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Jag hatar patriarkatet

Jag hatar patriarkatet

Note. The following is no “translation” of the Swedish song, but rather a complete rewriting prepared (and sung) by Jan Hammarlund himself. From: Jan Hammarlund, Alla mina sånger (All my Songs), Skördemåne AB 2005, page 102. [RV]
I HATE THE PATRIARCHY
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2019/4/22 - 10:51
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Su comunisti della capitale

Anonymous
Su comunisti della capitale
COME ON, COMMUNISTS OF THE CAPITAL
(Continues)
Contributed by ZugNachPankow 2019/4/14 - 11:06

Oi sodan surkeutta

Anonymous
Oi sodan surkeutta
O MISERABLE WAR
(Continues)
Contributed by Juha Rämö 2019/4/13 - 13:17
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Barbados

Barbados
La poesia originale di William Cowper
I own I am shocked at the purchase of slaves, 
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/4/12 - 12:03
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John Henry

Anonymous
John Henry
This is the hammer killed John Henry
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/4/12 - 11:41
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לֹא-יִשָּׂא גוֹי

Anonymous
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
(Continues)
Contributed by Juha Rämö 2019/4/11 - 15:09
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En sång till modet

En sång till modet
Erik Stinus (2004) / Roger Hinchliffe (2019)

A SONG TO COURAGE
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2019/4/11 - 11:28
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La chanson de Craonne

Anonymous
La chanson de Craonne
en.wikipedia : La chanson de Craonne


La Chanson de Craonne (English: The Song of Craonne) is an anti-military song of World War I written in 1917. The song was written to the tune of Bonsoir M'Amour (Charles Sablon), sung by Emma Liebel. It is sometimes known by the first line of the chorus, Adieu la vie (Goodbye to life).

This song was sung by the French soldiers who mutinied (in sixty eight of the one hundred and ten divisions of the French Army) after the costly and militarily disastrous offensive of General Robert Nivelle at the Chemin des Dames, spring 1917.

The song was prohibited in France until 1974. Even though an award of 1 million francs and the immediate honorable release from the army were offered for revealing the maker, the original author of the song remained unknown.

These revolts brought about severe reprimands, notably by General Philippe Pétain, who was named on 17... (Continues)
THE SONG OF CRAONNE
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2019/4/9 - 05:06
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Φύσα αγέρα

Anonymous
Φύσα αγέρα
Riccardo Gullotta
BLOW, WIND
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2019/4/7 - 14:12
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Απόψε θα πλαγιάσουμε

Anonymous
Απόψε θα πλαγιάσουμε
Riccardo Gullotta
TONIGHT WE’LL LIE DOWN
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2019/4/6 - 16:58
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Thomas Sankara: Discours devant l’assemblée générale de l’ONU le 4 octobre 1984

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Thomas Sankara: Discours devant l’assemblée générale de l’ONU le 4 octobre 1984
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Thomas Sankara Speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations

Delivered: In French, at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, on 4 October 1984.
Source of the translation into English:United Nationas (1984), United Nations General Assembly Official Records, 20th Plenary Meeting, Thursday, 4 October 1984, at 10.40 a.m., New York, (A/39/PV.20), pp. 405-410.
This edition: Marxists Internet Archive, January 2019.
Dear President
(Continues)
Contributed by CCG/AWS Staff 2019/4/5 - 16:20
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I Asked the Bossman

I Asked the Bossman
[1965]
Nell'album "Down Home Blues" e poi in diverse raccolte successive.
We were down in Louisiana
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2019/4/4 - 17:02
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Ήρωες

Anonymous
Ήρωες
Riccardo Gullotta
HEROES
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2019/4/4 - 12:37
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Fuck All the Perfect People

Fuck All the Perfect People
[2012]
Chip Taylor & The New Ukrainians
To be or not to be
(Continues)
Contributed by Krzysiek 2019/4/3 - 21:58
Song Itineraries: Anti War Love Songs
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Come Sunday

Come Sunday
[1942]
Scritta da Duke Ellington e divenuta subito uno degli standard assoluti della musica jazz.
Nella sua opera forse più ambiziosa, "Black Brown And Beige (A Duke Ellington Tone Parallel To The American Negro)", pubblicata nel 1946, sorta di storia in musica dei neri d'America, parallela a quella allora ancora ufficiale, e bianca, fatta di segregazione, razzismo, soprusi, miseria, linciaggi.
Il brano fu composto per il primo concerto di Ellington alla Carnegie Hall di New York, nel gennaio del 1943, ma non mi pare che poi si trovi in quella registrazione, almeno, come traccia visibile.
La prima interprete della versione cantata (di cui riporto qui il testo), struggente, paradossalmente quasi totalmente priva di accompagnamento musicale, fu Mahalia Jackson nel 1958
Ripresa da una sfilza lunghissima di grandi artisti.
Lord, dear Lord I've loved, God almighty
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2019/4/3 - 14:06
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Cry of My People

Cry of My People
[1972]
Scritta da Calvin "Cal" Massey (1928-1972), trombettista e compositore jazz afroamericano

La traccia che intitola l'album che Archie Shepp dedicò all'amico prematuramente scomparso proprio quell'anno.
The cry of my people
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2019/4/3 - 13:22
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The war on war

The war on war
2014
The Grand Scheme of Things
1, 2, 3, 4
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/4/3 - 10:03
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Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son
dall'album VI del 1987
FORTUNATE SON
(Continues)
2019/4/2 - 22:52
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Paid Vacation

Paid Vacation
1988
Album: Group Sex

Scritta quando gli Stati Uniti sostenevano in Afghanistan i gruppi di Mujaheddin in funzione antisovietica, tra cui un certo Osama Bin Laden che avrebbe negli anni a venire creato alcuni problemi...
I hope you're having fun
(Continues)
2019/4/2 - 14:35
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Cowboys

Cowboys
(1997)
(Barrow, Gibbons)
Dal secondo album della band di Bristol, intitolato semplicemente Portishead

Non saprei dire se si riferisca alla Thatcher e al suo amico americano, il cowboy Ronald Reagan, o più in generale sia un atto di accusa di tutti i popoli oppressi contro l'oppressore, il conquistatore rappresentato qui dai cowboys... sicuramente è una canzone politica a favore di tutte le minoranze e contro le maggioranze che opprimono, schiacciano e riducono in schiavitù.
Did you sweep us far from your feet?
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo 2019/3/31 - 22:19
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Symphony no.3 (The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

Symphony no.3 (The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
1. Lento - sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
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2019/3/31 - 21:28
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Παιδιά σηκωθείτε να βγούμε στους δρόμους

Παιδιά σηκωθείτε να βγούμε στους δρόμους
GUYS, LET’S GET UP AND TAKE TO THE STREETS
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2019/3/31 - 16:24
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TalkTalk

TalkTalk
[2018]
Scritta da Maynard James Keenan e Billy Howerdel
Nell'album "Eat the Elephant"

"Mentre ci stai a pensare su, i cadaveri si ammucchiano..."
You're waiting (you're waiting ...)
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2019/3/30 - 23:20
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1st World Tragedy

1st World Tragedy
[2017]
Parole e musica di Connie Constance (1995), songwriter londinese
Nell'EP "Boring Connie"

"We're all crying cause we've got mental issues.What a fucking luxury, some people have no food."
Stan Smith's cushioning my pull of gravity, Off White, scuffed up, like the world is mad at me
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2019/3/29 - 23:29
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Wake Up (It's 1984)

Wake Up (It's 1984)
1983
Album: Good For Your Soul
Wake up! Won't you listen to me?
(Continues)
2019/3/29 - 02:10
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Summer of '68

Summer of '68
Johnny got drafted to Vietnam
(Continues)
2019/3/29 - 01:37
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Ο Μπελογιάννης ζει

Ο Μπελογιάννης ζει
Z! BELOGIANNIS LIVES!
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2019/3/28 - 23:57
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Sweet Love for Planet Earth

Sweet Love for Planet Earth
[2008]
La traccia che apre "Street Horrrsing", album d'esordio di questo duo di Bristol che produce musica "Electronica, drone, neo-psychedelia, experimental, post-rock, noise"
Testo (non comprensibile nell'esecuzione del brano, tanta è la distorsione) trovato su Genius
Il brano è stato utilizzato anche nella colonna sonora della serie televisiva britannica "Top Boy".

Lo so, lo so, sono tanti i giovani ottimisti che in questi ultimi mesi invocano il cambiamento, che la smettano gli uomini di violentare a morte il solo pianeta dove possono vivere... Io che sono vecchio e ormai scafato "sui giovani d'oggi ci scatarro su", come cantavano gli Afterhours, e insieme ai Fuck Buttons credo che ormai l'unica soluzione per favorire una rigenerazione planetaria sia l'estinzione, l'annientamento, la scomparsa del genere umano.
We're all afflicted with a heinous curse
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2019/3/28 - 23:04
Song Itineraries: War on Earth
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John Hill

John Hill
2014
Never Forget

John Hill married Sean's Great Grandmother Mary Jane in Sunderland in 1913. He died a year later with thousands of others in the opening months of the Great War and is buried in the little French town of Bailleul. Mary Jane eventually remarried and gave birth to another 11 children one of whom is Sean's Nana.
John Hill lies in Bailleul as I lie in bed
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/3/26 - 09:20
Song Itineraries: World War I (1914-1918)
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Επέσατε θύματα

Anonymous
Επέσατε θύματα
Riccardo Gullotta
YOU FELL VICTIMS
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2019/3/25 - 23:51
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Love Wins

Love Wins
Album: Cry Pretty (2018)

"I do think that we as humans are inherently good and we need to remember that. Because we're different, that doesn't make somebody else bad, it just makes us different. We wanted that song to be hopeful and to maybe make somebody stop and think about that."
A stray bullet and a momma cries
(Continues)
2019/3/23 - 04:04
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From a Distant Shore

From a Distant Shore
(2006)
dall'album "Let it Roll"
I landed here in country
(Continues)
Contributed by Aldo 2019/3/22 - 21:34
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The Croppers Lads

Anonymous
1820-30

Bill Price in The Fine Old Yorkshire Gentleman (1972)
Roy Harris in Champions of Folly (1972)
Louis and Sally Kitheir in Shining Morning (1975) and in Gallant Lads Are We: Songs of the British Industrial Revolution. (1980)
Ian Giles with Folly Bridge in Unabridged (1992)
Brian Peters in The Seeds of Time (1992)
Maddy Prior & the Girls (Rose Kemp and Abbie Lathe) in Bib & Tuck (2002)
Mawkin Causley in The Awkward Recruit (2009)
Bryony Griffith in Nightshade (2014)
Rachael McShane with The Cartographers in 2018

Croppers, although relatively few in numbers, played a central part in the activities of the machine-breaking Luddites in Yorkshire. Prior to the introduction of machinery to do the job they had been top-grade apprenticed craftsmen, trained to produce a smooth even nap on the woollen cloth after it had been woven. They cropped the woven cloth with heavy... (Continues)
Come Cropper lads of high renown
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/3/22 - 18:31
Song Itineraries: The Luddites
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Ned Ludd Part 3 (Ned Ludd)

Ned Ludd Part 3 (Ned Ludd)
2006
Bloody men
Welcome Ned Ludd, your case is good
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/3/22 - 16:32
Song Itineraries: The Luddites
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Inger Nilsson: Pippi Långstrump

Inger Nilsson: Pippi Långstrump

Audio link: [[|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mOGeAM7KME]]
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING
(Continues)
Contributed by Juha Rämö 2019/3/22 - 13:59
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Ned Ludd Part 4 (Prelude to Peterloo)

Ned Ludd Part 4 (Prelude to Peterloo)
2006
Bloody men
At the end of January in 1817
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/3/22 - 12:14
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Ned Ludd Part 5 (Peterloo the Day)

Ned Ludd Part 5 (Peterloo the Day)
2006
Bloody men

Il 16 agosto 1819, a Manchester, in località St. Peter's Field (da cui il nome Peterloo, ricalcato ironicamente su quello di Waterloo, data anche la presenza, tra i soldati che spararono, di alcuni veterani che avevano partecipato alla celebre battaglia) la cavalleria represse nel sangue una rivolta popolare. Durante un comizio pacifico convocato per chiedere al parlamento britannico la riforma elettorale, la folla di circa 80.000 persone fu dispersa con la forza dalla cavalleria che provocò undici morti e diverse centinaia di feriti.

La fine delle guerre napoleoniche nel 1815 aveva portato a periodi di carestia e disoccupazione, e questa situazione fu esacerbata dall'introduzione di dazi sull'importazione di derrate agricole, le Corn Laws. All'inizio del 1819, la pressione generata dalla povertà, accompagnata dalla mancanza di suffragio nell'Inghilterra settentrionale,... (Continues)
We have new paper money, and railway tracks
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2019/3/22 - 12:07
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Roda

Roda
I will include a few translation notes below because the lyrics include a few bits of informal language that do not translate perfectly into English (a big thank you to my coworker Jaqueline from Brazil for helping me with some of those).
CIRCLE [1]
(Continues)
Contributed by Tom Harper 2019/3/20 - 18:58
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Welcome to 1984

Welcome to 1984
Who would Jesus bomb? Who would Jesus kill?
(Continues)
2019/3/20 - 02:37




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