What Are the Conservative Protest Anthems?

Ace of Spades HQ ^ | 12/02/2004 | Ace of Spades HQ

[Warhead W-88]

That Ukranian protest song got me thinking.

We all make fun of the painfully-earnest and stridently-liberal balladeers who fill us with so much excess stomache acid, but, hey, I'll be the one to admit it: I'm jealous.

Where's my protest anthem? Where's my catchy sing-a-long rock rebellion?

Sure, such songs don't really advance a philosophical position. They're the near-religious chants of the already-converted. But damnit, it gets kinda tedious just quoting Larry Kudlow and Deborah Orin all day. Why can't we occasionally just be able to sing our politics and maybe even groove to it? ...

The only real conservative protest anthems are only such if considered metaphorically, or loosely. There aren't too many songs with lyrics which explicitly champion conservatism.

The best you can find, really -- and this is either sad or pretty cool, depending on your taste -- is the sort of dunderheaded heavy metal screw-your-parents-and-teachers rock of the eighties. The actual specifics of the lyrics are usually pretty irrelevant to politics -- unless your politics is in fact fighting for your right to party -- but often just the attitude and a phrase in a chorus is close enough to an expression of the conservative discontent as to qualify as a bona fide political anthem.

And the song that I think is best example of this is Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It. Yeah, it's kinda silly, but that guitar and drum really kick, and the lyrics, actually, are pretty easily read as a conservative manifesto:

We've got the right to choose it There ain't no way we'll lose it This is our life, this is our song

We'll fight the powers that be, just don't pick our destiny, 'cause you don't know us, you don't belong

We're not gonna take it, no ain't gonna take it We're not gonna take it anymore

Oh you're so condescending Your gall is never-ending We don't want nothin', not a thing from you

Your life is trite and jaded Boring and confiscated If that's your best, your best won't do

We're RIGHT (Yeah!) We're FREE (Yeah!) We'll FIGHT (Yeah!) You'll see! (Yeahhhhh!)

If anyone can top that -- by a rock performer, not by Darryl Whorley, Tobey Keith, or Charlie Daniels -- I'd like to know about it.

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[Argh]

Damnation that isn't what I meant!

"Take This Job and Shove It"

Sung right before one becomes SELF-employed...

Sorry aboot that! That's what I get for almost no sleep the last two nights...

[RockinRight]

Rush played Get Over It in 2000 during the Bush v. Gore deal.

Funny how Don Henley is such a lib but that song fits the Democrats so well!

[RockinRight]

Rush played Get Over It in 2000 during the Bush v. Gore deal.

Funny how Don Henley is such a lib but that song fits the Democrats so well!

[Liberty Valance]

America -
The Ray Charles version

[RockinRight]

Ted Nugent - Kiss My A$$
Off Spirit of the Wild, 1995 (Warning-not for children):


Telegram for Mr Billary...

C'mon baby,
Yeah, big ol' wet one...hey!

Kiss my ass,
Kiss my ass, (c'mon, everybody ought'a)
Kiss my ass, (tastes real good)
Kiss my ass. (oh...)

Don't waste your time on me
I got my own direction
Watch me close, wait and see
I'm lookin' for perfection
I make up my own mind
And I'll leave you far behind
When the goin' gets tough
You can kiss my ass

I believe in animal rights
I let my dog hump on my shin
I can tolerate sexual choice
But not with the next of kin (uh-uh, boy)
I've heard it all before
I ain't gonna take any more
When the goin' gets tough
You can kiss my ass

Everybody!
Kiss my ass, (pucker up)
Kiss my ass
Kiss my ass
Kiss my ass, (c'mon babe)

I've heard it all before
And I ain't gonna take no more, no no
When the goin' gets tough
Kiss my ass!

I see the weenies with the dirty hair
Protestin' on the street
They condemn the clothes we wear
And the morality of what we eat, yeah
It's gotta be a fluke
They make me wanna puke
When the goin' gets tough
They can kiss my ass

Everybody gotta
Kiss my ass - C'mon gang bangers
Kiss my ass - Janet Reno
Kiss my ass - C'mon Billary
Kiss my ass - Callin' on Jesse Jackson
Kiss my ass - How about the IRS
Kiss my ass - Hey, Howard Stern
Kiss my ass - United Nations
Kiss my ass - All those Liberals
Kiss my ass - C'mon Sarah Brady
Kiss my ass - Oh, Courtney Love I've got your hole
Kiss my ass - Beavis, Butthead
Kiss my ass - How about Crips and Bloods

I've heard it all before
And we ain't gonna take it no more
When the goin' gets rough
When the goin's to tough
When the goin' gets rough
They oughta' kiss my ass

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Ted just has a way with words.

[9999lakes]

I can't believe we got almost 50 posts without the greatest conservative protest song of all time!


American Girls and American Guys
We’ll always stand up and salute
We’ll always recognize
When we see Old Glory Flying
There’s a lot of men dead
So we can sleep in peace at night
When we lay down our head

My daddy served in the army
Where he lost his right eye
But he flew a flag out in our yard
Until the day that he died
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
To grow up and live happy
In the land of the free.

Now this nation that I love
Has fallen under attack
A mighty sucker punch came flyin’ in
From somewhere in the back
Soon as we could see clearly
Through our big black eye
Man, we lit up your world
Like the 4th of July

Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin’ her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, it’s gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin’ her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue

Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you’ll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
`Cause we`ll put a boot in your ass
It`s the American way

Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin’ her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, it’s gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin’ her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue

[uberPatriot]

Alas, it seems no one ever rages for the machine.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I kind of like, "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mothers" The left calls us rednecks so we need a good song!

[GaltMeister]

"All we are sayyyyyying, is give Bush a chance ....."

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I think someone mentioned the "boot in your ass" line earlier. But, it is a good American anthem. I like "Have You Forgotten" it reminds us of the reason we went to war. The libs seem to forget how it felt when we were attacked. For some reason the libs want to blame America for the attack, I guess it makes them sleep better.

[RockinRight]

I can't stand Rage Against the Machine. Bunch of socialist crybaby idiots.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I like Metallica "Seek and Destroy" as a reminder of what we are going to do to the terrorists.

[RockinRight]

That's another good one.

[sima_yi]

"We are the folk song army
Every one of us (gulp) cares
All about poverty, war and injustice
Unlike the rest of you squares"

Tom Lehrer

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I own a copy of this - it's a hoot and a half!

[ThinkDifferent]

Invincible by Pat Benatar. Whenever I hear it on the radio there's a video in my head featuring F16s, Marines, and dead terrorists.

[Rescue1]

Written by the creative group at Disney was the greatest conservative in your face protest song ever, sung by the 7 dwarfs.

Hi Ho
Hi Ho
Its off to work I go

The owners of a small business who took for profit from "Mother Earth".