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Zor And Zam

Zor And Zam
“They gave a war and nobody came” è una canzone sicuramente ispirata a The Monkees dal seguente passo di “The People, Yes”, poema scritto da Carl Sandburg nel 1936:

The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked, “What are those?”
“Soldiers.”
“What are soldiers?”
“They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can.”
The girl held still and studied.
“Do you know…I know something?”
“Yes, what is it you know?”
“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”

O forse Bill Chadwick e John Chadwick non sapevano nemmeno di citare il grande Sandburg, perché nel 1968, anno di uscita dell’album “The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees”, il concetto chiave del passo che ho riportato era già diventato da tempo uno slogan del movimento che si batteva contro la guerra in Vietnam. Infatti nell’ottobre del 1966 la scrittrice e poetessa pacifista Charlotte E.... (Continues)
ZOR E ZAM
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/12/29 - 10:46

La première pierre

La première pierre
[1976]
Album : "Le tango des marginaux"
Le soleil qui passe pose sa lumière La lune qui lasse nous laisse la nuit
(Continues)
Contributed by adriana 2010/12/29 - 09:41
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The Hangman at Home

The Hangman at Home
[1920]
Dalla raccolta poetica intitolata “Smoke and Steel”.
Musica di John Musto (1954-vivente), compositore e pianista statunitense, da “Dove Sta Amore” (1996) per soprano ed orchestra da camera.
What does the hangman think about
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/12/29 - 08:46
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Leaders of the Free World

Leaders of the Free World
[2005]
Album: Leaders Of The Free World

"Leaders of the Free World" is Elbow's second and last single off the album "Leaders of the Free World". It is also Elbow's last single released through V2 Records.
I'm sick of working for a living,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/29 - 08:06
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Zingari

Zingari
Chanson italienne – Zingari – Punkreas – 2000

On ne sait pour les autres, dit Lucien l'âne, mais pour les Tziganes, l'histoire a la mauvaise habitude de se répéter. Pire, elle bafouille, elle bégaie, elle ne connaît qu'une manière : la chasse au nomade et cela depuis si longtemps qu'on a même oublié quand cela avait commencé. Finalement, ce n'est plus là méchanceté, c'est un réflexe conditionné, une habitude ancestrale, un conditionnement historique... pour la préhistoire, on ne sait pas... Pourtant, moi qui bourlingue depuis des siècles et des siècles, je peux te dire que les Gitans ou les Tziganes ou les Bohémiens ou les Roms, alias les Romanichels que j'ai croisés n'ont certainement pas été pires que les Sédentaires – comment les appeler autrement ? Les citadins, mais il y avait des paysans... Les citoyens, on pourrait imaginer les Citoyens. Mais attention, même nous les ânes, nous sommes... (Continues)
TZIGANES
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/12/28 - 21:31
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Into the Valley

Into the Valley
[1979]
Album: Scared to Dance

"Into the Valley" is a 1979 single by Skids, taken off their “Scared to Dance“ album, and is their best known song, appearing on a number of punk rock and Scottish music compilation albums. It reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart for the week ending 24 March 1979. It was written by Richard Jobson and Stuart Adamson.
"Into the Valley" is still used as a theme song for fans of Dunfermline Athletic F.C. in the Scottish First Division and Charlton Athletic F.C. of the English Football League Championship, whose stadium is aptly named The Valley. It was also used in their premiership years by Bradford City A.F.C., whose stadium is named Valley Parade.
The song's lyrics are notoriously unintelligible owing to Jobson's diction. This has been sent up in a Maxell television advertisement which features printed (incorrect) "translations" of the words. The chorus,... (Continues)
Betrothed and divine
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/28 - 19:22
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Empêche-moi

Empêche-moi
[2010]
Album "Putan de cançon"
Scritta da F. Ridel e S. Attard
Puisque la mode est à la pensée unique,
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/12/28 - 18:34
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Paul, Émile et Henri

Paul, Émile et Henri
[2005]
Album "Mademoiselle Marseille"
Scritta da F. Ridel e S. Attard
Trois prénoms qu’ils ont donnés à mon père,
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/12/28 - 18:14
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Peaceful Earth

Peaceful Earth
[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Eric Severson
Album: Gravity Waves

Eric's newest song, 'Peaceful Earth', is about the tranquil, hopeful view of Earth seen by astronauts from space, contrasted with the hopelessness too often felt below.
It's a peaceful Earth tonight,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/28 - 18:07
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Salta la corda

Salta la corda
2003
Ocio ai luf

"C’è chi passa la frontiera solamente per viaggiare
E chi passa la frontiera forse solo per mangiare"
In realtà una filastrocca, ma anche nelle filastrocche si può parlare di cose serie
C’è chi piange per amore e chi amore non ha più
(Continues)
Contributed by DonQuijote82 2010/12/28 - 16:20
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Terrorist?

Terrorist?
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by Lowkey
Album: Soundtrack To The Struggle
So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of Terrorism
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/28 - 15:05
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L'ultima notte

L'ultima notte
Testo di Carlo Geminiani sulla base degli scritti di Giulio Bedeschi
Musica del maestro Bepi De Marzi

Nel 1943, dopo giorni di marcia nella steppa gelata, il 26 gennaio, gli alpini riuscirono finalmente a sfondare le linee russe al ponte della ferrovia di Nikolajewka e ad uscire dalla sacca nella quale erano rinchiusi. Era la strada verso la libertà, ma anche una durissima battaglia contro il gelo, la mancanza di mezzi e il nemico. L’approssimativa preparazione e l’inadeguatezza degli equipaggiamenti per quell’entrata baldanzosa in guerra dell’Italia anche sul fronte russo, sbandierata con i molteplici mezzi della propaganda governativa, venivano ora pagate a duro prezzo dagli alpini che iniziarono una tremenda marcia verso casa, armati solo del loro coraggio e della loro resistenza contro quel Generale Inverno che nel passato aveva già crudelmente piegato anche le truppe militari di... (Continues)
Era la notte bianca di Natale
(Continues)
Contributed by terresulconfine 2010/12/28 - 12:16
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Killers

Killers
[1916]

Dalla raccolta intitolata “Chicago Poems”.
Musica di Michael Hennagin (1936 –1993) compositore e docente universitario statunitense, dal ciclo intitolato “The Unknown”, musica per soprano, contralto, tenore e basso, pianoforte, flauto, trombe, percussione, proiettori slide e registratore elettronico (1968).

Una poesia ispirata a Sandburg dalla sua partecipazione alla guerra ispano-americana, esperienza giovanile che lo segnò profondamente. Una poesia, inoltre, in qualche modo profetica perché, pur essendo scritta intorno al 1916, bel prima del termine del primo conflitto mondiale e prima del coinvolgimento degli USA in esso, vi si parla di “sedici milioni di morti”, una cifra abbastanza vicina al bilancio finale di soldati morti e dispersi nel corso di quella terribile guerra (cui però devono essere aggiunti quasi 7 milioni di civili)…
I am singing to you
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2010/12/28 - 11:43
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Obama Nation

Obama Nation
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by LOWKEY
Album: Soundtrack to the Struggle (2011)
[Intro:]
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/28 - 08:23
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We've Got Nothing But Love to Prove

We've Got Nothing But Love to Prove
(Darrell Scott)

Album: Fireflies (2005)
What if no one would kill for their religion
(Continues)
Contributed by Anonymous 2010/12/28 - 05:57

Histoires d'Allemagne

Histoires d'Allemagne
Histoires d'Allemagne

Canzone française – Histoires d'Allemagne – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Vialatteries I.

On fait parfois des choses sans trop savoir pourquoi. C'est un peu le rythme du pas du poète, de celui qui fait, de celui qu'un bouillonnement intérieur pousse à conter des histoires, à inventer des chansons. Par exemple, je ne sais trop si ce que j'ai fait a sa place ici...

Je me demande bien pourquoi donc tu me dis cela, Marco Valdo M.I. mon ami. Qu'as-tu bien pu inventer qui te tracasse à ce point ?... car je le vois bien cela te tracasse.

En effet, cela me tracasse. Tu l'as bien senti, mon ami Lucien l'âne. Mais il est vrai que tu es mon ami et que tu es un âne sensible. Ce que j'ai inventé, ce qui m'est passé par la tête, puis que j'ai fait, c'est une sorte de chanson de geste, une sorte d'opera secco, une étrange fresque qui, à sa manière, recrée un voyage dans l'Allemagne... (Continues)
BAVIÈRE, MAI 1919 – LE BROUILLARD OPALIN
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/12/27 - 23:31
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Einheitsfrontlied

Einheitsfrontlied
CANZONE DEL FRONTE UNITO
(Continues)
Contributed by Franco Sibilotti 2010/12/27 - 23:11
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Ballad of the Black Gold

Ballad of the Black Gold
[2010]
Album: Revolutions Per Minute
This is the ballad of the black gold
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/27 - 20:30
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Eskimo

Eskimo
GRANDE
FILEMAZIO 2010/12/27 - 18:07
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Someday at Christmas

Someday at Christmas
1967 Motown Records

(Ron Miller, Bryan Wells)

Riprosta da Wonder in duetto con Andra Day

Registrata anche dai Pearl Jam per il Christmas Single del 2004
Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
(Continues)
2010/12/27 - 16:44
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What For?

[2006]
Lyrics & Music by Daniel J. Bell
Album: Whispers

The horror of being manipulated by false shams of honor and dying for nothing.
He's got a lot of dreams in his heart
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/27 - 15:55
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Gulf of Araby

Gulf of Araby
[1992]
Lyrics and Music by Katell Keineg
Album: Ô Seasons Ô Castles [1994]

This great song, originally written and performed by Katell Keineg, became far more popular in 1999 sung by Natalie Merchant for her "Live in Concert NYC" album..
If you could fill a veil with shells from Killiney's shore
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/27 - 13:14
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Warning Call

Warning Call
[2006]
Lyrics & Music by Eric Severson
Album: Gravity Waves

In his modern protest song entitled 'Warning Call', Eric uses a collage of sounds to capture the anguish of modern events and the conflicted feelings of helplessness, hope and indignation that characterize modern times.
In the spoils of war,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/27 - 08:36
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Overburdened

Overburdened
[2005]
Album: Ten Thousand Fists
[Spoken:]
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/27 - 08:07
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Winter

Winter
INVERNO
(Continues)
Contributed by Kiocciolina 2010/12/27 - 03:36
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Montezuma

Montezuma
Chanson italienne – Montezuma – Punkreas – 1997
MONTEZUMA, L'AZTÈQUE
(Continues)
Contributed by m 2010/12/26 - 17:36
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August 6, 1945 (Black Rain)

August 6, 1945 (Black Rain)
[2006]
Lyrics & Music by Eric Severson
Album: Gravity Waves

'August 6, 1945 (Black Rain)' is a requiem for the people who were killed and maimed in the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II, and a tribute to the spirit of those who lived just long enough to drink the radioactive 'black rain'.
..What is this, where am I?
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/26 - 16:12
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Dying Down in Africa

[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Eric Severson
Album: Gravity Waves

'Dying Down in Africa' is about innocent young children who are kidnapped in the night and forced to become child prostitutes and child soldiers. It is a heartfelt plea for help for the brave but besieged people of Africa.
Little girl, – you were born a flower
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/26 - 15:39
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If Peace Time Came

If Peace Time Came
[1968]
Lyrics & Music by Malvina Reynolds
Album: Sings the Truth

Renewed 1996, a.k.a. "If Peacetime Came". Malvina was poor for a time as a kid when her father lost his business, so she isn't making light of being poor here. Instead, she is riffing on the idea that war is good for business..
If peace time came, and we all got poor,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/26 - 15:22
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Bush (De wereld is geen schietschijf)

Bush (De wereld is geen schietschijf)
[2005]
Tekst en muziek van Doc Jazz
Album: Creative Resistance

Protest song against Bush, for his visit to the Netherlands in May 2005.
Kijk..
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/26 - 15:06
Song Itineraries: George Walker Bush II
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Più di voi

Più di voi
Chanson italienne – Più di voï – Punkreas – 2002
« Mourir du travail non. »

Nous avions déjà rencontré les Punkreas et même, traduit une de leurs chansons « Ma che bel mondo è », car elle avait fait l'objet d'une censure commerciale, de la part de ceux qui s'arrogent le droit d'enfermer les mots dans des contrats pour en tirer des profits des plus illicites... A-t-on déjà vu l'oiseau réclamer des droits d'auteur sur ses authentiques créations ?

L'oiseau, non. Mais des gens comme eux, oui. Ils ont réussi à enfermer le chant de l'oiseau dans leur caisse à musique, caisse enregistreuse , s'il en est. Ils ont coupé les ailes aux oiseaux, ils sont coupé la langue aux rossignols. On ne peut être plus crétin. Ce pourquoi tu avais toi aussi fait une parodie de la même de leurs chansons – What a thunderfull World.... Cela dit, la chanson d'aujourd'hui que dit-elle ?

Elle parle de la mort au... (Continues)
PLUS QUE VOUS
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/12/26 - 11:26
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You'll Be a Man

You'll Be a Man
[1969]
Lyrics & Music by Malvina Reynolds
Album: Malvina
They'll make a man of you, my son.
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/26 - 09:01
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Worker Bees

Worker Bees
[2006]
Album: Billy Talent II

"Cannon fodder? Unthinking heads? Oh, no.. They're simply Worker-bees"
March on, worker bees!
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/26 - 08:47
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Twenty Years Ago

Twenty Years Ago
Album: They Don't Make Them Like They Used To - 1986

In the song, the narrator talks about visiting the old town where he grew up in and mentions how much more simple and possibly better life was back then. He mentions the old movie house and the drug store where he worked and his childhood friend who died in Vietnam in 1964.
It's been a long time since I walked
(Continues)
Contributed by Gallant 2010/12/26 - 05:06
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Born in East L.A.

Born in East L.A.
"Born in East L.A." is a single by Cheech & Chong. It is a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A.", with references to the song "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman.

Written by Cheech Marin, the song's lyrics deal with a Mexican-American man from East Los Angeles who is mistaken for an undocumented immigrant and deported. The song served as the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Marin.
Took a walk to the corner store
(Continues)
Contributed by Alan Smithee 2010/12/26 - 03:44
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99 Ways to Die

99 Ways to Die
If I see the morning hours
(Continues)
Contributed by Goofus 2010/12/25 - 23:15
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Il mercenario di Lucera

Il mercenario di Lucera
Ma ora che sono steso
guardate nel mio sacco
ci troverete un MITRA
e un'oncia di tabacco.

Noi abbiamo sempre cantato questa meravigliosa ballata con la parola MITRA.
Il mercenario è un combattente non un briacone.
Scheggia 2010/12/25 - 23:09
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A te che dormi

A te che dormi
"La storia sbagliata" (2010)


La vicenda si intreccia nel periodo della rifondazione dell’Italia moderna , attraverso l’abisso della dittatura fascista, dell’occupazione nazista e delle distruzione della guerra con protagonisti lombardi. Luigi Canali, nome di battaglia Renzo Invernizzi poi Capitano Neri o semplicemente Neri, personaggio chiave della resistenza comasca tra i primi organizzatori delle bande di resistenti sui monti lariani da cui prenderà vita la 52^ Brigata Garibaldi, uno dei più importanti raggruppamenti della resistenza Armata Comasca. Incrocerà la sua esistenza con una giovane staffetta milanese “ Giuseppina Tuissi” nome di battaglia “Gianna” .

Da questo incontro prende vita una complessa e ricca vicenda di misteri, eroismi e probabili tradimenti definita , nella prefazione di Marino Severini, la storia di tutte le storie, l’amore della Gianna e del Neri, un amore al... (Continues)
Ora m'importa soltanto
(Continues)
2010/12/25 - 23:05
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Twenty-Nine More Miners Buried and Gone

Twenty-Nine More Miners Buried and Gone
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by C. Michael Stout
Album: Americana Dreams: Keeping The Promise

The story of the 29 miners killed on April 5, 2010 about 1,000 feet (300 m) underground at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine at Montcoal in Raleigh County, West Virginia should be kept alive so that mine safety laws are strengthen and enforced.
Twenty-nine more miners buried and gone
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/25 - 12:34




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