David Rovics piosenki

In 1492 Colombo crossed the Ocean Only one of many horrors that would then be set in motion As his men cut limbs of Arawaks and burned children at the stake Plundering a continent for God's sake In 1492 when King Ferdinand won Granada He passed a la...

As I was being arrested A reporter stuck a mike in my face I said the first few words that came to mind If there's hope for the human race (then we need) 15 dollars an hour (3x) 15! They say this is a democracy But there's none of that on the job Jus...

The famine had affected many people From Ireland to the shores of the Baltic Sea The soaring cost of food meant it took most of your earnings Which meant the shutting down of much of industry But no one knows for sure why the rebellion began Or why i...

I was a cynic long before we met I think that's how it tends to be You go around the block, that's where you get And that's how it was with you and me But there isn't a single day that passes by When I don't ask if I could've made the grade When I don't...

There was a time when the rich did not pay tax Although they lived in mansions while their workers lived in shacks Back then the wise men said as long as enterprise is free The future will be full of great prosperity The sick and unemployed would usual...

When the bomb went off that killed your mother And you left at midnight with your sister and your father When you spent your first night sleeping amid the mortars As your family made its way to the Turkish border As you saw the dead and dying all aroun...

America has never been so great, but it could be If the corporations in control gave back everything they stole We would not be in this ditch, the whole country would be rich We could've been the best, like the Norway of the west But instead from shor...

He was 46 years old, he had 2 parking places He got angry if one of the residents took one of the visitor spaces In the apartment complex that might provide one little clue That this middle-aged man had accomplished little that he set out to do He spe...

Atif and Sebastian lived in Vancouver That's where they were from Atif's family moved to the USA And Sebastian thought he'd come They both went off to college Atif to Cornell What would happen at the end of his freshman year Who on Earth could foretell...

There’s a bottle on the floor And milk all over your face I don’t know what you’re eating But it’s all over the place There is a bowl of beans Beside your teddy bear But now you’ve dunked your hands in it And smeared it in your hair Yeah, babies are a...

Some babies like to ride in strollers Other babies like to ride in cars Some babies like to jump on pogo sticks Other babies like to get pickled in jars Some babies like to get wrapped in towels And drag around a rag My baby she likes to get right inside...

I'm from Seattle And I'll tell you my tale I grew up by the water I was born in a pail I'm a dung beetle Just like my friends But sadly that's where the Similarity ends I'm a dung beetle That normally means I would eat dung Not carrots or beans Ye...

When I came to this country, left Scotland far behind Evicted from the highlands, told to go and find A new life in America across the Atlantic Sea Where I joined the millions of other refugees Who ended up at Ellis Island as the century began The wr...

There are a lot of white men in this world who turn out a lot like Dean Schmitz – homophobic, racist, bigoted and mean He grew up to be a hard man, did the things that hard men do Picked fights, went to prison, got a swastika tattoo CeCe McDonald is a...

Saed Bannoura is a friend of mine But I'm lucky to know him, to be sure He is from a land called Palestine From the town of Beit Sahur His house was a mile from where Jesus was born And a mile from a military base He grew up under occupation Such...

She grew up in Texas on a military base As a teen in California she found her place Standing up with those who had got the shorter straw Speaking out for justice on both sides of the law She came to my attention in 1998 When she was elected and she joine...

Millions of people from the colonies Were living in the far-away cities Home of those who killed their country Who tried for over a century To bring Jesus back to Africa From Mali to Algeria And they fired into the protesters Dumped them in the r...

When the world has gone crazy And it's all becoming clear When they're gunning down our comrades And it seems the end is near As they're loading up the launchers For the tear gas grenades We can take off our bandanas And kiss behind the barricade...

Soup is cooking in the cauldron, there's a freight train passing by A plane streaking through the night air way up in the sky Nearby the leaves are shimmering and they rustle in the breeze Blowing smoke upon our faces and on the guitars on our knees Lik...

Then began the nightmare All over once again The revolution's debtor's prisons Filled with good upstanding men We said to hell with King John Adams Of this farce we'd had our fill And we set our sights on liberty Here in the Berkshire hills Their cour...