í heimi). This is the page of the Icelandic song. Though contributed in 2014, it had never been translated in any language whatsoever. The page includes now an Italian translation (a word-for-word one) and this English version, much further removed from the Icelandic lyrics written by Magnús Ásgeirsson (and not fully respecting the poem's layout) but, hopefully, without betraying the Icelandic poem's spirit and meaning. [RV]
Translator's Note. James Thurber's poem The Last Flower was written in 1939: that's the reason why, and there's nothing to be added. One peculiarity of the poem is that it has inspired and originated two songs in two different languages: Italian (L'uomo, la donna e il fiore) and Icelandic (Síðasta blóm í heimi). This is the page of the Icelandic song. Though contributed in 2014, it had never been translated in any language whatsoever. The page includes now an Italian translation (a word-for-word one) and this English version, much further removed from the Icelandic lyrics written by Magnús Ásgeirsson (and not fully respecting the poem's layout) but, hopefully, without betraying the Icelandic poem's spirit and meaning. [RV]
The Last Flower in the World
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13/12/2020 - 23:15
James Thurber: The Last Flower
(c) 1939 by James Thurber, The Last Flower, A Parable in Pictures; also A Thurber Carnival, book and play
(c) 1939 by James Thurber, The Last Flower, A Parable in Pictures; also A Thurber Carnival, book and play
World War XII, as everybody knows,
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 13/12/2020 - 23:32
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
1982
Inclusa nella storica compilation “Not So Quiet in The Western Front” e poi nell'album Don't Listen
Inclusa nella storica compilation “Not So Quiet in The Western Front” e poi nell'album Don't Listen
Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
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13/12/2020 - 22:10
Warheads
1986
dal secondo LP "Moonsongs"
Initially Moonsongs was released in 1986 on cassette by Endemic, but the following year the band signed with Dead Man's Curve Records in London and Moonsongs was released on LP. As with their first album, Moonsongs was praised in "progressive" circles and Thinking Plague enhanced their stature as an avant-rock band
Thinking Plague - Wikipedia
dal secondo LP "Moonsongs"
Initially Moonsongs was released in 1986 on cassette by Endemic, but the following year the band signed with Dead Man's Curve Records in London and Moonsongs was released on LP. As with their first album, Moonsongs was praised in "progressive" circles and Thinking Plague enhanced their stature as an avant-rock band
Thinking Plague - Wikipedia
People killing time, hiding in their minds murder
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13/12/2020 - 21:50
Meanwhile
dall'album Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (1982)
Concisa ma efficace.
Concisa ma efficace.
Half the world is starving dying of disease
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13/12/2020 - 21:43
A Sense of Belonging
1983
Singolo poi incluso nell'album The Painted Word del 1984
Singolo poi incluso nell'album The Painted Word del 1984
Once there was confidence, but now there is fear
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13/12/2020 - 19:24
Death or Glory
1985
dall'album "Burnt Orchids"
dall'album "Burnt Orchids"
In the cruel half light the lines are drawn,
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13/12/2020 - 19:19
Woman in Disguise
1982
Da un EP del 1982 un pezzo dedicato a Miss Margaret Thatcher, protagonista proprio quell'anno della guerra delle Falkland. Un attacco punk violento ma con un ritornello molto melodico e ballabile.
Da un EP del 1982 un pezzo dedicato a Miss Margaret Thatcher, protagonista proprio quell'anno della guerra delle Falkland. Un attacco punk violento ma con un ritornello molto melodico e ballabile.
She's been through history, but always appeared as the foe,
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13/12/2020 - 19:00
Parcours:
Miss Maggie Thatcher
Dead Hero
1982
Great timing the release of this 7".
One week before it hit the shops Maggie sent the boys to the Falklands
Great timing the release of this 7".
One week before it hit the shops Maggie sent the boys to the Falklands
On remembrance day you remember it all
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13/12/2020 - 18:54
Parcours:
Héros, La guerre des Falklands/Malouines
Heatwave
1982
dall'unico disco di questa band gallese, Contact You
dall'unico disco di questa band gallese, Contact You
I pull my motor over
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13/12/2020 - 18:44
Old Soldiers
1984
dalla compilation di vari gruppi punk Bollox To The Gonads - Here's The Testicles
dalla compilation di vari gruppi punk Bollox To The Gonads - Here's The Testicles
War is trapping
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13/12/2020 - 18:36
The Blood Is on Your Hands
On May 15Th, 1983, The Instigators played a gig with the Subhumans which was organised and ran by punk poet Nick Toczek. Dick Lucas of the Subhumans liked the band's performance so much that he released it as a live tape on his Bluurg label. He then let the band record their first single the following year called 'The Blood is on your hands'. Before this, the band had already sent two tracks named 'Old Soldiers' and 'Monkey Man' for the Pax compilation called 'Bollox the Gonads'.
anarchoscene - The Instigators
anarchoscene - The Instigators
We torture, discriminate and hate.
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13/12/2020 - 18:26
Massacred Millions
1984
EP: Massacred Millions
EP: Massacred Millions
When the bomb drops millions
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13/12/2020 - 18:21
Open Your Eyes
1982
Singolo estratto dal primo album della band, The Lords Of The New Church
Singolo estratto dal primo album della band, The Lords Of The New Church
Video games train the kids for war
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12/12/2020 - 23:35
Holy War
dall'album di esordio del 1982 con lo stesso nome del gruppo
Piacevolmente complottista, con Giovanni Paolo II sostituito da un attore per combattere il comunismo...
Piacevolmente complottista, con Giovanni Paolo II sostituito da un attore per combattere il comunismo...
Oh, oh
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12/12/2020 - 22:55
Parcours:
Antiwar Anticléricale
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
(1980)
dal lato 1 del triplo LP "Sandinista" (uscito esattamente 40 anni fa, il 12 dicembre 1980!)
Scritta e cantata dal batterista Topper Headon è una traccia scanzonata e quasi dance che parla di cosa succederebbe se una delle due grandi superpotenze (USA, G.I. Joe o URSS, Ivan) decidesse di attaccare l'altra. Ma qui tutto si trasforma in una gara di ballo al famoso Studio 54 di New York
dal lato 1 del triplo LP "Sandinista" (uscito esattamente 40 anni fa, il 12 dicembre 1980!)
Scritta e cantata dal batterista Topper Headon è una traccia scanzonata e quasi dance che parla di cosa succederebbe se una delle due grandi superpotenze (USA, G.I. Joe o URSS, Ivan) decidesse di attaccare l'altra. Ma qui tutto si trasforma in una gara di ballo al famoso Studio 54 di New York
So you're on the floor at fifty-four
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12/12/2020 - 16:20
Running With the Hurricane
dall'album del 1986 Midnight Sun
White domes on sacred land, B52’s in Arnhem Land
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12/12/2020 - 16:08
War Prayer
Lyrics by Mark Twain (1905)
Music by The Shamen (1989)
album: In Gorbachev We Trust
The War Prayer è un racconto breve di Mark Twain scritto nel 1905 ai tempi della guerra ispano-americana e della guerra filippino-americana. Fu censurato e pubblicato solo dopo la morte di Twain nel 1910. Il gruppo elettronico scozzese The Shamen ha ripreso la parte centrale del racconto e l'ha musicata inframezzandola con frammenti che fanno riferimento alla guerra fredda
Music by The Shamen (1989)
album: In Gorbachev We Trust
The War Prayer è un racconto breve di Mark Twain scritto nel 1905 ai tempi della guerra ispano-americana e della guerra filippino-americana. Fu censurato e pubblicato solo dopo la morte di Twain nel 1910. Il gruppo elettronico scozzese The Shamen ha ripreso la parte centrale del racconto e l'ha musicata inframezzandola con frammenti che fanno riferimento alla guerra fredda
Oh lord our God
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12/12/2020 - 15:53
Murder by Numbers
La versione di Frank Zappa con Sting registrata live nel 1988
dal disco Broadway the Hard Way
con un riferimento esilarante al teleevangelista Jimmy Swaggart che aveva spiegato come la canzone fosse "stata scritta da Satana". Proprio nell'88 Swaggart era stato protagonista di uno scandalo quando era stato beccato in un motel accanto alla sua chiesa in compagnia di una prostituta.
con un riferimento esilarante al teleevangelista Jimmy Swaggart che aveva spiegato come la canzone fosse "stata scritta da Satana". Proprio nell'88 Swaggart era stato protagonista di uno scandalo quando era stato beccato in un motel accanto alla sua chiesa in compagnia di una prostituta.
MURDER BY NUMBERS
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12/12/2020 - 13:54
Apocalypse Then
Brighter Now - 1982
"And so it came to pass that a flag flew in every window and widows handed poppies out in the square... And squares were bashed and majors barked and marching music laughed from the airwaves. The waves were there to rule again. We had the ambition. We had the ammunition... A mission in the name of God... In the name of "democracy", demo-crazy
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12/12/2020 - 13:43
Frem, kamerater!
Riccardo Venturi, 12-12-2020 11:00
The song sung by the Norwegian former trade union leader Jan Davidsen (who doesn't remember all the verses)
The song sung by the Norwegian former trade union leader Jan Davidsen (who doesn't remember all the verses)
Forward, Comrades!
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12/12/2020 - 11:00
Invitation to the White House
Album: 'Til Your River Runs Dry - 2013
It was a dream
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11/12/2020 - 23:57
Malaika
Englanninkielinen käännös :
QLC
QLC
ANGEL
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envoyé par Riccardo Gullotta 9/12/2020 - 00:23
Mickey Mouse Freedom
1992
Album: House Of Exile
Album: House Of Exile
Put his coat on his shoulders
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8/12/2020 - 23:17
Short Memories
(1992)
Album: Burning Questions
Album: Burning Questions
They took their kids in their teenage years
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8/12/2020 - 21:57
Lovers in a Dangerous Time
(1984)
According to Cockburn, the song was inspired by seeing teenagers expressing romantic love in a schoolyard. In the song, he contrasts the hopefulness and joy of new love with the despair of a wider Cold War world where notions of the future often carried a sense of foreboding and doom. However, especially in light of Cockburn's next single "If I Had A Rocket Launcher", the song has also been interpreted by listeners and critics as referring to the same Guatemalan refugee crisis that inspired the later song, or to the then-emerging HIV/AIDS crisis. Cockburn stated in later interviews that he was pleased by both of these alternate interpretations.
Lovers in a Dangerous Time - Wikipedia
Lovers in a Dangerous Time - Wikipedia
Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by
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8/12/2020 - 17:19
God Part II
1988
dall'album "Rattle and Hum"
In questa ideale "seconda parte" della famosa God di John Lennon gli U2 elencano come nella canzone originale tutte le cose in cui non credono, certo - da bravi cattolici - senza distruggere tutti gli idoli e gli dei come aveva fatto John in quella canzone potentissima.
Però anche gli U2 arrivano alla stessa conclusione di Lennon: Love is the answer
dall'album "Rattle and Hum"
Ricordando John Lennon nel quarantennale del suo assassinio
In questa ideale "seconda parte" della famosa God di John Lennon gli U2 elencano come nella canzone originale tutte le cose in cui non credono, certo - da bravi cattolici - senza distruggere tutti gli idoli e gli dei come aveva fatto John in quella canzone potentissima.
Però anche gli U2 arrivano alla stessa conclusione di Lennon: Love is the answer
Don't believe the devil
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8/12/2020 - 16:39
Vonnegut Busy
(2014)
Album: Copper Gone
Album: Copper Gone
“VONNEGUT BUSY” acts as a stylistic sample dish for what one can expect from Sage Francis on Copper Gone, transitioning seamlessly from socio-economic issues to personal politics, all while being punctuated by the project’s overall mission statement: “When it seems like you’re going through hell…keep going.” The reference to Kurt Vonnegut in the title is accompanied by a quote from the satirical writer in one of the song’s 3 sub-choruses: “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘it might have been.’”
Genius
Genius
Of all the words of mice and men,
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8/12/2020 - 12:13
The Government's Trying to Kill Me
2019
The Working Class Revolution EP
The Working Class Revolution EP
The government's trying to kill me
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 11:13
Nothing to Lose but Our Chains
2019
The Working Class Revolution EP
The Working Class Revolution EP
From Ireland to Venezuela
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 11:12
A Zero's Welcome
2018
Songs for Rojava
Songs for Rojava
He stepped onto that aeroplane after spending six long months at war
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 11:05
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
I Will Never Forget
2018
Songs for Rojava
Songs for Rojava
I’ve lost many good friends
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 11:04
The Volunteers
2018
Songs for Rojava
Songs for Rojava
This one goes out to Erik, Luke, Dean and Jack
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 11:03
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
Anna's Song
2018
Songs for Rojava
Songs for Rojava
Too kind to be out fighting in a war
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 11:01
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
Yazidi
2018
Songs for Rojava
Songs for Rojava
They murdered her son
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 10:53
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
The Sunrise Over Rojava
2018
Songs for Rojava
Songs for Rojava
I’m packing up my bags and leaving this country I’ve always called home
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 10:35
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
Stand Up Now
2018
Songs for Rojava
Songs for Rojava
They’re burning houses down, stand up now, stand up now
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 10:30
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
No Matter What Happens (COVID-19 Song)
2020
We saw the panic in their eyes
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envoyé par Dq82 8/12/2020 - 10:28
Parcours:
2020-2023: Chansonnier du COVID-19
Why Them, Why Me
Very rare Motown Records (Soul)
Producer -- Frank Wilson, Henry Cosby
Written-By -- Abdullah
Soul -- S-35051
7", 45 RPM
US - 1968
Lyrics from Genius
Producer -- Frank Wilson, Henry Cosby
Written-By -- Abdullah
Soul -- S-35051
7", 45 RPM
US - 1968
Lyrics from Genius
The song "Why Them, Why Me" was released by Abdullah on Soul (# S 35051), a subsidiary of Motown Records, for blues and R&B (1964-1978). The b-side "I Comma Zimba Zio" was a strong civil rights, African-American militant song, evoking Africa and the fight for freedom. Born Joseph McLean, he changed his name as a follower of Elijah Muhammad, a self-proclaimed black Muslim nationalist. He apparently fell out with Motown's Ralph Seltzer in a racial confrontation, hence only one single on Motown. It is fairly difficult to transcribe, but clearly it is narrated from the perspective of a soldier on "the shores of Vietnam", who was "fighting and dying". Vietnam War Song Project
The evening that she rising
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7/12/2020 - 23:23
Parcours:
Guerre au Vietnam: vue des USA
On This Cold Night in Syria
2018
Songs for the revolution
Songs for the revolution
There’s fire lighting up the sky
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envoyé par Dq82 7/12/2020 - 20:30
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
Native Son
(1991)
Album: New Moon Shine (1991)
Album: New Moon Shine (1991)
''Native Son,'' is an anti-war tune written in support of Vietnam veterans. ''They`ve been abandoned and ignored because they reminded the country of something they didn`t want to associate with,'' Taylor says.
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Mount up, move on
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7/12/2020 - 20:24
Ocalan
2018
Ocalan
This song tells the story of Kurdish revolutionary and political theorist Abdullah Öcalan
Ocalan
This song tells the story of Kurdish revolutionary and political theorist Abdullah Öcalan
Locked away on an island
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envoyé par Dq82 7/12/2020 - 20:18
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
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dall'album "Twelve De-Lightful Ways To Roast A Sacred Cow" e nella compilation di vari artisti Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security