An extraordinary and sad document in our AWS collection: the lyrics of שיר לשלום (Shir Lashalom, "A Song For Peace"), by Yankale Rotblit. This is the famous song, composed in 1969, that the Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin had sung on the great peace demonstration of November 4, 1995, in Tel Aviv. A few minutes later he was shot dead by a fanatic right-wing extremist, Yigal Amir, who buried this way the peace process for at least a decade. The sheet of paper with the printed lyrics of the song was found in the in the inner pocket of Rabin's jacket, perforated by the deadly bullet and drenched in his blood.
Riccardo Venturi 2005/9/17 - 23:52
The "first time" of an Eskimo language in the AWS: the Aleut version of Le déserteur.
Riccardo Venturi 2005/9/15 - 10:42
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Where Have all the Flowers Gone
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GIAPPONESE / JAPANESE / JAPANAIS [1]
Takashi Ota / The Rigannies [ザ・リガニーズ]
La versione giapponese standard di Takashi Ota, del 1966, così come reperita su questa pagina con l'ausilio della pagina di ja.wikipedia. In fondo ad ogni strofa, facoltativamente, si può inserire il verso inglese originale When will they even learn?. La versione fu eseguita per la prima volta dal gruppo The Rigannies (Riganizu in giapponese) nello stesso anno, ma è stata in seguito riproposta da innumerevoli artisti.
The standard Japanese version by Takashi Ota, 1966, as reproduced from this page through the help of the relevant ja.wikipedia page. At the end of each verse you may include facultatively the original English line When will they even learn? The version was first performed in the same year by the band The Rigannies (Riganizu in Japanese), but has been performed later by a large number of artists. [CCG/AWS Staff]
Takashi Ota / The Rigannies [ザ・リガニーズ]
La versione giapponese standard di Takashi Ota, del 1966, così come reperita su questa pagina con l'ausilio della pagina di ja.wikipedia. In fondo ad ogni strofa, facoltativamente, si può inserire il verso inglese originale When will they even learn?. La versione fu eseguita per la prima volta dal gruppo The Rigannies (Riganizu in giapponese) nello stesso anno, ma è stata in seguito riproposta da innumerevoli artisti.
The standard Japanese version by Takashi Ota, 1966, as reproduced from this page through the help of the relevant ja.wikipedia page. At the end of each verse you may include facultatively the original English line When will they even learn? The version was first performed in the same year by the band The Rigannies (Riganizu in Japanese), but has been performed later by a large number of artists. [CCG/AWS Staff]
花はどこへ行った
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Dangerous Beauty
![Dangerous Beauty](img/upl/Abu_Ghraib_53.jpg)
da "A Bigger Bang" (2005)
Dallo stesso album di Sweet Neo Con, questa è dedicata alla soldatessa di Abu Ghraib Lynndie England
Dallo stesso album di Sweet Neo Con, questa è dedicata alla soldatessa di Abu Ghraib Lynndie England
In your high school photo
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Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2005/9/12 - 10:35
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Belle
![Belle](img/upl/R-3370481-1327724896.jpeg.jpg)
(Trad, arr par Ambrozijn)
Belle, je m'en vais en Allemagne
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Contributed by laverdure 2005/9/11 - 19:48
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Not In My Name
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If a slice of your pie means more people must die
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Contributed by laverdure 2005/9/11 - 19:17
"3000 some poems disguised as people on an almost too perfect day, should be more than pawns in some asshole's passion play. So now it's your job and it's my job to make it that way, to make sure they didn't die in vain" (Ani Di Franco)
September 11, 2005: We still believe that it's our job, and your job, to build a world without terrorism. without coups d'etat, without wars.
September 11, 2005: We still believe that it's our job, and your job, to build a world without terrorism. without coups d'etat, without wars.
Lorenzo Masetti 2005/9/11 - 12:14
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O Gorizia, tu sei maledetta
Anonymous
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«Canto simbolo delle barbarie della guerra. Di autore anonimo è nato nelle trincee italiane durante le interminabili offensive dell’esercito italiano per la presa di Gorizia.
È stata inserita una parte in tedesco a condanna di una guerra voluta da pochi e subita da tutti.»
Testo di autore anonimo (in tedesco 'Zuf de Žur)
Musica: R: Amodei, M.Punteri ('Zuf de Žur)
È con grande piacere che inseriamo questa versione bilingue di "Oh Gorizia" inviataci direttamente da Gabriella dei 'Zuf de Žur che ringraziamo di cuore.
La vogliamo accostare idealmente a Sidùn cantata in arabo ed ebraico.(Lorenzo Masetti, 11 settembre 2005)
Gorizia fu l’unica città conquistata con le armi dall’esercito italiano. La conquista della città costò la vita, in una settimana, a 30.000 soldati, tra italiani e austroungarici. L’ 8 agosto 1916 i fanti italiani entrarono in una città ridotta in macerie, abbandonata... (Continues)
GORIZIA
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2005/9/11 - 11:24
Hallalì
dall'album "Hallo Mem" 2005
"L'Italia ripudia la guerra come strumento di offesa alla libertà di altri popoli e come mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie internazionali"
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Raise Your Glass, Raise Your Voice
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(2002)
Raise your glass to the sky.
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2005/9/11 - 00:45
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Marching To The Border
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from "Shout Down the Wind
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
I’m marching to the border.
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2005/9/11 - 00:42
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Frank, Dennis, And Me
![Frank, Dennis, And Me](img/upl/Frank,_Dennis,_And_Me.jpg)
(2001)
Interpretata anche da Jim Page
Interpretata anche da Jim Page
I was eighteen and change when the telephone rang,
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2005/9/11 - 00:39
Song Itineraries:
War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
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Sam the Alligator
![Sam the Alligator](img/upl/Sam_the_Alligator.jpg)
(1990)
Well there's a story I heard and I'm telling it to you,
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2005/9/11 - 00:36
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Main Street
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from "Shout Down the Wind
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
There’s a war far away from Main Street today,
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2005/9/11 - 00:31
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Shout Down the Wind
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from "Shout Down the Wind
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
I was born and raised American,
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2005/9/11 - 00:28
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Raise Your Ass, Raise Your Bail (The Shadow Song)
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from "Shout Down the Wind
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
«There is a war going on. This is a wartime album. The soul of America is at stake. This is our country, our government, and our responsibility. It is time to take a stand, raise a voice. These are hard songs for hard times, and by far the hardest album I have ever produced.»
(from the Liner notes)
Songs of Peace, Protest, and Patriotism" (2004)
«There is a war going on. This is a wartime album. The soul of America is at stake. This is our country, our government, and our responsibility. It is time to take a stand, raise a voice. These are hard songs for hard times, and by far the hardest album I have ever produced.»
(from the Liner notes)
Raise your ass out of my sight.
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Reunion Hill
[1997]
Lyrics and music by Richard Shindell
Testo e musica di Richard Shindell
Album: "Reunion Hill"
Also performed by / Interpretata anche da Joan Baez
"[...]That economy reveals Shindell as an artist of uncommon intuitive gifts, whose verbal brush strokes strategically conjure up more with less. In Reunion Hill, his masterful lament for Joan Baez, Shindell recalls the pain of personal loss in war not by chewing the scenery or overpainting it, but by evoking associations with unremarkable objects and actions. His Civil War widow, ten years later, remembers that ragged army that limped across these fields of mine—not through a macabre body count, but through the everyday objects that the soldiers left behind:
Even now I find their things
Glasses, Coins, and Golden Rings
And she reflects on the loss of her husband not through the particulars of her suffering or the deprivations of... (Continues)
Lyrics and music by Richard Shindell
Testo e musica di Richard Shindell
Album: "Reunion Hill"
Also performed by / Interpretata anche da Joan Baez
"[...]That economy reveals Shindell as an artist of uncommon intuitive gifts, whose verbal brush strokes strategically conjure up more with less. In Reunion Hill, his masterful lament for Joan Baez, Shindell recalls the pain of personal loss in war not by chewing the scenery or overpainting it, but by evoking associations with unremarkable objects and actions. His Civil War widow, ten years later, remembers that ragged army that limped across these fields of mine—not through a macabre body count, but through the everyday objects that the soldiers left behind:
Even now I find their things
Glasses, Coins, and Golden Rings
And she reflects on the loss of her husband not through the particulars of her suffering or the deprivations of... (Continues)
Must’ve been in late September
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2005/9/11 - 00:18
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La guerra di Piero
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Alcuni versi riecheggiano "Dove vola l'avvoltoio", una canzone scritta da Italo Calvino nel 1958 e non particolarmente ispirata.
laverdure 2005/9/9 - 23:58
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Khorakhané (A forza di essere vento)
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Dal NG it.fan.musica.de-andre
English Version by Jacopo "Laverdure"
From the Usenet Newsgroup it.fan.musica.de-andre
10 settembre 2005 / September 10, 2005
English Version by Jacopo "Laverdure"
From the Usenet Newsgroup it.fan.musica.de-andre
10 settembre 2005 / September 10, 2005
KHORAKHANE
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2005/9/9 - 23:05
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Eldorado dos Carajás
Da www.comitatomst.it/eldorado.htm
Eldorado Dos Carajás (BRASILE) - Il giorno 17 aprile 1996, intorno alle 4 del pomeriggio, 200 poliziotti militari, al comando del colonnello Mario Colares Pantoja, compiendo un ordine emanato dal governatore dello stato Almir Gabriel, hanno dato inizio alla più grave violazione dei diritti umani dell'America Latina negli ultimi anni. Con il pretesto di liberare la strada Rodovia PA-150 hanno ucciso a freddo 19 lavoratori rurali senza terra e ne hanno feriti altri 69.
I lavoratori rurali avevano bloccato la strada per spingere il governo dello stato a mantenere la promessa di dare loro mezzi di trasporto e alimenti per andare nella capitale dello stato a negoziare con l'INCRA la sistemazione di 2000 famiglie di senza terra nella fazenda Macaxeira.
Eldorado Dos Carajás (BRASILE) - Il giorno 17 aprile 1996, intorno alle 4 del pomeriggio, 200 poliziotti militari, al comando del colonnello Mario Colares Pantoja, compiendo un ordine emanato dal governatore dello stato Almir Gabriel, hanno dato inizio alla più grave violazione dei diritti umani dell'America Latina negli ultimi anni. Con il pretesto di liberare la strada Rodovia PA-150 hanno ucciso a freddo 19 lavoratori rurali senza terra e ne hanno feriti altri 69.
I lavoratori rurali avevano bloccato la strada per spingere il governo dello stato a mantenere la promessa di dare loro mezzi di trasporto e alimenti per andare nella capitale dello stato a negoziare con l'INCRA la sistemazione di 2000 famiglie di senza terra nella fazenda Macaxeira.
Terra di sole terra di caffè
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Flowers of Saskatchewan
![Flowers of Saskatchewan](img/upl/R-6792453-2.jpg)
Da / From "Far End Of Summer" (2002)
The sun was shining on the English Channel
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2005/9/8 - 23:56
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Historien har visat
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English version by laverdure
HISTORY HAS SHOWN
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Tiden förändras
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English version by laverdure
THE TIMES CHANGE
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Contributed by laverdure 2005/9/8 - 17:10
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Il mondo che vorrei
![Il mondo che vorrei](img/upl/pausini_io_canto_2013.jpg)
Album: Le cose che vivi (1996)
Quante volte ci ho pensato su,
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Contributed by Francesco91 2005/9/8 - 12:34
We've just learnt the news of Sergio Endrigo's death in Rome. He was 72. Farewell, Sergio, and thank you for all what you gave to us.
Riccardo Venturi 2005/9/7 - 21:19
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Człowiek
![Człowiek](img/art/t288153.jpg)
[1990]
Dall'album "Wszyscy przeciwko wszystkim"
L'uomo e dintorni secondo i Dezerter, i cui testi sono regolarmente caratterizzati da una notevole stringatezza (qui accentuata dalla struttura a "Kettenlied" o canzone a catena).
Dall'album "Wszyscy przeciwko wszystkim"
L'uomo e dintorni secondo i Dezerter, i cui testi sono regolarmente caratterizzati da una notevole stringatezza (qui accentuata dalla struttura a "Kettenlied" o canzone a catena).
Człowiek jest miłością
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Leyenda del águila
![Leyenda del águila](img/upl/silvio-rodriguez-01.jpg)
«Del año 64 o 65 que empiezo a componer ya rítmicamente, al año 67 que me desmovilizo, hice una buena cantidad de canciones. En los primeros años fui muy prolífico. Generalmente, estas eran canciones de amor, no crónicas sociales. Sin embargo, en esa época escribí mis primeras canciones de contenido social. La primera fue una canción contra la discriminación racial en Estados Unidos que se llama «¿Por qué?», y la segunda fue una canción contra la guerra de Vietnam, «La Leyenda del Águila». Después escribí otras contra la guerra de Vietnam.»
(Extractos de una entrevista a Silvio Rodriguez conducida por Rina Bermayor, La Habana, Cuba, Marzo 1980)
(Extractos de una entrevista a Silvio Rodriguez conducida por Rina Bermayor, La Habana, Cuba, Marzo 1980)
Voy a cantar
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2005/9/7 - 00:02
Song Itineraries:
War in Viet Nam as seen from Italy and from the rest of the world
How Many
[2003]
Testo ripreso da
Lyrics available at
http://polsong.gcal.ac.uk/songs/rev1.html
"Before America declared war on Iraq in 2003, I began writing a poem about my feeling. We were still at war in Afghanistan, and it was a little over a decade ago that we have been fighting Iraq before. I felt disgusted that within the first few years of the new millennium, America would set a tone of aggression, violence, revenge, and selfishness for the 'new American century'. How dumb are we? What did we learn during the bloody 20th century? Two world wars? Atomic weapons? How could we possibly start off the next 100 years by fighting TWO wars? A war in a country that had done nothing to us? 'How many more gotta die?' I asked. How many more mothers gotta cry? It was a protest of war. Well, of course we DID go to war in Iraq. And the song changed scope, and as no longer simply about war, and became a protest song. When history begins repeating itself, one has to ask oneself, 'How Many More?'"
Testo ripreso da
Lyrics available at
http://polsong.gcal.ac.uk/songs/rev1.html
"Before America declared war on Iraq in 2003, I began writing a poem about my feeling. We were still at war in Afghanistan, and it was a little over a decade ago that we have been fighting Iraq before. I felt disgusted that within the first few years of the new millennium, America would set a tone of aggression, violence, revenge, and selfishness for the 'new American century'. How dumb are we? What did we learn during the bloody 20th century? Two world wars? Atomic weapons? How could we possibly start off the next 100 years by fighting TWO wars? A war in a country that had done nothing to us? 'How many more gotta die?' I asked. How many more mothers gotta cry? It was a protest of war. Well, of course we DID go to war in Iraq. And the song changed scope, and as no longer simply about war, and became a protest song. When history begins repeating itself, one has to ask oneself, 'How Many More?'"
Chorus:
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Homeland Security
[2003]
Lyrics and Music by Dan Reich
Testo e musica di Dan Reich
Testo ripreso da
Lyrics available at
http://polsong.gcal.ac.uk/songs/reich.html
"Homeland Security was one of about a dozen songs I wrote in 2002/3, having to do with aspects of American culture I found disturbing. They became my first CD, Bigger is Better. Other songs on the disc take on corporate greed, fast food, SUVs, religious intolerance and the pharmaceutical industry." - Dan Reich
Lyrics and Music by Dan Reich
Testo e musica di Dan Reich
Testo ripreso da
Lyrics available at
http://polsong.gcal.ac.uk/songs/reich.html
"Homeland Security was one of about a dozen songs I wrote in 2002/3, having to do with aspects of American culture I found disturbing. They became my first CD, Bigger is Better. Other songs on the disc take on corporate greed, fast food, SUVs, religious intolerance and the pharmaceutical industry." - Dan Reich
Chorus:
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/9/6 - 09:54
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Cuore di pace
![Cuore di pace](img/upl/R-3446319-1381619385-3768.jpeg.jpg)
1986
Lo chiamavano cuore di pace ed era nato alto forte e bello
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Contributed by Sonia 2005/9/6 - 09:18
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La classifica
![La classifica](img/upl/daniele_silvestri_.jpg)
da "Unò, Dué" (2002)
"È più importante il sangue o il prezzo delle armi che vendiamo?" si chiede Silvestri in questa canzone, ritratto impietoso del nostro "stile di vita occidentale", una serie di domandine apparentemente innocenti...
"È più importante il sangue o il prezzo delle armi che vendiamo?" si chiede Silvestri in questa canzone, ritratto impietoso del nostro "stile di vita occidentale", una serie di domandine apparentemente innocenti...
Si-gnorina
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Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2005/9/5 - 20:23
God Bless America
Sometimes I wake up in the mornin', and I don't know who I am.
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/9/5 - 16:56
Get Me To My War On Time
![Get Me To My War On Time](img/upl/raging.jpg)
[2002]
Scritta insieme a Ken e Jenny Levens
Written together with Ken and Jenny Levens
Testo ripreso da:
Lyrics available at:
Centre For Political Song
Scritta insieme a Ken e Jenny Levens
Written together with Ken and Jenny Levens
Testo ripreso da:
Lyrics available at:
Centre For Political Song
Get me a war on in the morning.
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/9/5 - 16:48
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