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Scarborough Fair/Canticle, provided with The Elfin Knight, Whittingham Fair and Rosemary Lane, and with an Appendix on Riddles Wisely Expounded

Scarborough Fair/Canticle, <i>provided with</i> The Elfin Knight, Whittingham Fair <i>and</i> Rosemary Lane, <i>and with an Appendix on</i> Riddles Wisely Expounded
C1. SCARBOROUGH FAIR

La versione tradizionale completa e dialogata, con indicazione delle parti e dei rispettivi compiti. Si tratta con tutta probabilità di una versione ottocentesca, come quasi tutte le altre pervenuteci. Le strofe riassuntive, o esplicative (in pratica quelle cantate in duetto, a parte la prima) sono probabilmente spurie rispetto all'impianto della canzone tradizionale.

The traditional version of the ballad, complete and based on dialogues, with stating of roles and relative tasks. It is probably a 18th century version, like almost all versions still available. The summarizing, or explanatory verses (practically,
the all the verses sung by man and woman together, except the first one) are probably spurious with relation to the structure of the traditional song.
SCARBOROUGH FAIR
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 17/10/2017 - 07:34
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LiesLiesLies

LiesLiesLies
Album: Rio Grande Blood (2006)
Gentlemen we have called you together to inform you
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15/10/2017 - 22:48
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Katona vagyok én

anonimo
Katona vagyok én
I AM A SOLDIER
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15/10/2017 - 21:05
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Nuclear Power? No Thanks

Nuclear Power? No Thanks
1986
One Does Not Sell The Earth Upon Which The People Walk
They tell us Sizewell's safe and clean
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inviata da Dq82 15/10/2017 - 11:37
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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day
1986
Destroy Fascism!
The white male complex shows its roots
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inviata da Dq82 15/10/2017 - 11:25
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We Support All Forms of Resistance Against This Racist System (Pts. 1 & 2)

We Support All Forms of Resistance Against This Racist System (Pts. 1 & 2)
1986
Destroy Fascism!

Il brano era diviso in due parti, una di apertura e una di chiusura dell'EP
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inviata da Dq82 15/10/2017 - 11:17
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Question Time

Question Time
(2017)
Album: Game Over

anti-war song of the week from Stop The War Coalition
Look
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15/10/2017 - 10:42
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Se questo è un uomo

Versione inglese degli Haeven Shall Burn dallo Split con i Fall of Serenity (1999)
Se questo è un uomo
IF THIS IS A MAN
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inviata da Dq82 15/10/2017 - 10:04
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The Storm

The Storm
(2017 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher Verse)

In occasione dei BET Hip-Hop Awards 2017, lo scorso 2017, Eminem si è esibito in un freestyle ricco di riferimenti e critiche a Donald Trump. L'evento è stato seguito da numerose persone anche in diretta streaming questa notte. A sorpresa di tutti il rapper di Detroit, molto cambiato fisicamente, si è esibito in Storm, con un freestyle apertamente rivolto al presidente Donald Trump.

“Quello che abbiamo ora come presidente è un kamikaze, e probabilmente causerà un olocausto nucleare. E mentre scoppierà il bordello, lui metterà benzina nel suo aereo e volerà in giro, aspettando che tutto si calmi e le bombe finiscano di cadere”, recita un pezzo del freestyle di Eminem. Il video sta facendo il giro del web nelle ultime ore ed ha già totalizzato milioni di visualizzazioni, e ottenuto grande consenso da parte del suo pubblico.

Optim Magazine
It's the calm before the storm right here
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14/10/2017 - 13:35
Percorsi: Donald Trump
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Drifting Mine

Drifting Mine
(1987)

Words and Music by Stefano Frollano - 1987

Con gli Skydog ho inciso un cd che ha avuto un buon successo di critica e dove oltre a cover di rock-blues presentavamo anche qualche brano inedito. Di mio c’era “Drifting Mine” che in una successiva versione acustica, presente nel mio primo album solista, sarebbe stata poi scelta dallo staff di Neil Young per una particolare classifica dedicata alle canzoni contro la guerra e per la pace, scritte per protestare contro il secondo conflitto in Iraq. “Songs Of The Times” ospita più di tremila artisti e io sono tra i pochi italiani presenti in questa particolare graduatoria. La canzone la scrissi nel 1987 ed è stata anche la mia prima in inglese.

Musical News
I'm livin' in a world
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13/10/2017 - 23:36
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Boloko

Boloko
FEMALE CIRCUMCISION
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inviata da Bernart Bartleby 13/10/2017 - 14:41
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Mighty Peace

Mighty Peace
[2017]
Parole e musica di Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam
Nel suo ultimo album, “The Laughing Apple”
How I'd love to be a child
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inviata da Bernart Bartleby 12/10/2017 - 09:03
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War Is Coming (if You Want It)

War Is Coming (if You Want It)
(2017)

Il titolo è ovviamente un riferimento a Happy Xmas (War is Over) di John Lennon, Una canzone sull'indifferenza alle atrocità e alla guerra. La band, alquanto famosa nel circuito underground, ha commentato la canzone solo con le parole "Una canzone su non ammazzare la gente".

In an interview on Beats 1, Will Toledo said the song was inspired by a dream, as described in the first verse. It’s meant to counter the thought that suicide might be the best option for some people; according to Toledo, such an opinion is tantamount to murder. Written in February of 2017, the song was also influenced by the political climate in the United States following the election of Donald Trump as president.

The songs Bandcamp page states simply, “This is a song about not murdering people.”

genius
Last night I dreamed that you'd murdered some kids
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11/10/2017 - 22:49
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Reflections of War

Reflections of War
2005
Walking This Land

On the day of the peace marches prior to the current Iraqi war fiasco I attended a photographic exhibition about the use of depleted uranium in Iraq in the first gulf war and the effects of over ten years exposure to the population.

America and Great Britain filled Iraq with the equivalent of thirty-five Hiroshima bombs during that war resulting in sheep born with five heads and eight to ten deformed babies now born per day in Bagdad hospitals. Prior to that war one deformed baby was born a week.  No doubt that figure will rise in years to come from the effects from the use of more in this war now. After watching the huge turnout at the peace rallies on television news that night I sat down and wrote this song.

The use of depleted uranium is a crime against humanity and our current Australian government condones It with the granting of leases for America to test... (continua)
I  went to the gallery, saw your photo on the wall
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inviata da Dq82 8/10/2017 - 21:28
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The Shroud of Wittenoom

The Shroud of Wittenoom
1994
Justice and Pride

In 1935 there was documented evidence of the dangers of asbestos. However companies ignored the evidence and mined it up until the 1980’s. As the song says ‘ it is becoming one of the world’s largest industrial disasters’. Although this song appeared on my 1994 CD Justice And Pride it is as relevant as ever as James Hardie Industries continues to try and avoid its responsibilities to the worker’s it poisoned during the mining, distribution, and use of it’s asbestos products.

Wittenoom è oggi una città fantasma in Australia. Sede di una miniera di asbesto, questo è stato estratto per circa 30 anni, dal 1935 fino alla chiusura della città nel 1966 a causa dei problemi di salute dati dall'asbesto, ma per ben 30 anni l'estrazione è continuata nonostante fosse nota la tossicità dell'asbesto.

Wittenoom, un paese del Pilbara, regione dell’Australia occidentale, nel 1966... (continua)
In 1917 in the north west cape of Australia
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inviata da Dq82 8/10/2017 - 21:12
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Stolen Generations

Stolen Generations
2005
Walking This Land

The inspiration for this song came after reading some testimony given to the Stolen Generationenquiry and my recollection of an old Cinesound documentary about two small aboriginal girls who were taken from their family and adopted by a white family. The storyline was to show how 'lucky' these girls were to be given a real chance at life. My lasting image of that documentary was at the end when the girls (in new white frilly dresses) were being led up to their new bedroom and the commentator said - ‘yes dreams really do come true’.
Well he stroke my hair and he pat my back, then he tell me I look fine
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inviata da Dq82 8/10/2017 - 21:06
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Refugee

Refugee
2005
Walking This Land

This song took a while to eventuate. I was compelled to write it out of disgust at our current government’s hypocrisy and racist attitudes towards people’s who have suffered so much in their own homelands and have travelled across our northern waters in unseaworthy boats in the hope for a new future for themselves and their families. The fact that Australia sends troops to Afghanistan and Iraq because the local citizens need help and protection and we imprison theirrefugee’s who come from there is utter hypocrisy.

John Howard and his liberal party counterparts should be forever condemned for using the plight of these people’s lives to further their own political ends. The lies about queue jumping and children overboard, the imprisonment of children and the torture many of these refugee’s have been subjected to, deserve condemnation - for now, and into the future.
I come from the land of the desert
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inviata da Dq82 8/10/2017 - 21:00

Sweet Child of Mine

Sweet Child of Mine
2005
I'll be the One

A well-known Larrakia singer and community leader in Darwin, Northern Territory, June Mills blends country and western with her Phillipino/East Timorese musical heritage through use of organ, vocals and acoustic guitar. In her song “Sweet Child of Mine” on her albumI’ll Be the One (2005) she sings of the sorrow of the mother who hopes her child will remember her family and her identity. The song also emphasizes the loss of language, culture, and identity of children who were forcibly removed from their families.
The impact of the Stolen Generation policies has left its mark on Mills’ family as her grandmother was taken from her family when she was 6 years old. Mills states, “My grandmother was taken away from her tribal country when she was about 6 years old and given a new name. She grew up in Katherine and had nine children, she gave birth to all her children at... (continua)
Remember your name
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inviata da Dq82 8/10/2017 - 20:41
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Brown Skin Baby (They Took Me Away)

Brown Skin Baby (They Took Me Away)
1970

QUesta canzone scritta da Bob Randall racconta la sua esperienza di bambino rubato, come avveniva per i figli degli aborigeni in nome dell'assimilazione culturale.

Bob Randall’s Brown Skin Baby, recorded in 1970, was one of the first songs written about the Stolen Generations. The song explores Randall’s own traumatic past of being “stolen”, echoing the voice of his mother as she cries and grieves for her “brown skin baby”. The song’s reception brought the events of the Stolen Generations to national and international audiences. It is not surprising that it quickly became an anthem for Indigenous communities (Barney & Macklinary, 2010).

The song is autobiographical. It begins by discussing Randall’s early life. As a boy, he spent the first years of his life on a farm in the Northern Territory with his family, riding a pony. Aware that he was at risk of being taken, the women in... (continua)
My brown skin baby, they take him away
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inviata da Dq82 8/10/2017 - 17:09
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Failed State

Failed State
2017
Album: Ballad of a Wobbly
When you're working two jobs and living in a tent
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inviata da adriana 7/10/2017 - 10:55
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The Ballad of Caryl Chessman (Let Him Live, Let Him Live, Let Him Live)

The Ballad of Caryl Chessman (Let Him Live, Let Him Live, Let Him Live)
1960
Al Hoffman, Dick Manning

Su Caryl Chessmann si veda l'omonima canzone di Lorenzo De Antiquis

Testo trascritto all'ascolto, incompleto
Let Him Live, Let Him Live
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inviata da Dq82 6/10/2017 - 12:54
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I Won't Back Down

I Won't Back Down
(1989)
Album: Full Moon Fever
Interpretata anche da Johnny Cash, Eddie Vedder da solo o con i Pearl Jam e dall'attore Sam Elliott.

Nel 1987 un piromane dà fuoco alla casa di Tom Petty a Los Angeles distruggendola quasi completamente. Il cantante decide di ricostruire la casa esattamente nello stesso punto usando lo studio di registrazione nel seminterrato, l'unica parte che si era salvata dall'incendio, come fondamenta.

Da questo episodio personale prende spunto questo classico degli Heartbreakers che inseriamo in ricordo di Tom Petty, che se ne è andato oggi proprio per un attacco di cuore...

La bellezza della canzone è nella semplicità del testo, che si può adattare a qualsiasi situazione, personale o collettiva, d'amore o politica. In fondo è lo stesso concetto di Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: non cederò, non mi farò abbattere, resisterò...

George Bush utilizzò la canzone... (continua)
Well I won’t back down
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inviata da Lorenzo 2/10/2017 - 23:58
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Two Gunslingers

Two Gunslingers
(1991)
Album: Into the Great Wide Open

In ricordo di Tom Petty (1950-2017) leader degli Heartbreakers che ci ha lasciato oggi per un attacco di cuore.

Una parabola sicuramente pacifista sul libero arbitrio e sulla possibilità di decidere delle nostre vite.
Two gunslingers walked out in the street and one said
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2/10/2017 - 23:31
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The Children Came Back

The Children Came Back
2014

In celebration of 2014’s Naidoc Week, Briggs, along with Gurrumul, Dewayne Everettsmith and B2M performed “The Children Came Back” live on Australian radio-station Triple J as part of their long running segment ‘Like A Version’.

A year later in lead up to Naidoc Week 2015 and the release of Archie Roache’s 25th Anniversary Edition of ‘Charcoal Lane,’ a studio version was released of the song.

The song is somewhat of a triumphant sequel to Archie Roach’s deeply sad “They Took the Children Away”

The first verse of Brigg’s version makes references a number of successful contemporary indigenous people including Gavin Wanganeen, Anthony Mundine, Adam Goodes, Patty Mills and Cathy Freeman. The second verse delves a little deeper into past figures such as Doug Nicholls, Lionel Rose & William Cooper. The third verse finds Brigg’s bringing it back a closer to home. In this verse he makes... (continua)
I'm Fitzroy(1) where the stars be
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inviata da Dq82 2/10/2017 - 22:51
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Solid Rock

Solid Rock
1982
Spirit of place

Shane Howard had an epiphany when he went camping out near Uluru in 1981. That's when the idea for his song Solid Rock came into his head.
Solid Rock was Howard's response to the injustices he saw in some of Australia's indigenous communities in 1981.

I realised that this country that I grew up in, that I thought was my country, wasn't. I had to reassess my whole relationship with the land and the landscape, and understand that we had come from somewhere else, and we had dis-empowered a whole race of people when we arrived.

— Shane Howard
Out here nothin' changes, not in a hurry anyway
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inviata da Dq82 2/10/2017 - 21:11
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Death of Ellenton

Death of Ellenton
[1951]
Scritta da tal D. Smith (?) e da Jesse “Pa” Johnson, fondatore e leader di questo gruppo corale bianco americano degli anni 40.
Nel repertorio di folksingers come Rosalie Sorrels, scomparsa di recente, nel giugno scorso, e come The New Lost City Ramblers

La cittadina di Ellenton, South Carolina, non ha avuto un bel destino. Negli anni successivi alla Guerra Civile fu teatro di sanguinosissimi scontri tra gruppi paramilitari suprematisti, legati al Partito Democratico (!), e militanti del Partito Repubblicano - quello del presidente Ulysses S. Grant, ex condottiero nordista – una parte del quale si batteva per la protezione e l'inclusione sociale degli schiavi liberati.

Poi nel 1950 la cittadina fu interamente evacuata e cancellata dalle mappe perchè il governo aveva deciso di costruire proprio lì un grande impianto nucleare, il Savannah River Plant, destinato all'arricchimento... (continua)
Where the broad Savannah flows along to meet the mighty sea
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inviata da Bernart Bartleby 1/10/2017 - 22:02
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Soldiers

Soldiers
1998
Xenophobia (Why?)
Well there's nothing good
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inviata da Dq82 1/10/2017 - 21:36
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Injustice

Injustice
1986
Harry's reasons
Injustice
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inviata da Dq82 1/10/2017 - 21:30
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Genocide

Genocide
1981
Lyrics and music by Peter Butler and Wally McArthur

Wrong Side Of The Road is a ground breaking 1981 Australian film, road movie, rock documentary, musical drama, it followed 2 days of life on the road for two Aboriginal rock/reggae bands which were largely unknown to mainstream Australia: No Fixed Address e Us Mob.
Its a great film it tackled the taboo subject of racism in Australia head on, a topic which one would say still is pretty taboo.
Each band gets a side each on the album, No fixed address later released their groundbreaking Ep "From My Eyes"
They promise us this,
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inviata da Dq82 30/9/2017 - 15:44
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Black Man's Rights

Black Man's Rights
1981
Lyrics and music by Bart Willoughby

Wrong Side Of The Road is a ground breaking 1981 Australian film, road movie, rock documentary, musical drama, it followed 2 days of life on the road for two Aboriginal rock/reggae bands which were largely unknown to mainstream Australia: No Fixed Address e Us Mob.
Its a great film it tackled the taboo subject of racism in Australia head on, a topic which one would say still is pretty taboo.
Each band gets a side each on the album, No fixed address later released their groundbreaking Ep "From My Eyes"
I am a black, black man
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inviata da Dq82 30/9/2017 - 15:28
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We Have Survived

We Have Survived
1981
Lyrics and music by Bart Willoughby

Wrong Side Of The Road is a ground breaking 1981 Australian film, road movie, rock documentary, musical drama, it followed 2 days of life on the road for two Aboriginal rock/reggae bands which were largely unknown to mainstream Australia: No Fixed Address e Us Mob.
Its a great film it tackled the taboo subject of racism in Australia head on, a topic which one would say still is pretty taboo.
Each band gets a side each on the album, No fixed address later released their groundbreaking Ep "From My Eyes"
You can't change the rhythm of my soul,
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inviata da Dq82 30/9/2017 - 15:05
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Treaty

Treaty
TREATY
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They Took the Children Away

They Took the Children Away
1990
Charcoal Lane

La generazione rubata, o in inglese Stolen generation, è il nome con cui vengono generalmente indicati quei bambini australiani aborigeni e isolani dello stretto di Torres che furono allontanati dalle loro famiglie da parte dei governi federali australiani e missioni religiose ai sensi di alcune norme parlamentari vigenti nei singoli Stati. Partendo dal 1869, gli allontanamenti forzati continuarono fino al 1969, anche se in alcuni luoghi proseguirono sino agli anni '70.
Celandosi dietro leggi di tutela dei minori, le leggi che favorirono l'allontanamento dei bambini aborigeni di fatto condussero all'assimilazione coatta degli aborigeni.
This story's right, this story's true
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inviata da Dq82 27/9/2017 - 19:34
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Blackfella/Whitefella

Blackfella/Whitefella
1985
Blackfella/Whitefella
1986
Big Name, No Blankets

In Australia la segregazione razziale è stata, ed è, paragonabile a quella vigente negli Stati Uniti o all'Apartheid Sudafricana. Ancora nel 2012 sono state promulgate leggi che creavano leggi ad hoc solo per gli aborigeni.

Questa canzone della band country Australiana Warumpi composta da musicisti sia bianchi che aborigeni auspica un futuro in cui non conti il colore della pelle
Black fella, white fella
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inviata da Dq82 27/9/2017 - 18:37
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Sotiri Petroula

Sotiri Petroula
English Translation by Stefano 8

Ripresa da Lyricstranslate e traduzione letterale di ottima fattura. Da rimarcare che, nonostante la relativa pagina presenti un link alla nostra pagina sulla Canzone per Sotiris Petroulas di Theodorakis, noialtri persistevamo nell'errore di attribuire la traduzione che vi era presente a Anton Virgilio Savona mentre Stefano 8 riportava già il testo corretto sulla pagina Lyricstranslate, assieme alla sua traduzione inglese (fin dal 10 febbraio 2016). E' giusto e doveroso insistere sui propri errori. Riportiamo qua anche le note originali alla traduzione inglese. [RV]
SOTIRIS PETROULAS [1]
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inviata da CCG/AWS Staff 27/9/2017 - 17:25
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Hello Stranger

Hello Stranger
L'ospitalità verso lo straniero è alle radici della civiltà e l'amicizia fra i popoli è l'alternativa principale alla guerra.In tempi di xenofobia e innalzamento di muri, è confortante risentire questa canzone scritta da A P (Alvin Pleasant Delaney) Carter nel 1937, probabilmente sulla base di un blues popolare, incisa dalla Carter Family nel 1938 e ripresa in seguito da molti autori statunitensi.

Oltre che dalla Carter Family (1938), è stata riproposta negli anni da molti artisti, fra cui Ester Flatt e Earl Scrugg (1964), The Flatlanders (1972), Emmylou Harris (Luxury liner, 1977), Helen Carter (1980), Doc e Merle Watson (1984), fino ai giorni nostri
Hello, stranger, put your loving hand in mine
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inviata da Piersante Sestini 27/9/2017 - 17:01
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Blackness of the Night

Blackness of the Night
(1967)
Parole e musica di Steven Demetre Georgiou, conosciuto come Cat Stevens e poi Yusuf Islam
Dal secondo album di Cat Stevens, New Masters, del 1967.

Reincisa dallo stesso autore, che ora si fa chiamare Yusuf Islam, 50 anni dopo nel nuovo disco "The Laughing Apple".

"Blackness of the Night" - ha raccontato Yusuf - "era una delle mie prime canzoni di protesta degli anni '60. Sono cresciuto nella Londra del dopoguerra quando i ricordi degli anni del conflitto erano ancora recenti e gli edifici sventrati dalle bombe non erano ancora stati ricostruiti. La canzone rifletteva la sensazione di vuoto dei giovani della mia generazione nel vagare per le strade buie, di notte, da soli, pensando a come sopravvivere in un futuro oscuro e incerto."

La nuova versione è una ballata acustica abbellita da un organo ispirato al sound dei Procol Harum. Ma non si trattava soltanto di aggiornare l'arrangiamento,... (continua)
In the blackness of the night
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26/9/2017 - 23:40
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Dance Around My Atom Fire

Dance Around My Atom Fire
La guerra atomica è la negazione dell'umanità, un regresso alle ere glaciali. Darsi la mano e lavorare assieme è la vera alternativa.

La canzone, scritta ma mai messa in musica da Woody Guthrie, è stata inviata dalla figlia Nora Guthrie, direttrice dei Woody Guthrie Archives, a Joel Rafael, che ha scritto la musica e l'ha pubblicata nel 2005 nell'album Woodyboye, Songs of Woody Guthrie (And tales worth telling) Vol II
Bring all my history pages
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inviata da Piersante Sestini 26/9/2017 - 13:11
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Anthem

Anthem
(2012)
dall'album "Ringo 2012"
Scritta da Ringo Starr con Glen Ballard, importante produttore discografico artefice di numerosi dischi di successo del pop internazionale.

Un vero e proprio inno Peace & Love.
This is anthem, for peace and love
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25/9/2017 - 23:32
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Peace Dream

Peace Dream
(2010)
(Richard Starkey, Gary Wright, Gary Nicholson)
dall'album Y Not

con Paul McCartney al basso.

"Paul came to the house with his bass - that was a good sign, I played him Peace Dream, and he said, 'Sure, I'll play on it,' it had the John Lennon line, so it was natural."

In Peace Dream, Ringo sings: "Can you imagine all of this coming true/It's really up to all of us to do/Just like John Lennon said, in Amsterdam from his bed."

Ringo said: "For me to write that was a normal thing to do. I knew the man. And I really believe that if you, or anyone else, had written it, it would've been weird.

"I was around when he did all that. I also wrote a song for George (Harrison). So it's just part of it for me, they've been my friends for so long."

The Independent
Last night I had a peace dream
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24/9/2017 - 22:16
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This Heroes' Land

This Heroes' Land
This Heroes’ Land
© Tony Smith 2017

During war time, Indigenous Australians have served gallantly in the armed forces. Until recently they were barely recognised. But an even greater injustice occurred when the children of some serving soldiers were forcibly removed to institutions.
Barney and Jess were teenage friends
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inviata da Tony Smith 23/9/2017 - 06:19
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Hail to the Chief

Hail to the Chief
(2017)

Il nuovo video dei Prophets of Rage è un violento attacco contro Trump ma soprattutto contro Mike Pence, il vicepresidente, considerato come il vero burattinaio dietro al grottesco #46 (come lo chiama chi non vuole fare il nome del 46mo presidente degli USA).

Pay Attention is what the Prophets Of Rage latest video is saying . Don't let a new Fascism appear wanted normal or sane. While TRUMPOTUS appears to be a parody and whipping of mass distraction. The Donald will either be impeached or bow out from his own trumped up reasons. VP Pence is not a clown. He's dead serious, the heir apparent who knows US governing and the law. The one to watch with the world in his hands. ... Pay Attention to the inevitable Hailing To The Chief #46. The SusPEnce of The Thief Of Peace .. and he didn't even .....Run - Chuck D
Hold it
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22/9/2017 - 23:37
Percorsi: Donald Trump
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My Mind Is for Sale

My Mind Is for Sale
(2017)

Album: All the Light Above It Too

"I'm not trying to write an anti-Trump song," Johnson said. "I've heard people call it that. Maybe it's anti-some of his ideas. If anything, it's a pro-love song. I try to look at something and instead of only tearing the thing down, you want to replace it with something positive. So to me, walls that divide us aren't a good thing. So it's more about being proactive and how to include people."
Well, I heard the blinker's on
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22/9/2017 - 22:08
Percorsi: Donald Trump
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Wiradjuri Country

Wiradjuri Country
Wiradjuri Country
© Tony Smith 2013

I live on land in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. The land was taken by force from the Wiradjuri people.
The song is my attempt to acknowledge the history of dispossession.
I used the tune to 'Joe Hill' after hearing Paul Robeson sing this union song.
The place I live in has a past
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inviata da Tony Smith 22/9/2017 - 02:48
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Il Francese e il Siriano

Il Francese e il Siriano
September 21, 2017 10:39
THE FRENCHMAN AND THE SYRIAN
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21/9/2017 - 10:40
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Sierra Blanca Massacre

Sierra Blanca Massacre
La canzone è ispirata ad una poesia, scritto in spagnolo, ritrovato nel quaderno di un giovane messicano, Rosario Caldera Salazar, uno di 18 giovani messicani trovati morti di calore ed asfissia il 2 Luglio 1987 in un vagone merci sul quale tentavano di passare illegalmente il confine e che era rimasto parcheggiato nella stazione di Sierra Blanca, in Texas. Era intitolato ``El Ilegal,`` o ``The Illegal.``
``With pain I left my country,`` diceva la poesia. ``Today there is talk of the Rio Bravo which I`ll cross. . . . How beautiful is the United States. Illinois, California and Tennessee. But over in my country, a piece of the sky belongs to me. Goodbye Laredo, Welsaco and San Antonio.
Houston and Dallas are in my song.
Goodbye, El Paso.
Your friend, the illegal, has returned.``

La mattina del 2 Luglio 1987, 18 giovani messicani furono trovati morti di caldo e asfissia dentro un carro... (continua)
Fleeing my country for a better life
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inviata da Piersante Sestini 21/9/2017 - 00:17
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Incident, Wallis Plains, 1826

Incident, Wallis Plains, 1826
Incident, Wallis Plains, 1826
© Tony Smith 2017

John Eckford, brother of my 3 x great grandmother Jane, had an eventful life. Born in 1801, he was involved in the mistake which led to his father William being condemned to death for sheep stealing. He was appointed Constable at Wallis Plains (Maitland) in 1825.
Following violence between settlers and Aboriginal people, Governor Darling despatched Lt Lowe to the ‘frontier’. Colonial Secretary Bathurst issued orders that the raids of the locals should be repelled just as would raids by any other ‘state’. Aboriginal people were to be considered invaders in their own land.
Lowe was committed for trial following the summary execution of a prisoner ‘Jacky Jacky’. He was quickly found not guilty by the jury which consisted mainly of army officers. During the trial, the question arose of whether Aboriginal people were subjects of the crown and... (continua)
Come hearken to my story, the saddest of tales
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inviata da Tony Smith 20/9/2017 - 23:30
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This Is My Country

This Is My Country
Dall'album Thirteen Stories High del 2008, con la partecipazione vocale di David Crosby e Graham Nash.

Una canzone patriottica di contestazione della politica militare americana. "Vogliamo indietro il nostro paese"
This is my country, we are at war
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inviata da Piersante Sestini 17/9/2017 - 03:13
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Who Owns Who

Who Owns Who
(2017)

Un inno alla rivolta alla rivolta e alla disobbedienza. Attraversa i loro confini, nuota nelle loro acque, rifiuta i loro ordini, ama le loro figlie, cambia le loro abitudini...
The bridge, the call
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16/9/2017 - 16:17
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Radical Eyes

Radical Eyes
(2017)

Brano d'apertura dell'album d'esordio dei Prophets of Rage

Tom Morello - guitar
Timmy C - bass
Brad Wilk - beats
Chuck D - vocals
B-real - vocals
DJ Lord - turntables


"The Western world has created biased structures and stereotypes. Opposing viewpoints and movements are seen as radical rather than diversity. 'Radical Eyes' is the lens everything is viewed through, any life movement in opposition is considered radicalized."

"Il mondo occidentale ha creato strutture e stereotipi tendenziosi. I movimenti di opposizione e punti di vista diversi sono visti come estremisti invece che essere considerati pluralità. Gli occhi radicali sono la lente attraverso cui si guarda al mondo, per cui ogni movimento di opposizione è bollato come estremista."

(Chuck D.)
If speed is what you need
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16/9/2017 - 15:56
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A Fire Burns for Freedom

A Fire Burns for Freedom
(2011)

An early version/acoustic version of “A Fire Burns For Freedom” is available on the Patagonia music sampler.

A revised version of this song appears as the title track on Ziggy’s album Wild and Free, and includes Woody Harrelson on vocals!
A fire burns for freedom
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16/9/2017 - 12:30
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See Dem Fake Leaders

See Dem Fake Leaders
(2017)
See dem fake leaders
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16/9/2017 - 11:56
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Sunshine

Sunshine
(1971)

"It was just at the time of the Vietnam War and Nixon. It was looking bad out there. That song meant a lot to a lot of people during that time--especially me."
(Jonathan Edwards)

I wrote ‘Sunshine’ in 1970 in probably less time than it takes to sing it. It was the height of the Vietnam-Cambodia adventure there in Southeast Asia. I was really saddened by that and really angry… It’s an angry young man’s complaint about what was going on politically and militarily in our name. I was knowing people that were coming back from the war and they were never the same – if they came back at all.

I had just undergone a really violent draft board pre-induction physical, where I ended up in an emergency room and ended up in a sanitarium I guess you’d call it. It was all in the interest of not going to Vietnam, but it left an indelible mark on me for life.

We were in Ohio and I moved my band... (continua)
Sunshine go away today, I don't feel much like dancing
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16/9/2017 - 00:23
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The King's Shilling

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The King's Shilling
THE KING'S SHILLING
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13/9/2017 - 23:10
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Who Will Care for Mother Now?

Charles C. Sawyer
Who Will Care for Mother Now?
Here is a minor correction of the second stansa as well as the missing latter half of the third stansa.
Why am I so weak and weary.
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inviata da Jeremiah Thompson 13/9/2017 - 17:17
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L'autrer jost'una sebissa

L'autrer jost'una sebissa
The other day, by a hedge,
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inviata da Krzysiek Wrona 12/9/2017 - 17:54
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I Hear Them All

I Hear Them All
di Ketch Secor e David Rawlings
pubblicata in Big Iron World (2006)

incisa anche da David Rawlings in A Friend of a Friend (2009)
il video ufficiale, diretto da Danny Clynch di ricorda il disastro dell'uragano Katrina sulla popolazione di New Orleans

Una canzone di disperazione e di speranza, con qualche riferimento all'attentato dell'11/9
"I hear soldiers quit their dying, one and all"
(sento i soldati che smettono le loro morti, uno e tutti)
vale da solo la presenza della canzone in questo sito
I hear the crying of the hungry in the deserts where they're wandering.
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inviata da Piersante Sestini 11/9/2017 - 22:30
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Mercy on Me

Mercy on Me
Chanson de Champion Jack Dupree de 1962. Un texte simple et prenant à propos du racisme ordinaire, chanté à la manière d'un gospel.
Mercy on me
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inviata da D Laloë 9/9/2017 - 18:37
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Castles Burning

Castles Burning
Questa canzone , parte dell'album "Handful of Rain" del 1994 ,è stata dedicata all'omicidio di Falcone (fonte risposta dell'autore, l'italoamericano Jon Oliva, a Metal Shock)
Castles burningIn the dark and bleeding
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inviata da Lucone 8/9/2017 - 12:10
Percorsi: Mafia e mafie
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Wozu sind Kriege da?

Wozu sind Kriege da?
WHAT ARE WARS THERE FOR?
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7/9/2017 - 21:52
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New Immigration Law

New Immigration Law
1997
Single: New Immigration Law / Holy Mount Zion

Holy Mount Zion
America Yeah na Am talking about the law in america The new immigration law Man no hear bout the new immigration law Tabled in congress in America Say what hear me now The new law all yall man nor fit talk
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inviata da Dq82 7/9/2017 - 17:55
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Անտունի

Անտունի
Lyrics translated by Armen Babamian
THE HOMELESS
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inviata da Dq82 7/9/2017 - 17:19




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