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Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

When invited to perform at the White House for the first time in 1970, Richard Nixon's office requested that he play "Okie from Muskogee" (a satirical Merle Haggard song about people who despised youthful drug users and war protesters) and "Welfare Cadillac" (a Guy Drake song which denies the integrity of welfare recipients). Cash declined to play either and instead selected other songs, including "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (about a brave Native American World War II veteran who was mistreated upon his return to Arizona), and his own compositions, "What Is Truth" and "Man in Black".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRmJyIyJbM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIt5v_3P_XA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0KQWTBljjg

and some extra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRLc2O1xtYk

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Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

Steve Earle is a great political songwriter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjT6B6IFUU8

quote:

Jimmy joined the army �cause he had no place to go
There ain�t nobody hirin�
�round here since all the jobs went
down to Mexico
Reckoned that he�d learn himself a trade maybe see the world
Move to the city someday and marry a black haired girl
Somebody somewhere had another plan
Now he�s got a rifle in his hand
Rollin� into Baghdad wonderin� how he got this far
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man�s war

Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he�s still there
Chasin� ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man�s war

When will we ever learn
When will we ever see
We stand up and take our turn
And keep tellin� ourselves we�re free

Ali was the second son of a second son
Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come
Ain�t nothin� else to do around here just a game children play
Somethin� �bout livin� in fear all your life makes you hard that way

He answered when he got the call
Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah
A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man�s war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbi2rMQveHo

quote:

It's Christmastime in Washington
The Democrats rehearsed
Gettin' into gear for four more years
Things not gettin' worse
The Republicans drink whiskey neat
And thanked their lucky stars
They said, 'He cannot seek another term
They'll be no more FDRs'
I sat home in Tennessee
Staring at the screen
With an uneasy feeling in my chest
And I'm wonderin' what it means

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into Jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now

I followed in your footsteps once
Back in my travelin' days
Somewhere I failed to find your trail
Now I'm stumblin' through the haze
But there's killers on the highway now
And a man can't get around
So I sold my soul for wheels that roll
Now I'm stuck here in this town

There's foxes in the hen house
Cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
Their proud red banners torn
To listen to the radio
You'd think that all was well
But you and me and Cisco know
It's going straight to hell

So come back, Emma Goldman
Rise up, old Joe Hill
The barracades are goin' up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us, Malcolm X
And Martin Luther King
We're marching into Selma
As the bells of freedom ring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISFNTRaXRiI

quote:

I'm just an American boy raised on MTV
And I've seen all those kids in the soda pop ads
But none of 'em looked like me
So I started lookin' around for a light out of the dim
And the first thing I heard that made sense was the word
Of Mohammed, peace be upon him

chorus:
A shadu la ilaha illa Allah
There is no God but God

If my daddy could see me now � chains around my feet
He don't understand that sometimes a man
Has got to fight for what he believes
And I believe God is great, all praise due to him
And if I should die, I'll rise up to the sky
Just like Jesus, peace be upon him

chorus

We came to fight the Jihad and our hearts were pure and strong
As death filled the air, we all offered up prayers
And prepared for our martyrdom
But Allah had some other plan, some secret not revealed
Now they're draggin' me back with my head in a sack
To the land of the infidel

A shadu la ilaha illa Allah
A shadu la ilaha illa Allah

# ¿ Dec 7, 2014 04:36

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ErmYFtdtk

When Karl Marx was a boy
he took a hard look around
He saw people were starving all over the place
while others were painting the town
The public spirited boy
became a public spirited man
So he worked very hard and he read everything
until he came up with a plan

There'll be no exploitation
of the worker or his kin
No discrimination 'cause of the color of your
skin
No more private property
It would not be allowed
No one could rise too high
No one could sink too low
or go under completely like some we all know

If Marx were living today
he'd be rolling around in his grave
And if I had him here in my mansion on the hill
I'd tell him a story t'would give his old heart
a chill

It's something that happened to me
I'd say, Karl I recently stumbled
into a new family
with two little children in school
where all little children should be
I went to the orientation
All the young mommies were there
Karl, you never have seen such a glorious sight
as these beautiful women arrayed for the night
just like countesses, empresses, movie stars and
queens
And they'd come there with men much like me
Froggish men, unpleasant to see
Were you to kiss one, Karl
Nary a prince would there be

Oh Karl the world isn't fair
It isn't and never will be
They tried out your plan
It brought misery instead
If you'd seen how they worked it
you'd be glad you were dead
just like I'm glad I'm living in the land of the
free
where the rich just get richer
and the poor you don't ever have to see
It would depress us, Karl
Because we care
that the world still isn't fair

# ¿ Dec 31, 2014 04:50

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

Math Debater posted:

Hi friends! Many thanks to everyone who has posted in the D&D Music Thread! I really dig a lot of the songs that have been posted, and I decided to make another contribution to this thread by recording myself performing a hip-hop rap song about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by artist and aspiring revolutionary Marcel Cartier! The title of the song is "Bomb Threat." I first learned about Marcel Cartier when he was interviewed by George Galloway on the Sputnik show on RT, and I have since become a big fan of his music. I think it's fitting to highlight this song about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Martin Luther King Day because the DPRK has a history of expressing its solidarity with the oppressed Black population of the U.S. in general and the Black Panthers in particular.

Anyway, here's the recording of myself performing "Bomb Threat" by Marcel Cartier:

And here are the lyrics:

I'm turning on the news and I'm seeing all this bullshit
Conservatives and liberals are yappin' all that useless
even most you leftists are spewing your excuses
talkin' all that noise, "North Korea acting ruthless"
Imagining scenarios, "oh, they gonna nuke us!"
the truth is, you got no context to your rumors
backward positioning of who is the aggressor
who is on whose border with an arsenal of weapons
who controls the military of the country next to it
who is self-defending, who is acting negligent
they like to paint the north as a kingdom, prison camp
that is quite ironic when the number one prison land
is really my own country, the U.S. imprisons more
than any other country in world history before
and that you can't deny, but still I'm sure you'll try it
reality is simple, Washington is the real tyrant

Chorus (X2)
Korean conflict, yeah there's a bomb threat
you got the sides wrong though, look how it started
look at the facts, who's suffered the hardest
three to four million who dearly departed

Verse 2
You think the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
is utterly paranoid, they got a type of fever
like they got a natural liking for weapons
this when we need history to simply step in
we know Korean launched a war against Japan
to thrust off colonial rule from its land
but with the Japanese now defeated, who is next?
The U.S. and Britain now stepping in the trench
the Chinese and Soviets came to the defence
of the liberation forces who knew by common sense
that western imperial powers chase their interests
never there for genuine purposes or missions
the independence forces were led by Kim Il Sung
the Workers' Party and the people became one
they saw this leadership as restoring their dignity
still you love to talk about "they brought in the tyranny"

Verse 3
The U.S. dropped more bombs north of DMZ
than were used in all of World War 2 collectively
every single building in Pyongyang was leveled
think of that when they say "the north has gone mental!"
a fascist government was established in the south
the U.S. military still positioned throughout
they simulate yearly the bombing of the north
you know in D.C., they can't wait to pop the cork
and hence the reason why, they need to demonize
it seems to work so well even leftists on their side
wanna a world without nukes, yeah for sure
but the U.S. got 5,000 or maybe more
Korea got a right to have them as long as we do
no time for double standards, this "gotta play by our rules"
I got more in common with the people of Korea
than I do with my own government, drat right -- believe it

And here's a youtube link to the original Marcel Cartier version of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBfeP_g0H90

Please check out more of Marcel Cartier's music, and thanks again to everyone who has helped to keep the D&D Music Thread alive!

i like it

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 08:47

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

Working 9 to 5 5 by Dolly Parton is the finest socialist agitprop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaERHs8Q93E

quote:

Tumble out of bed
And stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
And yawn and stretch and try to come to life

Jump in the shower
And the blood starts pumpin'
Out on the streets, the traffic starts jumpin'
For folks like me on the job from 9 to 5

Workin' 9 to 5
What a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by
It's all takin' and no givin'

They just use your mind
And they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it

9 to 5
For service and devotion
You would think that I
Would deserve a fat promotion

Want to move ahead
But the boss won't seem to let me
I swear sometimes that man is
Out to get me, hmmm

They let you dream
Just a watch 'em shatter
You're just a step on the boss man's ladder
But you got dreams he'll never take away

In the same boat with a lot of your friends
Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in
And the tide's gonna turn
And it's all gonna roll you away

Workin' 9 to 5
What a way to make livin'
Barely gettin' by
It's all takin' and no givin'

They just use your mind
And you never get the credit
It's enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it

9 to 5
Yeah, they got you were they want you
There's a better life
And you think about it, don't you?

It's a rich man's game
No matter what they call it
And you spend your life
Putting money in his wallet

9 to 5
Oh, what a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by
It's all takin' and no givin'

They just use your mind
And they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it

9 to 5
Yeah, they got you where they want you
There's a better life
And you dream about it, don't you?

It's a rich man's game
No matter what they call it
And you spend your life
Putting money in his wallet

9 to 5

# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 16:09

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