Songs about history by haizea.yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2017-05-18 09:45:21 UTC 2023-01-23 03:53:00 UTC hello@padlet.com "The Battle of New Orleans" - Johnny Horton haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172529412 In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down a river 
And we see'd the British come 
And there must have been a hundred of'em 
Beatin' on the drums 
They stepped so high
And they made their bugles ring 
We stood by our cotton bales 
And didn't say a thing 

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
]]> 2017-05-18 09:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172529412 "Boston Tea Party"- The Alex Harvey Band haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172531244 Are you going to the party?
Going to the Boston Tea Party
Going to the party
Going to the Boston Tea Party

Redcoats in the village and there's fighting in the streets
Indians and the Mountain Men are talking when they meet
The king has said he's going to put a tax on tea
And that's the reason y'all Americans drink coffee

Are you going to the party?
Going to the Boston Tea Party
Going to the party
Going to the Boston Tea Party

Fire in the mountains, flames upon the heath
As the President spits out the news, he's biting them wooden teeth
Them children of the Colonies got a different tale to tell
I'm going down to the city, tell my folks I'm doing well

Are you going to the party?
Going to the Boston Tea Party
Going to the party
Going to the Boston Tea Party

]]> 2017-05-18 09:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172531244 "The British Are Coming" - Weezer haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172531846 Using the American Colonies relationship with the King of England as a metaphor for the relationship between a father and son

"Welcome to the first level literati
Our mission is to keep the tradition alive
It's up to us
It's our responsibility
Who else is going to do it?"

This is the night
Light up the fire in the forge
We're not the coins in the coffer of old King George
One if by land
Two if they come by sea
We'll show 'em who are the true sons of liberty

Punk ass redcoats tryin' to run the show
Telling me what to do and where to go
Mount your horse 'cause it's time to tell the world

The British are coming
The British are coming
The British are coming

Smear on the soot
Tear up an old deer skin shirt
We know the shot will be heard all around the world
]]> 2017-05-18 09:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172531846 "Enola Gay" - OMD haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172532590 About the dropp of  the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945

Enola Gay
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied

These games you play
They're going to end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way

It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home

Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away

Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't fade in our dreams away
]]> 2017-05-18 10:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172532590 "Face The Fire" - Dan Fogelberg haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172532913 About the Chernobyl disaster
I hear the thunder
Three miles away
The island's leaking
Into the bay
The poison is spreading
The demon is free
And people are running from
What they can't even see

Face the fire
You can't turn away
The risk grows greater
With each passing day
The waiting's over
The moment has come
To kill the fire
And turn to the sun

They'll take your money
And then take your health
To line their pockets with
Unequaled wealth
These men are under
The power of gold
We won't be safe until we
Shut them down cold

Face the fire
You can't turn away
The risk grows greater
With each passing day
The waiting's over
The moment has come
To kill the fire
And turn to the sun

]]> 2017-05-18 10:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172532913 "Great Titanic" - Roy Acuff haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172533250 About the sinking of RMS Titanic
It was on one Monday morning
About one o'clock
When that great Titanic
Began to reel and rock

People began to scream and cry
Saying, oh, Lord, we're going to die
It was sad when that great ship went down

It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
Husbands and their wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when that great ship went down

When building that great ship
They said what they would do
They said that they could build a ship
That water would not go through

God with power in his hand
Showed the world it could not stand
It was sad when that great ship went down

When that great ship left England
She was making for the shores
When the rich declared
They would not ride with the poor
]]> 2017-05-18 10:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172533250 "Heresy" -Rush haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172533461  About the 1814 Battle of New Orleans
All around that dull grey world
From Moscow to Berlin
People storm the barricades
Walls go tumbling in

The counter-revolution
People smiling through their tears
Who can give them back their lives
And all those wasted years?
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

All around that dull grey world
Of ideology
People storm the marketplace
And buy up fantasy

The counter-revolution
At the counter of a store
People buy the things they want
And borrow for a little more
All those wasted years
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

Do we have to be forgiving at last?
What else can we do?
Do we have to say goodbye to the past?
Yes I guess we do

All around this great big world
All the crap we had to take
Bombs and basement fallout shelters
]]> 2017-05-18 10:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172533461 "Never Again" - Remedy haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172533989 About the Holocaust in WWll
Feel this
To all those races, colors, and creeds, every man bleeds for the
Countless victims and all their families of
The murdered, tortured and slaved, raped, robbed and persecuted
Never Again, To the men, women, and children
Who died in their struggle to survive, never to be forgotten
Reuven Ben Menachum, yo..

Yo my own blood, dragged through the mud
Perished in my heart still cherished and loved
Stripped of our pride, everything we lived for
Families cried, there's no where to run to, no where to hide
Tossed to the side, Access denied
6 million died for what? Yo a man shot dead in his back
Helpless women and children under constant attack
For no reason, till the next season, and we still bleeding
Yo it's freezing, And men burn in hell, some for squeezing
No hope for a remedy, nothing to believe
Moving targets who walk with the star in their sleeve
Forever marked wit a number, tattooed to your body
]]> 2017-05-18 10:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172533989 "Palace Of Versailles" - Al Stewart haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172534555 Compares the French Revolution and rise of Napoleon with the 1968 student riots

The wands of smoke are rising
From the walls of the Bastille
And through the streets of Paris
Runs a sense of the unreal

The Kings have all departed
There servants are nowhere
We burned out their mansions
In the name of Robespierre

And still we wait
To see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Inside the midnight councils
The lamps are burning low
Oh you sit and talk all through the night
But there's just no place to go

And Bonaparte is coming
With his army from the south
Marat your days are numbered
And we live hand to mouth
]]> 2017-05-18 10:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/172534555 "Pompeii" - Bastille haizea_yeregui https://padlet.com/haizea_yeregui/deyaqpjytaug/wish/174215162 The destruction of the ancient city of Pompeii is used as a metaphore to describe the relationship of the speaker

I was left to my own devices
Many days fell away with nothing to show

And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
How am I going to be an optimist about this?
How am I going to be an optimist about this?

We were caught up and lost in all of our vices
In your pose as the dust settled around us

And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above

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