David Rovics piosenki

I grew up on this mountain Came back here to dwell Maybe have a family Plant some corn and dig a well I was all done with the Army Back from Vietnam Where I learned how to shoot a rifle And how to set a bomb I grew up on this mountain It's in my very...

Once upon a time I read books and magazines Then along came email, I thought that was pretty keen I got on some good listservs, that was pretty neat It was all so interactive, I was in the driver's seat Then along came social media, that's when I lost...

When you're working two jobs and living in a tent When a house costs a million bucks and you can't pay the rent When politicians say they'll help but it keeps getting worse Each time the landlord lobby pulls the strings of the purse When the human righ...

An old woman approached me just the other day “I lived in Washington, DC,” she began to say “They all sang 'We Shall Overcome' back in 1964 Where did that all go now that it's needed even more?” I thought I should have an answer – I think I should now,...

There’s an upright piano and the church where it was played I can still hear the fire of the music that they made These wild priests of Coltrane as high as you could get Now their picture’s in the water with a broken clarinet And the bodies floating down t...

I grew up in the land of houses in rows I had asthma, that's how it goes When you're in LA and there are cars everywhere See the sky and smell the air I left home, looked around Trying to find some solid ground I found life in the northern wood And I kn...

He grew up in Jenin, where his neighbors lived and died With the things he’d seen, it was pretty cut and dried He could have been a fighter as so many others did He could have become a martyr like so many other kids Instead, he joined a circus troupe,...

Franz Jacob was a man, grandfather of a friend of yours He became an adult in between the world wars Some folks are born with silver spoons, they get an easy pass Not people like Franz Jacob, who was of the working class He was determined to change thi...

Gather round all you workers Whether you have a job or not You who pick the tomatoes You who grow the pot You who stay home to raise the children You that record the sound You who flip the burgers All you workers gather round Gather round all y...

One point eight million people surrounded on all sides Refugees since '48, since '67, occupied The only reason they're not starving is down to the UN Most have never left there, stuck in the lion's den The most crowded place on Earth, and there they'll sta...

I've moved out of three cities 'cause I couldn't pay the rent Folks like me weren't welcome so I packed it up and went It's always the same story, I find a place I wanna be And soon enough I'm joined by all the other refugees Then watch the websites warble...

He was born a rich man, then he got richer still By bribing politicians on Capitol Hill By declaring bankruptcy, by working with the mob By causing lots of Americans to lose their union jobs By exporting industries to sweatshops overseas By acting li...

I was raised in Guanajuato That's where I was born For a thousand years that's where My family grew the corn Farming's what we lived by And farming's all we knew Then the government signed Nafta And our farming days were through I had to leave the vill...

It was on one afternoon we headed down There in the twilight hour to the center of town Everyone was gathered as the sun began to fade For the annual excitement of the Halloween Parade There were jacolanterns lit up on every door There were ghosts and Av...

I grew up in Lawrence, there by the water In the shadow of a textile mill Sometimes I feel just like that building Empty but standing there still I liked the President, I liked the union I believed in the Rights of Man So I signed up when it was time to...

The town is mostly black, almost all the cops are white You can see it right away, something isn't right There's no funding for the schools and they're being shut down The powers that be don't give a shit about the town They were walking in the street, it...

They grew up among the bombs of the occupation Bulldozed houses, that was the situation Refugee camps, Khan Yunus and Shatila Children gunned down in the Intifada Poverty and hunger, a place to slowly die These five men decided at least they had to try F...

Wake up in the morning, nowhere you can hide Just another suspect as soon as you go outside Just another suspect, one more man to fear Best be deferential if an officer is near Best be deferential, best wear a three-piece suit Or find the wrong end o...

Mommy said get in the car Let us go have tea I said I think that sounds boring I just wanna climb a tree I just wanna climb a tree Up in a tree, that’s where I wanna be Just like a little monkey I just wanna climb a tree Daddy said come down from the...

I know a man He has brown eyes Most mornings he gets up Around sunrise He likes to put butter On just about everything He likes to walk in the park Listen to the birds sing I know a man He has two gorgeous kids He likes to take them on trips Like h...