>enough with the folk songs
>already-what good has it done?

Folk songs have done a lot.
They've inspired, educated, organized...
They've maintained histories, and they've made some, too.

Political folk music has been an important element in movements for social/racial justice, peace, labor organizing and strikes, and stopping wars.

From Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs to Ani DiFranco and David Rovics, folk musicians have always been far more radical than the uncreative goons who can think of nothing better than rioting in the streets.

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and big government should not stand
between a man and his money
i mean "what's good for business
is good for the country"

our children still take that lie like communion
the same old line
the confederacy used on the union

conjugate liberty
into libertarian
and medicate it
associate it
with deregulation
privitization
we won't even know we're slaves
on a corporate plantation
somebody say halleluja!
somebody say damnation!
cuz the profit system follows
the path of least resistance
and the path of least resistance
is what makes the river crooked
makes it serpentine
capitalism is the devil's wet dream

excerpt from "Serpentine," by Ani DiFranco