[2014]
Lyrics, music & performed by Barry David Butler

"Homelessness in America is a Terrible Tragedy. It can happen to anybody and did to the guy in my song called "Homelessness...Livin' Under A Bridge". Check out my song about Homeless Vets called "Just Another Hero Living on the Streets"..We Can Do Better! I was homeless for just a few days year ago and it was a Life Shattering experience that I stays with me even today.... It has shaped me as a songwriter. I try and tell the stories of Life in America .."

[2012]
Lyrics, music & performed by Barry David Butler

"If you've never been Homeless you can't imagine how bad it is. It can be a life changing experience. I was homeless for only a few days and then had to stay on a friends couch for awhile....I've never been the same. I NEVER feel safe. This song is about ONE man's Journey from Normal to living in the park under a bridge. I got very depressed watching Pictures from Sandy....It doesn't matter how you become homeless, just that you ARE. There are Thousands of people in New York and New Jersey....Kids, Old people and families that have no home and no life. A lot of these people will wind up living under a bridge... PLEASE.... if this song Affects you the way I think it will....Donate to the Red Cross. NOBODY SHOULD EVER BE HOMELESS. Everybody needs a place to lay their heads down at night and to feel Safe!...

Homelessness in America... (continua)

(1975)
Musica di Ennio Morricone
dalla colonna sonora del film di Aldo Lado
“L’ultimo treno della notte” (Night Train Murders), del 1975, con Dalila Di Lazzaro e Flavio Bucci.
Il tema musicale era stato utilizzato l'anno prima da Morricone per il film d'animazione “Il giro del mondo degli innamorati di Peynet”

Dolce ballata peace & love con una struggente melodia composta da Morricone, inserita - con un evidente contrasto - nella colonna sonora di uno dei film più crudi e violenti mai realizzati in Italia

[2006]
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel :
Chris Cornell

Album: Chris Cornell-You Know My Name

Percorso : La Guerra dell’ Informazione

nomina sunt consequentia rerum / i nomi sono conseguenti alle cose


ULTIM’ORA

Carta canusciuta

Siamo lieti di annunciare l’identità del Grande Vecchio che si occulta dietro i gruppi eurasiatisti e filorussi animati da influencer e opinionisti con connivenze sovraniste e nazionaliste, reclutati dal Cremlino, comunemente noti come “rete di Putin”. La notizia trapela da Fonti che preferiscono mantenere l’anonimato nel quadro delle trame oscure che gravano sulla Repubblica dalla sua fondazione. È più che comprensibile quindi l’assoluto riserbo e, se si renderà necessario, il legittimo uso del Segreto di Stato.
Sono allo studio tutte le misure atte a contenere le minacce ibride e le derive liberticide della disinformacija... (continua)

[2012]
Lyrics by W.Carroll Kiphen
Music & performed by Barry David Butler

Soldier’s letters sent home to his friends and family before he died in War!

The original title was “Letters”

Parody / Parodia / Parodie :
Timothy Betts

Music / Musica / Musique / Sävel:
Chandelier by Sia


* CorSir News: La rete di Putin in Italia

Looking forward to watching the remake of the movie “The Wild Bunch / Il mucchio selvaggio”

[2006]
Lyrics by Roger Antony Carter
Music & performed by Barry David Butler

“It seems that dissension
is no longer allowed ..”
The song is dedicated to Brian Haw, a great and indomitable British pacifist, famous for protesting against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, unfortunately died in Berlin from lung cancer in 2011 ...


Brian William Haw (7 January 1949 – 18 June 2011) was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a peace camp in London’s Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. He began the Parliament Square Peace Campaign before the 2001 United States attacks, and became a symbol of the anti-war movement over the policies of both the United Kingdom and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards he was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure. Haw died of cancer... (continua)

[2014]
Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen & Barry David Butler
Music by Barry David Butler

[1964]
Lyrics & music by Philip David Ochs
Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

"We have built everything with our sweat, and now you are throwing us away and replacing us with machines .."

Guitar: Danny Kalb
Producer: Jac Holzman
Guitar, Vocals: Phil Ochs
Writer: Phil Ochs

[2005]
Lyrics written by Don Black
Music composed by Debbie Wiseman -

“This moving anthem offers hope against the back-drop of continual war throughout the world where children needlessly suffer and die.
This contemporary song has been translated into several different languages and has become a national 'anthem' sung by thousands of young people on World Peace Day -- September 21st.

I hope that you understand the way I feel about ‘No Wars Will Stop Us Singing’.
It is a great song for young people like me to bite back at all the people who think war is right”.

[2022]
Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen

[2022]
Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen

2022
Roots of Life

[2022]
Scritta da Bob A. Feldman
Written by Bob A. Feldman

Un canto contro la guerra del 2022 che protesta contro i profittatori di guerra.
An anti-war folk song from 2022 that protests against those who profit from the 21st-century of "permanent war."

[2012]
Lyrics by Wade L. Smith & Barry D. Butler
Music & performed by Barry D. Butler
Homeless Vet1

Our Soldiers go and fight these Pathetic Wars for GREED and then come home to NOTHING.
This song is dedicated to these Homeless Men and Women. We are going to use a good portion of any money we make to help them!!!

Homeless Vet2

[2012]
Lyrics by Roger Antony Carter
Music & Performed by Barry David Butler

1998
Vampires, Geeks & Lovers

1995
Pride

1992
Death Or Glory?

[2015]
Lyrics by Alan Jackson
Music & performed by Barry David Butler

"Vietnam War Disaster & Its Heroes:
So many died and were mutilated in the Vietnam War and was all for nothing.
Johnson and MacNamara both said it was a mistake and Nixon who was elected with a PLAN to end the stinking war did it but it took four years....(ugh;)

All that's left is some Old Vets and a LOT of Memories and Names on a Wall in Washington DC....For Shame.....THEY Lied and Boys Died".

[1969]
Album: Green River - 1969

John Fogerty said he wrote this song about his (now) ex-wife about 2 years after they had a child together. Quote from John Fogerty:

“Inspired by my young wife at the time. It was early ‘69, and I was 23 years old. We had our first child, who, at the time, was two and a half. I was sitting in my room, writing the songs, pushing my career. Without the songs, the career ends. You might be a great band, but without the songs, you’re not going anywhere. At one point, my wife and I had a mild misunderstanding, I wouldn’t even call it a fight, She was miffed, taking our young son out, wishing I would be more involved. But there I was, the musician manic and possessed the only guy holding things up. Without me, it all collapses, so I’m feeling quite put upon. As she walks out the door, I say to my self, "I wrote a song for everyone, and I couldn’t even talk to... (continua)

[1969]
Lyrics by Boris Bergman
Music by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (“Plaisir d'amour”, [1784]), rearranged by Vangelis / Βαγγέλης

Aphrodite's Child (Παιδί της Αφροδίτης) was formed in 1967 by Vangelis (keyboards), together with his musician friends Demis Roussos (bass guitar and vocals), Lucas Sideras (drums and vocals) and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris (guitar).
But when the group went to Paris in 1968 Koulouris had to stay in Greece (for military service).
The first single was released in 1968: "Plastics nevermore" / "The other people" (as a demo for Philips).
The single "Rain and Tears", released in May 1968, was a huge success all over the world.
The first album: "End of the World" was released in 1968.
In 1969 Aphrodite's Child released their second album "It's Five o'Clock".
In 1970 Vangelis started working on the album "666", when Silver Koulouris joined Aphrodite's Child.
The... (continua)

[2021]
Music & Lyrics by Richard Ackon (Richie Brain)

feat. Shaun Friedman

Domestic violence is not physical abuse alone, it can be verbal. This case of violence can happen to anyone regardless of age and gender.. No one deserves to be treated badly in any shape or form. SAY NÓ TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!! SAY NO TO CHILD ABUSE!

I’ll Take You There
The Staple Singers - 1972

[2017]
Music & lyrics: Shaun Friedman

Song responding to too many killings and school shootings ..

(2012)
Album: Banga

Smith penned this prayer-like rocker for the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated their country in 2011.

The New Yorker uses Japan's highest and most symbolic mountain to help convey her feelings about the tragedy.

"Knowing that my country dropped two atom bombs on Japan and killed a couple of hundred thousand people has always been something I've felt a certain amount of pain about. I imagined the people having to deal with this new situation with the threat of a nuclear disaster. I didn't want to write something directly about that but I wanted to show the Japanese people solidarity and love."

*

Smith ha scritto questa sorta di preghiera per il popolo giapponese in seguito al terremoto e allo tsunami che hanno devastato il loro paese nel 2011.

La newyorkese usa la montagna più alta e simbolica del Giappone per esprimere i... (continua)

2019
Natural Born Sinners

[1947]
Lyrics & music by Homer Harris and Lester Melrose
Album: Chigago Blues: The Beginning [1971]

.. and suddenly the cold war (never ended) turns into a hot one and with it the nightmare of "The Bomb" returns .. Let's start all over again ..

(2020)

1992
Deserters

Elena’s Shoes looks at the remnants of a toppled regime, noting the excesses of those in power as the people starve. Riffing on the infamous footwear collections of Elena Ceaușescu and Imelda Marcos, the band use a ludicrous image to make a powerful point.

1992
Deserters

1992
Deserters

(1999)
Album: To the Teeth

I wrote this song after Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot and killed by an anti-choice zealot in my hometown of Buffalo and then, soon there-after, the Southside Abortion Clinic was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.

The year was 1998. i have been digitizing my old master tapes and this is an out-take (not the version that appeared on the album) so Julie Wolf’s piano is not there, which was done as an overdub. this is just me, Jason Mercer on bass and Daren Hahn on drums.

I share this today because i am so very grateful that i was not forced to give birth at age 18 and then again at age 20. i had my two children at age 36 & 42 and being their mom has been the greatest joy of my life. I owe such a huge debt to the incredibly brave women and men who have risked their lives on a daily basis to provide abortion services. I owe you my life. the life i have chosen and... (continua)

Testo dal video della CBS 1959

Water,boy where you hidin'?

An important liberation song in the history of slavery and the civil rights movement is Water, Boy. It is a slave work song, a somber reminder of the conditions black people were forced to live through. Water is as valuable as saffron on the field of a plantation, but I assume it's absence was as normalized as the sun rising and setting everyday. I assume the enslaved weren't given enough water (or anything, if anything) to keep them in good health as forced laborers. I'm sure the white overseers and slaveowners made sure to keep their thirst quenched, though. It's been said, they demanded water and would get the attention of the waterboy by singing Water, boy where you hidin?

Today when this song is performed it is titled “Waterboy” instead of “Water, Boy” and I equate this to trying to soften up the history, but let’s not forget... (continua)

Volodymyr the Brave
© 2022 Tony Smith

While the song mentions the President of Ukraine specifically, it is meant as praise for all Ukrainians in their resistance against the illegal and brutal Russian invasion. President Zelensky stands for Ukraine in a way which few politicians could claim to do in their countries.

2020
Dall'album / From the album In The Ruins They've Left Us, We'll Plant Gardens Still

Richard Carlile (8 December 1790 – 10 February 1843) was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom

1993

Inspired by the Warrington bombings of 1993, similarly to ''Long Long Way to Go'' it discusses that people can get too familiar with violent events when they are part of the daily news, but when it affects them personally, that's a different story...

1985

Painful realisation that for some people war in another part of the world is just "bad news", never realizing that behind their 5 minute entertainment there is the death and suffering of other people. But sure, switch it off....

6 marzo 2022

A QUIET LIFE, an original song from Richard Jenkins. The inspiration for this song was a poem call A Quiet Life, written by Alexander Pope (1688-1744). In fact I've only used seven words from the original which was a bucolic ode to living, working and being buried in your own soil. When I wrote it I was thinking of the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya.

I recorded and posted it thinking of UKRAINE

2002