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Pharaoh

Pharaoh
[1988]
Album “Amnesia”
Pharaoh he sits in his tower of steel
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/11/18 - 11:11
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The Slave's Lament

The Slave's Lament
[1792]
Nell’album di Norma Waterson intitolato “Waterson:Carthy”, con Martin ed Eliza Carthy
Testo di Robert Burns

Una canzone che il grande poeta e compositore scozzese Robert Burns scrisse solo qualche anno dopo aver rischiato di accettare, essendo in gravi difficoltà finanziarie, un impiego di contabile presso un’impresa di trafficanti di schiavi in Giamaica. All’epoca infatti non c’era ancora un gran interesse dell’opinione pubblica sul tema dell’abolizionismo, anzi, lo schiavismo era percepito come un dato di fatto quasi naturale (la prima organizzazione abolizionista in Inghilterra fu fondata dalla chiesa quacchera nel 1783).
Comunque, a giudicare dal testo del brano, forse fu anche il suo egualitarismo (oltre che, sicuramente, a ragioni più di ordine economico e logistico) ad impedire a Burns di mettersi al servizio di un mercante di schiavi.
It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral,
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/11/18 - 10:48
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Bid 'Em In!

Bid 'Em In!
[1960]
Dall’album d’esordio intitolato “Sin and Soul... and Then Some”

Una celebre spoken song – già quasi un rap - di Oscar Brown Jr., poeta ed attivista per i diritti civili afroamericano scomparso nel 2005 e autore anche di Forty Acres And A Mule, presente su questo sito.

E’ il terribile racconto di una ”slave auction”, le aste nel corso delle quali gli schiavi africani venivano messi in vendita. Qui l’oggetto dell’asta è una giovane:

“Non fate caso alle sue lacrime, è solo uno dei suoi trucchetti.
550… chi offre 600?
E’ in salute, forte, ben messa.
Se ne può fare una buona domestica se viene adeguatamente frustata.
Forza, fatemi un’offerta!”


Nel 1979 il cartoonist Neal Sopata realizzò per “Bid 'em in!” un bellissimo cortometraggio d’animazione che fu candidato all’Oscar.
Bid 'em in! Get 'em in!
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/11/18 - 09:37
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To Leon Czolgosz

To Leon Czolgosz
[2002]
Lyrics by Rob Lincoln
Music: ?

"The lyrics are directed to "Nieman" the assassin of President William McKinley but the music sounds like it should be snappin' Bobby Darin (crooner version) and a horn section. The one person I played this song to said no one cares about McKinley, much less his assassin – which is exactly what the song is about ". (Rob Lincoln)

"Il testo di questa canzone è per "Nieman", l'uccisore del presidente William McKinley, ma la musica sembra fare il verso a quella di Bobby Darin (versione crooner) con un brano di tromba. L'unica persona alla quale ho cantato questa canzone ha detto che a nessuno importa nulla di McKinley, ma ancora meno del suo assassino - ed è proprio di questo che parla la canzone. (Rob Lincoln)
Don't say I killed McKinley in Buffalo
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/18 - 08:21
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Morituri te salutant

Morituri te salutant
Translated by Roman Kostovski
MORITURI TE SALUTANT
(Continues)
Contributed by Roman Kostovski 2010/11/18 - 03:33
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Песенка о бумажном солдатике

Песенка о бумажном солдатике
Translated by Roman Kostovski
PAPER SOLDIER
(Continues)
Contributed by Roman Kostovski 2010/11/18 - 02:34
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Redemption

Redemption
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by Alan Gardiner and Roger Peatman
Album: TBA

"Dark poignant Progressive Rock song exploring the fact that each of us have different beliefs about one thing or another ! Hence the human race never can be united as one !!
Around One Billion Atheists,
Around Twenty Major Religions,
Different Political Parties,
Not Surprising That Humans Will Never Be As One
Who Is Right
You Or Me ? "
Do you feel a yearning – stomach churning urge
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/17 - 21:28
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Král a klaun

Král a klaun
Versione inglese di Roman Kostovski
THE KING AND THE FOOL
(Continues)
Contributed by Roman Kostovski 2010/11/17 - 18:07
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A Great Man

A Great Man
[1979]
Lyrics & Music by Rob Lincoln

"America loves Harry Truman, but the tens of thousands of children who were incinerated and the hundreds of thousands who died in agony didn't care if he was feisty and played the piano. Dick Nixon loved watching football and was a great dad, but the 100,000+ children who were burned to death, shot or had their family member die in a shower of bombs didn't appreciate those endearing aspects of his personality. GW may really be more personable than Gore but would boring Al have caused the death of between 35,000 and 600,000 Iraqi civilians thus far? Will any Great Man be held accountable? Not if they are an American president. They are portrayed as one of us. We know their family members' names and their vacation spots better than how many deaths they are directly responsible for.

At best some may question whether the 2,500 US soldiers deaths have been necessary in Iraq. Civilian deaths are not even counted by the US Army. It's just "collateral damage."
He was a great man.. and a leader too,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/17 - 13:05
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Soldier Boy

[2008]
Lyrics & Music by Alan Gardiner and Roger Peatman
Album: Can We Get Off

"Maybe the way a lot of people feel about certain countries trying to Police the whole world..
Iron Maiden style guitar".
Soldier boy – who's sent to fight in some one else's war
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/17 - 12:54
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Cruel Slavery Days

Cruel Slavery Days
[1929?]
Nella raccolta “Early Country Music (Vol. 1)” edita dalla Historical di Arnold S. Caplin negli anni 60.
Testo trovato su Mudcat Café
On the day that ol' Master died
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/11/17 - 09:51
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Go Down Old Hannah

Go Down Old Hannah
Sono anche più tardo di Leadbelly che, al suo ingresso in prigione, si chiedeva a chi o a cosa diavolo si riferissero i detenuti con l'espressione "Old Hannah"... ora ci sono arrivato:

"Old Hannah" (o, meglio, "Ol' Hannah") = Hosanna, l'invocazione a Dio perchè salvi il credente, termine di origine ebraica. = "Hosanna in the highest", "Osanna nell'alto dei cieli" = The sun, il sole.
Bartleby 2010/11/17 - 09:06
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Cherry Blossom Trees

Cherry Blossom Trees
[1991]
Lyrics & Music by Rob Lincoln

Not traditional Asian but it has a Japanese feel and lyrics that match the sound of the song.
I had a dream,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/17 - 08:21
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Arlington

Arlington
The meaningful song is narrated by a soldier that was killed in action and is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The hit song was actually inspired by Tennessee-native, Corporal Patrick Nixon, of the United States Marine Corps. He died in battle on March 23, 2003 after being ambushed while trying to secure a bridge in Nasiriyah, Iraq. After speaking to Nixon's father, Turnbull felt inspired to make his story into a song.
I never thought that this is where I'd settle down
(Continues)
Contributed by Alan Smithee 2010/11/17 - 05:17
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Contessa

Contessa
mi va bene tutto: che nel '68 era un'altra cosa, che (per alcuni) il fine giustifica i mezzi, che la lotta (sempre per alcuni) può essere giustificata... PERO? scusrae, questo è un sito CONTRO la guerra e la violenza!!! A questo punto cambiate il nome del sito in "canzoni di protesta/comuniste/quellochevipare..." ma no "contro la guerra" perché questa canzone non lo è, punto. Anche perché poi noi pacifisti veri non veniamo presi sul serio...
(Azzurra)

Carissima Azzurra, che tu lo voglia o meno questo sito ha dei criteri (espressi peraltro in decine di commenti, introduzioni, addirittura pagine apposite...), ai quali ci atteniamo dandone sempre accurate spiegazioni. Deve avere un titolo e lo ha (peraltro rispettatissimo in migliaia di canzoni); ma qualora introduciamo altre tematiche (te ne vogliamo far vedere una a caso: la canzone Perché mai parlarvi di pace? di Ivan Della Mea, ci sentiamo... (Continues)
2010/11/17 - 01:19
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Anděl

Anděl
Translated by Roman Kostovski
THE ANGEL
(Continues)
Contributed by Translated by Roman Kostovski 2010/11/16 - 23:42
Most of us don't even know there's a language called "Meadow Mari": imagine now a language called Hill Mari. Well, just with a version in this incredible language our Internationale page now reaches versions in 90 languages. A true "world record" our website is really, though silently, proud of.
Riccardo Venturi 2010/11/16 - 22:14
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Bella Ciao

Anonymous
Bella Ciao
Un bel video con sottotitoli in inglese e persiano:

Emanuele Ricciardi 2010/11/16 - 20:52
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Al Carneval

Al Carneval
Version française – AU CARNAVAL- Marco Valdo M.I. a – 2010
Chanson italienne – Al carneval – Talco – 2010

Quatrième morceau de l’album «  La Cretina Commedia », dédié à Peppino Impastato.

« Les premières représentations du groupe de Peppino, organisé dans le Cercle Musique et Culture, prélude à un projet plus important dans les années qui suivirent – Radio Aut – eurent lieu dans les rues à l'occasion des fêtes du village. Une celle-ci, le Carnaval., Peppino organisa une farce, la l'insinuant dans la foule masquée et mettant en scène une représentation théâtrale, où des paysans et des édiles se plaignaient des patrons, calmés par un prêtre qui prêchait le calme en attente d'une vie meilleure au-delà de la terre. Arrivait alors un fonctionnaire de parti corrompu qui incitait au retour au travail sans se plaindre. « Car le Parti voulait qu'il en soit ainsi »... Puis le mafieux qui faisait... (Continues)
AU CARNAVAL
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/11/16 - 20:41
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History Lesson

History Lesson
[1981]
Album “The Punch Line”
Canzone di soli 37 secondi scritta da D. Boon
A hundred thousand years ago before legends were ever told
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/11/16 - 09:52
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Just Another Soldier

Just Another Soldier
[1985]
Dall’ultimo album della band californiana, “3-Way Tie (For Last)”
Scritta da D. Boon

Canzone che probabilmente prende spunto dalla battaglia delle Termopili del 480 a.C. dove – leggenda vuole che – 300 opliti spartani guidati da Leonida tennero testa a decine di migliaia di soldati persiani. Quando Serse intimò ai greci la resa e la consegna delle armi, Leonida rispose: "Μολὼν λαβέ", "Venite a prendervele!", e i trecento furono finalmente spazzati via.
Over 300 dead, we still got pride
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/11/16 - 09:37
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Fascist

Fascist
[1980]
Album “Paranoid Time”
Scritta da D. Boon

Dedicata alla dirigenza del PD, Partito dei Deficienti, che a Milano si dimette in blocco perché quel “frocio” comunista di Vendola ha vinto le primarie con il suo Pisapia, che già cerca di screditarlo dicendo che “alle primarie hanno votato in pochi” e che “le primarie sono uno strumento che va rivisto” e che intanto cerca l’inciucio con il fascista Fini, divenuto leader dell’opposizione…
Complimenti, “all enslaved to the Fascists”!
Don't preach their structure, their society
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/11/16 - 08:50
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Tear Hate Down

Tear Hate Down is large, as in LARGE !!!
carla f. 2010/11/16 - 07:06
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Soldatenlied

Soldatenlied
da: Leonard Schäfer, "Erich Mühsam, c'era una volta un rivoluzionario"
Chersi Libri, Brescia 2010, pp. 63/64
IL CANTO DEI SOLDATI
(Continues)
2010/11/16 - 00:26
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Sacrifice

Sacrifice
[2009]
Lyrics & Music by Alan Gardiner and Roger Peatman
Album: Voyager [2010]

A TRIBUTE TO ALL SOLDIERS ! This song is not about the Politics or the Rights or Wrongs of War, Just the story of serving soldier and what they endure 365 days a year !

"The Idea for the song came after watching a documentary about Life (and Death ) on the Front line in Afghanistan and Iraq.."
Another soldier crossed the line
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/15 - 08:20
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Radio Manisco/0516490872

Radio Manisco/0516490872
Spero di poterlo ascoltare al piu' presto,è molto raro ho trovato il vinile in emule l'ho messo a scaricare ma credo che c'è ne vorrà x un po' mi piace tanto l'hip hop e il reggae italiano vecchia scuola,ho alcune cose rare,x chi è interessato a qualke scambio di cd old school mi contatti al mio contatto facebook ANTONIO BOTTAZZO.Ciao e viva la musica!!
Antonio 85 2010/11/15 - 02:56
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Avanzo de cantiere

Avanzo de cantiere
Chanson italienne – Avanzo di cantiere – Banda Bassotti – 1995
CHANTIER
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/11/14 - 22:26
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Halfway Round the World

Halfway Round the World
[1991]
Lyrics & Music by Val Davis
Album: Immortal [2003]

"This tune was written during the Gulf War but is incredibly relevant today in light of the Bush administrations "War on Terrorism" and occupation of Iraq.
It's upbeat Acoustic Rock".
What am I to believe
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/14 - 20:44

Old Soldiers Never Cry

[1975-1996]
Lyrics & Music by David Kilpatrick

A song for the veterans of all wars and any wars - not a lament, nor a protest, but a comment on the passing of time and the nature of men at war. Strong chorus and rhythm.

"Started with the first verse and chorus sometime in the mid-1970s, this is a song which was gradually built, then completed in 1996 when suddenly it hit me that the old Great War soldiers returning to the war cemeteries in France would soon be gone - indeed, they would have to be 100 years old. And that's what the song ultimately comments on: the distance of time, and the few remaining. But it's about more than that. It was also completed because my father, who was a bomber pilot in the 1945 war, had died; and I realised then that I had never finished any of the songs I started writing years before, and he's never heard a single one of them. So, in a way it was... (Continues)
Well you all - tell the same great old story,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/14 - 17:15
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Ground Zero

[2001]
Lyrics & Music by David Kilpatrick

"This song was not completed until October 5th 2001. On September 11th we were in front of the television, taking a lunch break from our office, when the news broke in. We remained there. I apologise to anyone who may be offended by my politics. I wanted to write a song which could sung by anyone, at any time in the future. It is played on my Lowden O-10 in Drop D with the capo on fret 1 and it's a very simple traditional tune".
Weep for the innocent
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/14 - 16:48

There's a War Going on I Hear

[2007]
Lyrics by Tom Ward
Music by Dan Monk
Got my Starbucks coffee got HD TV
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/14 - 14:42
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Can't Happen Here

Can't Happen Here
[2007]
Album: Lead Sails Paper Anchor
Tearing his flesh in the dead of night
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/11/14 - 13:04




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