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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. 20:58 - Aug 28 with 5043 viewsted_hendrix




My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 21:57 - Aug 28 by dmm

Great thread, Ted. I could spend all night doing this, but I'll finish with this one.



Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
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Well, that's always going to be the most evocative for me.

I don't think it's as great tune a tune as 'A Change is Gonna Come' for instance, but Sweet Jesus! The words, the poetry, the aching pain.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 22:36 - Aug 28 with 1031 viewsRamseyR



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My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 00:24 - Aug 29 with 860 viewsParkStreetRanger

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 05:04 - Aug 29 with 780 viewsPlanetHonneywood




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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 06:45 - Aug 29 with 753 viewsFDC

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 06:49 - Aug 29 with 743 viewsFDC

A just beautiful BLM song



Take off your badge
We all know it was murder
Murder, murder
Murder
We are dying, it's the reason we are crying
We are crying
But we will never show fear
Even in my eyes
I will always rise
In wildfires
I ain't never been scared
Even through my tears
I will always care
In wildfires
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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 07:23 - Aug 29 with 711 viewsdmm

Back in the day we loved the hilarious irony of the song.

Around 60,000 Americans and over 1 million Vietnamese died in the utterly pointless Vietnam war.

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 07:27 - Aug 29 with 702 viewsDaBurgh

The more things that change, the more they stay the same.


When you reach the place beyond thoughts, the only thing you'll find is love and the only purpose of life becomes to ease the suffering of others.

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 07:41 - Aug 29 with 689 viewsAkindweevil



Apologies for getting carried away on the music thread....i leave you all with LKJ.

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 07:55 - Aug 29 with 660 viewsAkindweevil

Something from Africa (and Chile!) Warning- this is an 11 minute workout! (ps This is a cover of the 1970s Fela Kuti classic protest song, which led to a violent response from the authorities.)
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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 07:59 - Aug 29 with 658 viewsAkindweevil

And one of the saddest songs I know. I first heard the song and fell in love with with the melody. Only later when I found the Italian translation, did I realise what it was about.



Andrea got lost,
he got lost and doesn't know how to return.
Andrea got lost,
he got lost and doesn't know how to return.
Andrea used to have
a love, black curly hair,
Andrea used to have
a sorrow, black curly hair.

It was written on a page
that he'd died on the flag.
It was written and the signature
was in gold, it was signed by the king:
killed in the mountains
of Trent by machine gun fire,
killed in the mountains
of Trent by machine gun fire.

Forest-colored eyes,
peasant of the realm, French profile.
Forest-colored eyes,
soldier of the realm, French profile.
And Andrea lost him,
he lost his love, the pearl most rare.
And Andrea has in his mouth,
he has in his mouth a sorrow, the darkest pearl.

Andrea was plucking,
he was gathering violets at the edges of a well.
Andrea was throwing
black ringlets in the circle of the well.
The bucket said to him,
it said, “Sir, the well is deep,
deeper than the depth
of the eyes of the Night of Tears.”

He said, “It’s enough for me,
it's good enough that it’s deeper than I am.”
He said, “It’s enough for me,
it's good enough that it’s deeper than I am.”

English translation © 2014 Dennis Criteser
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Really not a Dylan fan but love Desire.
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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 08:18 - Aug 29 with 629 viewshubble


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Smells like a trout farm in here

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Friday Music, Protest Songs, Anti Government Songs, Anti War Songs. on 09:00 - Aug 29 with 556 viewsericgen34

Some great songs in this thread!

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