codePINK and other goin' to TX road songs

Back in 2004, before election time Sea Lion Records put together a free CD compilation of Anti-Bush, Anti-War song.

I think they'd make a great Travelin' to Texas road tunes CD.

You can listen to them online as RealAudio files, or download the mp3 files.

SEA LION RECORDS'CD COMPILATION ELECTION DAY USA

More below the fold...

From the direct and raspy style of 88-year old Julius Margolin, the satirical songs of John McCutcheon and Yikes McGee, the heartrending Home No More to the haunting Peace Inside this compilation of wide ranging music is an incredible collection of ANTI-BUSH, ANTI-WAR songs.

As Ralph Stever says, "So either you with us, or your with somebody else, or you're all by yourself."

Here's a complete list of the songs...

• Duct Tape (3:34): 2003 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)

• codePINK(3:28): 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O / Moving Forward Music (BMI)

• Kick Out The Republicans (2:40): 2004 Donny Daley

• Bad President (1:31): 2003 A.J. (Yikes) McGee

• Son Of A Bush (3:52): 2004 Sea Lion (BMI)

• Let's Pretend (3:25): 2003 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)

• Consequences (2:52): 2003 Amy Martin (BMI)

• Do You Hear? (2:59): 2001 Phil Klein & Maria DeAngelis (ASCAP)

• Peace Inside (8:10): 2002 Dancing Mountain Records

• Home No More (2:42): 2004 Thomas Pace

• I Don't Want To Be A Soldier (3:36): 2003 Julius Margolin and George Mann

• Conspiracy Of Silence (3:36): 2004 The John Kasper Band

• Propagandy (2:22): 2003 A.J. (Yikes) McGee

• Operation Iraqi Liberation (2:43): 2003 David Rovics (BMI)

• Rogue Nation (2:43): 2004 Coiler

• Cowboy President (2:38): 2003 A.J. (Yikes) McGee

• Somewhere Down The Line (2:38): 2004 Old No. 8

• Rise Up (3:14): 2004 David Freyer and the Positive Chi Units

• Something To Believe In (4:47): 2004 R-Three (BMI)

• The War Is Over (3:08): 2003 David Rovics (BMI)

For more free ANTI-WAR, ANTI-BUSH and PRO-PEACE songs as well as videos, visit this comprehensive page.

•  My favorites...

  codePINK, Somewhere Down the Line,  Operation Iraqi Liberation  and Kick Out The Republicans are my favorite open highway tunes, but number one for me is Peace Inside

  How about yours?

  by BlogDog on Fri Aug 12, 2005 at 12:32:22 PM PDT

•  Elvis Costello...

  seems pretty prophetic...

  I suggest "Tramp the Dirt Down" (replacing Thatcher "her" lyrics with "his" of course)

  "Try telling that to the boys on both sides, being blown to bits or beaten and maimed
  Who takes all the glory and none of the shame

  Well I hope you live long now, I pray the lord your soul to keep
  I think I'll be going before we fold our arms and start to weep
  I never thought for a moment that human life could be so cheap
  'cos when they finally put you in the ground
  They'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down"

  "Green Shirt" could be about Fox "News"....

  "There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen
  Who comes into my house every night.
  And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green
  And she turns them into black and white."

  (The song also references torture in the police state.)

  and "Ship Building" is a quiet, melancholy anti-war song. (Specifically the Falklands.)

  "We will be shipbuilding
  With all the will in the world
  Diving for dear life
  When we could be diving for pearls."

  =tkk
  

  by hiredman on Fri Aug 12, 2005 at 01:38:47 PM PDT