Il diciassette marzo
Testo trovato su Union Songs
Portelli writes:
“On 17 March 1949, the 21 year old steelworker, Luigi Trastulli was killed by the police during a demostration against NATO. Sante Carboni, a mechanic, former railroad worker and draftsman, wrote a song about the event”
Portelli writes:
“On 17 March 1949, the 21 year old steelworker, Luigi Trastulli was killed by the police during a demostration against NATO. Sante Carboni, a mechanic, former railroad worker and draftsman, wrote a song about the event”
CANTATA FOR LUIGI TRASTULLI
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Contributed by Bartleby 2012/4/4 - 14:55
Water Under the Door
[1995]
Lyrics & Music by Tom Neilson
Album: Swords Into Plowshares
Social/political commentary on corporate terror. The "Swords Into Plowshares" album(1) is about the Colrain action which attempted to prevent the takeover of Randy and Betsy Kehler's home for tax refusal by the IRS.
Five communities in Western Massachusetts were destroyed and flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir, so people could have water in Boston. The area was the site of the historical Shay's Rebellion.
"Water Under the Door" is an urgent call to action to confront the corporate terror that leads to the violence of poverty, hunger, homelessness, torture and murder.
Lyrics & Music by Tom Neilson
Album: Swords Into Plowshares
Social/political commentary on corporate terror. The "Swords Into Plowshares" album(1) is about the Colrain action which attempted to prevent the takeover of Randy and Betsy Kehler's home for tax refusal by the IRS.
Five communities in Western Massachusetts were destroyed and flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir, so people could have water in Boston. The area was the site of the historical Shay's Rebellion.
"Water Under the Door" is an urgent call to action to confront the corporate terror that leads to the violence of poverty, hunger, homelessness, torture and murder.
What do you do when you have no home to go home to?
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/4 - 13:05
Махновщина [La Makhnovtchina]
Anonymous
Questa, che appare essere (almeno per ora) l'unica versione d'arte e cantabile della Makhnovscina in inglese, proviene dalla pagina SoundClick di una band, SuZQ, sulla quale non si hanno ulteriori notizie. In realtà, la traduzione inglese è a corredo di una versione francese (scaricabile dalla pagina) con un testo leggermente modificato rispetto a quello di Roda-Gil (tale versione era stata originariamente riportata in questa pagina, ma riteniamo che non ce ne sia alcun bisogno date le differenze veramente minime con quella “canonica”; in ogni caso il testo della versione è presente nella pagina linkata). La versione inglese, invece, non può essere considerata una reale traduzione: è una vera e propria riscrittura, in piena regola e cantabile per chi volesse. [RV]
Makhnovtchina (Makhno's Army)
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/4 - 09:14
Fortunate Son
Le righe
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no.
sono invertite nella traduzione.
(Maurizio)
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no.
sono invertite nella traduzione.
(Maurizio)
Hai ragione, abbiamo corretto. Grazie.
2012/4/4 - 01:03
Hiroshima (Pax Americana Mix)
[2005]
Composed, performed, produced by Sleiboi 'G'
Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. -Tac. Agricola 30 (De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae)-
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Tacitus - Oxford Revised Translation) .
On 6th August 1945, at 1,900 feet above the centre of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, America detonated the first of only two Weapons of Mass Destruction to have ever been used aggressively against another nation. Creating a fireball of a temperature in excess of that of the surface of the Sun, the city and its ordinary civilian residents were vapourised instantly. Around 160,000 people died in the blast with some 77,000 dying later of the radiation exposure.
Composed, performed, produced by Sleiboi 'G'
Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. -Tac. Agricola 30 (De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae)-
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Tacitus - Oxford Revised Translation) .
On 6th August 1945, at 1,900 feet above the centre of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, America detonated the first of only two Weapons of Mass Destruction to have ever been used aggressively against another nation. Creating a fireball of a temperature in excess of that of the surface of the Sun, the city and its ordinary civilian residents were vapourised instantly. Around 160,000 people died in the blast with some 77,000 dying later of the radiation exposure.
Hiroshima!
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/3 - 14:15
Song Itineraries:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 広島市 - 長崎市
The War, the Fame and the Pain
[2011]
Lyrics & music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Zenith God
Lyrics & music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Zenith God
We're born to live, we live to learn
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/3 - 13:45
War Dance
[2010]
Music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Ambassador's Demonstraition's
Music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Ambassador's Demonstraition's
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/3 - 13:02
Hiroshima's Grave
[2010]
Lyrics & music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Ambassador's Demonstraition's
Lyrics & music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Ambassador's Demonstraition's
Pain hate greed is here
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/3 - 09:43
Song Itineraries:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 広島市 - 長崎市
Slavery
[2010]
Lyrics & music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Ambassador's Demonstraition's
Lyrics & music by Aaron David Cesari Waddington
Album: Ambassador's Demonstraition's
Stolen plundered chained and scorned
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/3 - 08:57
Legal Limbo
[2009]
Music by Atomgrad
Detainees still remain in Guantanamo Bay, they are held without charge or trial, in complete disregard of the Geneva Conventions.
The Bush Administration believes it can get away with this abuse by declaring them Non Combatants, but they are the ones who declared a War on Terror, and you can't have a war without enemy combatants. Anyone detained on suspicion of terrorism is therefore an enemy combatant and should be treated according to the Geneva Conventions.
Music by Atomgrad
Detainees still remain in Guantanamo Bay, they are held without charge or trial, in complete disregard of the Geneva Conventions.
The Bush Administration believes it can get away with this abuse by declaring them Non Combatants, but they are the ones who declared a War on Terror, and you can't have a war without enemy combatants. Anyone detained on suspicion of terrorism is therefore an enemy combatant and should be treated according to the Geneva Conventions.
Detainees still remain inside the United States military facility at Guantanamo Bay,
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/3 - 08:44
Song Itineraries:
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Redemption Song
Bellissima cover della Casa del Vento, in versione Irish Folk, mescolata con la parte strumentale di Thousands Are Sailing dei Pogues...bella davvero!
matteo88 2012/4/3 - 00:23
Everyday People
(1968)
The song is one of Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for the band. The Family Stone featured Caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup, as well as females Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson; making it the first major integrated band in rock history. Sly & the Family Stone's message was about peace and equality through music, and this song reflects the same.
Wikipedia
The song is one of Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for the band. The Family Stone featured Caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup, as well as females Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson; making it the first major integrated band in rock history. Sly & the Family Stone's message was about peace and equality through music, and this song reflects the same.
Wikipedia
Sometimes I'm right then I can be wrong
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2012/4/2 - 23:50
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA, Woodstock 1969 and other pop rock festivals
Harry Wilmans, il soldato
Version française – HARRY WILMANS – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2012
Poème d'Edgar Lee Master
Poème d'Edgar Lee Master
HARRY WILMANS
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Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2012/4/2 - 18:17
Grande Spirito
Perché hai gettato nel vento
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 15:54
Song Itineraries:
Native American Genocide
Frutti Per Kagua
Ho aspettato sette lune
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 15:54
Song Itineraries:
Native American Genocide
L'Ultima Notte
Ho paura di dormire, sapendo che,
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 15:52
Song Itineraries:
Native American Genocide
Il Tramonto Di Un Popolo
Fame, freddo, odio e sangue
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Contributed by DonQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 15:50
Song Itineraries:
Native American Genocide
Soldiers for Righteousness
Teacher teacher teacher
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 12:44
Peace, Perfect Peace
We cry for peace, perfect peace
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 12:23
Fugitive
I' ve been sitting here for many days now
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 12:19
Crazy World
So far so good we still living today
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Contributed by DonQuijote82 2012/4/2 - 12:17
Preghiera dei partigiani
Anonymous
Ieri sera, in automobile, ho preso per la coda questa canzone-giaculatoria (che non conoscevo), eseguita durante la gloriosa trasmissione "La sacca del diavolo" di Radiopopolare.
La trascrivo come la ricordo, per la delizia di Lorenzo che dovrà domandarsi: ci sta o non ci sta una canzone così nel nostro sito?
Non so dire di più, perché mi sono perso le spiegazioni preliminari, e non so se mi sarà possibile ascoltare la replica. I "parabei" sono le mitragliette parabellum, protagoniste della guerra di liberazione. Non penso occorra altra traduzione.
Ma se qualcuno vuole sostituire, correggere, integrare, spiegare, lo faccia senza esitare. (gpt)
La trascrivo come la ricordo, per la delizia di Lorenzo che dovrà domandarsi: ci sta o non ci sta una canzone così nel nostro sito?
Non so dire di più, perché mi sono perso le spiegazioni preliminari, e non so se mi sarà possibile ascoltare la replica. I "parabei" sono le mitragliette parabellum, protagoniste della guerra di liberazione. Non penso occorra altra traduzione.
Ma se qualcuno vuole sostituire, correggere, integrare, spiegare, lo faccia senza esitare. (gpt)
O Maria Mater Dei
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Contributed by Gian Piero Testa 2012/4/2 - 10:56
Song Itineraries:
Resistance against Nazi-Fascism in Italy and Europe
Don't Go
[1991]
Lyrics & Music by Mark McCahon
Album: Songs From A Sofa [2001]
A protest song against war.
"Another song originally written many years ago, in the early nineties. I rewrote the lyrics to suit contemporary times ".
Lyrics & Music by Mark McCahon
Album: Songs From A Sofa [2001]
A protest song against war.
"Another song originally written many years ago, in the early nineties. I rewrote the lyrics to suit contemporary times ".
Our history has seen it a million times before
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 20:01
Refugees
[2002]
Album: Survivor
Album: Survivor
I heard the high pitched keening
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 19:47
Venable
[2010]
Lyrics by Larry Ludwick
Music by Jon Bushaway
"This is all true. Nobody is protected, not even myself. A part of 'the dead company' project.."
"This is my response to wonderful review by Andreas of The Frankfurt Dialog Company which pretty much summarizes the story behind the song:
Thanks Andreas... I hope you don't mind, but I would always submit something like this to you because I know you will listen to and understand the lyric. Yes it is hard and especially because it is a perfectly true story. Every detail is as it happened to me and Venable.
The only thing that maybe you misinterpreted is the part about what happened to me when Venable went off to the war... because actually I enlisted... I enlisted for my own reasons and not because I had any thought of the war, it was just that my own life was in a shambles. But I did not want this song to be as much about me but more... (Continues)
Lyrics by Larry Ludwick
Music by Jon Bushaway
"This is all true. Nobody is protected, not even myself. A part of 'the dead company' project.."
"This is my response to wonderful review by Andreas of The Frankfurt Dialog Company which pretty much summarizes the story behind the song:
Thanks Andreas... I hope you don't mind, but I would always submit something like this to you because I know you will listen to and understand the lyric. Yes it is hard and especially because it is a perfectly true story. Every detail is as it happened to me and Venable.
The only thing that maybe you misinterpreted is the part about what happened to me when Venable went off to the war... because actually I enlisted... I enlisted for my own reasons and not because I had any thought of the war, it was just that my own life was in a shambles. But I did not want this song to be as much about me but more... (Continues)
[Spoken:]
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 19:15
Man in the War
[2003]
Lyrics & Music by Mark McCahon
Lyrics & Music by Mark McCahon
Man in a bar, a man in Vietnam (Iraq) (Afghanistan) (Iran???)
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 16:50
The Eton Rifles
Album: "Setting Sons" (1979)
"The Eton Rifles" as such, do not exist: the cadet corps of Eton College is the Eton College Officer Training Corps[2], Eton being a famous English public school in Berkshire that is regarded as the epitome of Britain's privileged 'elite'. The song itself recounts the difficulties faced by the unemployed and lower paid working class in protesting against a system loaded against them.
The song recounts a street battle Paul Weller had read about in the newspapers concerning elements of a Right To Work march going through Slough in 1978 breaking off to attack pupils from Eton College who had been jeering the lunchtime marchers (hence Hello, Hooray, an extremist scrape with the Eton Rifles), rashly thinking that a bunch of 'posh schoolboys' would be an easy target: only for the outnumbered but far fitter college pupils to give them a beating. As the lyric put it:... (Continues)
"The Eton Rifles" as such, do not exist: the cadet corps of Eton College is the Eton College Officer Training Corps[2], Eton being a famous English public school in Berkshire that is regarded as the epitome of Britain's privileged 'elite'. The song itself recounts the difficulties faced by the unemployed and lower paid working class in protesting against a system loaded against them.
The song recounts a street battle Paul Weller had read about in the newspapers concerning elements of a Right To Work march going through Slough in 1978 breaking off to attack pupils from Eton College who had been jeering the lunchtime marchers (hence Hello, Hooray, an extremist scrape with the Eton Rifles), rashly thinking that a bunch of 'posh schoolboys' would be an easy target: only for the outnumbered but far fitter college pupils to give them a beating. As the lyric put it:... (Continues)
Sup up your beer and collect your fags -
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2012/4/1 - 15:29
Name of Love
[1987]
Album: "American Dream"
Parole e musica di Neil Young
Trovo apprezzabile l'ironia insita nell'utilizzo della forma tipica della litania per questa esortazione alla pace. Bella l'interruzione della risposta all'"invocazione", come se i "fedeli" si rendessero conto del significato dell'invocazione e trasformassero la risposta in una richiesta, che suona anche come un dubbio: "Puoi (o potete) farlo in nome dell'Amore?" Oggetto dell'esortazione, dal momento che in inglese YOU significa sia "tu", sia "voi", potrebbe essere Dio, ma non esclusivamente. Ritengo più probabile che l'autore intenda riferirsi a chi comanda, spesso nel nome di un Dio. Il brano è in American Dream.
Album: "American Dream"
Parole e musica di Neil Young
Trovo apprezzabile l'ironia insita nell'utilizzo della forma tipica della litania per questa esortazione alla pace. Bella l'interruzione della risposta all'"invocazione", come se i "fedeli" si rendessero conto del significato dell'invocazione e trasformassero la risposta in una richiesta, che suona anche come un dubbio: "Puoi (o potete) farlo in nome dell'Amore?" Oggetto dell'esortazione, dal momento che in inglese YOU significa sia "tu", sia "voi", potrebbe essere Dio, ma non esclusivamente. Ritengo più probabile che l'autore intenda riferirsi a chi comanda, spesso nel nome di un Dio. Il brano è in American Dream.
You who rule upon the land
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Contributed by Enrico 2012/4/1 - 12:29
The Boss
Anonymous
Lyrics by unknown (John Neuhaus?)
Music: Traditional
Since today is Sunday it's the right thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto Thy name !
Testo tratto da Folk Archive.
Nel repertorio di Utah Phillips
(B.B.)
Music: Traditional
Since today is Sunday it's the right thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto Thy name !
Testo tratto da Folk Archive.
Nel repertorio di Utah Phillips
(B.B.)
Praise boss when morning work-bells chime
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 11:35
The Walking Dead
[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Bob Parsons
Album: 1-2-3-4
This song is about the comic book "The Walking Dead". The verses are from the back of the comic.
Lyrics & Music by Bob Parsons
Album: 1-2-3-4
This song is about the comic book "The Walking Dead". The verses are from the back of the comic.
The world we know is gone
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 11:28
Whenever a Child Dies
[2002]
Album: Survivor
Album: Survivor
The message hits them very deeply
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 09:40
2 Against War
[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Robert Parsons
Album: 1-2-3-4
Lyrics & Music by Robert Parsons
Album: 1-2-3-4
War going on, Presidents watch,
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/4/1 - 09:38
There Will Be No Morning Copy
Album: Black Coats & Bandages (2004)
Your borders are bloody mirages that expand and contract at the will of the blade
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Contributed by DonQuijote82 2012/3/31 - 16:33
Friendly Fire
[2005]
Album: Navigator
..and, moreover, also the risk to be killed by the so-called "Friendly Fire"..
Album: Navigator
..and, moreover, also the risk to be killed by the so-called "Friendly Fire"..
Within a few seconds their jets came over the hill
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/31 - 16:10
War and Crime
Album: "Prisoner" (1989)
Everywhere in the world
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Contributed by DoNQuijote82 2012/3/31 - 15:58
Entropy
[2003]
Lyrics & Music by Bill Robinson
Album: Research (new edition)
Anti-War-Art-Punk
Lyrics & Music by Bill Robinson
Album: Research (new edition)
Anti-War-Art-Punk
Chemical integrity is breaking down
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/31 - 15:30
Killing Ground
[2005]
Album: Navigator
Distress.. The expected fate of all the soldiers in a war..
Album: Navigator
Distress.. The expected fate of all the soldiers in a war..
They do the things all soldiers do
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/31 - 15:20
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