No Más
It's snowing in the valley, ice chokes the river's mouth
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/5 - 08:40
Labor Day
[1998]
Album “Autumnsongs”
"ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN STRIKING FOR EIGHT HOURS!", “Centomila uomini in sciopero per le otto ore!”, gridavano gli operai a Chicago il 1 maggio del 1886, un attimo prima che la polizia attaccasse a freddo il corteo uccidendo due di loro. Il seguente 4 maggio, durante un presidio di protesta convocato dagli anarchici, la polizia cercò nuovamente di disperdere la manifestazione con la forza. A questo punto qualcuno - mai identificato - lanciò un ordigno rudimentale contro i poliziotti, uccidendone uno. Gli uomini in divisa, presi dal panico, cominciarono a sparare all’impazzata sulla folla: undici morti, tra cui sette poliziotti uccisi dal “fuoco amico”.
Della carneficina furono ritenuti responsabili gli anarchici. Otto militanti, quasi tutti immigrati tedeschi, furono arrestati, processati e condannati a morte benchè non vi fosse nessuna evidenza di colpevolezza.... (Continues)
Album “Autumnsongs”
"ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN STRIKING FOR EIGHT HOURS!", “Centomila uomini in sciopero per le otto ore!”, gridavano gli operai a Chicago il 1 maggio del 1886, un attimo prima che la polizia attaccasse a freddo il corteo uccidendo due di loro. Il seguente 4 maggio, durante un presidio di protesta convocato dagli anarchici, la polizia cercò nuovamente di disperdere la manifestazione con la forza. A questo punto qualcuno - mai identificato - lanciò un ordigno rudimentale contro i poliziotti, uccidendone uno. Gli uomini in divisa, presi dal panico, cominciarono a sparare all’impazzata sulla folla: undici morti, tra cui sette poliziotti uccisi dal “fuoco amico”.
Della carneficina furono ritenuti responsabili gli anarchici. Otto militanti, quasi tutti immigrati tedeschi, furono arrestati, processati e condannati a morte benchè non vi fosse nessuna evidenza di colpevolezza.... (Continues)
In school we learn the well-known names
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Contributed by Bartleby 2011/5/2 - 08:47
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
Immigrant
[1999]
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Supper's On The Table [2000]
[The chorus is based on the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty:]
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Supper's On The Table [2000]
[The chorus is based on the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty:]
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
I am an immigrant
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/8 - 14:35
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
Laz'rus
[2002]
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Stand Up! Broadsides For Our Times [2003]
When the nine coal miners were miraculously rescued after three days in a flooded mine outside of Somerset, PA, the vision of the biblical Lazarus was the first thing that came to mind. One of the unreported heroics of the rescue was the effort of the United Mine Workers over generations that forced the industry to have rescue technology and personnel trained and ready..
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Stand Up! Broadsides For Our Times [2003]
When the nine coal miners were miraculously rescued after three days in a flooded mine outside of Somerset, PA, the vision of the biblical Lazarus was the first thing that came to mind. One of the unreported heroics of the rescue was the effort of the United Mine Workers over generations that forced the industry to have rescue technology and personnel trained and ready..
Poor ol' Laz'rus, shake your bones
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/6 - 20:47
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
Calling All the Children Home
[1990]
Lyrics and Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Live At Wolf Trap [1991]
Lyrics and Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Live At Wolf Trap [1991]
"John, Mary Claire, Lulu, Jeanie,
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/6 - 09:55
In the Streets of Sarajevo
[2001]
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Stand Up! Broadsides For Our Times [2003]
John wrote this song a few years ago about Vedran Smailović, who was a resident of the city of Sarajevo in the early 1990's, when that city was literally in the middle of a battle zone. Vedran was a cello player whose courageous choice made him a symbol for unexpected joy in the midst of unspeakable horror when he began playing his cello out in the street everyday...
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Stand Up! Broadsides For Our Times [2003]
John wrote this song a few years ago about Vedran Smailović, who was a resident of the city of Sarajevo in the early 1990's, when that city was literally in the middle of a battle zone. Vedran was a cello player whose courageous choice made him a symbol for unexpected joy in the midst of unspeakable horror when he began playing his cello out in the street everyday...
He was there one Sunday morning
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/5 - 09:10
Song Itineraries:
Balkan Wars of the 90's
Hail to the Chief
[2003]
words by George W. Bush
music by John McCutcheon
album: Hail To The Chief
"Still about G.W. and the bushism.. from his words themselves"
words by George W. Bush
music by John McCutcheon
album: Hail To The Chief
"Still about G.W. and the bushism.. from his words themselves"
[Spoken:]
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/4 - 08:42
Song Itineraries:
George Walker Bush II
Duct Tape
[2003]
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Stand Up! Broadsides For Our Times
"Terror is just scaring people AS THEY DO.."
Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Stand Up! Broadsides For Our Times
"Terror is just scaring people AS THEY DO.."
The color of the day is orange
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/3 - 13:12
Lament
[1986]
Album "Signs of the Times", con Si Kahn
Un soldato ritorna dalla guerra... non è più lo stesso di prima, è segnato indelebilmente dalla violenza... il campo di battaglia si trasferisce nella vita familiare...
Album "Signs of the Times", con Si Kahn
Un soldato ritorna dalla guerra... non è più lo stesso di prima, è segnato indelebilmente dalla violenza... il campo di battaglia si trasferisce nella vita familiare...
I'm so glad you came to see me, and you brought the baby, too.
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Contributed by Alessandro 2009/8/21 - 11:16
Not In My Name
You see the plane in the distance
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Contributed by Alessandro 2009/1/13 - 22:14
Somos El Barco
words & music by Lorre Wyatt
Album: Mail Myself To You [1988]
Album: Mail Myself To You [1988]
The stream sings it to the river
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Contributed by giorgio 2008/10/25 - 11:23
Christmas In The Trenches
[1984]
Lyrics and Music by John McCutcheon
Testo e musica di John McCutcheon
Lyrics and Music by John McCutcheon
Testo e musica di John McCutcheon
The Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts may well represent the last time that the face of humanity would been seen in what was rapidly becoming the ultimate nightmare of the industrial revolution. The concept of total war would soon replace any outdated notion of chivalry.
Originally incorporated as part of the 1996 Christmas theme on the main page, John's lyrics from this 1984 song capture the spirit of that Christmas so many years ago. I thought it best to leave it up for year 'round access, lest we forget its message.
worldwar1.com
Originally incorporated as part of the 1996 Christmas theme on the main page, John's lyrics from this 1984 song capture the spirit of that Christmas so many years ago. I thought it best to leave it up for year 'round access, lest we forget its message.
worldwar1.com
My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool.
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2007/12/14 - 01:06
Song Itineraries:
Christmas Truce 1914
We Know War
[2003]
Lyrics and Music by John McCutcheon
Testo e musica di John McCutcheon
"Anyone who's spent any time at all in Europe know how fresh the memories of the many wars fought there are. Written days before the Iraq war...or, as some have called it, Dubya Dubya II." -John McCutcheon.
Lyrics and Music by John McCutcheon
Testo e musica di John McCutcheon
"Anyone who's spent any time at all in Europe know how fresh the memories of the many wars fought there are. Written days before the Iraq war...or, as some have called it, Dubya Dubya II." -John McCutcheon.
We know war
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/11/15 - 18:01
Ashcroft's Army
[2002]
Last night on TV there he stood
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/6/30 - 18:58
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Lyrics & Music by John McCutcheon
Album: Signs Of The Times [1986]