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.

[Skooz]

Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock knock at your front door
It's the suede-denim Secret Police
They've come for your uncool niece.

Brilliant. Not just clever, brilliant.

Too bad the guy is such a wacko lefty.

[rwfromkansas]

American pie is conservative? I will have to actually listen to the words sometime..lol

[longfellow]

Don Henley- DIRTY LAUNDRY hits the nail!

[Fighting Irish]

Well Allen Jackson won't give it to us.

[babyfreep]

It was me that said that. OK. My bad....looking at my album, I see it was recorded in January of '69 and released quite some time later in May of '70.
Though, I definitely saw the connection between Sgt. Peppers and Their Satanic Majesties Request. John (and Paul, too, I think) played on a Stones recording called "We Love You", released as a single in the U.K. and on "Big Hits and Fazed Cookies" over here.

[185JHP]

Thanks for the reply. I like "Ramblin' Man", too - "tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best I can." There's some good bedrock beliefs in the South - that's why I like it so much - even the Deep South - "down where the hogs have jowls." FReegards

[DownWithGreenspan]

A couple of late Temptations entries, if they haven't been mentioned already:

Ball of Confusion

Papa Was a Rolling Stone

[alcuin]

Thanks for posting the lyrics.

And there's even some evil mothers, Well they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt. Y'know that, women, never really faint, And that villains always blink their eyes, woo! And that, y'know, children are the only ones who blush! And that, life is, just to die!

This stanza expresses a distaste for cynicism (FROM LOU!) and is, well, romantic, even naive. If it's mockery, it's too subtle for me.

And, everyone who ever had a heart, oh, That wouldn't turn around and break it. And anyone who ever played a part, whoa, And wouldn't turn around and hate it!

The above stanza (I don't think those lyrics are quite right) I've never understood, yet it's the emotional and musical high point of the song. Odd.

[ganesha]

That scene in Rocky IV where they are sitting in a cabin in Siberia listening to the Chipmunks is hilarious. Anything from Rocky IV qualifies as conservative music.

I would also nominate "Remembrance Day" by Brian Adams; a beautiful song about veterans of World War Two.
and also " The Impression That I Get" by The Mighty Bosstones.

[ganesha]

Self correction, Remembrance Day lyrics set in World War One Lyrics to Remembrance Day:
For our King and Country and the promise of glory
We came from Kingston and Brighton to fight on the front line
Just lads from farms and boys from the cities
Not meant to be soldiers we lay in the trenches
We'd face the fighting with a smile or so we said
If only we had known what danger lay ahead
The sky turned to grey as we went into battle
On the fields of Europe young men were fallin

I'll be back for you someday It wont be long
If I can just hold on till this bloody war is over

The guns will be silent on remembrance day
There'll be no more fighting on remembrance day

By September of '18 Cambrai had fallen
Soon the war would be over and we'd be returnin
Don't forget me while I'm gone far away
Well it won't be long till I'm back in your arms again
One day soon I don't know when
You know we'll all be free and the bells of Peace will ring again
The time will come for you and me
We'll be goin home when this bloody war is ended

The guns will be silent on Remembrance Day
We'll all say a prayer on Remembrance Day
On Remembrance Day ,Say a little prayer
On Remembrance day

Well the guns will be silent
There'll be no more fighting
Oh we'll lay down our weapons
On Remembrance Day

[NYCVirago]

I just thought of a conservative album, or at least an anti-liberal 70s album -- the Kinks' "Low Budget." The whole album really captures the late-70s malaise, with songs like "Catch Me Now I'm Falling," "Wish I Could Fly Like Superman," "A Gallon of Gas" and the title track. A perfect soundtrack to the Carter era!