RIP John

[billy.pilgrim]

to many, one of the greatest protest songs of all time describes the origin of progress and change in the title, as the song describes the goal


You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs

Rest in Peace John

October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980



I never been much on covers but vedder owns this song - almost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNxD6fkEgwI


bobby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0XoZ3GrltM

[billy.pilgrim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1c4Ouq6tMA

[billy.pilgrim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HldVI4InSr4

union made

[billy.pilgrim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd64suDz1A

Ludlow Massacre
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

It was early springtime when the strike was on,
They drove us miners out of doors,
Out from the houses that the Company owned,
We moved into tents up at old Ludlow.

I was worried bad about my children,
Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge,
Every once in a while a bullet would fly,
Kick up gravel under my feet.

We were so afraid you would kill our children,
We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep,
Carried our young ones and pregnant women
Down inside the cave to sleep.

That very night your soldiers waited,
Until all us miners were asleep,
You snuck around our little tent town,
Soaked our tents with your kerosene.

You struck a match and in the blaze that started,
You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns,
I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me.
Thirteen children died from your guns.

I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner,
Watched the fire till the blaze died down,
I helped some people drag their belongings,
While your bullets killed us all around.

I never will forget the look on the faces
Of the men and women that awful day,
When we stood around to preach their funerals,
And lay the corpses of the dead away.

We told the Colorado Governor to call the President,
Tell him to call off his National Guard,
But the National Guard belonged to the Governor,
So he didn't try so very hard.

Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes,
Up to Walsenburg in a little cart,
They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back,
And they put a gun in every hand.

The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corners,
They did not know we had these guns,
And the Red-neck Miners mowed down these troopers,
You should have seen those poor boys run.

We took some cement and walled that cave up,
Where you killed these thirteen children inside,
I said, "God bless the Mine Workers' Union,"
And then I hung my head and cried.

[Leo Lyons]

<sniff> Here's a quarter......

[billy.pilgrim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4

[billy.pilgrim]

woody killing fascists

[homerfobe]

<sniff> Here's a quarter......

Shades of O Really----- Related?

We need to stay out of this thread. It's a billy.pilgrim private site.

[billy.pilgrim]

thanks homie, nice to know there are some safe havens


another cover, green day covers lennon on the amenesty international darfur album



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPgeDhGzKY



and john hisownself - 10/9/40 - 12/8/80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU

[O Really]

Yo, Billy - if you missed it, I'm sorry, but earlier this year there was a concert in Asheville by a guy who does a Woody Guthrie tribute act. Man, he WAS Woody. He told stories, talked about his travels and the people he met, and sang his songs. The Ludlow Massacre would bring tears to your eyes. And of course he did "This Land is Your Land" to a standing and participating audience. Arlo would have been proud.

http://www.mountainx.com/article/44329/ ... N.C.-Stage

[Bungalow Bill]

I've always got a kick out of this one. It's not all that
political, but it's a hoot.

[Bungalow Bill]

Well this is just about one particular Philadelphia lawyer. Any resemblance to non-Philadelphia
lawyers is purely coincidental.

[Bungalow Bill]

Didn't know that. Okay, to narrow it down, any resemblance to living Philadelphia
or non-Philadelphia lawyers is purely coincidental.

[billy.pilgrim]

mr. marley


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7iXcKKpdx0

[billy.pilgrim]

I missed this - all good protest ain't old

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsWUKqQ2OZo


nora's got a limbo ballad

"you chose the airways to spread yout disease"

[billy.pilgrim]

the old does new

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDj0-VNvySM

[billy.pilgrim]

beautiful protest song from the early 1800s
2 versions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NDwW8onaoA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJxD1VHCTbA

[billy.pilgrim]

lead belly covered by cooder


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxgnzMzKy0M


and by lead belly


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6aHlN3wKI

[billy.pilgrim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlw_qzefEaA


hattie carroll

[billy.pilgrim]

to many, one of the greatest protest songs of all time describes the origin of progress and change in the title, as the song describes the goal


You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs

Rest in Peace John

October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980