David Rovics piosenki

So you wanna flip a house – you got some cash to burn You're looking at your options, what gets the best return You're looking at your options, the southeast or the northwest If you got some money where should you invest So you wanna flip a house, inv...

Sometimes I walk the aisles of the grocery store And I think about a day some 20 years before Where this chicken came from, south of the Mason Dixon Line The Imperial Foods factory in Hamlet, Caroline The third day of September, 1991 Where for so many goo...

I breathe the air that you do I drink the water just like you I eat the fruits of this land I hold the apple in my hand I am I feel the rain fall on my face Like the rest of the human race I hold my baby tightly when he cries I see him when I...

When I come to central Texas And I’m amid the shrubs and stone And I’m driving down the highway And I’m driving on my own It makes me think about a friend Who I knew not long ago Who lived beneath the moonlight On a ranch called Armadillo When I’m cru...

I think of summer festivals, I think of double dates I think of being searched by cops outside the prison gates I think of dark-haired women, one or two or maybe four I think of singing songs together, planning to sing more I think of Queensland summer...

Private Manning was an analyst if what they say is true She was paid to read reports and find the patterns sifting through As she read the data the patterns did emerge Patterns that were clear both before and since the Surge Patterns of abuse of the most ho...

He grew up in Yorkshire County On the class war battle lines From the age of 14 years He was working in the mines He saw the children dying Of hunger and disease His family was evicted And he headed overseas Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Was where he lande...

From every corner of the world They came from all around When in 1851 They struck gold upon the ground Every voyage was a long one Months upon the stormy sea Some to seek their fortune Others escaping slavery What they found on the goldfields Was rule...

In '48 they were driven out at the point of a machine gun Families fled in fear to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon They fled around the globe, firmly held in terror's grip And about a million refugees ended up in the tiny Gaza Strip In 1967 the IDF moved in And...

It was another Friday morning, I was among the olive trees Out looking for birds to catch – my father, his friends and me I had my string and net and a nimble eye There beside the farmers' fields where the songbirds fly When you're catching birds the worl...

My name is John Riley I’ll have your ear only a while I left my dear home in Ireland It was death, starvation or exile And when I got to America It was my duty to go Enter the Army and slog across Texas To join in the war against Mexico It was...

After all the Westerns, after all the lies After making every effort to deny That history is happening, that it isn't in the past That the Indian Wars continue, that Ishi was not the last After building all the pipelines, after spraying all the gas A...

He was listening to voices, talking in his head If you grew up in America you know exactly what they said And with every job we lose, however bad things get There's a black man in the White House on the TV set And we can blame it all on him and his ent...

Give us your huddled masses yearning to be free That's what it says on the Statue of Liberty And here they come, from the other side Across the southern border, across the great divide And now they're told that they should go away But the statue in the h...

People are marching against the chiefs of industry Who are trying to protect their intellectual property Secret negotiations to make a secret deal They've got Warner Brothers, Sony and the Presidential Seal They say they lobby on behalf of you and me,...

When I first showed up in Deutschland, camping on the Rhine The first town that I went to was also the first sign Of the kind of self-reflection that had gone on around here Indications everywhere, so shiny and so clear Look down at the sidewalk where...

He was raised in Gifu on the islands of Japan He was sent off to Manchuria, that's how this tale began For his next assignment in the diplomatic corps Was far-off Lithuania and the European war My grandfather was from Krakow – the Nazis came, he fled He t...

You wanna understand what happens today You gotta know how things got this way So let's back up from the present date And examine the history of a state As with the rest of this stolen land Mass murder is how it began From the first days of the Ter...

I found myself in Rostock to protest the G8 That was good but there's something else that I'd commemorate It started with a text message I got on my cell phone Eating in the Hotel Troika, sitting all alone I had just bought the SIM card only the day before...

It's September 11th and Obama gave a speech On the War on Terror and its mighty reach The arm of the law is long and victory will be ours As long as we cooperate with certain powers Such as the ones who funded the Islamic State The Saudis are our allies,...