Wear Clean Draws
#TheCoup

My boogie baby now, the world ain't no fairy tale
And it's ran by some rich white scary males
To make it simple for you, let's call 'em the bosses
They take money while the people take losses
Stole Black folks from Africa to work for free
And we still barely get paid enough to eat
That's what I told you I be saying in my vocals
That's why the woman got the gun on the logo
The star is the future that we gon' create
Where nobody steal money from the things we make
The revolution take time and space
But you as a woman gotta know your place
That's in the front, baby
I'm being blunt, baby
If they get mad, say it's they time of the month baby
Your face is just like the sun when it raises
Thank you for adding beauty to my phrases
Handshakes are promises, lies can spoil it
Words should be bond and seal
Wash your hands after using the toilet
Brush after every meal
And like your granddaddy told me

Wear clean draws
Every day (every day)
'Cause things may fall
The wrong way (be ready)
You'll be lying there
Waiting for the ambulance
And your underwear (ooh)
Got holes and shit

#music #PoliticalMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-G5zmrlYY4

New Podcast Episode:

P165 - Earth | Earth Crisis

#music #PoliticalMusic

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/p165-earth-earth-crisis

Where the Death Squad Lives
#BruceCockburn

Goons in blackface creeping in the road
Farm family waiting for the night to explode
Working the land in an age of terror
You come to see the moon as the bad news bearer
Down where the death squad lives

And they cut down people like they cut down trees
Chop off its head so it will stay on its knees
The forest shrinks but the earth remains
Slash and burn and it grows again
Down where the death squad lives

#Music #PoliticalMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTiwYCT7tsM

People Over Profit
(aka All Cops Are Breakfast)

#BoomBoomRaccoon

I put money in the hands of my enemies as I try to live ethically
There's no such thing as ethical consumption under this
capitalist system that we live in.
But they'll sell you the dream that you have a choice,
But voting with your wallet won't give you a voice.
Playing at their game just isn't going to stop it,
We need to put people over profits.

https://boomboomracoon.bandcamp.com/music

#Music #PoliticalMusic #EthicalConsumption #PeopleOverProfits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIXrnOdf0c

P101 - Joe Hill | Lil Guillotine

Invasion | Chumbawamba : Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
Forked Tongue | HellnBack, The Northwest Kid & Wake-Self : Forked Tongue - Single
Joe Hill | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Joe Hill’s Ashes (Live:1990, Wash., D.C., Leonard Carmichael Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution-Feb. 6, 1990) | Mark Levy : Don’t Mourn-Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Joe Hill (1961?) | Paul Robeson : Don’t Mourn-Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Joe Hill (1989) | Billy Bragg : Don’t Mourn-Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Narrative (Live:1962, Northern Illinois Univ.-Nov. 8, 1962) | Elizabeth Gurley : Don’t Mourn-Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Bring Back the Guillotine | Lil Guillotine : Bring Back the Guillotine - Single
Crush I.C.E. | Lil Guillotine : Crush I.C.E. - Single
Yellow Vests | Lil Guillotine : Free to Starvin’ the St.
Off Money Bags (feat. Amyr) | Lil Guillotine : Off Money Bags (feat. Amyr) - Single
Minimum Wage | Ashamed : Things I’m Not Proud Of...
Any War (feat. Astronautalis) | Ceschi : Sad, Fat Luck

#music #PoliticalMusic #Labor Music #LaborDay #LilGuillotine

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/2019/10/22/p101-joe-hill-lil-guillotine

Polyrical Presents: We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years by Utah Phillips

The Boss | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Sheep and Goats | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
The Timberbeast’s Lament | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Dump the Bosses off your Back | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
The Lumberjack’s Prayer | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Mr. Block | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
The Preacher and the Slave | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
The Popular Wobbly | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Casey Jones - The Union Scab | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Where the Fraser River Flows | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Bread and Roses | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Joe Hill | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Union Burying Ground | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
The Two Bums | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
Hallelujah, I’m A Bum! | Utah Phillips : We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years

#LaborDay #LaborUnions #UtahPhillips

#Music #PoliticalMusic #LaboeMusic

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/2020/2/15/template-f8lx7

P6 - Labor Unions | The Coup

“Stand Up | Flobots : Fight With Tools
Generals and Majors | XTC : Black Sea
There Is Power in a Union | Billy Bragg : Live at the Union Chapel London
Roll the Union On | John Handcox : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Workers’ Song | Dick Gaughan : Handful Of Earth
Talking Union | The Almanac Singers : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Ghetto Manifesto | The Coup : Party Music
Captain Sterling’s Little Problem | The Coup : Pick a Bigger Weapon
Strange Arithmetic | The Coup : Sorry to Bother You
Not Yet Free | The Coup : Kill My Landlord
See It Through | Ryan Harvey : Folk The Banks
Well May The World Go | Tao Rodriguez-Seeger : Folk The Banks”

#LaborDay #Labor #Unions #Music #PoliticalMusic

#TheCoup

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/2017/4/1/p6-labor-unions-the-coup

#OTD Sept 2, 1980

The Dead Kennedy’s release their debut album, “Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables”

The album includes the previously released singles “Holiday In Cambodia” and “California Über Alles”, along with several new, equally political punk songs like “When Ya Get Drafted”, “Let’s Lynch The Landlord”, and “Kill The Poor”.

I got deep into DK a few years later. Loved their politics and their sound so much. Unfortunately, two of the original members still play under the band name, and they’re clearly right wing. No wonder I’m so cynical about humanity 🤷‍♂️

#PunkRock #punk #PoliticalMusic #80s #music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3VXiyS6zl0

New Podcast Episode:

PP SoN - The World Turned Upside Down

#music #PoliticalMusic

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/title2-6lg5j

Holy shit. Have any of you heard this one from Julie Lavery? Protest songs do not get more badass than this.

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

#FolkMusic #Americana #ProtestMusic #PoliticalMusic #ProtestSong #radicalpolitics #protest

Maybe it's RACISM

If It Were Up To Me
#CherylWheeler

#Music #PoliticalMusic #Guns #MassShooting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp8X4yOa9FM

(25 Aug) - ’Rich Men North of Richmond’ Singer Oliver Anthony Slams Use of Song at Republican Debate: ’I Wrote That Song About Those People’ https://themessenger.com/entertainment/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-republican-debate #OliverAnthony #RichMenNorthofRichmond #RepublicanDebate #SongControversy #PoliticalMusic #MusicIndustry #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110952051890966369

'Rich Men North of Richmond' Singer Oliver Anthony Slams Use of Song at Republican Debate: 'I Wrote That Song About Those People'

https://themessenger.com/entertainment/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-republican-debate

#OliverAnthony #RichMenNorthofRichmond #RepublicanDebate #SongControversy #PoliticalMusic #MusicIndustry #Politics #News

New Podcast Episode:

P164 - Building | Total Massacre

#music #PoliticalMusic

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/p164-building-total-massacre

I’d not heard of Oliver Anthony’s “hit” song, but definitely agree with Billy Bragg’s take here. It starts out ok, but then is extremely jarring when he starts attacking the poor. Billy’s response song is much better.

“We ain’t gonna punch down on those who need a bit of understanding and some solidarity.”

#Solidarity #Labor #Union #PoliticalMusic #BillyBragg #OliverAnthony

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/22/oliver-anthonys-divisive-song-claiming-solidarity-with-workers-only-benefits-the-rich-who-exploit-them

I’d not heard of Oliver Anthony’s “hit” song, but definitely agree with Billy Bragg’s take here. It starts out ok, but then is extremely jarring when he starts attacking the poor. Billy’s response song is much better.

“We ain’t gonna punch down on those who need a bit of understanding and some solidarity.”

#Solidarity #Labor #Union #PoliticalMusic

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/22/oliver-anthonys-divisive-song-claiming-solidarity-with-workers-only-benefits-the-rich-who-exploit-them

P164 - Building | Total Massacre

Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P | Ric Wilson :
What Did You Drag Me Into? | Flamy Grant : Bible Belt Baby
Building from the Bottom (feat. Speech, 1 Love, Configa & 4-IZE) | Arrested Development : For The FKN Love
Time to Build | Beastie Boys : To the 5 Boroughs
Build us something more | Matt Hill : Return of the Idle Drones
Strike Till We Win, Build Solar, Build Wind | Mat Ward : Why I Protest
All we want is to create voluntary combinations | Utah Phillips : Making Speech Free
Border Wall | Total Massacre : The System Works...
American Carnage | Total Massacre : The System Works...
Get Rich or Try Dying | Total Massacre :
Antifascist | Total Massacre : The System Works...
Let it Burn | Jessye DeSilva : Renovations
To Keep the World We Know | Bruce Cockburn : O Sun O Moon

#Music #PoliticalMusic

#TotalMassacre #RicWilson #FlamyGrant #ArrestedDevelopment #BeastieBoys #MattHill #MatWard #UtahPhillips #JessyeDeSilva #BruceCockburn

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/p164-building-total-massacre

Never Do What You Are Told

#Chumbawamba

#Music #PoliticalMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJ6zqKbHA4

Polyrical Podcast 163 - Heat | Dropkick Murphys

#DropkickMurphys
#SineadOConnor
#IndiaArie
#PhilOchs
#DrSuresUnusualPractice
#steveonpoint
#LeonRosselson
#Lowkey
#theinterrupters

#Music #PoliticalMusic #Heat #ClimateCrisis #podcast

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/p163-heat-dropkick-murphys

📹 songsofprotestpeacerevolution:

Frank Waln - AbOriginal (feat. Samsoche Sampson)

#FrankWaln #politicalmusic

https://tmblr.co/ZdJySWe8fSnI8y00