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It's Not Our War

Music and Lyrics by Rich Pulin

"On august 2nd 1964, an American ship, the USS Maddox, was allegedly attacked, by the North Vietnamese in the gulf of Tonkin.this alleged attack led president Johnson to solicit congress for a declaration of war against the North Vietnamese, which was granted. shortly thereafter, both the first army and first marine divisions (50,000 men) were sent to Viet Nam and put on active duty. Prior to this event, the United States military involvement was restricted to only military advisors. president Kennedy planned on withdrawing those advisors before he was assasinated. Years later, the captain of the uss Maddox, John J. Herrick, confessed that his ship was never attacked and that he had fabricated most of the story to cooperate with the Johnson administrations efforts to accelerate the conflict into all out war. Today's "Tonkin" is "weapons of mass destruction"...and... (Continues)
Did we learn anything from Viet Nam
(Continues)
2005/8/27 - 22:56
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No Nuclear War

No Nuclear War
(1987)

Title track dell'ultimo album del grande Peter Tosh, che quello stesso anno venne ucciso da dei rapinatori nella sua casa di Kingston
No Nuclear War
(Continues)
2005/8/27 - 22:38
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Idiots Are Taking Over

Idiots Are Taking Over
Un'azzeccata descrizione della nuova destra americana, teo-con e neo-con
it's not the right time to be sober
(Continues)
2005/8/27 - 22:27
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Bring The Boys Back Home

Bring The Boys Back Home
Dall'album / From the album "The Wall" (1979)

Per un'introduzione all'album, vedi Another Brick In The Wall Part I
For an introduction to the album, see Another Brick In The Wall Part I

È una marcia scandita dal rullo dei tamburi che annuncia il rientro dei "ragazzi" dalla guerra. La canzone ritenuta da Waters il perno centrale di tutto il disco, ripartendo dal tema del mancato ritorno a casa dei soldati, vuole sottolineare l'importanza dei rapporti umani essenziali: gli amici la famiglia, la coppia, i figli. Nulla, non il lavoro, non le corse folli e snervanti dell'esistenza quotidiana, devono anteporsi agli affetti primari.
(Sigfrido Menghini, da Onda Rock)

And progress he does continuing with the war-themed "Bring The Boys Back Home," a hymn-like chant that Roger Waters calls "the central song on the whole album" (1979 interview). Similar to the narrative alteration with the summary... (Continues)
Bring the boys back home.
(Continues)
2005/8/27 - 21:54
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Tapum

Anonymous
Tapum
Fornita da Daniele Nicola
BANG, BANG
(Continues)
Contributed by Daniele Nicola 2005/8/27 - 17:34
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Don't Take Your Guns To Town

Don't Take Your Guns To Town
Una vecchia ballata tradizionale americana che il grande Johnny Cash cantava ai raduni contro la guerra nel Vietnam. Come spesso accade, canzoni anche non propriamente "contro la guerra", lo sono divenute pienamente come simboli.
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm,
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/27 - 01:45
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Gegen den Krieg

Gegen den Krieg
[1933-1938]
Testi di Bertolt Brecht
Musica di Hanns Eisler

Texte: Bertolt Brecht
Musik: Hanns Eisler

Texts by Bertolt Brecht
Music by Hanns Eisler

Il brano, celeberrimo, è in realtà basato su una serie di poesie brechtiane, tra le quali General, dein Tank ("Generale, il tuo carro armato"), in parte recitate ed in parte cantate. Eisler compose la musica nel 1936 in base ai principi della dodecafonia (elaborati in primis da Arnold Schönberg; il brano è interpretato da un coro misto a cappella. I testi provengono dalla Kriegsfibel, scritta da Brecht in esilio a partire dal 1933; la composizione ebbe il suo carattere definitivo nel 1938.

(I dati provengono da: http://www.musiklk.de/2003/47eisler.htm, pagina in tedesco alla quale si rimanda per ulteriori notizie sulla composizione, anche di carattere tecnico).

This most famous suite is based in reality on a number of poems by Brecht,... (Continues)
Als der letzte Krieg vorüber war,
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/27 - 00:21
Song Itineraries: Anti-war classical music
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Le déserteur

Le déserteur
GIAPPONESE / JAPANESE / JAPONAIS - The Folk Crusaders


大統領様 (Daitôryôsama) - La versione giapponese dei Folk Crusaders (2006) registrata nell'album In Concert.

大統領様 (Daitôryôsama) - The Japanese version by The Folk Crusaders (2006) recorded in the album In Concert.

大統領様 (Daitôryôsama) - La version japanaise des Folk Crusaders (2006) enregistrée dans l'album In Concert.
大統領様 Le Déserteur
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/27 - 00:01
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We Believe

We Believe
Nell'album "The Chronicles of Life and Death" del 2004.

(B.B.)
There's a woman crying out tonight
(Continues)
Contributed by alex.. forza salernitana 2005/8/26 - 17:04
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Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Un Buon Lavoro .. grazie!
Massimo 2005/8/26 - 15:10
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Imagine

Imagine
GIAPPONESE / JAPANESE - Masahiro Motoki

Versione Giapponese di Masahiro Motoki
Japanese version by Masahiro Motoki
著日本翻訳
が容易
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/26 - 14:53
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Le déserteur

Le déserteur
FRANCESE / FRENCH / FRANÇAIS [2] - Marcel Mouloudji

Da / From / De: paroles.net



La versione via via modificata da Marcel Mouloudji per sfuggire alle maglie della censura francese (cui, comunque, non sfuggì affatto). Il testo vale come testimonianza di ciò che effettivamente fu passato dalla radio Europe 1 il 4 marzo 1954, data della prima storica trasmissione della canzone.
Per una traduzione italiana di questa versione, rimandiamo alla versione cantata da Peter, Paul & Mary che è molto simile.

The following is the version as originally performed by Marcel Mouloudji, with all the changes Boris Vian and Marcel Mouloudji themselves had been constantly making to get through the censorship imposed by French authorities; it was all in vain. So, the following lyrics are exactly what the station “Europe 1” did broadcast on March 4, 1954, the historic date on which the song was transmitted... (Continues)
LE DÉSERTEUR
(Continues)
2005/8/26 - 14:25
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Le déserteur

Le déserteur
INGLESE / ENGLISH / ANGLAIS [7] - John Hayday

Versione inglese di John Hayday (1967), cantautore folk neozelandese. John Hayday è morto il 29 giugno 2018 a Auckland, dove era nato.
Version anglaise de John Hayday (1967), folksinger néozélandais. John Hayday est mort le 29 juin 2018 à Auckland, sa ville natale.
English version by John Hayday (1967), a folk songwriter from New Zealand. John Hayday died on June 29, 2018, in his native Auckland.

"My sister and I put out heads together and we think this is the way he used to do it. John was busking in France with Ralph McTell in the 60s and he apparently asked someone to translate it for him to sing." (Little Robyn, from The Mudcat Café Forum).
THE DESERTER
(Continues)
2005/8/26 - 13:36
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Le déserteur

Le déserteur
LE DÉSERTEUR CONTRE LA PRIVATISATION DE LA CULTURE


Una parodia di Philippe Fourel, per una petizione al presidente della repubblica francese contro la privatizzazione del settore della Cultura.

A parody by Philippe Fourel for a petition to the President of the French Republic agains privatization of culture sector.

Une parodie de Philippe Fourel pour une pétition au Président de la République contre la privatisation du secteur de la Culture
(revue et corrigée par Philippe Fourel, "intermittent et futur intermiteux")


Lettre au président de la république
LETTRE AU PRÉSIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE
(Continues)
2005/8/26 - 13:22
A new itinerary collects the songs dedicated to Rachel Corrie, the young American pacifist who was killed on March 16, 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip.
Lorenzo Masetti 2005/8/25 - 21:17
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Sweet Neo Con

Sweet Neo Con
(Jagger/Richards)
da / from "A bigger bang" (2005)

La canzone anti-Bush che ha segnato un'inaspettata presa di posizione da parte degli Stones, che citano apertamente il nome della multinazionale Halliburton, (e la sussidiaria Brown & Root), legate al vicepresidente Dick Cheney e che hanno tratto i maggiori benefici dalla guerra in Iraq.
You ride around your white castle,
(Continues)
2005/8/25 - 16:19
Song Itineraries: George Walker Bush II
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Sangue Trentino

Sangue Trentino
Canto popolare - arm. Andrea Mascagni

E’ uno dei più famosi canti degli alpini.
Si conclude così: perché devono essere sempre gli alpini a pagare per la difesa della Patria?

http://www.corovalsella.it
Le sei e mezzo eran del mattino,
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/25 - 15:54

Alla mattina all'alba

Canto popolare raccolto in Veneto, ad Asolo - armonizzazione di Gian Luigi Dardo

Il sole spunta, gli uccelli volano per la campagna; ed io, alla vigilia delle nozze, devo andare soldato lontano da te. Tu sei il mio fiore gentile, sei la sola donna che io sappia e possa amare; e te lo dirò, quando, al mio ritorno, ti avrò ancora tra le mie braccia. Una narrazione rustica ma garbata.
Alla mattina quando spunta il sole
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/25 - 15:51
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We Seek no Wider War

We Seek no Wider War
25 agosto 2005
NON CERCHIAMO UNA GUERRA PIU' AMPIA
(Continues)
2005/8/25 - 14:54
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Serce w plecaku

A HEART IN A RUCKSACK
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/24 - 21:58
Now also Le déserteur has its Latin version!
Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/24 - 17:33
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Le déserteur

Le déserteur
LATINO / LATIN -Riccardo Venturi

In latino, ovviamente, non si può né sparare, né portare fucili o altre armi da fuoco; e la Francia si chiamava "Gallia", la Bretagna "Armorica" (come sanno tutti i lettori di Asterix) e la Provenza (dal latino "Provincia") ancora non si chiamava così (era un po' Gallia Narbonensis, un po' Arvernia e un po' altre cose).
Per il resto, i concetti base della canzone sono mantenuti appieno.

In Latini sermonis natura non est admittendus usus atque nominatio pyrobolorum vel aliorum pyricorum armorum. Quod vulgo nunc “Francia” appellatur, eo tempore Gallia fuit; sicut “Bretagna” –ut omnes Asterigis lectionis fautores sciunt- fuit Armorica, et “Provenza” fuit tunc Narbonensis Gallia, tunc Arvernia et aliae regiones atque provinciae.
Quo dicto, omnes carminis significationes profundissimae retentae sunt immutatae.
(RV)
MILITIAE PERFUGA
(Continues)
2005/8/24 - 17:21
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Temper

Temper
(1996)

"Temper” is a rare demo off System of a Down’s second demo tape, which also features another rarity, “Honey”, and the demo version for “Soil”. It was written and performed prior to the self-titled debut even though it didn’t make the final cut. “Temper” was played for the first time since 1999 at the 2015 Rock in Rio Festival.
We want peace without
(Continues)
2005/8/24 - 16:12
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Killing In The Name

Killing In The Name
24 agosto 2005
(Corretta il 20 gennaio 2016)
AMMAZZA’ NER NOME
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/24 - 02:14
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Vietnow

Vietnow
[1996]
Da/From "Evil Empire"
Testo e musica di Zack de la Rocha e Tom Morello
Lyrics and Music by Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello
Turn on tha radio, nah fuck it turn it off
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/24 - 01:33
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Doctor, My Eyes

Doctor, My Eyes
[1986]
Originally from the album "Jackson Browne"
Lyrics and Music by Jackson Browne


This is AWS nr 2500
Questa è la CCG n° 2500
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/24 - 00:01
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For America

For America
[1986]
dall'album "Lives in the Balance"
As if I really didn't understand
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/23 - 23:58
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Soldier Of Plenty

Soldier Of Plenty
[1986]

Lives in the Balance
God is great, God is good
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/23 - 23:57
Song Itineraries: Primitive AWS
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Three Minutes Silences

Three Minutes Silences
Lyrics and Music by Robb Johnson
Testo e musica di Robb Johnson

source
They said we ought to have 3 minutes silence.
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/23 - 23:49

Peace At Last

Peace At Last
[3 nov 2001]
Lyrics and Music by Robb Johnson
Testo e musica di Robb Johnson

http://users.bart.nl/~bontebal/nl/subd...
The Kaiser was a rich man, made his money from the poor
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/8/23 - 23:47
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A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)

A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)
Album: Steal This Album! (2002)
We fought your wars with all our hearts,
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 23:14
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No Boom Boom

No Boom Boom
Un rifacimento di "Boom Boom" di John Lee Hooker trasformato in una canzone contro la guerra.
Le parole probabilmente non sono complete
No boom boom boom Mr. son of a Bush
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 23:10
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My Country 'Tis Of Thy People You're Dying

My Country 'Tis Of Thy People You're Dying
(1966)

"My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" is Buffy Sainte-Marie's statement-in-song about Indian affairs.

"My point in the song is that the American people haven't been given a fair share at learning the true history of the American Indian. They know neither the state of poverty that the Indians are in now nor how it got to be that way. I try to tell the side of the story that's left out of the history books, that can only be found in the documents, the archives and in the memories of the Indians themselves."

Nat Hentoff, liner notes for Buffy Sainte-Marie, Little Wheel Spin And Spin, 1966

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/part...
Now that your big eyes have finally opened,
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 22:49
Song Itineraries: Native American Genocide
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Now That The Buffalo's Gone

Now That The Buffalo's Gone
This song was on my first album and I'd have thought it would be obsolete by now. But governments are still breaking promises and stealing indigenous lands, and I still believe that informed people can help make things better.
(Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Can you remember the times
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 22:45
Song Itineraries: Native American Genocide
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Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)
(1970)

Le candele accese ad una manifestazione per la pace

Melanie performed at Woodstock in 1969. During her performance, for the first time in pop history, candles were lit (and thus began a tradition). Inspired by this experience Melanie wrote "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" which was a hit all over Europe and the USA.
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 22:27
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We Didn't Know

We Didn't Know
[1965]
Parole e musica di Tom Paxton
Testo pubblicato su Broadside # 62, del 15 settembre 1965
Nell’album intitolato “Ain't That News”

The song compared Americans' unawareness of Vietnam atrocities with those Germans who claimed they "didn't know" about Nazi war crimes

La canzone confronta l'ignoranza degli americani a proposito delle atrocità commesse nel Vietnam con quei tedeschi che sostenevano di "non sapere niente" dei crimini di guerra nazisti
We didn't know said the Burgomeister,
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 22:13
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The Bravest

The Bravest
(Written 9/24/01)

«As I sat and watched the horror unfold on 9/11, I could smell the acrid smoke drifting south from the Pentagon. There was a never ending line of cars heading away from Washington. With the rest of the world I watched the towers come down and among the victims were 343 New York firemen. I'll never be able to look at a fireman or woman again without knowing that he or she would lay down their lives for me without ever knowing my name. We can never thank them enough.»
(Tom Paxton)
The first plane hit the other tower
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 22:05
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Monster / Suicide / America

Monster / Suicide / America
Album: "Monster" (1969)
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 21:36
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Peace In Our Time

Peace In Our Time
Album: Goodbye Cruel World - 1984
Out of the aeroplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 21:26
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Put Down That Weapon

Put Down That Weapon
Album: Diesel and Dust (1987)
Under the waterline
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 17:48
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Travelin' Soldier

Travelin' Soldier
Bloodshed ruins everything, especially life's simplest pleasures, like chatting with a stranger. This 2002 track finds the Chicks speaking their mind by illustrating the kind of void war leaves in so many lives.

Lo spargimento di sangue distrugge ogni cosa, soprattutto i piaceri più semplici della vita, come chiacchierare con un estraneo. Questo pezzo del 2002 tira fuori alle Chicks quel che hanno dentro, descrivendo quale vuoto la guerra lascia in tante vite.

“'Travelin’ Soldier',the current single by the Dixie Chicks, is the most powerful anti-war record of the moment. Partly that’s because it’s the one now being heard by the most people. But it’s also because the song, written by Bruce Robison, doesn’t look away from war’s inevitable human costs. A high school girl falls in love with a boy who is eventually shipped to Vietnam. At its end, she stands beneath the bleachers, sobbing. Her... (Continues)
Two days past eighteen
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 17:37

Teatro degli Artigianelli

Teatro degli Artigianelli
Deutsche Fassung von Riccardo Venturi
23 agosto 2005 / 23. August 2005
JUNGHANDWERKER-THEATER
(Continues)
2005/8/23 - 11:43
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Washington Breakdown

Washington Breakdown
[1941]
(Pete Seeger / Lee Hays)
From/da "Songs For John Doe"

The third verse refers to Vito Marcantonio, a Congressman from East Harlem who supported radical causes.
Financier J. P. Morgan symbolized the capitalist evils of the 'money trust' that gave major corporations and financial institutions enormous political clout.
Republican Wendell Wilkie unsuccessfully ran against Roosevelt in the November 1940 Presidential campaign. Although supported by many isolationists, Wilkie generally agreed with Roosevelt's foreign policy.
Ronald D. Cohen & Dave Samuelson, liner notes for "Songs for Political Action," Bear Family Records BCD 15720 JL, 1996, p. 77.)
(from this page).


THE SONGS FOR JOHN DOE
Questa canzone degli Almanac Singers di Pete Seeger, scritta in un momento in cui gli Stati Uniti erano ancora neutrali nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, conteneva una critica feroce... (Continues)
Franklin D., listen to me,
(Continues)
2005/8/22 - 23:47




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