And love is just a four-letter word. Baez at her best. And m7695485584967er is just a 4 letter word too. It's just all words now, isn't it?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

A request for friend........Baez doing The Night They Drove ol' Dixie Down....
Take care, my friend.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

And no matter what their political views are, the Dixie Chicks make some cool music.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Not a protest song, but the same vintage...
BS&T..........

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

"The Partisan" by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen - The Partisan

That's one of my most favorite songs

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"The Partisan" by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen - The Partisan

That's one of my most favorite sings

It's a wonderful song. My parents were partisans in WWII, blowing up railways, bridges, eating snakes, hiding in bunkers under haystacks. They laughed about it later, but it was a terrible, fearful time.

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I kinda like this one, Diana Ross singing "We shall overcome" in Budapest, 1996.

I wonder if by now, they feel they have?

Diana Ross - We shall overcome

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Having lived within 20 miles away (32km).....

Neil Young - Four Dead in Ohio

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One always has to refer back to the quintessential protest singer......Joan Baez.....

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Here's a few more

I Was Only 19
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
The Merry Ploughboy
Flower Of Scotland
Cap In Hand

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Here's a few more

I Was Only 19
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
The Merry Ploughboy
Flower Of Scotland
Cap In Hand

The pouges' version of Waltzing Matilda is very beautiful and poignant.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

...a protest song which became a national anthem. Hatikva...The Hope.

English translation:

As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And forward to the East
To Zion, an eye looks
Our hope will not be lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.


Written by Naftali Herz Imber circa 1886ce.

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...a protest song which became a national anthem. Hatikva...The Hope.

English translation:

As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And forward to the East
To Zion, an eye looks
Our hope will not be lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

In every heart the hope of something better burns............

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And forward to the East
To Zion, an eye looks
Our hope will not be lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

Times up... The countdown has begun... ;)

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It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .

As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And forward to the East
To Zion, an eye looks
Our hope will not be lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

Times up... The countdown has begun... ;)

And what coutdown would that be, my friend?
Doomsayers have seldom outlived their predictions.............if ever.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

How many people who wrote, sang, or produced, these "protest" songs, mainly from the 60's/70/s, actually believed what they were doing? I reckon 0.001%.

It was mostly cashing in on the hype, and earning a buck.

Go on then, prove me wrong.....

How much commercial product do you reckon Baez has produced? Aside from the fact that I own about her first 20 albums (that's right, albums, remember those shiny black thingys?} I don't remember her setting any Billboard records lately.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010

The 1960's Group Ten Years After preformed a song call For what its worth

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010

Ahhh...Baez's mentor. Mr. Dylan has written many fine songs. And many of the pointed protest variety.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Ahhh...Baez's mentor. Mr. Dylan has written many fine songs. And many of the pointed protest variety.

Exactly my man, well done!

Now then, did either of them genuinely believe in what they were performing, or not?

I don't think there was much commercial point in what they were doing back in the 60's unless they believed in it. Things may have changed since then.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster