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Another good song that is more and more relevent to today than 1963...by Bob DillanSubmitted by Huehuete Bob on 30 July, 2006 - 09:56.
With God on Our Side, by Bob Dylan Oh my name it is nothin' My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I's taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side. Oh the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalries charged The Indians fell The cavalries charged The Indians died Oh the country was young With God on its side. Oh the Spanish-American War had its day And the Civil War too Was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I's made to memorize With guns in their hands And God on their side. Oh the First World War, boys It closed out its fate The reason for fighting I never got straight But I learned to accept it Accept it with pride For you don't count the dead When God's on your side. When the Second World War Came to an end We forgave the Germans And we were friends Though they murdered six million In the ovens they fried The Germans now too Have God on their side. I've learned to hate Russians All through my whole life If another war starts It's them we must fight To hate them and fear them To run and to hide And accept it all bravely With God on my side. But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side. In a many dark hour I've been thinkin' about this That Jesus Christ Was betrayed by a kiss But I can't think for you You'll have to decide Whether Judas Iscariot Had God on his side. So now as I'm leavin' I'm weary as Hell The confusion I'm feelin' Ain't no tongue can tell The words fill my head And fall to the floor If God's on our side He'll stop the next war. Copyright © 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music Columbia Records ( categories: )
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Another song more relevant today than '63 ....
Let’s impeach the president for lying / And leading our country into war / Abusing all the power that we gave him / And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals / The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors / And bend the facts to fit with their new stories / Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying / On citizens inside their own homes / Breaking every law in the country / By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees / Would New Orleans have been safer that way / Sheltered by our government’s protection / Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president / For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected / Dividing our country into colors / And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s cracking down on steroids / Since he sold his old baseball team / There’s lot of people looking at big trouble / But of course the president is clean
Thank God
Let's Impeach The President -- Neil Young
So many Americans want George W Bush impeached, that even a Right wing media outfit like MSNBC can't hide it. Someone needed to write this song.
- wick
Yes, some of the early Dylan
Yes, some of the early Dylan stuff really strikes home. I recently read or heard someone say, “if there were no organized religion there would be no wars”. Some songs by John Lenon also come to mind.
Too bad Dylan and the others
Too bad Dylan and the others didn't see fit to write about the evils of absolutism. Communists murdered more than 100 million people during the 20th century. As I recall, they weren't known for their fairthfulness to any particular deity, but they were known for their staunch absolutism.
so because of that we ain't so bad . . .
so because of that we ain't so bad . . . can't we aim a little higher. Yes it's hard to top Stalin and Mao but when the enemy of our enemy was Pol Pot, we went along with him . . . yada yada . . .
What is absolutism?
Seriously...
Absolutism
Check out this for info:
http://www.answers.com/topic/absolutism
Absolut Vodka?
Is it like FDC-ism?
Absolutely
Fdcism: 1) f'd'c^-ism: A principal standard of rum by which all others are judged.
Amen, brother!
I'm glad we agree on something.
Absolut
Absolut Vodka is made by "Miskitu Blue's" in-laws from over the ocean there in Warsaw, Poland, and those kinfolk make that stuff from "papa fritas" or cassava or something.
Now the Flor De Cana &/or Flower of Cane is made from the sugar cane and "no cana frita".
John Reep - You got it now?
Miskito Alan ®
anti religion
I dont think this song is really an anti religion song....I just think it displays how God is used as being on their side because they need to prove that they are right and their cause is always just. The last verse says that if God is on OUR side he will stop the next war. And I think that is correct.
Others
Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seegar, Lenny Bruce, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, B.B., and on & on.
Right up to date.
Miskito Alan ®
i feel good...
good to see some fellow expats that throw the names of leadbelly and woody around....man, i bought a 12 string and learned fingerpicking just so i could sing his beautiful songs.
also, i love dylan...seen him a bunch of times in concert, have all his albums and find that his music transcends politics (he has attacked the left with an equal amount of zeal)
anyway, i'm new here, and am moving to managua in 2 weeks....look forward to the rum and good vibes.
PM me
Pm me when you get here and we can talk alot about those people.
will do...
i look forward to it.
Deportee
Was wondering how Miskito Alan could mention the Kinston Trio in the same sentence as the others. I remembered them as just clean cut guys stuck riding the M.T.A. under the streets of Boston. I had no idea they also did Woody Guthrie songs like Dylan.
Guthrie did a train load of songs that are still relevant today. This song "Deportee" is one that really caught my eye. http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Plane_Wreck_At_Los_Gatos.htm
Joan Baez
Joan Baez had that song on one of her albums too. Great song. I'm a Gemini so I can apreciate the song and still be against illegal immigration.
Rcefalu
Well, being a Gemini pretty much explains it. I'm a Leo, so you can see where I'm coming from.
One of the few songs
One of the few songs I do when my friends and rum get the better of me and I allow myself to get up at an open mic night at a bar. Like most of Woody's stuff, the chord progression was simple (and possibly "borrowed" - a tradition in folk music) but the word carry so much meaning.
But society tends to make these songs "nice and acceptable," especially when then make their points close too home. "This Land is Your Land" is such a song. Most people don't know or remember that it's a protest song and that the "problematic" verses are usually never sung.
This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there And that sign said - no tress passin' But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me!
This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office - I see my people And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin' If this land's still made for you and me.
This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me
Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me.
This land
The song was written during the depression era, and was a protest song of sorts. A song about the poor dispossesed citizens who wanted a better life and a return to prosperity. With the glorious and correct idea that this land does indeed belong to all members of the U.S. Society.
Still Rings True Today
Esepcially the verse, "In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple - Near the relief office - I see my people." Much of my work time is spent in urban areas and many people (and it's a growing group) are still in need of help as they take shelter on public property in the shadows of buildings where people who are called to help the dispossessed almost try to hide (I spend a lot of time in those buildings so I will thow the first stone at myself). Not a matter of liberal/conservative, but a matter of justice.
Maybe we need more Woody Guthrie's today...oh I forgot,they do exist today. Check out Ghetto Gospel by 2Pac
Ghetto Gospel
Love of freedom
from a song that Peter Paul and Mary sang.....Pete Seger
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If I Had A Hammer
Words and music by L. Hays and P. Seeger If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening ... all over this land, I'd hammer out danger I'd hammer out a warning I'd hammer out love between all of my brothers and my sisters All over this land.
If I had a bell I'd ring it in the morning I'd ring it in the evening ... all over this land, I'd ring out danger I'd ring out a warning I'd ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters All over this land.
If I had a song I'd sing it in the morning I'd sing it in the evening ... all over this world, I'd sing out danger I'd sing out a warning I'd sing out love between all of my brothers and my sisters All over this land.
If I've got a hammer And I've got a bell And I've got a song to sing ... all over this land, It's a hammer of justice It's a bell of freedom It's a song about love between all of my brothers and my sisters All over this land.
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Those are my favorites
I grew up on all of those groups (not in age, but in spirit), Alan. Especially Joan Baez who sang many of the others' songs but with so much more impact on me. Lenny was a comedian and a sad story, but a pioneer too. And died too young. Woodie Guthrie, a legend in the thirties and his songs still have impact. Peter Paul and Mary beautiful songs and inspiring too. I never get tired of hearing them. Pete Seegar may have been an influence on all of them. The songs and their content timeless. Dylan refers to himself as an entertainer rather than a rebel and he says he never wanted to be what his fans considered him.....a sort of leader for change.
Three of Us
J.D. Salinger & Miskito Alan ® & Jack said the same thing.
"rcefalu" said: "Dylan refers to himself as an entertainer rather than a rebel and he says he never wanted to be what his fans considered him.....a sort of leader for change."
when they started using . . ."The Time They Are A Changin"
when they started using . . ."The Time They Are A Changin' " for the Bank of Montreal ads he'd become a leader of "change, bills, and credit cards of sorts . . . . you have to stand for something . . . I wish he had . . . I like Dylan. Why do they have to go a whoring . . . you'd have thought he'd a put aside a little cash and not have to pimp out the songs. I believe the songs are still his. Forgive me Bob if they now belong to Michael Jackson. There's so little integrity in rock and roll. They're mostly blowhards who'd sell mama for a dolla. Springsteen may be the exception to the rule. I haven't heard him selling cars yet. I hope it never comes to that.
The times they are a changing
When they were doing the gay marriages in S.F. I drove by city hall and the first couple to be married were singing The times they are a changing on the mike. Just funny how the words and the songs are used for unintended stuff just like with the bank of Montreal. Guess only those of us who grew up remember what they were really about.