[July 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"It’s true. I would say this is the single most important fact that we should always remember." -David Rovics.

[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Based on a story I read in the Palestine Monitor about a Palestinian refugee from the city of Haifa who went to visit the home of his birth and met the Jewish refugees from Iraq who were living there." -David Rovics.

[July 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"As research into mini-nukes continues at the Y-12 Nuclear weapons factory in Tennessee, the specter of nuclear terrorism becomes ever more real." -David Rovics.

[July 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Any relation to any politicians, living or dead, is entirely coincidental." -David Rovics.

[May 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"I wrote this after watching a documentary of the same name. There may not be a more glaring example of the contradictions in US foreign policy than our policy towards the Kurdish nation." -David Rovics.

[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Another song inspired by Dubya" -David Rovics.

[January 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Based on an article by Richard Lloyd Parry that originally appeared in the Independent (UK)." -David Rovics

[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"True story first told to me by Katie Knight from the Colombia Support Network in Montana. Something like half of the union organizers that are killed in the world each year are Colombian. Colombia is also the biggest recipient of military aid in the hemisphere. This, of course, is a coincidence." -David Rovics.

[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Hang A Flag in the Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"US foreign and domestic policy is a hotbed of contradictions. Many of the lines in this song came directly from the mouth of the president-select himself." -David Rovics.

[November 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "WWJB"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Another SOA-related song, which I wrote the morning of the 2002 protest at the gate to Fort Benning. The irony of the situation was stated most eloquently over breakfast to me by Bruce Gagnon -- that the cops would be searching peaceful protesters for hidden weapons outside of the world's biggest terrorist training camp." - David Rovics.

[June 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Al awda" -David Rovics.

[March 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"I was trying to write a song for Sami Al-Arian, currently being held in solitary confinement in the US for the crime of being an outspoken Palestinian. In one of the interviews with him I found on-line he mentioned his grandmother, and the key around her neck. This song is for her." -David Rovics.

[April 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Silence is the voice of complicity, that’s the point. If you know what’s going on and you’re just sitting by and trying not to do harm, that’s not good enough. What have you done? What will you do? They’re killing your family." -David Rovics.

[February 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Everyone can, and must, be understood. This is a song from the perspective of Mohamed Atta." -David Rovics.

NOTA. Per chi non lo avesse presente, Mohamed Atta è stato il capo del commando degli attentati dell'11 settembre.

[January 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Given history, those of us who weren’t born yesterday must ask the obvious question: Who knew what and who did what and why is the government so terrified of asking these questions?" -David Rovics.

[November 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"The name of the enemy always changes, but the war between the haves and the have-nots continues to rage, as it has for the past several thousand years, as it will until there’s sanity in the world, or until there is no more world." -David Rovics.

[February 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"The infrastructure of terror." -David Rovics.

[November 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"

"Based on the story of a woman who was a little girl when her mother was raped and hacked to pieces by eighteen men under orders from Ariel Sharon on the floor of her home in the Shatila refugee camp while she hid under the bed and watched." -David Rovics.

[November 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Songs for Mahmud"

"What would you do if you were seeing the truth every day on TV, rather than neoliberal/neoconservative, pro-war propaganda?" - David Rovics.

[May 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
[2014]
Album : Songs For Mahmud

[August 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Songs for Mahmud"
David Rovics' Official Website

"During the US war against the people of North Korea in the 1950's, one in five people in North Korea were killed, and every structure was destroyed by bombs dropped by the US in the biggest bombing campaign in history up to that time." -David Rovics.

[October, 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Songs for Mahmud"

"The community that can be found outside the gates of Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia every November is a beautiful thing, despite the reason for the semi-annual formation of that community (the US Army's School of the Assassins). This song celebrates that community." - David Rovics.

NOTA. La SOA, or "School Of the Americas", con sede a Fort Benning (Georgia) è la scuola dove vengono addestrate, negli Stati Uniti, le forze governative (di polizia, militari ecc.) dei vari paesi latinoamericani. E' detta anche la "Scuola dei torturatori". Sono stati diplomati SOA, ad esempio, il famoso torturatore cap. Astiz in forza alla giunta militare argentina e vari altri bei personaggini del genere. [RV]

[February 2004]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Songs for Mahmud"

"John Timoney. Police chief during any mass convergence these days, it seems, from Philly to Miami to Boston, and even an advisor to the NYPD during the same summer. When the heads of nonviolent protesters need to be cracked to protect democracy, Timoney seems to be the man for the job." -David Rovics.

[August 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Songs for Mahmud"

"I watched "CBC National" one night in a hotel in New Brunswick. It was such outrageous propaganda, I had to write a song about that one evening's newscast. CBC is right up there with Foxhole News, but I just wasn't expecting it to be quite that bad, so it was a bit of a shock." -David Rovics.

[November 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Songs for Mahmud"
David Rovics' Official Website

"In memory of Mahmud al-Qayyed, age 10, killed by Israeli occupation forces for the crime of catching songbirds in the Gaza Strip." -David Rovics.

[November 2003]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website

"Welcome to the next Oklahoma City (and many other developments). The veterans of war are returning." -David Rovics.

Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From "Songs for Mahmud"
David Rovics' Official Website

"The FTAA protests in November, 2003 involved some of the most coordinated and unprovoked military-style assault on nonviolent protesters I've ever heard of or seen." -David Rovics.

September 2004
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website

January, 2006
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
David Rovic's Official Website

[September 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Hang A Flag in the Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"“The next attack is coming.” This is a headline I saw in some tabloid in Europe. I am pretty sure the article did not get into the reasons that I list as to why the next attack is coming, but it was a good headline."

LINER NOTES

September 2002
Dear Listener,

Of the twenty-one songs on this CD, eighteen of them were written since last September. George W. Bush has certainly been a great inspiration, but the general themes of my songs have not changed, only the details. Because, for the people of the world, things have not changed so much since September 11th. There was suffering and resistance before September 11th and the suffering and the resistance continues. I suppose these are the themes that have occupied my mind and my songwriting... (continuer)

[May 2000]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website

[July 2001]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website

[December 1998]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times" [2002]
David Rovics' Official Website

Written on September 15, 2001
Scritta il 15 settembre 2001

Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website

HERE'S WHAT I SENT TO MY EMAIL LIST ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001:

Hi folks,

Horrible news today of course. I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner. Needless to say (I hope), I mourn for all the innocent lives lost. I've yet to find out, but I may know some of them personally. Regardless, years ago I often worked as a temp for many evil corporations, and I'm sure there are many people just like me who were at the World Trade Center today, typing away endless streams of meaningless words and numbers for their meager pay.

But of course, as one might expect, the rulers of the world have spun this event to their militaristic ends, bent on world domination as they are. Let me be clear that I don't support the... (continuer)

[Created October 2000 - Updated June 2001]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website

Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Live At Club Passing"
David Rovics' Official Website

LINER NOTES FOR LIVE AT CLUB PASSING

I'd like to dedicate this recording to the memory of Eric Mark. Eric was a very dear friend of mine. We lived together in San Francisco along with our close friends, David and Annie and other wonderful folks. It was a great gang there on Macalester Street. Mostly cab drivers and late-night waitresses, all with crazy stories to tell each night during the kitchen gatherings at 2 am or so.
Eric had quit his job as a mechanical engineer in Berkeley to be a cab driver in San Francisco. He had such a love of life and all things alive. He was one of the most intelligent people I ever met. Always thinking hard, questioning. He had gotten into Marxism and dialectical materialism and such, and was quickly leaving me in the dust when... (continuer)

[December 1998]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "We Just Want The World"
David Rovics' Official Website

"A song for the beautiful, suffering people of Iraq, and all the other victims of America's genocidal foreign policy." - David Rovics.

[December 1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "We Just Want The World"

"Henry Ford was an openly anti-semitic, greed-driven capitalist who used Jewish slave labor in Germany to help the Nazis kill American soldiers and many, many other people. History is rarely as clearcut as it appears in the capitalist American ("mainstream") press, and WWII was no exception" -David Rovics.

[April 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
David Rovics' Official Website


"For a beautiful Salvadoran woman I saw in a photo on the cover of the New York Times. I was sitting in a café in Seattle in November, 1989, while she was trying to overthrow the US-backed fascists in El Salvador. Standing majestically on a rooftop in San Salvador, dressed in fatigues and an AK. Too bad those SAM's got intercepted en route from Nicaragua." -David Rovics.

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved... (continuer)

[February, 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
http://David Rovics' Official Website

"For the apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine. Originally recorded in the spring of 2004 for Songs for Mahmud." -David Rovics.

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files... (continuer)

[April 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
http://www.davidrovics.com

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files up to Boston and in Tenitus Studios my friend Sean Staples laid down bass, mandolin, bouzouki, electric guitar, dobro and nylon string guitar... (continuer)

[September 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moments"
David Rovics' Official Website

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files up to Boston and in Tenitus Studios my friend Sean Staples laid down bass, mandolin, bouzouki, electric guitar, dobro and nylon string... (continuer)

[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

*

"Riffing off of a Robb Johnson song (and a Pete Seeger song)."

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3... (continuer)

[2005]
Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3 music" section of http://this Website. Click on the song titles below to check out the lyrics to each song.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[2006]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3 music" section of
this Website. Click on the song titles below to check out the lyrics to each song.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[2005]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From David Rovics' Official Website

[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[November 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Read more about this interesting situation at the website of the Shannon Peace Camp." -David Rovics.

[April 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Martyrdom, that is, knowingly giving your life for a cause, was not invented in Palestine, and is generally a revered concept world-wide. I think it should be seen in that light."

[April 2003]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Nationalists with low IQ's bug me almost as much as the smart ones." -David Rovics.

Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"King David was a butcher. Actually, it really depends on how you interpret things, but herein lies one possible interpretation." -David Rovics

[November 2002]
Lyrics by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

[July 2000]
Lyrics by David Rovics
Music by David Rovics and Rich Caloggero
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Since the protests in Seattle in November/December 1999, the cops/system has been reacting with calculated violence and intimidation to protests throughout North America and elsewhere. In July there was a particularly brutal incident in Minneapolis." -David Rovics