David Rovics piosenki

I got a text from Tampa as the hurricane approaches The biggest ever seen We're seeking higher ground here, how are you out west In the land of the evergreens? I got a cloth upon my face, hibernating in place As the ash falls all around But at leas...

Every country in the world has a football team With matches at home and away That's how it is if you're a national squad You travel and you play But if you play for Palestine You never can be sure If you can make it out of your house And into the...

It was in the 1970’s, the fuel crisis had begun The choices were presented to us as if we had none Leaders of industry said they could solve the problem By mastering the power of the radioactive atom Some folks in western Jutland got a notion in their...

When she sat down in the dirt in front of your machine A lovely woman dressed in orange, you in military green If you had met her in Jerusalem you might have asked her on a date But here you were in Gaza rolling towards the gate As your foot went to the f...

I was hungry one afternoon I asked my daddy for some fruit He said wait just a sec I've got just the fruit to suit He went out and he came back With a grapefruit so he said But I tell you that that grapefruit Was bigger than my head He handed i...

Throughout the Second World War the Allies managed to unite In a broad front against fascism, but once they won this fight The ruling class convened, with McCarthy in the lead To make sure the people got in line, to be sure they all took heed To make su...

My great great grandfather was a refugee From a place called Ireland He didn't want to leave home, but when you're a slave Nothing goes how you might have planned Like most of the island, he had nothing to eat He survived by going away But if he ha...

Let me tell you about a lady known as grandma to me She died back in 1982 She liked to tell stories of how things used to be Just like other old ladies do She talked about her neighbors – Muslims and Christians Arabs, Britons and Jews They'd come over fo...

They were old when I was young Now they're all but passed away Now it's just a second hand Memory of the day When from all around the world They sailed off to Spain Where they fought against the fascists Where so many men were slain Who will recall the...

Robert Ross was from Rostrevor, he was born there in County Down His family was given land there by the British Crown He was a man born of the gentry, born with wealth and fame But he joined the British Army to serve his Queen and make his name In the...

I walked outside one day And a man was standing there He had a great big beard And lots and lots of hair He said won't you come down to the shore And join my jolly crew And we'll wander round the world Beneath the skies of blue We'll sail upon...

Katharina Jacob, long before she took that name Was organizing workers in Hamburg just the same Organizing beneath the flag of deepest red A new dawn of peace and freedom clearly shining in her head Katharina Jacob first was sent to jail When the tr...

It's a story everyone should know It happened a half century ago All across this sprawling nation The rising of a generation It started slow and then gained speed Nobody knew where it would lead First there were marches, then there were more Way...

They're building a wall – a wall between friends A wall that justifies any means for their ends A wall between Semites – rich and poor Brothers and sisters from not so long before Many feet thick and thirty feet high No one can look through it and into th...

There was a massacre in church that got certain forces moving Many towns are now at least superficially improving Such as in Virginia, where a statue of General Lee Stands as a reminder of the days of slavery In the city center, an indelible mark In...

I was hanging with my friends We were by a lake It seemed like a perfect place To take a little break We wandered 'round the lake Then we saw a boat We thought that we should just See if it might float I was trying hard to push it But that b...

It was a nice bar But I don’t want to sleep there Like a lump on someone’s Sofa chair So I drive the car To the outskirts of town Travelodge Jewel of the crown There’s a tea pot With sugar and cream There’s towels all folded At the seams The bed d...

Mohamed had a vegetable stand, this was his family's plight Ever since his father died on a construction site He was one of six siblings and now this would be his fate Working the streets of the city to put food on everybody's plate He couldn't afford the...

I know some kids who have two moms Others who have one I know some kids who have two dads Others who have none Now if they love their kids That's the real test But I'll tell you what I think Is the very best I have got two mommies But I'll t...

Under foreign rule and the British Crown's command His father fought for Ireland fifty years before But the Free State cut their losses and the English won the war And when internment without trial was the order of the day When his brother was arrested and...