What are your favourite protest songs?

[Gillthepill]

Interested to hear what your favourite protest songs are. Mine are:

Banquet - Joni Mitchell
Harvest for the World (the original version) by the Isley Brothers
Whats happening Brother - Marvin Gaye

Eve of Destruction

Yma o Hyd - Dafydd Iwan.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Ten men dead - Blaggers ITA
Joe Hill - Paul Robeson version

Call out the instigator

Lisa Simpson’s union strike power plant song

Billy Bragg - Power in a Union

Cancion sin medo - Viver Quintana
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag - Country Joe and The Fish

Will have a listen to some of these.

Also thought Common People by Pulp (as a commentary on privilege).

Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte Marie
And the band played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle
Twenty tons of TNT - Flanders and Swann

The Diggers song - Chumbawumba

Killing in the name - Rage Against The Machine

Tom Lehrer - We will all go together when we go.

A ton of them! Way too many to pick a favourite!

Lots by Seize the Day, The Young 'Uns, Billy Bragg, Robb Johnson, Dave Rovics, Cara Dillon, Greg Russel, Grace Petrie, WinterWilson and so many more. Most of my listening is protest songs in one way or another as general listen to folk and the basis of that is protest / social commentary.
Oh and Chumbawamba too of course!

Many things by Chris T-T, like Huntsman Comes A Marching

Listen to The Levellers, Chumbawamba, Billy Bragg, Atilla the Stockbroker, Etc if you want some good ones.

Bread and Roses

Little Boxes

Strange Fruit

Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son - Credence Clearwater Revival

Soldier Blue - Buffy St Marie

Universal Soldier - Donovan

Call out the Instigator is actually called Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman.

Agree Eve of Destruction! I listened to Universal Soldier on repeat for weeks!

Dylan - The Times they are a’changin. Blowin in the wind.

This land is your land - Woody Guthrie

For women - Lesley Gore - You don’t own me. She sings: “Don’t tell me whet to do, don’t tell me what to say.”

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA.

Pete Seeger - We shall overcome

Sinead O' Connor Black Boys on Mopeds/Downpressor Man
Bob Marley Redemption Song
Labi Siffre Something Inside so Strong

Vietnam by Jimmy Cliff
the revolution will not be televised by Gil Scott heron

On current kitchen playlist:
The World Turned Upside Down, Billy Bragg
United States and With My Hammer, Seize The Day
War, Bob Marley
Give Me Hope Joanna, Eddie Grant
Labour, Paris Paloma

Thunder nah nah nah nan nah nah nah

Mighty Sword of Justice - Tom Robinson ,

Bob Dylan - Hurricane
The Clash - Know Your Rights, Sandinista
Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
Attilla the Stockbroker - Airstrip One
Heaven 17 - We Don't Need This Facist Groove Thang
Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit
Dafydd Iwan - Yma O Hyd
La Marseillaise
Flower of Scotland
Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Neil Young - Southern Man
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Edwin Starr - War, What Is It Good For

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