Rosie's set

Songs more or less about the division of wealth, or "whose world is this"?

The 99%

Folk popular songs

realpolitik

David Rovics

We humans are more closely related to bonobos than we are to chimpanzees. This is significant because it flies in the face of how the so-called Social Darwinists (capitalist scum, etc.) would have us view ourselves. Chimps form gangs and fight each other over stupid shit. Bonobos don't – they work out any differences they have through group sex. Much better!

Bonobo Song

Consejo de oro
Tango
1933
Musica y Letra: Arquímedes Arci

Yo estaba chiquitito cuando murió mi viejo;
fue tanta la miseria, que mi viejita y yo
comíamos llorando el pan amargo y duro
que en horas de miseria mi mano mendigó.
Mi pobre viejecita lavando ropa ajena
quebraba su espinazo al pie del piletón,
por míseras monedas con que calmaba apenas
las crueles amarguras de nuestra situación.

Fui creciendo a la bartola, y a mis años juveniles
agarré por el camino que mejor me pareció...
Me codeé con milongueras, me atoré con copetines,
y el mejor de mis amigos cuando pudo me vendió.
De engreído me hice el guapo; me encerraron entre rejas
y de preso ni un amigo me ha venido a visitar,
sólo el rostro demacrado y adorado de mi vieja
se aplastó contra las rejas para poderme besar.

Por eso, compañero, por tantos desengaños,
no me convence nadie con frases de amistad;
hoy vivo con mi madre, quiero endulzar sus años
y quiero hacer dichosa su noble ancianidad.
Me siento tan alegre junto a mi madrecita
es el mejor cariño que tiene el corazón.
Ese sí, que es un cariño que nadie me lo quita,
cariño que no engaña ni sabe de traición.

A usted, amigo, que es tan joven, le daré un consejo de oro:
deje farras y milongas... que jamás le ha de pesar,
cuide mucho a su viejita, que la madre es un tesoro;
un tesoro que al perderlo otro igual no ha de encontrar.
Y no haga como aquellos que se gastan en placeres
y se olvidan de la madre, y no le importa su dolor;
que la matan a disgustos y recién, cuando se muere,
se arrepienten y la lloran y comprenden su valor.

Mike Acevedo - Consejo De Oro

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Bring The Molotov - ( Public Enemy / Prodigy *mash up* for download. )

This is a song from my Nephew, Buggin Malone, its about a native Hero, who is still behind bars for something he did not do. Show support for the artist Buggin and Leonard Peltier.

Buggin Malone - Dedication to Peltier

Occupy Wall Street

The Commons

It's the least they deserve.

This is a track from my album, Ten New Songs, which can be streamed or downloaded at davidrovics.bandcamp.com

Tax the Rich

We Are Everywhere

The beginning of the great Arab uprising.

This is a track from my album, Big Red Sessions, which can be streamed or downloaded at davidrovics.bandcamp.com

Tunisia 2011

I wrote this song to alienate all of my friends, but most of them ended up having a sense of humor so it didn't work very well.

This is a track from my album, Big Red Sessions, which can be downloaded for free or by donation here:
http://davidrovics.com/big-red-sessions/new-album.php

I'm A Better Anarchist Than You

The miners' rebellion that brought Australia the eight-hour day decades before anyone else.

Song For The Eureka Stockade

The San Patricios -- the international brigade you've probably never heard of (half a century before the Spanish Civil War).  This version is from Live in Rostrevor (2016) with Lorna McKinnon on harmonies.

St. Patrick Battalion

For Loukanikos, the preeminent leftwing canine of Greece.

This is a track from my album, Big Red Sessions, which can be downloaded for free or by donation here:
http://davidrovics.com/big-red-sessions/new-album.php

Riot Dog

They really used that name for a little while, no joke.  From my 2004 album, Songs for Mahmud.

Operation Iraqi Liberation

Just an innocent prediction of a massacre that could happen.

Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

A friend of mine said 10 minutes of truth can counteract 24 hours of lies.  I think it's true.

What If You Knew

Based on a newspaper article from 1968 sent to me by Knoxville environmental lawyer Chris Irwin.

This is a track from my album, Big Red Sessions, which can be downloaded for free or by donation here:
http://davidrovics.com/big-red-sessions/new-album.php

East Tennessee

Written after an incident with a fanatical George W Bush supporter I encountered at the Whole Foods Market on Kirby in Houston, Texas one day.

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

possible intro for "riot act"
"this is the difference, between protest, & resistance"

RiotAct-resistanceintro2

TFIA Live at Corkey's club in Houston, Texas.
Keith Grimwood, Ezra Idlet,  Rom Rosenblum and Orville Stricktland

12 Political Science

Cannabis Cafe

Gotta pay to play!

This is a track from my 2012 album, Meanwhile In Afghanistan, which can be streamed or downloaded at davidrovics.bandcamp.com

Why Don't They Play You On The Radio?

David Rovics - The Commons

Songs from Head-Roc's 2013 Street Tape Release "Black Rock Star Super Hero Music"

"Save Our People"
Written and Produced by Head-Roc
www.head-roc.com

Track 01 - "Save Our People" by Head-Roc (BRSSM)

Been asked for this a few times so putting it up here for free download, "The Common" from the "Limited Sedition" Demo, back when "We" were just "I" ;) cheers.
SCART

TheCommon-2008

La nueva placa de Victor Heredia se llama "Algún Día" y fue grabada durante los últimos meses por los técnicos Gustavo Segal, Juan Belvis y Gustavo López en los estudios Buenos Aires, Rosebud, y La Urbana. 

Participaron en la grabación los músicos que acompañan habitualmente a Víctor: Panchi Quesada en guitarras, Ricardo Zielinski en bajo, Gustavo López en batería, Gabino Fernández en teclados y saxo, y Babú Cerviño en teclados; además de Daniel Homer, Fernando Nurnberg, Luis Gurevich y Lito Vitale, 

El álbum, que será editado por el sello Alternativo Americano, cuenta con las siguientes 10 canciones nuevas, todas compuestas por Heredia: 
La localidades para la presentación de "Algún día", el viernes 12 de abril en el Opera Citi, ya se encuentran disponibles por sistema Ticketek y en el Teatro. invitados en algunos de los temas. 

Temas:
1-Cenizas de Ayer | 2-Algún Día... | 3-Breve Historia de las Islas Malvinas | 4-Canción Censurada | 5-Ahora | 6-Los Ojos del Che | 7-La Fiesta Terminó | 8-La Veleta de Armando | 9-Momento | 10-Vuela Conmigo

Victor Heredia  -  Algún Día

Joe Bonamassa  -  The Ballad Of John Henry

David Rovics sings "No One is Illegal" for NDLON's #Not1More campaign.

David Rovics Sings "No One is Illegal"

A cover of one of my favorite a Capella songs of all time. It's actually hard for me to record this because I choke up almost every time.

Behind The Barricades (David Rovics)

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.