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.

[strictlyaminorleaguer]

I've read this thread carefully, and I don't see that anyone's mentioned "In the Year 2525." Although one verse could be read as an environmental statement ("he's taken everything this old earth can give, and he ain't put back nuthin' woo-wo"), the gist of the song is anti-Brave New World. It may have been left off because it consistently makes all-time worst songs lists. I'd also nominate "This Land is Your Land."

[Thumper1960]

Chris LeDoux
This Cowboy's Hat (Spoken)
Well there's always been groups of people who couldn't see eye to eye...an' I always thought if they'd get the chance to sit down and talk face to face they'd see we all have a lot in common....
Well I was sittin' at a coffee shop, just havin' a cup to pass the time.
Swappin' some stories with this ole cowboy friend of mine.
When some motor-cycler riders started snickerin' in the back.
Started pokin' fun at my friend hat.
One ole boy said hey Tex, where'd you park your horse.
Now my friend just pulled his hat down low, but they couldn't be ignored.
One husky fella said, I think I'll rip that hat right off your head.
That's when my friend turned around, and this is what he said...
You'll ride a black tornado, 'cross the western sky.
Rope an ole blue northern, and milk it til it's dry.
Bull dawg the Mississippi, and pin her ears down flat...
Long before you take this cowboys hat...
Now pardner, this ole hat is better left alone, See it used to be my daddy's, but last year he passed on.
My nephew skinned the Rattler, that makes up this ole hatband.
But back in '69 he died in Viet-Nam.
Now the eagle feather was given to me by an ole Indian friend of mine, But someone ran him down, somewheres 'round that Arizona line.
And a real special lady gave me this hat pin.
And I don't know if I'll ever see her again.
You'll ride a black tornado, 'cross the western sky.
Rope an ole blue northern, and milk it til it's dry.
Bull dawg the Mississippi, and pin her ears down flat...
Long before you take this cowboys hat...
Now if you leather jacket means to you what this hat means to me.
Then I guess we understand each other, and we'll just let it be.
But if you still think it's funny, well man, you've got my back up against the wall.
But if you touch my hat, you'll have to fight us all...
Well, right then I caught a little sadness in the gang leaders eyes.
And he turned back t'wards the others and they all just sorta shuffled on outside.
But when my friend turned back t'wards me, well I noticed his old hat brim.
Well it was turned up...in a big ole Texas Grin!
You'll ride a black ocross the western skies,
Rope an ole blue northern, and milk it 'til it's dry.
Bull dawg the Mississippi and pin her ears down flat...
Long before you touch this cowboy's hat...

Workin' Man's Dollar
Well, I'm just a Workin' Man's Dollar
In the pocket of his old blue jeans
I ain't like my Wall Street brother
He's in a bank so shiny and clean
Well, I'm faded and I'm wrinkled
Tattered and stained with sweat
But I'm the 1st one called when Uncle Sam Needs a hand with the National Debt
I've been wages for the farm hand
For drivin' an old John Deere
I've been laid on a bar in a tavern
To buy a workin' man an ice-cold beer
I've been tipped to a truck-stop waitress
Taped where I was torn
And in the hand of a child I was laid on a plate
In a church on Sunday morn

CHORUS:
They say I'm the root of all evil
I bring lust, power and greed
But this Workin' Man's Dollar only buys the things
A workin' man really needs

Verse:
Well, they say I'm worth about fifty-cents
In this modern inflated age
But don't tell that to the young man slavin'
To make it on a minimum wage
Or that single workin' mother
She's been scapin' to make ends meet
To make a house a home
Keep food on the table
And shoes on her baby's feet
Well, I know my days are numbered
I'm gettin' threadbare and wearin' thin
And they'll replace me with another
But I'd do it all again
Cuz I've seen this great big country
Passed from hand to callused hand
And I've got to say that I'm mighty proud
That I belong to a workin' man

[Skooz]

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!

Cruel! Cruel! Everyone knew you were supposed to listen to Revolution 9 at 16 speed, or Ummagumma.

[beckett]

My Back Pages---Dylan

[F16Fighter]

"Sweet Jane"???

[Aedammair]

BTW; I'm not a dude; didn't you know that by my screen name? Or was that a dig of some type because I've read a Playboy interview?

The interview consisted of questions asked and answered. You can assume they were taken out of context. But it wasn't like Lennon to let slip shod interviewing slide. Obviously, I wasn't there so I can't say for sure that those were his words, but to me they rang true.

[glock rocks]

i wouldn't doubt that... the union soldiers did them a world of abuse, too.
i'm pinging utah girl, because i think she'd have a better handle on this...

[alcuin]

Collective and/or individual liberalism doesn't enrich my world.

You disagreed with a post claiming that the Beatles were "liberal;" I disagreed with your disagreement, but differentiated between their "politics" and their art.

Their politics are amusing, however annoying (or even "dangerous"); their art is inspiring and, for the most part, apolitical.

[185JHP]

"Only in America, can a guy who's washin' cars, take a giant step, and reach right up and touch the stars!" ("Only in America", Jay and the Americans.

[F16Fighter]

'I'd Love To Change The World' -- good selection, good song. Where is Alvin Lee these days?

[ken21]

ah, dylan!

[babyfreep]

Alvin Lee was with Ten Years After. You might also be thinking of Elvin Bishop...southern rock star. ("Fooled Around and Fell in Love" among others.)

[southernnorthcarolina]

Steely Dan, from their 1972 album (showing my age here) Can't Buy a Thrill:

ONLY A FOOL WOULD SAY THAT

A world become one
Of salads and sun
Only a fool would say that
A boy with a plan
A natural man
Wearing a white stetson hat
Unhand that gun begone
There's no one to fire upon
If he's holding it high
He's telling a lie

CHORUS:
I heard it was you
Talkin' 'bout a world
Where all is free
It just couldn't be
And only a fool would say that

The man in the street
Draggin' his feet
Don't wanna hear the bad news
Imagine your face
There is his place
Standing inside his brown shoes
You do his nine to five
Drag yourself home half alive
And there on the screen
A man with a dream

CHORUS

Anybody on the street
Has murder in his eyes
You feel no pain
And you're younger
Then you realize

CHORUS

[F16Fighter]

Turn, Turn, Turn -- The Byrds.

"...A time to kill, a time to heal, a time for peace I swear it's not to late."

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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[alcuin]

On Highway 61, as well, I do believe.

Ah, Dylan, INDEED!

. . look out, kids, it's somethin' you did . .

[nonliberal]

"Open Invitation"-Jackyl
"Don't Tread on Me"-Metallica
The following songs from Stuck Mojo: "Only the Strong Survive" (anti-gun control), "Crooked Figurehead" (anti-Clinton), "Down Breeding", "Drawing Blood",
"Throw the Switch", "Tears."
"My Jeckyll Doesn't Hide"-Ozzy
"Thirteen Steps to Nowhere"-Pantera
"Dittohead"-Slayer
"Silent Scream"-Slayer
"Burning Alive"-AC/DC
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"-Iron Maiden
"Be Quick or be Dead"-Iron Maiden
"Blood Red"-Slayer

[Dan from Michigan]

"Open Invitation"-Jackyl

Bwhahaahhaha. I heard that song on the radio.

[Huck]

Bob has a lot of them:

Disease of Conceit, Slow Train Comin', Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Foot of Pride, Ring Them Bells, etc etc etc