Palestine
My daddy was an Arab from Beersheva
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:25
Parcours:
L'Holocauste palestinien
After The Revolution
[January 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
David Rovics' Official Website
"The way things could be, and hopefully will be soon, as soon as we get it together. We have a world to lose or a world to gain. Originally recorded on Return." -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... (continuer)
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
David Rovics' Official Website
"The way things could be, and hopefully will be soon, as soon as we get it together. We have a world to lose or a world to gain. Originally recorded on Return." -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... (continuer)
It was a time I'll always remember
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 8/1/2006 - 22:57
I Wanna Go Home
French translation by Caroline Harvey
Version française de Caroline Harvey
http://www.davidrovics.com
Version française de Caroline Harvey
http://www.davidrovics.com
JE VEUX RENTRER CHEZ MOI
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 8/1/2006 - 22:46
Drug War
Oltre alla Drug War c'è anche la War on Drugs che ha delle cifre impressionanti:
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
Alessandro 9/7/2007 - 16:02
Lebanon (2006)
Created September 2006
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Two soldiers had been captured
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envoyé par adriana 10/3/2007 - 08:26
From Kabul To Khartoum
[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
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times" [2002]
David Rovics' Official Website
From Guatemala to Korea
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 11:40
Guantanamo Bay
Bonne continuation.see also\voir aussi: "GUANTANAMO BAY" song by J.D.SAGE at <www.jdsage.com >
J.D. 11/4/2007 - 17:36
How Many Soldiers Per Gallon Does Your SUV Get?
I saw you driving by
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envoyé par adriana 10/3/2007 - 08:31
Haditha
Testo ripreso dal sito ufficiale dell'autore
By the Euphrates River
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envoyé par adriana 10/3/2007 - 08:08
Operation Iraqi Liberation
Iraq, soldato Usa ammette stupro irachena e omicidio
Barker davanti alla corte marziale Usa. Eviterà esecuzione
16/11/2006
ROMA. Un soldato americano ha ammesso ieri di avere stuprato una ragazzina irachena di 14 anni e di avere ucciso lei e tutti i membri della sua famiglia. James Barker, riferisce la Bbc online, ha ammesso le proprie colpe all'inizio del processo marziale a suo carico in corso negli Usa.
L'ammissione di colpevolezza permetterà all'imputato di evitare la pena capitale. Barker è uno dei quattro soldati Usa accusati dell'omicidio. Tutti i sospetti appartengono alla Seconda Brigata di Elite della 101esima Divisione Aerea.
L'avvocato di Barker, David Sheldon, ha spiegato che il suo assistito ha deciso di collaborare con al Corte e di testimoniare contro gli altri sospettati. I tre imputati che dovranno rispondere di stupro e omicuidio sono Jesse Spielman. Paul Cortez e Bryan Howard.
http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSe...
Barker davanti alla corte marziale Usa. Eviterà esecuzione
16/11/2006
ROMA. Un soldato americano ha ammesso ieri di avere stuprato una ragazzina irachena di 14 anni e di avere ucciso lei e tutti i membri della sua famiglia. James Barker, riferisce la Bbc online, ha ammesso le proprie colpe all'inizio del processo marziale a suo carico in corso negli Usa.
L'ammissione di colpevolezza permetterà all'imputato di evitare la pena capitale. Barker è uno dei quattro soldati Usa accusati dell'omicidio. Tutti i sospetti appartengono alla Seconda Brigata di Elite della 101esima Divisione Aerea.
L'avvocato di Barker, David Sheldon, ha spiegato che il suo assistito ha deciso di collaborare con al Corte e di testimoniare contro gli altri sospettati. I tre imputati che dovranno rispondere di stupro e omicuidio sono Jesse Spielman. Paul Cortez e Bryan Howard.
http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSe...
Alessandro 16/11/2006 - 12:12
Saint Patrick Battalion
[March 2001]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics
My name is John Riley
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 11:43
Candle For Durruti
[1988]
Lyrics and music by Al Grierson
Testo e musica di Al Grierson
Testo ripreso da / Lyrics available at David Rovics' Official Website
"Written some time after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this song is a tribute to La Pasionaria, Durruti, the Lincoln Brigade and all the others around the world who fought and generally died in defense of freedom in Spain. The Spanish Civil War is seen by many as the real beginning of WWII, and also represents perhaps the most spectacular outpouring of international solidarity the world has ever seen. Though the war in Spain was won by the Spanish fascists (with the aid of Hitler's planes, Mussolini's troops and America's oil), the legacy of the International Brigades who went to defend Spain's democractic government continues to inspire many today."
David Rovics
« Scritta qualche tempo dopo la caduta del Muro di Berlino, questa canzone è un... (continuer)
Lyrics and music by Al Grierson
Testo e musica di Al Grierson
Testo ripreso da / Lyrics available at David Rovics' Official Website
"Written some time after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this song is a tribute to La Pasionaria, Durruti, the Lincoln Brigade and all the others around the world who fought and generally died in defense of freedom in Spain. The Spanish Civil War is seen by many as the real beginning of WWII, and also represents perhaps the most spectacular outpouring of international solidarity the world has ever seen. Though the war in Spain was won by the Spanish fascists (with the aid of Hitler's planes, Mussolini's troops and America's oil), the legacy of the International Brigades who went to defend Spain's democractic government continues to inspire many today."
David Rovics
« Scritta qualche tempo dopo la caduta del Muro di Berlino, questa canzone è un... (continuer)
Well the headline on the paper said the good guys won the war
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:34
Song For Hugh Thompson
[December 1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website
Da/From "We Just Want The World"
"I was in a wonderful cafe (Hyperion Espresso) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, when I read in the paper about this helicopter pilot who landed in My Lai near the end of this horrible massacre perpetrated upon Vietnamese peasants by American troops. I never knew until I read this article that certain American troops were also involved with finally putting an end to it. The only reason Hugh Thomson's heroic story emerged after thirty years was because the government of Vietnam was preparing to give him a medal for his actions, and the U.S. Army decided it wanted to try to avoid being upstaged." - David Rovics.
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website
Da/From "We Just Want The World"
"I was in a wonderful cafe (Hyperion Espresso) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, when I read in the paper about this helicopter pilot who landed in My Lai near the end of this horrible massacre perpetrated upon Vietnamese peasants by American troops. I never knew until I read this article that certain American troops were also involved with finally putting an end to it. The only reason Hugh Thomson's heroic story emerged after thirty years was because the government of Vietnam was preparing to give him a medal for his actions, and the U.S. Army decided it wanted to try to avoid being upstaged." - David Rovics.
Hugh Thompson was a pilot, just like many more
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:16
Parcours:
Guerre au Vietnam: vue des USA
We Just Want The World
[December 1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "We Just Want The World"
David Rovics' Official Website
"We Just Want the World -- not its ashes. There's certainly no future for any of humanity's hopes and dreams if the earth itself is strangled to death by oil spills and chainsaws." -David Rovics.
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "We Just Want The World"
David Rovics' Official Website
"We Just Want the World -- not its ashes. There's certainly no future for any of humanity's hopes and dreams if the earth itself is strangled to death by oil spills and chainsaws." -David Rovics.
When we're living in the White House
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:11
The Flag Desecration Rag
[December 1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Live At Club Passim"
David Rovics' Official Website
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Live At Club Passim"
David Rovics' Official Website
They tried to pass an amendment in the U.S. Congress
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:07
We Are Everywhere
[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.
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.
When I say the hungry should have food
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:25
In One World
[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.
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.
It took a long time, but I made a home here
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:22
By The Time They Nuke D.C.
[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.
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.
I want to write this song
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:13
I Have Seen The Enemy
[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.
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.
He has no feelings for the dead
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:04
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
[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.
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.
Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurdish people
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 14:11
Parcours:
Du Kurdistan
Bomb Ourselves
[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.
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.
The President got on TV and there was nary a dry eye, he said he loved his country and mom and apple pie
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 11:40
The Village Where Nothing Happened
[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
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
The Army commander spooke to the media
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 11:37
Drink Of The Death Squads
[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.
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.
Coca-Cola came to Colombia
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 11:34
Hang A Flag In The Window
[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.
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.
We want a safer country
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 18:14
Behind That Gate
[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.
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.
The judge condescended to the people
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 18:08
Return
[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.
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website
"Al awda" -David Rovics.
i can't help it.
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 15:40
The Key
[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.
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.
Let me tell you about a lady
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 15:38
Strike A Blow Against The Empire
[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.
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.
When the rich man on the TV
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 14:41
Promised Land
[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.
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.
Life could've been different
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 14:38
Parcours:
11 septembre: terrorisme à New York
Reichstag Fire
[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.
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.
The planes hit New York City
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 13:29
Resistance
[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.
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.
You can say that it's about the savages
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 13:27
Occupation
[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.
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.
You ask me how it is
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:28
What If You Knew
[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.
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.
If you knew that the earth was dying
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:20
The War Is Over
[May 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
[2014]
Album : Songs For Mahmud
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
[2014]
Album : Songs For Mahmud
The President stood in front of the jet planes
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:17
Korea
[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.
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.
Fifty years ago today we stood in rubble
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:10
Song For The SOA
[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]
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]
Well I pulled up there at the gate
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:07
Butcher For Hire
[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.
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.
If you wanna have a protest in the USA
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:00
Evening News
[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.
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.
The cities are full of criminals
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 17:55
Song The Songbird Sings
[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.
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.
It was another Friday morning
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 17:49
The Face Of Victory
[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
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.
I lost my job and joined the army
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 17:45
Miami
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.
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.
The leaders of the world had gathered
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 17:07
Spanish Journalist Strike
September 2004
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website
Here's to José Couso and all the other journalists targeted and killed by the US occupation forces in Iraq. -David Rovics.
The battle had been raging
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 30/6/2006 - 15:01
Scandals
First thing that he did before even getting to DC
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 30/6/2006 - 12:44
The Next Attack
[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)
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)
The next attack is coming
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 28/3/2006 - 11:54
My Daughter
[May 2000]
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 "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
Originally recorded in 2001 (before 9/11), about one of my Iraqi daughters. -David.
She was picking yellow flowers
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 28/3/2006 - 11:41
Behind The Barricades
[July 2001]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website
La data di composizione della canzone e il suo contenuto fanno pensare ad un riferimento preciso ai fatti di Genova e all'assassinio di Carlo Giuliani ("they're gunning down our comrades").
"This is the other song that also appears on my CD, Living In These Times, which I also include here because of the transformational effect of Allie’s harmonies." -David Rovics.
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website
La data di composizione della canzone e il suo contenuto fanno pensare ad un riferimento preciso ai fatti di Genova e all'assassinio di Carlo Giuliani ("they're gunning down our comrades").
"This is the other song that also appears on my CD, Living In These Times, which I also include here because of the transformational effect of Allie’s harmonies." -David Rovics.
When the world has gone crazy
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 28/3/2006 - 11:36
Parcours:
Barricades
Who Will Tell The People
[July 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 "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
The CIA is pushing crack in the ghettoes of LA
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 11:56
The Dying Firefighter
[September 2001]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
La canzone è tra le poche che nel sito di David non hanno un commento. Forse perché si commenta da sola. Gli ultimi pensieri di uno dei vigili del fuoco intervenuti l'11 settembre. Vogliamo pensare anche noi che tanti abbiano davvero avuto questi pensieri. [RV]
This song is one of the few David left uncommented in his website, maybe because it is self-commented. The last thoughts of one fireman who intervened on 9-11. We want to think that many had really this kind of thoughts. [RV]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
La canzone è tra le poche che nel sito di David non hanno un commento. Forse perché si commenta da sola. Gli ultimi pensieri di uno dei vigili del fuoco intervenuti l'11 settembre. Vogliamo pensare anche noi che tanti abbiano davvero avuto questi pensieri. [RV]
This song is one of the few David left uncommented in his website, maybe because it is self-commented. The last thoughts of one fireman who intervened on 9-11. We want to think that many had really this kind of thoughts. [RV]
I saw the plane hit the building
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 11:35
Parcours:
11 septembre: terrorisme à New York
International Terrorists
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)
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)
International terrorists are scheming
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 11:31
Parcours:
11 septembre: terrorisme à New York
Children Of Jerusalem
[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 "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
Did you see them praying
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 11:21
Parcours:
L'Holocauste palestinien
Pray For The Dead And Fight Like Hell For The Living
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)
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)
They bombed Philadelphia, killed women and children and men
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 11:02
Contras, Kings And Generals
[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.
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.
Missiles flying in the Third World
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 10:57
Henry Ford Was A Fascist
[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.
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.
Ford built tanks for the Nazis
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 26/3/2006 - 10:54
Parcours:
CCG Antifà: Antifascisme militant
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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.