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A cover I did of the classic, Dirty Old Town, by the mighty Dubliners.

Dirty Old Town (The Dubliners)

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

This is a song from the album, Spies Are Reading My Blog, which you can download or stream in its entirety at: www.davidrovics.bandcamp.com

Christmas Eve In Bethlehem

A rare song about Tom Williams we found at the back of the book ''Executed Tom Williams & The IRA''. This also features on our second album.

Tom Williams

Our version of murder isnt murder written by G O'Glacain of The Irish Brigade that remembers Volunteers Colm McGirr & Brian Campbell f The East Tyrone Brigade of Oglaigh na hÉireann who were murdered by British crown forces.

Murder Isn't Murder

Irish Soldier Laddie - Gary Og

The Dubliners - Lord Of The Dance

In the mirror world, this slogan is controversial, and is a veiled threat of genocide against the Jewish people.  In the real world, the ethnonationalist Jewish-supremacist state of Israel has been committing a genocide against the Palestinian people for the past 75 years, and this slogan is a slogan of liberation for all the people who live between the river and the sea.  As with similar slogans in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, for dominant political tendencies in Palestinian civil society it's about equality between all peoples, not genocide.  Genocide, rather, is what Israel is doing.  As the Israeli authorities openly and publicly say, this is "Nakba 2.0."  We should believe them, they're serious.

From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea

When there were still hospitals functioning in the Gaza Strip, before they were intentionally destroyed in an ongoing, genocidal bombing campaign, the surviving doctors wrote on the bodies of the surviving children, over and over again, the acronym, WCNSF -- Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.

Wounded Child -- No Surviving Family (WCNSF)

We pause this genocide for a few words from our sponsor.

Humanitarian Pause

Once the last Palestinian is killed, then the pundits and politicians will say "how could we have known," and they'll open another museum.

Once the Last Palestinian's Killed

Outside of the west they're reporting the WHO and just about every other UN department are holding constant press conferences, trying to sound the alarm about an imminent genocide, and all the people in Gaza who are about to die of famine and disease.

Famine and Disease

We Are Everywhere

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

Killed for being an effective labor organizer who was opposed to participating in a "bosses' war" -- World War I.

From my album, Ten Thousand Miles Away.

Song For Ginger Goodwin

A song for Bob Steck and all the other veterans of the international brigades in Spain.

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

The Last Lincoln Veteran

The Dying Firefighter

Promised Land

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

Operation Iraqi Liberation

After the Israeli invasion and destruction of the Jenin refugee camp I predicted that the next suicide bomber would be from Jenin.  I was right.  From my 2002 album, Hang A Flag in the Window.

Jenin

All aboard the Freedom Flotilla!

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

Song For The Mavi Marmara

Jerusalem is once again a walled city  full of European-descended infidels, but now the walls have expanded vastly.

They're Building A Wall

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

12 Political Science

Gary Og - I belive in you

Gary Og -06- pearse jordan

Irish rebel - the ballad of mairead farrell

Loughall Martyrs Live Gary Og

The Dubliners & The Pogues - The Irish Rover

Song for Hugo Chavez

David Rovics - The Commons

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)

The Wakes live in St Pauli. Cover of the Blarney Pilgrims song 'The Fans Of St Pauli'.

Fans Of St Pauli

Foggy Dew..... Wolfetones

Both hunger strikers, both freedom fighters.

This is a track from my 17-song album, Everything Can Change, which can be downloaded in full here:
http://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/everything-can-change

Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands

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