Author Holly Near
Watch Out!
Watch Out! Watch Out! There’s a rumble of war in the air.
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2007/4/24 - 22:09
1000 Grandmothers
[2009]
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
My fantasy is that one day we all will just lay down whatever it is we are doing and we refuse and the reality is that all over the world and throughout history, small groups of people have stopped what they were doing and refused. Happens all the time... just not all at the same time.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
My fantasy is that one day we all will just lay down whatever it is we are doing and we refuse and the reality is that all over the world and throughout history, small groups of people have stopped what they were doing and refused. Happens all the time... just not all at the same time.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Send in a thousand grandmothers
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:26
Show Up
[2006]
Parole di Holly Near
Musica di Holly Near, Michael Butler, John Bucchino e Jan Martinelli
La traccia che dà il titolo al disco del 2006
Parole di Holly Near
Musica di Holly Near, Michael Butler, John Bucchino e Jan Martinelli
La traccia che dà il titolo al disco del 2006
I don't feel good, love is gone
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:59
Song Itineraries:
War on Earth
El Gitano, or Gypsy
[1984]
Parole di Holly Near
Musica di José Seves Sepulveda degli Inti-Illimani
In “Sing To Me The Dream - Peace in the Americas Concert Tour”, concerto con Holly Near e gli Inti Illimani, 1984, registrato presso la Great American Music Hall in San Francisco ed il Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley, California.
Ripresa nella raccolta “Sing To Me The Dream” del 2008.
Parole di Holly Near
Musica di José Seves Sepulveda degli Inti-Illimani
In “Sing To Me The Dream - Peace in the Americas Concert Tour”, concerto con Holly Near e gli Inti Illimani, 1984, registrato presso la Great American Music Hall in San Francisco ed il Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley, California.
Ripresa nella raccolta “Sing To Me The Dream” del 2008.
Out on the highway of flutes and fire
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:43
Song Itineraries:
Rom, Racism, Porrajmos
Listen to the Voices
[2009]
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
A big part of singing is listening. Singing in harmony is good training for living in the world. The drone you hear under the voices are actually voices. Sandy and Pat's voices were sampled and "electronically enhanced" to create this low foundation for the song's harmony.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
A big part of singing is listening. Singing in harmony is good training for living in the world. The drone you hear under the voices are actually voices. Sandy and Pat's voices were sampled and "electronically enhanced" to create this low foundation for the song's harmony.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Listen to the voices of the old women
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:24
In Our Little Town
[2003]
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “Cris & Holly”, con Cris Williamson
“Long-time friends, Cris Williamson and Holly Near combine their powerful voices on twelve songs of love and world peace.” (introduzione all’album dal sito dell’autrice)
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “Cris & Holly”, con Cris Williamson
“Long-time friends, Cris Williamson and Holly Near combine their powerful voices on twelve songs of love and world peace.” (introduzione all’album dal sito dell’autrice)
A flag over there, a flag over here
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:22
Song Itineraries:
George Walker Bush II
I Am Willing
[2003]
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “Cris & Holly”, con Cris Williamson
“Long-time friends, Cris Williamson and Holly Near combine their powerful voices on twelve songs of love and world peace.” (introduzione all’album dal sito dell’autrice)
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “Cris & Holly”, con Cris Williamson
“Long-time friends, Cris Williamson and Holly Near combine their powerful voices on twelve songs of love and world peace.” (introduzione all’album dal sito dell’autrice)
I am open and I am willing
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Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:11
Song Itineraries:
War on Earth
Down By The Riverside
Anonymous
2009 - We came to sing
A spiritual rising up from the African American tradition, this song takes on profound meaning defined each time by context. In the religious context, I understand that to "study" can mean to allow your mind to dwell on something. So, for example, to study war suggests it has become acceptable to you and therefore you participate in it. So in the reverse, to not study war is to stay in close relationship to the unacceptability of war and to one's refusal to participate. As is true in any craft, to be an activist in opposition to war requires practice. War to me includes domestic violence, world hunger, inhumane systems of education, prisons, emotional and physical abuse of children, harsh and critical language and so on. So as we sing this song (in this rendition as a prayer) we both honor the tradition from which the song comes as well as we are committing ourselves to the practice of unlearning behaviors that are not useful to the evolution of life on this earth.
A spiritual rising up from the African American tradition, this song takes on profound meaning defined each time by context. In the religious context, I understand that to "study" can mean to allow your mind to dwell on something. So, for example, to study war suggests it has become acceptable to you and therefore you participate in it. So in the reverse, to not study war is to stay in close relationship to the unacceptability of war and to one's refusal to participate. As is true in any craft, to be an activist in opposition to war requires practice. War to me includes domestic violence, world hunger, inhumane systems of education, prisons, emotional and physical abuse of children, harsh and critical language and so on. So as we sing this song (in this rendition as a prayer) we both honor the tradition from which the song comes as well as we are committing ourselves to the practice of unlearning behaviors that are not useful to the evolution of life on this earth.
STUDY WAR NO MORE
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Contributed by DonQuijote82 2013/7/2 - 09:30
Fight Back
2002
And still we sing
And still we sing
By day I live in terror
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2013/7/1 - 22:19
Song Itineraries:
Violence on Women: just like and worse than war
Family Promise
1983
lifeline
lifeline
Finally a baby born in the spring time
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2013/7/1 - 22:14
Song Itineraries:
No Nukes
Voices
1984
Sing to me the dream
Sing to me the dream
Listen to the voices of the indigenous nations
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2013/7/1 - 22:11
Song Itineraries:
Native American Genocide
Somebody's Jail
2006
Show up
Show up
Just walking along, shopping for food
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Contributed by DonQuijote82 2013/7/1 - 22:04
Song Itineraries:
From World Jails
Didn't You Mean to Say
2011
Edge
Edge
Didn't you mean to say you assassinate your enemies
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2013/7/1 - 22:01
Gipsy (El gitano)
Sing to me the dream (Inti-Illimani + Holly Near) [1984]
Por un camino entre flautas y fuego
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Contributed by DonQuijote82 2011/12/1 - 11:10
Harriet Tubman
[1977]
Album “Lifeline” (1983)
Scritta da Walter Robinson.
Testo trovato su The Mudcat Café
Ancora una canzone dedicata alla Mosè Nera, alla regina dell’“Underground Railroad”, alla ”General” Tubman…
Album “Lifeline” (1983)
Scritta da Walter Robinson.
Testo trovato su The Mudcat Café
Ancora una canzone dedicata alla Mosè Nera, alla regina dell’“Underground Railroad”, alla ”General” Tubman…
One night I dreamed I was in slavery
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Contributed by Alessandro 2010/3/18 - 14:35
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Fired Up!
[1999]
Lyrics and music by Holly Near
Album: Edge
Lyrics and music by Holly Near
Album: Edge
Fired up ain't gonna take it no more
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Contributed by giorgio 2009/10/13 - 08:05
It Could Have Been Me
Canzone contenuta il "A Live Album" (1974) e in "Journeys" (1983).
Una canzone dedicata a chi è disposto a dare la vita nella lotta contro l'ingiustizia. Vengono citati gli studenti della Kent University uccisi dalla guardia nazionale dell'Ohio nel 1970, durante una manifestazione contro la guerra in Vietnam; la morte di Victor Jara, torturato ed assassinato dagli sgherri di Pinochet; Karen Silkwood, sindacalista e lavoratrice della Kerr-McGee Corporation, assassinata nel 1974 per aver denunciato che la compagnia energetica non adottava le misure necessarie ad evitare ai suoi dipendenti la contaminazione da materiale radioattivo (celebre l'interpretazione della Silkwood resa nel 1983 da Meryl Streep nel film di Mike Nichols)...
Una canzone dedicata a chi è disposto a dare la vita nella lotta contro l'ingiustizia. Vengono citati gli studenti della Kent University uccisi dalla guardia nazionale dell'Ohio nel 1970, durante una manifestazione contro la guerra in Vietnam; la morte di Victor Jara, torturato ed assassinato dagli sgherri di Pinochet; Karen Silkwood, sindacalista e lavoratrice della Kerr-McGee Corporation, assassinata nel 1974 per aver denunciato che la compagnia energetica non adottava le misure necessarie ad evitare ai suoi dipendenti la contaminazione da materiale radioattivo (celebre l'interpretazione della Silkwood resa nel 1983 da Meryl Streep nel film di Mike Nichols)...
It could have been me, but instead it was you
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Contributed by Alessandro 2008/3/27 - 13:28
Song Itineraries:
Víctor Jara
We are Gentle Angry Women (Singing For Our Lives)
The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Songbook
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a peace camp established to protest at nuclear weapon being sited at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh group called "Women for Life on Earth" arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the Government to allow cruise missiles to be based there.
On 1 April 1983, tens of thousands of protestors formed a 14 mile human chain from Greenham to the Aldermaston nuclear power station and the ordnance factory at Burghfield.
On 4 April 1984, the women were evicted from the Common by Newbury District Council. However by nightfall the women all returned to reform the camp.
The last missiles left the camp in 1991 but the camp remained in place until 2000 after protestors won the right to house a memorial on the site.
en.wikipedia
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Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a peace camp established to protest at nuclear weapon being sited at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh group called "Women for Life on Earth" arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the Government to allow cruise missiles to be based there.
On 1 April 1983, tens of thousands of protestors formed a 14 mile human chain from Greenham to the Aldermaston nuclear power station and the ordnance factory at Burghfield.
On 4 April 1984, the women were evicted from the Common by Newbury District Council. However by nightfall the women all returned to reform the camp.
The last missiles left the camp in 1991 but the camp remained in place until 2000 after protestors won the right to house a memorial on the site.
en.wikipedia
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We are gentle angry women
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Contributed by CCG/AWS Staff 2008/1/22 - 13:32
I Ain't Afraid
I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
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Contributed by daniela -k.d.- 2006/11/3 - 15:55
Foolish Notion
[1980]
Words and music by Holly Near
Originally recorded on Fire in the Rain, re-recorded on HARP in a medley with Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On, medley reissued on HARP: A Time To Sing
Words and music by Holly Near
Originally recorded on Fire in the Rain, re-recorded on HARP in a medley with Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On, medley reissued on HARP: A Time To Sing
CHORUS
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2007/3/19 - 22:05
No More Genocide In My Name
Questa canzone (il cui testo riprendiamo da questa pagina ha una riscrittura in lingua svedese di Jan Hammarlund, Inga fler folkmord i mitt namn.
Why do we call them the enemy this struggling nation
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2007/1/27 - 01:49
Inga fler folkmord i mitt namn
Text: Jan Hammarlund
Testo: Jan Hammarlund
Musik: Holly Near
Musica: Holly Near
Album: Grässtrån och gatsten
Come comunicatoci direttamente da Jan Hammarlund, che ringraziamo, questa canzone è la versione (o forse sarebbe meglio dire: la riscrittura) in lingua svedese di No More Genocide In My Name di Holly Near. Manteniamo comunque le due pagine distinte. [RV]
Testo: Jan Hammarlund
Musik: Holly Near
Musica: Holly Near
Album: Grässtrån och gatsten
Come comunicatoci direttamente da Jan Hammarlund, che ringraziamo, questa canzone è la versione (o forse sarebbe meglio dire: la riscrittura) in lingua svedese di No More Genocide In My Name di Holly Near. Manteniamo comunque le due pagine distinte. [RV]
Nu lyfter bombflygplan och minor sprids igen
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2007/1/20 - 21:50
The Great Peace March
Ancient eyes are watching in the night
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Contributed by daniela k.d. 2006/11/20 - 14:02
Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida
[1978]
Lyrics and music by Holly Near
testo e musica di Holly Near
The last couplet has been added in 1983.
L'ultima strofa è stata aggiunta nel 1983.
http://www.mudcat.org
Lyrics and music by Holly Near
testo e musica di Holly Near
The last couplet has been added in 1983.
L'ultima strofa è stata aggiunta nel 1983.
http://www.mudcat.org
Michelle Peña Herrera
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/11/21 - 14:32
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