David Rovics piosenki

Khader Adnan grew up near Jenin City You could say he was a product of his time Ever since he was a kid he'd get arrested Though he was never charged with any crime Spending half his life in prison A life lived like so many of his friends Arbitrary and i...

Since the risings started there are many tales you could tell One person's liberation may be another's prison cell When authority collapses, many things can take its place Sectarian nightmares and liberated space Some are hunting for the heathens, set...

Two soldiers had been captured They’d crossed to the other side Two soldiers taken prisoner Several others died This is how it started So said the Jewish state Forget about ’96, ‘82, ’67, ‘48 Two soldiers taken hostage And by the Sea of Galilee We mus...

When Leila met Majnun it was at a traffic light He handed her his number at first sight It all happened very quickly, soon both of them were aware That life can be so good when it's shared When Leila met Majnun it was convenient, it would seem That...

The moss on the trees had an extra green glow And the squirrels all were singing The clouds in the sky looked like raspberry pie And all the telephones were ringing The guitars and fiddles were jumping around And they all had this to say Happy birthday,...

I’m writing you this letter ’cause among the choices It’s probably better than listening to voices Raging in my head, saying point and shoot Then after you’re dead, your face meets my boot I don’t know your name, it’s better that way ‘Cause I can’t p...

Do you often remember the day the soldiers came When you became a number, not a child with a name How oft do you recall that specific day When they sold your family home and took you away Banished to the desert to live in hot tar shacks Having no id...

When Lola was born the First World War Had only just ended 3 years before In '77 she took a flight She told a reporter who asked her that it was alright 2002 is the year that she died She lived in Manhattan on the Upper West Side If you look on the...

The cops shot another man, they have that kind of knack And it may not be coincidental that he was Black He was sitting in his car, they say he might have had a gun What we know for sure is he had five kids -- daughters and sons Now he cannot have a fa...

Luis Posada lived in Havana There amongst the gentry With the doctors and lawyers and mafia bosses He thought it was his country When the revolution came he left Just ninety miles away Then he signed up for a course At the SOA Luis Posada left Fort Be...

We could tackle the economy first – get rid of all the billionaires Set the system up so that instead of hoarding, people share Make housing, food, and health care basic human rights Around the world, for everyone is how we'd set our sights If we could...

Fifty heads of state came to threaten and to boast To articulate their mission and together make a toast To the new schemes they are hatching, to the next regime they'll change To the next nation they'll turn into a bombing range They hyped it in the radio...

There’s a chipmunk chewing on an acorn There’s a bluejay chewing on a worm Leaves are falling from the treetops Landing on the ground with a squirm There’s a cat sitting on the fence He says “meow meow meow” He’s a white cat with black spots And we all...

At 1 am on a Wednesday morning, no one knew what was in store A fire started and quickly spread until it covered every floor Stairwell blocked, no way out, smoke and fire all around Parents grabbed their little babies, dropped them ten floors to the grou...

A hundred years ago today the arms race was at an end If there was a soul alive who could begin to comprehend The suffering to follow, the hell that would transpire When the soldiers were lined up and the men began to fire A hundred years ago today, all a...

The clouds gather in your forests Drift to my desert town And I think of far-off places As the rain is coming down You’re bent down in the fields Picking fruit there from the vine And it ends up on my table As it moves on down the line The moo...

The city seems so small But the sidewalk seems so wide And the buildings seem so far away Even once I go inside My friend, his lips are moving I guess he’s talking to me But your words are echoing through my head Your face is all I see Now that you’re...

You ask me how it is that I dare to take a side You say I loathe myself for pointing out that you have lied You say it's tribal warfare but I disagree For the dynamics of the situation are not difficult to see On one side is the fighter jet, on the oth...

The wisdom a story imparts Usually depends on when it starts When it first became a state A grand convention, a great debate But in the end, understand Speculators owned the land To maximize the landlords' greed They'd only sell cotton seed So...

The treaty was rejected in 1992 Most Danish voters were afraid they already knew That it would not be a good thing to give away control To the likes of neoliberals like Mitterand and Kohl It was voted down, but then in 1993 The vote was held again fo...