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"A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit." - Phil Ochs

Please add your favorite's below!

In no particular order my top 10 favorite protest songs

1) For What Its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
2) Ohio - CSNY
3) Killing In The Name - Rage Against the Machine
4) Get up Stand up - Bob Marley and The Wailers
5) Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
6) All You Fascists Bound to Lose - Woodie Guthrie
7) American Idiot - Green Day
8) Blowing in the Wind - Bob Dylan
9) Fuck tha Police - NWA
10) We shall overcome - Pete Seeger
11) Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
12) Deportee - The Byrds
13) Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
14) “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution” - Tracy Chaprman
15) ‘Sun City’ - Artists United Against Apartheid
16) They Killed Him - Kris Kristofferson
17) Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
18) Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Dead Kennedys
19) This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
20) Imagine - John Lennon

Bob Horowitz

@cvvhrn Not exactly what you are looking for, Freddy, but this song is painfully on point. Ouch.

(cc'ing @czarbucks)

Hail Hail Freedonia, from Duck Soup:

youtu.be/x4OJGdtRx10?si=j5Fogg

@BobHorowitz @cvvhrn

Oh gosh, Bob, I *love* that.

Off to find a couple of my own.

@czarbucks It's almost like Groucho Marx was satirizing Donald Trump, but 92 years ago.
@cvvhrn

@BobHorowitz @cvvhrn

It's mind-bending. I think this kind of thing comes in waves as each of the generations who lived through it die off...

That was so great.

@czarbucks @BobHorowitz @cvvhrn They Dance Alone - Sting; Biko - Peter Gabriel.