What songs do you feel have a Conservative slant?

[youngFreeper]

Just for fun I would like to see what songs everyone feels has a coservative flavor.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

" A Boy Named Sue"

[Doe Eyes]

"Born in the USA" is a song critical of the US, and Reagan in paticular.

Uh ... critical of Reagan? Are you sure you are talking about the right song.

[Lady GOP]

Really listened to The Who a lot in my earlier years. Had the "cassettes and vinyl" if you remember those :P) Do you remember Entwistle and Townsend solos. Remember playing them on my pink plastic stereo... :P

[Thumper1960]

George Srait
Love Without End, Amen

I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye
Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why
When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed
Then stood there on those tremblin' knees and waited for the worst

He said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
He said daddy's don't just love their children every now and then
It's a love without end, Amen
It's a love without end, Amen

When I became a father in the spring of '81
There was no doubt that stubborn child was like my father's son
And when I thought my patients had been tested to the end
I took my daddy's secret and passed it on to him

I said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
I said daddy's don't just love their children every now and then
It's a love without end, Amen
It's a love without end, Amen

Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates
When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake
If they know half things I've done they'll never let me in
Then somewhere from the other side I heard these words again

They said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
I said daddy's don't just love their children every now and then
It's a love without end, Amen
It's a love without end, Amen

[Aedammair]

Didn't mean to insult you by mentioning his interview in Playboy. But regardless of the demerit of the publication he willingly gave the interview, and the words therein he spoke just a few weeks before he was gunned down. At the risk of being redundant though; he was a bloomin' genius. There is not a song on the planet as melodically beautiful as "This Boy". Simple, elegant as the day is long and very, very beautiful.

[tubebender]

"OKIE from MUSCOGEE"...you got that right for me. I had lost three racing buddies (gearheads) and my best friend was doing bad things in Cambodia when we "weren't" there... and then Waltie Cranktite came out of the closet and joined jannie fondle and tokyo rose as the most dispised people I ever want to know.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Yessiree Bob.

[zevonfan]

Good list. I would also add American Girl by Tom Petty. I remember being in a club in Puerto Vallarta (sp?) many years ago and feeling proud to be an American when that song came on the jukebox.

Kinky Friedman also does a song about the Statue of Liberty that is great. I think it is called "Carrying a Torch For You".

[alcuin]

Even if it was not intended to be.

We just don't know.

I'm still interpreting "Louie Louie."

[rightofrush]

The early Mormans would have preferred being a member of the Confederacy if for no other reason than the State's rights issue.

[Skooz]

Do you remember Entwistle and Townsend solos.

The only solo Who LP (yes, LP) I remember buying was Entwistle's "Too Late the Hero" (I think). It had a song called "Talk Dirty" which, lyrically, was a complete abortion--man it was bad--but it had the most incredible bass line in the history of recorded music. Unbelievable, Maybe Jaco Pastorious recorded something as impressive, but I never heard it.

I had a roomate who was a bass player and he insisted that no one could play bass like that, it had to be someone playing a guitar. But it WAS a bass. Unreal.

[TejasRose]

Dadgum Guvmint from the Broadway play, Big River - Roger Miller.

Not sure exactly about all of the words, but it goes something like this:

"Well, ya dadgum guvmint, ya dirty sons of b*tches, ya got my hands in every pocket of my britches."

[ken21]

sons of the pioneers' "cool, clear water".

put it on once in the early 70s when my roommates were stoned on acid and listening to "whole lotta love" (which i detested) and their brains imploded!

[Righteous Rabbit]

"Curtain of Iron" and "Fair Exchange" by Kansas

[Dan from Michigan]

Whoops. I think that was "My Hometown" that was critical of Reagan.

Born in the USA was about Nam. (Just played the song).