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The Sound of Resistance

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  • The Sound of Resistance @lemmy.world
    Enub22 @50501.chat

    Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons, Released July 1947

    Wikipedia

    ::: spoiler Lyrics

    Some people say a man is made out of mud
    A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
    Muscle and blood and skin and bones
    A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

    You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
    Another day older and deeper in debt
    St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
    I owe my soul to the company store

    I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
    I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
    I loaded sixteen tons of number-nine coal
    And the straw boss said, "Well bless my soul!"

    You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
    Another day older and deeper in debt
    St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
    I owe my soul to the company store

    I was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
    Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
    I was raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion
    Can't no hig

  • The Sound of Resistance @lemmy.world
    cabbage @piefed.social

    Woody Guthrie - All You Fascists Bound To Lose

    Woody Guthrie was never too vague about his stance on fascism, starting with the famous phrase "This Machine Kills Fascists" written on his guitars.

    "All You Fascists Bound To Lose" is a song that takes this bluntness to a lyrical level, to the point where it hardly needs any introduction.

    I’m gonna tell you fascists
    You may be surprised
    The people in this world
    Are getting organized
    You’re bound to lose
    You fascists bound to lose

    Race hatred cannot stop us
    This one thing we know
    Your poll tax and Jim Crow
    And greed has got to go
    You’re bound to lose
    You fascists bound to lose.

    All of you fascists bound to lose:
    I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
    Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
    You’re bound to lose! You fascists:
    Bound to lose!

    People of every color
    Marching side to side
    Marching ‘cross these fields
    Where a million fascists dies
    You’re bound