1 - Blimp

Not referring to the old Joan Baez song?

"If God is on our side, He'll STOP the next war."

Mellow!

2. Bill, Dunblane

I don't get it?

#3 Bikewoman... You'll find what Bill is talking about on this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pih1hVdflnQ

In my view he's spot on. It's a long song and the line you are looking for is the very last one in the song. It carries as powerful a message today as it did when she sang it in this clip in 1966.

#4 Hey, thanks WWW. I'd forgotten that one.

Scaramouche is going to love this one.........:)

... AIDAN SMITH AND KENNY FARQUARSON ....

Who the heck ARE these guys?? They're so far behind the times, they're positively mediaeval! What utter tripe they're spinning. And don't believe a word of it!

In the 60s, things were a lot clearer and the protest movement had their champions. And it wasn't Dylan, Baez, and the rest who sold out. It was the 14 to 18 year-olds who were "sticking it to the man", not these old fart has-beens of the mid-60s!
Today, the real protest songs in the USA are coming from young, disenfranchised Blacks and Hispanics. Move over 50Cent and Tupac, your day is done! Look into the non-charting songs and bands. I'm not doing your work for you.

And as for Arcade Fire, they've been around for yonks!! Jarvis Cocker, Damon Albarn and co, are too mainstream for Brityouth. They're not who's being listened to. If the SoS had done its work, they'd know that the bands of the moment are, Bullet For My Valentine, Lacuna Coil, Mushroomhead,Panic At The Disco, Stone Sour and Trivium. Their lyrics are every bit as scatological and anarchic as you'd expect. Great stuff to listen to as I sit and type.

If SoS purports to be reporting for todays youngsters and their music .... then DO YOUR SODDING RESEARCH, you tw*ts!!!

#6 Heather ...... you were right you know!! :D

4 - WWW

Thanks for the link - just watched it again. :*(

Isn't the Sunday Herald the right place for this kind of mindless student left wing c__p.

"Don't wanna fight in a holy war,
Don't want the salesman knocking at my door,
Don't wanna live in America no more."

Sounds as if they got a lot of their lyrics from the 60s/70s - apart from 'With God on my side'.

Wonder if Scaramouche remembers Ape Man by the Kinks in the 70s

'I don't feel safe in this world no more,
I don't want to die in a nuclear war.
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman.'

#10. Yes I do. Ans having met Ray Davies years ago, I suggest that third line should read .... 'I want to sail away to a distant shore and make love with an apeman.'

Here's a protest song about the Scotsman's political duplicity in the run up to the 1997 general election and the soon to be Holyrood one. Yes, it was written around then and it comes from Scotland, so I suppose that doesn't count.

Requires 2 vocalists, [] on behalf of the paper.

WE are, we will be, we were way back when
Ian had a balanced word for all his people then
Changed days and changed ways
as no change came around
Gathering new following, worshipping the ground.

Out of the woodwork and onto the press
Throwbacks, crony hacks, nu J's with redress
Bravehearts will depart when they get put down
And old red wanda gets the Peter Fonda
Easy ride to town

Where are you going, what do you write
why don't you know we belong?
[We are the voice of the people, you know
we don't right anything wrong]
Who are your people and where are they going
and what are the words to their song?

[Oh, icons of power and doctors of spin
we're absolute, resolute..]
Christ, here we go again

Your soundbites are not quite all that they seem
They make you feel like strangers in
your little land of dreams
They make you feel like strangers
In your land of dreams

#11 ?????
Do tell!

13. My lips are sealed .. unlike mouthy Bananarama's!

#12. Like the words, but it would be nice to know if there's a melody goes with it!

Scaramouche, there is indeed. C, F, C, Am, Dm. F, C.

Here's part of one is A which was recorded in Stirling in 1997,

I will not sign the Ragman Roll and live on bended knee
I swear my homage unto those who fight for the destiny
Of the unborn child of the dead who died
defending against the plan
And every person living life
For freedom for our land.

Suppose that makes me as much a terrorist now as it did then but it was a historical observation based on a visit to the Wallace monument before Braveheart and research at the Edinburgh Central library.

#15. Not being a player of any instrument (I'm clueless) I haven't a scooby what C, F, C, Am, Dm. F, C is or sounds like.

Can you give us an idea as regards a known piece of music? Please?

"He's the universal soldier,
and he really is to blame.
His orders come from faraway no more.
They come from here and there, and you and me;
and brothers, can't you see?
This is not the way we put to end the war."
Buffy St. Marie ~ Channeled by Donovan

Scaramouche. I think you'll find that Jock was saying he wrote the song himself. If it is original, you may find it has no comparison to match your database.

Personally, the words appeal to me and I don't have a scooby either about the c things. Having said that, this is not a multi-media forum.

19 - Blimp

Yes, I know. Sorry - the original comment was yours, yet I seemed to receive some of the kudos. Not intended - I only posted in support.

His followers, yes, absolutely, for He does not exist, save in the mind of those who cannot understand.

As Dave Allen would always say - (tongue in cheek)

May your God go wit' you.

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I missed it earlier, but I really think you're in the wrong place.