Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Get Up, Stand Up"
Thanks to commenter Prup (aka Jim Benton) for the recommendation.
Uploaded by Rastavibe13:
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right (3 times) Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth I know you don't know what life is really worth Is not all that glitters in gold and Half the story has never been told So now you see the light, aay Stand up for your right. Come on Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight (Repeat) Most people think great God will come from the sky Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth And now you see the light You stand up for your right, yeah! Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Get Up, Stand Up. Life is your right So we can't give up the fight Stand up for your right, Lord, Lord Get Up, Stand Up. Keep on struggling on Don't give up the fight We're sick and tired of your ism and skism game Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name, Lord We know when we understand Almighty God is a living man You can fool some people sometimes But you can't fool all the people all the time So now we see the light We gonna stand up for our right So you'd better get up, stand up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight.
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Actually, the suggestion came from "Sir Charles at COGITAMUS - himself a labor lawyer -- after I listed the songs you'd already put up. I merely agreed with it and passed it along.
I'll take credit for the Phil Ochs song that you suggested might be going up soon, but I didn't think of this one.
And as somebody old enough that my first live music show was STEPPENWOLF at the old Fillmore East -- any chance of something like the "Fish Cheer' or other songs of the time. (Been looking for EARTH OPERA's "Great American Eagle Tragedy" -- it's been a long time and I want to see if it is as good as i remember it being -- but YouTube doesn't seem to have it. And other songs that crawl into my memory recreate the era, but aren't specifically political.)
Okay, and showing off a little, but I wish I could suggest some Pakistani Pop that was political at a time when being so risked more than boos and cancelled gigs. But, other than AWAZ' "Mr. Fraudiyae" none of them make sense without a translation. (The AWAZ video and the Urdglish -- Urdu-English mixed -- of some of it make its meaning perfectly clear.)
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