Movement songs

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: THAT WRONG ROAD AGAIN
From: BSeed
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 01:42 AM

After adding a message to the copyright thread, I decided to try what I described and give a song its first publication. I wrote this a couple of months ago when it looked like the US was about to resume bombing in Iraq.

That Wrong Road Again (By Charles Kratz)

(Chorus) (G7)Oh, we're (C)headin' down that (G7)wrong road a-(C)gain
Back (F)on our way to (G7)somewhere we (C)shoulda [E]never (Amin)been
We're (F)headin' down that (G7)wrong road a-(C)gain, yes we (Amin)are,
We're (F)headin' down that (G7)wrong road a-(C)gain.

There's this (C)guy across the (C7)water got our (F)captain awful (C)pissed
And our (C)captain says it's (C)time to make him (G7)pay;
He says (C)folks who play with (C7)matches can't com(F)plain if they get (C)burnt.
He says (C)everybody (G7)knows that that's the (C)way. (C7)
And I (F)guess that's right, but (G7)still I feel there's (C)something awful (Am)wrong;
Seems I (F)heard all that from (G7)someone else be-(C)fore (C7)
But (F)all that happened (G7)that time was a(C)million [E7]children (Amin)died.
(F)This time will there (F)be a million (G)more? (G7) {to chorus}

Timing: 4/4 with each chord name in parentheses indicating one measure. The E7 chords are in brackets[ ] to indicate the change is in mid measure.

The melody is kind of generic folk, somewhat implied by the harmonic structure. I don't know how to put in MIDI (the directions I saw on some thread or other don't work for me because they were Windows and I'm Mac. --seed

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: BSeed
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 01:48 AM

Damn it, I thought I had the format figured out: I was hitting command/return at the end of each line, but it still got all run together. Well, I guess the capital letters indicate the beginning of a new line. I'll keep working on it, and when I get it figured out, I'll try again. --seed

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Roger Himler
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 06:06 AM

BSeed

Just put BR between these brackets <> and you will get an automatic hard-return in HTML.

So you
Can make lines
Like this.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Art Thieme
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 10:40 AM

Even I eventually learned to do this---thanks to
a ton
O' patience
from Mr. Offer.

Art

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: BSeed
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 09:40 PM

Roger and Art, Thanks. I'll give it a try and post the song again. Now if I could only learn to put the chords on top of the lines in the appropriate positions... --seed

Subject: Lyr Add: THAT WRONG ROAD AGAIN
From: BSeed
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 11:08 PM

Here's "That Wrong Road Again," this time with appropriate line breaks (I hope).

(chorus) (G7){two-three} Oh, we're (C)headin' down that (G)wrong road a-(C)gain, (C)
Back (F)on our way to (G7)somewhere we (C)shoulda' [E7]never (Amin)been;
We're (F)headin' down that (G)wrong road a-(C)gain, (Amin)
We're (F)headin' down that (G)long, wrong road a-(C)gain.

(verse)
(C){two,three) There's this (C)guy across the (C)water got our (F)captain awful (C)pissed,
And our (C)captain says it's (C)time to make him (G)pay (G7)
He says (C)folks who play with (C7)matches can't com-(F)plain if they get (C)burnt;
He says (C)everybody (G)knows that that's the (C)way.
And I (F)guess that's right, but (G7)still I feel there's (C)something awful (Amin)wrong;
Seems I (F)heard that song from (G7)someone else be-(C)fore
But (F)all that happened (G7)that time was a (C)million [E7]children (Amin)died--
(F)This time should we (F)kill a million (G)more? (G7)

(to chorus again. I see--after the chorus, over the chords for the second half of the verse--spoken word to the effect that "Starvation is a weapon of mass destruction" and "From the nation that brought the world the blessings of the A-bomb, the H-bomb, the Neutron bomb, the latest nuclear weapon: "depleted" uranium, the gift that keeps on giving--gulf war syndrome, birth defects, childhood cancers..."

Once more through the chorus, repeating the third line with phrases between during the Amin:

"We're going down that wrong road again" --"the brakes are failing" and "out of control" and "look out below" and "someone please stop us" in the manner of "Against the Wind." --seed
Oh, by the way, it's one measure per chord in parentheses: note that the E7 is in brackets, indicating it comes in the middle of the measure after the C. This time I've played it through off the thread to make sure all the chord changes are in the right places.

Subject: Lyr Add: THAT WRONG ROAD AGAIN^^
From: BSeed
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 12:01 AM

Dammit, I just resubmitted my song, or at least I thought I did: I hit submit messaged, then clicked in the OK box in the warning dialogue box, but it's not on the thread--and I cleared it after I submitted it. I'm going to check again and see if it made it in, then if it didn't, spend another hour doing it all over.

"THAT WRONG ROAD AGAIN"
by Charles Kratz

(chorus) (G7) (two,three)We're (C)going down that (G)wrong road a-(C)gain
Back (F)on our way to (G)somewhere we (C)shoulda' never (Amin)been,
We're (C)going down that (G)wrong road again, yes we (Amin)are:
We're (C)going down that (G)long, wrong road a-(C)gain.

(verse)
(C) (two,three) There's this (C)guy across the (C)water got our (F)captain awful (C)pissed,
And our (C)captain says it's (C)time to make him (G7)pay,
He says (C)folks who play with (C)matches can't com-(F)plain if they get (C)burnt,
And (C)everybody (C)knows that that's the (G7)way.
And I (F)guess that's right but (G)still I feel there's (C)something awful (Amin)wrong,
Seems I (F)heard that song from someone (G)else be-(C)fore, (C)
And (F)all that happened (G)that time was a (C)million [E7]children (Amin)died.
Are we (F)gonna go and (F)kill a million (G)more? (G7)

(chorus)

After this chorus, over the chords for the second half of the verse, spoken words to the effect: "We're worried about his weapons of mass destruction? Starvation is a weapon of mass destruction...gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'women and children first'" and, after a brief pause, "From the nation that brought the world the blessings of the A-bomb, the H-bomb, the N-bomb (doesn't knock down buildings, just kills people--slowly), a new nuclear weapon, and we've already used it: 'depleted' uranium artillery shells--the gift that keeps on giving: Gulf War Syndrome, birth defects, childhood cancer."
and into another chorus, this time repeating the third line but replacing the "Yes, we are" with phrases like "our brakes aren't working" and "out of control" and "look out below" and so on...kind of like Neil Diamond in "Running Against the Wind."

Once again, each chord in parentheses indicates a measure; the E7 in brackets [E7] is played in the middle of a measure. The tune is generic folk, more or less implied by the harmonic structure.

Hope I make it this time.

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: BSeed
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 12:03 AM

Woops, it made it last time after all: I guess a long posting takes a longer time to appear on the thread. I think I like my second try better, though, so maybe all is for the best.---seed

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: BSeed
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 12:08 AM

Except the third line of the verse is correct in the first of the pair and wrong in the second.--seed (this is the ninth message on this thread and I've written seven of them. Well, I talk to myself a lot, anyway.--seed

Subject: Lyr Add: WE NEED MORE ADMINISTRATORS^^
From: BSeed
Date: 07 Aug 98 - 12:28 AM

Well, what the hell. A one man thread. I was hoping to attract some other peoople who might submit songs they've written or that they know that are movement-oriented. I began with a peace movement song, but there are lots of movements. For example:<
The labor movement. In 1975, the teachers in the Berkeley Unified School District (California) struck when the district threatened to cut salaries, at a time when the district was paying 50K a year in fines because we had too many school administrators. The strike began on the first day of classes in September, and lasted for 21 days before we went into arbitration; we won the arbitration battle but lost the war--at the end of the year the district laid off about 10% of the teachers.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I went to the first strike meeting armed with a new song, written to the tune of "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching":

"WE NEED MORE ADMINISTRATORS"

I'm the sixth assistant paper inventory analyst
And you know I've got just too much work to do,
Watching thirteen secretaries,
Three accountants and a clerk
Counting all those composition books for you.

First Chorus
We need more administrators
We just outnumber teachers three to one.
Screw the teachers, cut their pay,
Schools don't need them anyway.
Oh, we'll put them in their place before we're done.
It's a tough and vital job counting composition books,
There's an element of danger in it, too:
You might get slivers in your bum
Or mess your pants with bubblegum;
Why, just last week I got a thumbtack in my shoe.

Second Chorus
We need more administrators
Creative education is our aim
If the funds are getting low
We can let some teachers go--
Everybody knows that they're the ones to blame.

During the strike I escaped the tedium of the picket line as a member of a group called the Board Erasers. We went from school to school riding in the back of a yellow Mazda pickup truck to lead the strikers in singing strike songs. Members of the group and a few other strikers wrote dozens of songs at the time. I wrote about a dozen myself, and if you don't start submitting some of your own, I'm going to add one of my each day until I run out. Then I'll write some more.
Songs from any movement are welcome: peace, labor, civil rights, homeless advocates, environmental, gay rights, or even such things as anti-affirmative action or english only, if you sing about such points of view.

Subject: Lyr Add: WILD GEESE^^
From: Benjamin Bodhra/nai/
Date: 07 Aug 98 - 03:47 AM

Hey seed,

Can I sing this can I, huh, huh please. I write songs but they are the good old Irish folk funny songs, plus a few tearjerkers and emotion stirring ballads. I tend not to write political songs except this one when there was the chance of peace in the six counties.

WILD GEESE

  Em               Bm
  A flash of grey, across the sky
  D                  Em
  The Wild Geese are leaving
  Em             Bm
  Far below them, across the land
  D               Em
  Gallant men are grieving
  C                            Bm
  They've left their homeland, far behind them
  D                          Em
  To go and fight in foreign wars
  C                Am
  Never knowing if Eire will see
  D                        D7
  The peace that was their cause
  In 91 the first flock flew
  Away across the sea
  They fought for Frenchman, and for German
  In wars that couldn't set them free
  But they kept leaving, forced by tyrants
  To make their lives across the foam
  You can here the calling of those they left
  When will our Wild Geese come home    

300 hundred years they have been leaving
  To battle round the globe
  In 1916 some fought for England
  While still more faced her as the foe
  1933 Ryan's heroes
  Crossed the sea to fight in Spain
  They fought for freedom with the Spanish people
  But would Ireland see that freedom once again?    

Now above them the grey is flashing
  High above the foam
  As flocks of wild geese make their journey
  To their lovely summer home
  And with them softly come the spirits
  Of those who held their freedom dear
  Returning homeward, with the hope
  That peace freedom could be near    

A flash of grey across the sky
  the Wild Geese are coming home
  D                         Em
  Our Wild Geese are coming home
  D                       Em
  Finally they've made it home

BB

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: BSeed
Date: 08 Aug 98 - 02:10 AM

Benjamin, I posted a response a while ago, just when the forum server went on the blink so my note disappeared into the ozone. Anyway, you're welcome to sing either of my songs. If you publish or record, I'd appreciate my cut; same if anyone who learns one from you.
And thanks for adding your song to the thread. The words are stirring, and I like the chord progression. It would be nice to know where the changes take place. I guess if I go through the chords enough the words will fit.
I'm aware of the long history of young Irish men dying in other peoples' wars: "Mrs. McGrath" and "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" but I hadn't heard of Ryan's Heroes. I knew about the Lincoln Battalion in the International Brigade. It doesn't surprise me that the Irish were a part of that, too. Do you know any songs about them?
(By the way, I made a different mistake in the chords in the verse in each of the two consecutive postings of "Wrong Road": In the fourth line of the verse in the second version, it should be C G C, not C C G; in the first version I omitted the C (measure) at the end of the sixth line. I hope that's clear.
---seed

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Benjamin Bodhra/nai/
Date: 08 Aug 98 - 11:19 PM

seed,

Yes I think I worked out the problem just by the sound, Frank Ryan lead a group of Irish in the 5th International Bde. Christy Moore has written a song about it "Viva la Quinca Brigada" and recorded it on his album "Ride On"

Sla/n

Benjamin

Subject: Lyr Add: The Battle of Jarama^^^
From: BSeed
Date: 09 Aug 98 - 03:04 AM

Benjamin: I hate to quibble (actually I love to quibble), but Quince is 15--the International Brigade was the Fifteenth Brigade (5 is cinco). I didn't know "Viva la Quince Brigada" was Irish (I've heard of it before, but don't know if I've heard it. It's probably on the digitrad.) The Limelighters (an American trio) used to sing "Si Mi Quieres Escriber," another song about the Battle of Jarama where the Fifteenth Brigade fought a terrible battle against the fascists. Survivors of the Lincoln Batallion had a song called "The Battle of Jarama," to the tune of "Red River Valley":

There's a valley in Spain called Jarama;
It's a place that we all know so well:
For 'twas there that we gave of our manhood,
Where so many of our brave comrades fell.

We remember the Lincoln Batallion,
And the fight for Madrid that we made.
There we fought like true sons of the people,
As a part of the Fifteenth Brigade.

Now we're far from that valley of sorrow,
But its memory we'll never forget;
In the midst of the struggles around us,
Let's remember our glorious dead.

--seed

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Benjamin Bodhra/nai/
Date: 09 Aug 98 - 06:59 PM

Well I must admit my Spanish isn't up to scratch. In Christy's songbook it says Quinte and 15th but on the album he says quince and what sounds like fifth.

BB

Subject: Lyr Add: TAKE YOUR FINGER OFF IT
From: BSeed
Date: 09 Aug 98 - 11:38 PM

Nobody since Benjamin a couple of nights ago has posted a song to this thread, so I thought I'd add another song or two:

"Take Your Finger off It" (This is an old jug band kind of song I found in a book somewhere years ago: the melody is the same as for Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restauraunt" and the Beatles' "Her Majesty." I also heard on a radio program called Doctor Demento a song called "You Let Me Play With Your Yo-yo and I'll Let You Play with Mine"

Just for fun, here are the original verses I found in the book. The song is out of the twenties or thirties, so politically correct it ain't:

(G two,three) Take your (C)finger off it and (A)dontcha dare touch it, you (D)know it don't be-[G]long to (C)you.
Take your (C)finger off it and (A)dontcha dare touch it, you (D)know it don't belong to (G)you,
(C)Two old ladies (C7)lying in bed,
(F)First one turned to the (A7)other and said,
Take your (C)finger off it and (A)dontcha dare touch it, you (D)know it don't be-[G}long to (C)you.

As you can probably guess, only the third and fourth lines change. Some other verses:

I may be little and I may be thin,
But I'm and awful good poppa for the shape I'm in.

(Actually, not being at all little, I sing this as "I may be gettin' older and my hair be gettin' thin...")

A woman is a woman and a man is a man:
You put the two together, that's nature's plan.

I got myself a woman, she's nine feet tall,
She sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall.

I got me a woman, lives up on the hill;
Times when she won't love me, her sister will.

You can add other couplets as you please. The verses of "Hey Li-lee, Li-lee" work well.
Anyway, in the aforementioned 1975 Berkeley teachers strike, I used this song as a setting for strike-specific couplets, largely based on the administration's refusal to discuss cuts in the number of administrators while attempting to cut teachers' salaries and classroom expenditures:

You sit across the table with your dirty looks:
You wanta get your claws on our kids' school books.

A title on the door may rate a Bigelow on the floor,
But how's that gonna help a student's reading score?

(This verse is a reference to a regular series of ads in New Yorker magazine for Bigelow carpets, and to the fact that in the middle of the strike, the administration recarpeted its building at a cost of $90,000.)

We're awful short of money, that's what you say,
But you pay baby-sitters fifty dollars a day.

(baby-sitters: substitute teachers)

There are a bunch of other verses, but I guess that's enough for now. Obviously, the song could be adapted for any strike. By the way, I play it in G tuning on the banjo, just about entirely in straight barre chords: across the fifth fret for C, the second for A, the seventh for D, open for G, and in the bridge, the 10th for F. I add a couple of sevenths: pinkie on the eighth fret, first string for the C7 and the 10th fret, first string, for the A7 (this should, perhaps, be an F#diminished chord, but the A7 works for me).
I guess I've taken enough of your time. And mine, although I've learned how to save a lot of time in formatting: After I've typed the whole song, I type the line break symbol:
only once, select (Highlight) it, hit command/C for copy, then command/V at the end of each line. This works in Macintosh. It just took me about two minutes to format this, following that routine. I don't know what you'd do in Windows for the same result. --seed

Subject: Lyr Add: PUT IT ON THE GROUND
From: BSeed
Date: 13 Aug 98 - 12:35 AM

An old labor song I found in a book, "Put It on the Ground," has a chorus that goes

Put it on the ground
Spread it all around
Dig it with a hoe
It'll make your garden grow.

The verses, of course, reflected the employer's point of view. I wrote verses for the aforementioned strike:

The schools are short of money, boys;
The schools are short of bread
So we don't want a raise in pay,
We'll take a cut instead.
Cho: Put it on the ground, etc.

Maryjane and Gene and Jim
And Mark and sweet Louise
Would like us all back on the job,
They ask us pretty please.
They swear that they'll fix everything
Once we're back in the fold,
And everybody knows their word
Is just as good as gold.
Cho:

The people named in the second verse, were, of course, the school board during the strike. The chords are 1,2,5,1, the changes coming on the second syllable of each line, and the melody is essentially a simple guitar bass strings pattern, for both verse and chorus. I think I have another verse for this one, and will add it and additional verses for "Put Your Finger on It" soon. Anything to keep the thread going. Anybody got anything to add, song-wise? --seed (Come on, guys, I'm out here all alone.)

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Beavis
Date: 13 Aug 98 - 11:15 PM

hmmmm....
movement songs...

must've been bowel movements.

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Pete M
Date: 14 Aug 98 - 06:52 AM

Benjamin, surely you jest?

El quinto regimento and Viva la Quince Brigada are both songs from the Spanish civil war, and both based on Spanish folk tunes. They were certainly not written by Christy, nor are they about any particular nations contingent. The whole point of the fifteenth Brigade was that it was International.

Pete M

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Aug 98 - 05:53 AM

I'm sure glad I finally checked this thread, Seed. I thought this was a thread about songs with hand motions. Being terminally uncoordinated, I stayed away from it. I'm glad I finally peeked.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Sir
Date: 15 Aug 98 - 10:28 PM

"Bread and Roses" was a nice movement song. (No, not Guns and Roses!)

I think "I've Been to Paradise, But I've Never Been to Me" would have been a great movement song if there had been a movement for it.

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: BSeed
Date: 16 Aug 98 - 03:39 AM

Bread and Roses is a nice movement.

Subject: Lyr Add: VIVA LA QUINCE BRIGADA^^^
From: Benjamin Bodhra/nai/
Date: 16 Aug 98 - 09:43 AM

Pete

The Viva la Quince Brigada that I know was definitely written by Christy about the Irish who served in The International Brigade (not just an Irish brigade I know) and also abbout those Irish who served under France and Hitler and Mussolini.

It starts

10 years before I saw the light of morning
A comradeship of heroes it was laid
From every corner of the world came sailing
The 15th International Bde

They came to stand beside the Spanish people
To try and stem the rising Fascist tide
Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy
Frank Ryan's men came from the other side

Even the olives were bleeding
as the battle for Madrid it thundered on
Truth and love against the force of evil
Brotherhood against the Fascist clan

Chorus
Viva la 15e Brigada
No Paseran the pledge that made them fight
Aldelante was the cry around the hillsides
Let us all remember them tonight

Bob Hillard was a church of Ireland Pastor
From Killarney across the Pyrenees he came
From Derry came a brave young Christian soldier
Together they fought and died in Spain

Tommy Woods aged 17 died in Cordoba
With Na Fianna he learnt to hold a gun
From Dublin to the Villa del Rio
Where he died beneath the Spanish sun

Chorus

Many Irish heard the call of France
Joined Hitler and Mussolini too
(Two more lines I can't recall at the moment)

From Maynooth came the call Support the Fascists
The men of cloth failed yet again
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoighre
As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain

This song it is a tribute to Frank Ryan
(la la la la la la la I can't remember the words)
Though many died I can but name a few

(Another verse naming some of the more prominent Irish members of the Brigade)

Anyways definitely a Christy song and specifically about the Irish soldiers in the 15e. It's in Christy's songbook and he gives the background of it.

Slán

Benjamin B

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Pete M
Date: 17 Aug 98 - 01:56 AM

Thanks for that Benjamin, I hadn't come across that song before. The version I know was popularized? disseminated? principally by Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger, and I believe it has been adopted as a sort of unofficial regimental march by the veterans of the Lincoln battalion. Both songs I mentioned featured in the film "Mourir a Madrid" . The words and tune are in the database.

Pete M

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From:
Date: 17 Aug 98 - 08:25 PM

I can't say....that I know any specific song about bowel movements.

In "Little Big-Man" Dustin Hoffman said that he played the role of a centurian by thinking, "I haven't had a decent bowel movment in 20 years."

On the other hand there are three on diarrhea in the DT data base.....

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: leprechaun
Date: 18 Aug 98 - 02:12 AM

In my Spanish dictionary y diccionario I found another interesting and relevant definition of "quinta." It can refer to a military draft, or list, or a musical movement. I couldn't find "quinte" anywhere. And "quince" can mean either fifteen or fifteenth.

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: BSeed
Date: 20 Aug 98 - 04:07 PM

On Agugust 9th and 13th I posted a couple of songs and promised additional verses. These songs were part of the repertoire of "The Board Erasers," the strike band of which I was a member.

First, "Take Your Finger off It":

Take your finger off it, dontcha dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you.
Take your finger off it, dontcha dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you,
I may be just a teacher and none too bright,
But you won't cut my pay without a helluva fight,
Take your finger off it, dontcha dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you.

You say you're gonna hafta let some teachers go,
You need the funds to expedite your paper flow.*

We can see the way you like to use your money power:
You hired a man to shake his head for sixty-five bucks an hour.

We know that you are demons for a smooth administration,
But you don't give a damn about education.

You'll see that we'll recall about five board members,
Send Wilson+ back to Hempstead by the end of September.

*The school board actually used these words as an excuse for shifting money from the educational budget to the administrative. +Wilson, of course, was the superintendent of schools. He had come from Hempstead, New York, with a reputation as a strikebreaker. He stayed another year before heading back to New York.

Next, from Aug. 13, "Put It on the Ground"

(I wrote these verses about four years ago--our new principal had reorganized Berkeley High's administration, adding four vice-principals and their support staff to the site budget. We were trying to put together a proposal for additional state funds for "restructuring.")

We've got another budget crunch,
The money's getting tight,
Some more vice-principals'll make
It all come out all right.

Restructuring's the way to go,
With money from the state--
We can add administrators,
Oh, God, I can hardly wait.

I've got forty students in my class,
Let's add a dozen more.
We can send those awful surplus teachers
Marchin' out the door.

We'd like to dump the students, too,
They're messy and they're loud,
But at least they bring in A.D.A.,*
So we can tolerate the crowd.

*Average Daily Attendancy, the basis on which the state gives money to school districts.

Here's part of one more strike song I wrote, and I promise, it's the last one--on this thread, anyway.

"I Don't Know Why God Made School Administrators" (to the tune of "The Wild Side of Life (I Didn't Know God Made Honky-Tonk Angels," or "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue-eyes."

You don't listen to our negotiators,
You can't read and so our pamphletting won't do,
But we still have some things we need to tell you,
So we send this little country song to you.

I don't know why God made school administrators;
I guess that even he must like a joke.

Excuse us, Lord, if you don't hear us laughing--
Your little prank has got our district broke.

That's it. No more. I hope it helps with your constipation problem, Beavis.--seed

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: northfolk
Date: 20 Aug 98 - 04:16 PM

seed, thanks for your renditions in the Guthrie tradition of Put It On The Ground, I'm passing these on to my son a teacher, who was raised in a home full of music and politics.

Subject: WRONG ROAD AGAIN
From:
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 02:44 PM

NEED LYRICS TO A SONG RECORDED BY CRYSTAL GAIL,CALLED: HERE I GO,DOWN THAT WRONG ROAD AGAIN.

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 02:53 PM

Hemrick-- Check this site:

http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie/cowpie-songs/g/gayle_crystal/wrong_road_again.crd

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: alison
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 01:32 AM

Hemrick.... I'm glad Bill has directed you towards the lyrics you wanted.....

it works easier if you start a new thread rather than add a request onto the end of another, (they tend to get lost.. and people don't always find them)

better to start a new thread with the title of the song or whatever you know from it...

welcome to mudcat

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: Banjer
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 06:52 AM

Movements.....Constipation.....Mathematicians...????
All this reminds me of the constipated mathematician who worked his problem out with a pencil....!

Subject: RE: Movement songs
From: GeorgeH
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 12:54 PM

Like Joe, I'm just glad I finally got round to checking out this thread . . . Especially appreciated the context of the first song (thought as I understand it, the US and Britain have never stopped bombing Iraq, it's just that the strikes have become less frequent and tend to fall off the bottom of the news). . .

Here's a little Iraqi story for you . .

After the "original" Gulf war a well-known Baghdad artist and weaver produced a large door mat featuring the face of the US president (was that Bush? They all seem the same to me . . ), which was installed at the doors of a large hotel in Baghdad.

In the subsequent round of equally-matched conflict between the US, UK and Iraq her house happened to be hit by a cruise missile, killing her, her family, and her neighbours.

Definitely an act to win the hearts and minds of the Arab people . . .

G.