One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in recent months is the folk-song of protest. you have to admire people who sing these songs. it takes a certain amount of courage to ge
In a coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on. the nicest thing ab
Protest song is that it makes you feel so good. I have a song here which I realise should be accompanied on a folk instrument in which category the piano does not alas qualify so imagine if you
That I am playing an 88 string guitar.
We are the folk song army.
Everyone of us cares.
We all hate poverty, war, and injustice,
Unlike the rest of you squares.
There are innocuous folk songs.
Yeah, but we regard em with scorn.
The folks who sing em have no social conscience.
Why they dont even care if jimmy crack corn.
If you feel dissatisfaction,
Strum your frustrations away.
Some people may prefer action,
But give me a folk song any old day.
The tune dont have to be clever,
And it dont matter if you put a coupla extra syllables into a line.
It sounds more ethnic if it aint good english,
And it dont even gotta rhyme--excuse me--rhyne.
Remember the war against franco?
Thats the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs.
So join in the folk song army,
Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice.
Ready! aim! sing!
Tom Lehrer (Thomas Andrew Lehrer) è stato un cantautore, comico, pianista e matematico statunitense nato a New York nel 1920. Conosciuto per le sue brevi canzoni umoristiche, spesso satiriche e con testi intelligenti, ha raggiunto la popolarità negli anni '50 e '60. Le sue canzoni, caratterizzate da un ritmo incalzante e una melodia orecchiabile, affrontavano temi controversi come la guerra, la politica e la religione, sempre con un tocco di ironia e sarcasmo. Tra i suoi brani più famosi figurano "The Elements", "Werner Herzog's Last Movie" e "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park". Lehrer ha pubblicato diversi album, tra cui "Tom Lehrer Sings" (1959) e "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer" (1965). Oltre alla musica, Lehrer si è dedicato all'insegnamento della matematica presso l'Università di Harvard. La sua carriera musicale è stata interrotta negli anni '70, ma le sue canzoni continuano ad essere apprezzate per la loro intelligenza e il loro humour pungente.
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