Yeah always loved Curtis Mayfield saw him live once, not long before his tragic accident. Somebody else who i saw a couple of x was Gil Scott Heron,he was great too.
favourite protest song ?
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Yeah always loved Curtis Mayfield saw him live once, not long before his tragic accident. Somebody else who i saw a couple of x was Gil Scott Heron,he was great too.
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Surprised like others that there is no RATM, CRASS or Stiff Little Fingers in your list.
Also
Vengeance - NMA
Beds are Burning/Dead Heart/Tone Poem/US Forces - Midnight Oil
Killing the Right - The Living End
Battle of the Beanfield/Shipbuilding were earlier good choices.
But seriously no one has mentioned 'Another Day in Paradise Yet'...
Also
Vengeance - NMA
Beds are Burning/Dead Heart/Tone Poem/US Forces - Midnight Oil
Killing the Right - The Living End
Battle of the Beanfield/Shipbuilding were earlier good choices.
But seriously no one has mentioned 'Another Day in Paradise Yet'...
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
been slow cooking one on
one of the best protest songs ever
The British Police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all
Lining the customers up by the wall
Picking out people and knocking them down
Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground
Searching their houses and calling them queer
I don't believe that sort of thing happens here
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Pictures of naked young women are fun
In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun
There's no nudes in Gay News our last magazine
But they still find excuses to call it obscene
Read how disgusting we are in the press
The News of The World and the Sunday Express
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth
It's there in the paper, it must be the truth
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Don't try to kid us that if you're discreet
You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street
You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks
To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark
I had a friend who was gentle and short
Got lonely one evening and went for a walk
Queerbashers caught him and kicked in his teeth
He was only hospitalised for a week
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
So sit back and watch as they close all our clubs
Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs
Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21
So only your friends and your brothers get done
Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks
Put down the queens and tell anti-queer jokes
Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter
'The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?'
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
one of the best protest songs ever
The British Police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all
Lining the customers up by the wall
Picking out people and knocking them down
Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground
Searching their houses and calling them queer
I don't believe that sort of thing happens here
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Pictures of naked young women are fun
In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun
There's no nudes in Gay News our last magazine
But they still find excuses to call it obscene
Read how disgusting we are in the press
The News of The World and the Sunday Express
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth
It's there in the paper, it must be the truth
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Don't try to kid us that if you're discreet
You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street
You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks
To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark
I had a friend who was gentle and short
Got lonely one evening and went for a walk
Queerbashers caught him and kicked in his teeth
He was only hospitalised for a week
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
So sit back and watch as they close all our clubs
Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs
Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21
So only your friends and your brothers get done
Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks
Put down the queens and tell anti-queer jokes
Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter
'The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?'
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Good one - better than Eric Bogle's origanal imho
how the fuck did the Pogues/Shane manged to make a song from the p.o.v of an Australian solider sound angrier/more convincing - it's like he's actually inhabiting the persona of the song and you can easily belive he's lived it.
