lotesse | I'd sing out the love between my brothers & my sisters

commodorified seems to have started something with her mix for the union revolution We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years - this morning

sara posted her fighting-the-man playlist.

And as I am never not happy to wallow around in folkways music, here's my iteration, which ended up being one part union/antiwar/folkways and one part contemporary social justice songs.

Download "Oh Freedom" at Sendspace; tracklist & lyrics behind the cut

1. Simon & Garfunkle, "The Times They Are a-Changing" - may it be the truth!
Your old road is rapidly aging/ please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand for the times they are a-changing

2. Pete Seeger, "If I Had a Hammer"
It's the hammer of justice, it's the bell of freedom

3. Alix Olson, "Cunt Cuntry"
I’d declare the Independence of Clitoris to Shining Clitoris

4. Pete Seeger, "Ain't It a Shame"
to beat your wife on Sunday when you got Monday Tuesday Wednesday oh Thursday Friday Saturday ain't it a shame

5. Bob Dylan, "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin

6. Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie, "Old Time Religion"
we will pray with those old druids/ they drink fermented fluids waltzing naked through the wo-ods and that's good enough for me

7. Across the Universe, "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot

8. Bessie Smith, "Mary Jane" - legalize!
when I go to work I work all day/ always turns out the same

9. Woody Guthrie, "Jolly Banker" - screw the capitalist overlords
I safeguard the farmers and widows and orphans, singin' I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I

10. The Five Stairsteps, "Ooh Child"
Some day, yeah, we'll put it together and we'll get it all done, some day

11. Janelle Monáe, "Many Moons"
Your freedom's in a bind

12. Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit"
here is a strange and bitter crop

13. Lauryn Hill, "Lost Ones"
Never underestimate those who you scar cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard

14. The Indigo Girls, "Hammer and Nail"
Learn how to use my hands, not just my head

15. John Lennon, "Power to the People"
power to the people right on!

16. Joan Baez, "Birmingham Sunday"
on Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine and the choir kept singing of freedom

17. Rufus Wainwright, "Going to a Town"
I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down/ I'm so tired of America

18. Leonard Cohen, "Democracy"
From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

19. Leonard Cohen, "The Partisan"
through the graves the wind is blowing/ freedom soon will come, and we will come from the shadows

20. Natalie Merchant, "Which Side Are You On?"
don't scab for the bosses, don't listen to their lies: poor folks don't stand a chance unless we organize

21. Pete Seeger, "Talking Union Blues"
if you don’t let Red-baiting break you up, if you don’t let stool pigeons break you up, if you don’t let vigilantes break you up, and if you don’t let race hatred break you up - you’ll win

22. Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie, "I'm Changing my Name to Chrysler" - oh, sweet irony
if you're a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic down to congress there's a safety net for you

23. Rufus Wainwright, "Gay Messiah"
he will then be reborn from 1970's porn wearing tubesocks with style and such an innocent smile

24. Vienna Teng, "No Gringo"
they say the fence turned round; now the razor wire keeps us out

25. Tegan and Sara, "Freedom"
you've got the freedom to walk out if they drag you down

26. Sage Francis, "Slow Down Gandhi"
So look for truth, quit seeking forgiveness/ you need to cut the noose, but you don't believe in scissors

27. Vienna Teng, "Watershed"
while you argue it over, I am not waiting

28. The Violent Femmes, "Blister in the Sun"
my girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry

29. The Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains, I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain

30. Fleetwood Mac, "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"
It'll be better than before/ yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone

31. The Decemberists, "Sons and Daughters"
here all the bombs fade away