David Rovics piosenki

I lost my hat, mmm-mmm-mmm It’s a grey day, mmm-mmm-mmm I lost my hat, mmm-mmm-mmm It’s gone away, mmm-mmm-mmm I used to wear it all over the place It looked so good on top of my face It had a nice rim to keep out the sun Of all the hats in the world i...

I was born a refugee and I don't know if I'll ever see The old farmhouse I've heard about But it's where I belong, there is no doubt 'Cause my whole family is from that farm And we never did nobody harm And if you're confused by what you've heard Let me...

I don’t drive a car because they run on gas but if I did it’d run on biomass I ride a bike or sometimes a skateboard so fuck off all you drivers and your yuppie hordes sitting all day in the traffic queues I’m a better anarchist than you I don’t e...

I'm gonna fly up in the sky (3x) I'm gonna fly up there so high I'm gonna fly above the moon And I might not come back soon I'm gonna fly way out to Mars Just me, Mars and the stars I'm gonna head up to Saturn's rings I'm gonna see all kinds o...

I'm so tired of grownups telling me What I'm supposed to do today Do this, do that, do the other thing That's almost all they ever say I'm so tired of sitting in school all day It just seems so wrong I wanna get out and live my life So I think I'...

It's election time again and the battle's pretty tight On the left is Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump is on the right On the Democratic ticket there's a struggle for the base And Hillary is showing her most progressive face She says we know she's an outsi...

If I was a dog I’d scratch my belly I’d scratch it with my paw It would be the furriest belly That you ever saw Doggie, doggie, rr-ruf-ruf Doggie, doggie, rr-ruf-ruf Doggie, doggie, doggie-doggie-doggie Doggie, doggie, rr-ruf-ruf If I was a dog I wou...

I turned on my TV, though it was hard to see These men who'd be head of state What a great country, from sea to shining sea We watch the Republicans debate Newt stood with his third wife, and said you bet your life The president is a red He wants to tax...

If this were a war, if he were a soldier He'd find a well-defensible position He'd put on body armor if he were a sniper And set his sights with terrible precision If this were a war and he was somewhere overseas He'd be watching out for the other si...

They haven't even started cleaning up the mess How many souls departed is anybody's guess They're already proposing that they turn it up a notch It's time they were imposing an ever tighter watch Terrorists everywhere, by which they do not mean Norw...

If you've heard the news of the beheadings, seen the planes on bombing runs Read of the carnage at the weddings, heard about these men with guns Seen the photos of buildings mangled, the footage of the fields burned The shots of bodies left entangled, th...

In 1948 I fled my village The Stern Gang drove my family from the lands We ran into the desert Where I've spent these decades living by my hands Life in Haifa wasn't easy But so much better than this hellhole with the soldiers and barbed wire And the clo...

I woke up this morning And I turned on the news It was a Sunday morning They were sitting in the pews The doctor's wife was in the choir She was about to sing She saw it all in front of her And she heard that awful ring In the name of God he held his...

Netanyahu is in a tizzy, his eyes are filled with hate He said the problem with those Arabs is they won't recognize a Jewish state He said those Palestinians just won't come around To accepting Jewish rule on their holy ground He said the Arabs don't accep...

For about a century, there was a prohibition Which put a heck of a lot of people in a difficult position Each year millions went to prison for planting the wrong seeds Imprisoned for the crime of smoking weed Imprisoned in their millions, especially th...

It’s so windy Branches coming down It’s so windy Leaves are blowing ‘round It’s so windy And I just wanna sit here And watch the wind with you It’s so rainy It’s coming down in sheets It’s so rainy Puddles in the streets It’s so rainy And I just w...

Oh, child, what will you remember When you recall your sixteenth year The horrid sound of helicopter gunships The rumble of the tanks as they drew near As the world went about it's business And I burned another tank of gasoline The Dow Jones lost a coupl...

Joel Haglund came from Sweden Which was very far from Eden By the time he left most of his family died His sisters and his mother His father and his brothers So with one remaining sibling at his side He got a notion To sail across the ocean Whe...

Owen Brown was an abolitionist John was Owen's son He grew up in New England He was born in Torrington John Brown was a tanner And a man of many skills And he stood up for the workers Who toiled in the mills He stood up for the Indians He stood up for...

Ten thousand yuppies just moved here Ten thousand others came last year The rent has doubled since I moved in Each month I take it on the chin Each month I wonder how many more Can I stay in Portland before Before I move into my car Or end up som...