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Gun Rap

[2005]
Lyrics by Gerry Dempsey
Don't you just look like the Four Dark Horsemen, Plague, Death, Famine and War..
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/22 - 21:21
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Scabs

Scabs
[1991]
Lyrics & Music by Anne Feeney
Album: Union Maid [2007]

Here's a jug band/swing ode to 'the lowest life form found in nature's lab' - strikebreakers or Scabs!
"I wrote this song for Solidarity Day '91... I was inspired by a New York Daily News striking reporter. In a curious turn of events he ended up inside the building at 3 AM during the height of the strike. He talked about what it was like to see pictures of someone else's kids on the desk he worked at for 22 years. He said it was like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" – that only pod people could come in and do what these scabs were doing".
There's an alien life form been creepin' round my job site
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/22 - 14:56
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Coal Owner and Pitman's Wife

Coal Owner and Pitman's Wife
[1844]
Lyrics by William Hornsby (a collier of Shotton Moor, during the "Great Strike")
Music: The tune belongs to the great family of "Henry Martin" and a score of ballads with 'Derrydown' refrain
Album: The Iron Muse - A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music

Another propaganda ballad, written by William Hornsby and published as a broadside during the 1844 strike, this time extolling the heroic and steadfast virtues of the women in the coalfield. Like many songs of the time it used an existing popular folk tune.
A dialogue I'll tell you as true as my life
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/22 - 14:42
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Stella Clandestina

Stella Clandestina
Da Flel 2010

"Sì, in fondo "Stella clandestina" nasce quando iniziano a uscire queste leggi "razziali", queste leggi per cui, da un giorno all'altro ti trovi clandestino. E se ti trovi clandestino e hai 20 anni, 30 anni è un problema, ma se ti trovi clandestino che ancora sei un bambino di due anni? E' una tragedia! E' una visione di questi due bambini che oggi sono ancora da considerarsi bambini, ma da domani saranno clandestini, con tutto quello che ne consegue. Qualcuno ha tradito il suo Vangelo per poter far questo. E' un problema di civiltà."
Dario Canossi su Bielle

2016
Delaltér. Verso un altro altrove

Il nuovo album dei Luf è un album sul viaggio e sui viaggiatori, con un corpus di canzoni sui migranti. Nel cd acustico, il secondo, viene riproposta anche questa "Stella Clandestina"
Ballan sul confine le perle nere al sole
(Continues)
Contributed by DonQuijote82 2010/5/22 - 13:43
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La stella di Davide

La stella di Davide
1984
Mia madre parla a raffica
Le mani dolci e piene di attenzioni
(Continues)
2010/5/21 - 18:05




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