THE WORLD'S BEST POLITICAL SONGS LIST

Compiled by Prof. Taylor E. Dark, Department of Political Science, California State University, Los Angeles.
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My goal is to develop the most comprehensive list of political songs possible, regardless of quality or orientation.
Therefore, listing here does not necessarily indicate approval of any song's political message.


Last Update: Aug. 22, 2010.
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Background: Wikipedia on protest songs; Wikipedia on music and politics; Wikipedia list of anti-war songs; New Statesman List of Top 20 Political Songs; National Review List of the 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs;
Critique of 50 Conservative Songs List (PDF)

Lyrics Sites: http://www.metrolyrics.com; http://www.songlyrics.com; http://www.lyrics.com; http://www.sing365.com/index.html.

Alphabetized by Performer Alphabetized by Title
A
After the Fire, Der Kommissar
The Allman Brothers, The Whipping Post
Trace Adkins, Arlington
Anti-Flag, Seattle Was a Riot
Rodney Atkins, These Are My People





































A
The Age of Aquarius, The Fifth Dimension
Abraham, Martin and John, Dion
Abraham, Martin, and John, Bon Jovi
Abraham, Martin, and John, Marvin Gaye
Africa Unite, Bob Marley
All These Things That I've Done, The Killers
All You Can Eat, Ben Folds
Amani, Beyond
Ambush in the Night, Bob Marley
Armalite Rifle, Gang Of Four
America, Waylon Jennings
America, Simon and Garfunkel
America, Neil Diamond
America, Fuck Yeah, Team America
America First, Merle Haggard
In America, Charlie Daniels
America the Beautiful, Lee Greenwood
America the Beautiful, Charlie Rich
The American, Simple Minds
American Boy Soldier, Edgar Broughton Band
American Idiot, Green Day

American Pie, Don McLean
American Remains, The Highwaymen
An American Trilogy, Elvis Presley
American Tune, Paul Simon
Americana, The Offspring
"Anti-Vietnam War Communist Song," Knutna Nävar

Angel's Punishment, Lacuna Coil
The Anti-Fascist Action Song, The Oppressed
Arbeiter, Bauern, Ernst Busch
Arlington, Trade Adkins
Amazing Grace, Judy Collins
Allentown, Billy Joel
Angry Young Man, Billy Joel
Alabama, Neil Young
Another Day in Paradise, Phil Collins
Are the Good Times Really Over, Merle Haggard
Army Dreamers, Kate Bush
Army of the Damned, Pythia
Ashes of the Wake, Lamb of God
At My Job, Dead Kennedys
Attack of the Peacekeepers, Jello Biafra and D.O.A.
Attica State, John Lennon

B
Bad Religion, The Voice of God is Government
The Beach Boys, Student Demonstration Time
The Beatles, Taxman
The Beatles, Revolution
The Band, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Joan Baez, Here's to You, Nicola and Bart
Joan Baez, Battle Hymn of the Republic
Joan Baez, Birmingham Sunday
Joan Baez, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Joan Baez, Joe Hill
Joan Baez, With God on Our Side
Joan Baez, The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
Joan Baez, Saigon Bride
Joan Baez, We Shall Overcome
The Beat, Stand Down Margaret
Beyond, Amani
Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon, Love Me, I'm a Liberal
Jello Biafra and D.O.A., Attack of the Peacekeepers
Wolf Biermann, Soldat, Soldat
The Black Crowes, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Black Sabbath, War Pigs
Black Sabbath, Electric Funeral
Black Eyed Peas, Power to the People
Black Eyed Peas, Where is the Love?
Blue Scholars, Blink
Bon Jovi, Abraham, Martin, and John
Billy Bragg, The Internationale
Billy Bragg, I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
Billy Bragg, My Youngest Son Came Home Today
Edie Brickell, A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall
Brooks and Dunn, Only in America
Edgar Broughton Band, American Boy Soldier
Jackson Browne, For America
Jackson Browne, The Drums of War
Jackson Browne, Lives in the Balance
James Brown, Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud

Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth
Eric Burdon and the Animals, Sky Pilot
Kate Bush, Army Dreamers
The Byrds, Ballad of Easy Rider
The Byrds, My Back Pages
The Byrds, I Wasn't Born to Follow
The Byrds, Chimes of Freedom
The Byrds, Deportee
The Byrds, He Was a Friend of Mine
Ernst Busch, Arbeiter, Bauern
Ernst Busch, Die Thälmann Kolonne (La Columna Thaelmann)
David Bowie, Heroes

B
Babylon System, Bob Marley
Back to the Country
Ball of Confusion, The Temptations
Ballad of a Thin Man, Bob Dylan
Ballad of Easy Rider, The Byrds
Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Joan Baez
Ballad for Americans, Paul Robeson (lyrics)
Ballad of the Green Beret, Barry Sadler
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Whitney Houston
Battle Hymn Of The Republic, Jim Nabors
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Orson Welles
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Joan Baez
Beds Are Burning, Midnight Oil
Bella Ciao
Bella Ciao, Chumbawamba
Berlin, Peter Schilling
Big Brother, Stevie Wonder
Big Yellow Taxi, Counting Crows
Biko, Peter Gabriel
Billy, Don't be a Hero, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
Birmingham Sunday, Joan Baez
Black and White, Three Dog Night
Blink, Blue Scholars
Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan (Joan Baez)
Blowin' in the Wind, Dob Dylan (Peter, Paul, Mary)
Blue Collar Man, Styx
Bombs Away, The Police
Bombs Over Baghdad, Outkast
Born on the Fourth of July, Tom Paxton
Born on the Fourth of July, John Williams
Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen
Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
Burn America Burn, The Levellers
Buffalo Soldier, Bob Marley
Bullet in the Head, Rage Against the Machine
Burn One Down, Ben Harper
Bush Was Right, The Right Brothers








 



C
Mary Chapin Carpenter, He Thinks He'll Keep Her
Johnny Cash, Ragged Old Flag
Johnny Cash, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Johnny Cash, Song of the Patriot
Johnny Cash, What is Truth
Harry Chapin, She Is Always Seventeen
Tracy Chapman, Talkin bout a Revolution
Chicago, Harry Truman
Choking Victim, Fuck America
Chumbawamba, Enough is Enough
Chumbawamba, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
Chumbawamba, The Day the Nazi Died
Chumbawamba, Bella Ciao
Chumbawamba, Come on Baby, Let's Do the Revolution
The Clash, London Calling
The Clash, Ivan Meets GI Joe
The Clash, Rock the Casbah
The Clash, Charlie Don't Surf
The Clash, Clampdown
The Clash, The Call Up
The Clash, Washington Bullets

The Clash, The Magnificent Seven
The Clash, Death and Glory
The Clash, White Riot
The Clash, Guns of Brixton
The Clash, Spanish Bombs
The Clash, Revolution Rock
The Clash, Lost in the Supermarket
The Clash, Death is a Star
The Clash, Something About England
Jimmy Cliff, Vietnam
Bruce Cockburn, If I Had a Rocket Launcher
David Allen Coe, Longhaired Redneck
Leonard Cohen, Democracy
Leonard Cohen, The Partisan
Lacuna Coil, Angel's Punishment
Judy Collins, Amazing Grace
Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come

Elvis Costello, Shipbuilding
Elvis Costello, Oliver's Army
Counting Crows, Big Yellow Taxi
Country Joe McDonald, Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die
Coven, One Tin Soldier
The Cranberries, Zombie
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Run Through the Jungle
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Chicago
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Woodstock
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Wooden Ships
Phil Collins, Another Day in Paradise
Billy Ray Cyrus, Some Gave All

C
Ca Ira, Edith Piaf
California Uber Alles, The Dead Kennedys
Calypso, John Denver
The Call Up, The Clash
Cancion del Poder Popular, Inti Illimani
Catch Me Now, I'm Falling, The Kinks
A Change is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke
Charlie Don't Surf, The Clash
Chicago, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Chimes of Freedom, The Byrds
Chimes of Freedom, Bruce Springsteen
Citizen Soldier, 3 Doors Down
Civil War, Guns N' Roses
Clampdown, The Clash

Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn
Come on Baby, Let's Do the Revolution, Chumbawamba
Condi, Condi, Steve Earle
Cop Killer, Ice-T
Cortez the Killer, Neil Young
A Country Boy Can Survive, Hank Williams, Jr.
Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue, Toby Keith
Cry Freedom, Dave Matthews Band
Cult of Personality, Living Colour









 




















D
Charlie Daniels, Uneasy Rider
Charlie Daniels, This Ain't No Rag It's A Flag
Charlie Daniels, South's Gonna Do It Again
Charlie Daniels, In America
Charlie Daniels, Simple Man
Tony Danza, The House I Live In
Bobby Darin, Simple Song of Freedom|
Dead Kennedys, Let's Kill the Poor

Dead Kennedys, Holiday in Cambodia

Dead Kennedys, California Uber Alles
Dead Kennedys, Terminal Preppie
Dead Kennedys, Stars and Stripes of Corruption
Dead Kennedys, At My Job
Dead Kennedys, Goons of Hazzard
Death in June, Death of the West
Franz-Josef Degenhardt, Sacco & Vanzetti
John Denver, Calypso
Kevin Devine, No Time Flat
Neil Diamond, America
Marlene Dietrich, Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Dion, Abraham, Martin and John
Dire Straits, Money for Nothing
Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
The Dixie Chicks, Not Ready to Make Nice
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Billy Don't be a Hero
Donovan, Universal Soldier
The Doors, The Unknown Soldier
Bob Dylan, George Jackson
Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve Somebody
Bob Dylan, Hurricane
Bob Dylan, License to Kill
Bob Dylan, Political World
Bob Dylan, Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Bob Dylan, Union Sundown
Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man
Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan, Talkin' World War III Blues
Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall
Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a Changin'
Bob Dylan, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol

D
Dangerous Game, Three Doors Down
The Day the Nazi Died, Chumbawamba
Dear God, XTC
Death and Glory, The Clash
Death is a Star, The Clash
Death of the West, Death in June
Deja Vu, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young
Democracy, Leonard Cohen
Deportee, The Byrds
Deportee, Arlo Guthrie
Deutschland Uber Alles
Der Kommissar, After the Fire
Die Fahne Hoch, Horst Wessel
Die Thälmann Kolonne (La Columna Thaelmann), Ernst Busch
Dixie, sung by Lee Greenwood
Do the Evolution, Pearl Jam
Do You Hear the People Sing, Les Miserables
Don't Tread on Me, Metallica
Draft Resister, Steppenwolf
I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night, Billy Bragg
The Drums of War, Jackson Browne













 






E
Steve Earle, Condi, Condi
Steve Earle, Rich Man's War
Steve Earle, John Walker's Blues
Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts Now
Steve Earle, Warrior
Eminem, Mosh
Europe, The Final Countdown
The Exploited, Fuck the USA




E
The Eagle, Waylon Jennings
El Salvador, Peter, Paul & Mary
Electioneering, Radiohead
Electric Funeral, Black Sabbath
Enough is Enough, Chumbawamba
Eton Rifles, The Jam
Eve Of Destruction, Barry McGuire
Eve of Destruction, The Pogues
Evil Empire, Rage Against the Machine
El Pueblo Unido, Inti Illimani
Everyday People, Sly and the Family Stone

F
Faithless, Mass Destruction
Donna Fargo, Sign of the Times
Fear, Let's Have a War
The Fifth Dimension, The Age of Aquarius
Toni Fisher, West of the Wall
Aretha Franklin/Annie Lennox, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
Five Man Electrical Band, Signs
Flobots, Rise
Ben Folds, All You Can Eat
4 Non Blondes, What's Up
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sixteen Tons
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Two Tribes
Fugazi, KYEO
The Fugs, Kill for Peace



F
Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die, Country Joe McDonald
The Fight Song, Marilyn Manson
Fight the Power, Public Enemy
The Fightin' Side of Me, Merle Haggard
For America, Jackson Browne

The Final Countdown, Europe
For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield
Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Oh Freedom, The Princely Players
Freedom, Richie Havens
Freedom, Rage Against the Machine
Free Nelson Mandela, The Specials
Fuck America, Choking Victim
Fuck the USA, The Exploited
Fuck the Police, Rage Against the Machine
Fuck the Police, N.W.A.

G
Peter Gabriel, Biko
Gang Of Four, Armalite Rifle
Gang of Four, I Love a Man in Uniform
Marvin Gaye, Abraham, Martin, and John
Marvin Gaye, Inner City Blues
Marvin Gaye, Mercy, Mercy Me
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
Green Day, Minority
Green Day, American Idiot
Green Day, Working Class Hero
Green Day, 21 Days
Lee Greenwood, The Pledge of Allegiance
Lee Greenwood, God Bless the USA
Lee Greenwood, US National Anthem
Lee Greenwood, America the Beautiful
Lee Greenwood, The Great Defenders

Lee Greenwood, Dixie
The Guess Who, Share the Land
Guns N' Roses, Civil War
Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger, This Land is Your Land
Arlo Guthrie, Victor Jara
Arlo Guthrie, Deportee

G
George Jackson, Bob Dylan
Get Together, The Youngbloods
Give Peace a Chance, John Lennon

Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, Chumbawamba
God Bless the USA, Lee Greenwood
God Save the Queen, The Sex Pistols
Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones
Godzilla, Blue Oyster Cult
Goodnight Saigon, Billy Joel
Goons of Hazzard, Dead Kennedys
Gotta Serve Somebody, Bob Dylan
Grandma, The Right Wing Radical from Hell
The Great Compromise, John Prine
The Great Defenders, Lee Greenwood
The Great Nations of Europe, Randy Newman
Guerilla Radio, Rage Against the Machine
Guns of Brixton, The Clash







H
Sammy Hagar, VOAs
Sammy Hagar, Remember the Heroes

Merle Haggard, Are the Good Times Really Over

Merle Haggard, Working Man's Blues
Merle Haggard, America First
Merle Haggard, The Fightin' Side of Me
Merle Haggard, Okie from Muskogee
Ben Harper, Burn One Down
Richie Havens, Freedom
Richie Havens, What's Going On
Richie Havens, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Heaven 17, We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang
Gil Scott-Heron, Whitey on the Moon
Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Highwaymen, American Remains
Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit
Bruce Hornsby, The Way it Is
Whitney Houston, Battle Hymn Of The Republic
Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again



H
Happy Days Are Here Again, Ben Selvin and the Crooners
Happy Days Are Here Again, Barbara Streisand
A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, cover by Edie Brickell
Harry Truman, Chicago
The Hands That Built America, U2
Hasta Siempre, Comandante Che Guevara
Have you Ever Seen the Rain? Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Forgotten, Darryl Worley
He Thinks He'll Keep Her, Mary Chapin Carpenter
He Was a Friend of Mine, The Byrds
He Was My Brother, Simon and Garfunkel
Head Like a Hole, Nine Inch Nails
Here's to You, Nicola and Bart, Joan Baez
Here's to You, Nicola and Bart, Deliah Lavi
Hippie from Olema, The Youngbloods
Holiday in Cambodia, The Dead Kennedys
The House I Live In, Tony Danza
The House I Live In, Paul Robeson
The House I Live In, Frank Sinatra
The House I Live In, Patty LaBelle
Hurricane, Bob Dylan
Hymn der DDR
Hymn To Red October, Basil Poledouris
Heroes, David Bowie

I
Janis Ian, Society's Child
Ice-T, Cop Killer
Inti Illimani, El Pueblo Unido
Inti Illimani, Simon Bolivar
Inti Illimani, Si Somos Americanos
Inti Illimani, Venceremos
Inti Illimani, Cancion del Poder Popular
Iron Maiden, These Colors Don't Run

















I
I Ain't a Marching Anymore, Phil Ochs
I am Woman, Helen Reddy
I Like Guns, Steve Lee
I Want to Break Free, Queen
I Wasn't Born to Follow, The Byrds
I'd Love to Change the World, Ten Years After
If I Had a Hammer, Peter, Paul & Mary
If I Had a Rocket Launcher, Bruce Cockburn
I've Got Rights, Hank Williams, Jr.
Imagine, John Lennon
In Germany Before the War, Randy Newman
In the Ghetto, Elvis Presley
In the Year 2525, Zager and Evans
In the Name of Love, U2
The Internationale, sung by Billy Bragg

The Internationale, in Russian, from "Reds"
The Internationale in Chinese
The Internationale, in French
The Internationale, instrumental
The Internationale, in Hungarian
The Internationale, in Russian
Invisible Sun, The Police
Inner City Blues, Marvin Gaye
Ivan Meets GI Joe, The Clash
Indian Reservation, Paul Revere and the Raiders

J
Alan Jackson, Where Were You When the World Stop Turning
Joe Jackson, Sunday Papers
Michael Jackson, They Don't Care About Us
The Jam, Eton Rifles
Jay and the Americans, Only in America
Wyclef Jean, War No More
Jefferson Airplane, Lather
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers
Jefferson Airplane, We Can Be Together
Jefferson Airplane, Wooden Ships
Waylon Jennings, The Eagle
Waylon Jennings, America
Billy Joel, Allentown
Billy Joel, Goodnight Saigon
Billy Joel, Angry Young Man
Blue Oyster Cult, Godzilla

J
Jackson-Kent Blues, Steve Miller Band
Joe Hill, Joan Baez
John Walker's Blues, Steve Earle
Johnny Has Gone to a Soldier, James Taylor












K
Toby Keith, Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue
Toby Keith, The Taliban Song
The Killers, All These Things That I've Done
The Kingston Trio, M.T.A.
The Kinks, Catch Me Now, I'm Falling
Кино-Виктор Цой, война
Knutna Nävar, "Anti-Vietnam War Communist Song"
Kris Kristofferson, The Law is for the Protection of the People

K
Keep Ya Head Up, Tupac

Kill for Peace, The Fugs
Kill the Poor, The Dead Kennedys
Killing in the Name, Rage Against the Machine
KYEO, Fugazi



L
Patti Labelle, The House I Live In
Lamb of God, Ashes of the Wake
Daliah Lavi, Here's to You, Nicola and Bart
Steve Lee, I Like Guns
John Lennon, Attica State
John Lennon, Working Class Hero
John Lennon, Give Peace a Chance
John Lennon, Imagine
John Lennon, Power to the People
John Lennon, Sisters O Sisters
The Levellers, Burn America Burn
The Levellers, Liberty Song
Claude de Lisle, La Marseillaise
Living Colour, Cult of Personality
Loretta Lynn, The Pill
Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner's Daughter



L
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Simon and Garfunkel
Lather, Jefferson Airplane
Lawyers, Gun, and Money, Warren Zevon
Let American Be American Again, Lanston Hughes
Let's Have a War, Fear
Liberty Song, The Levellers
License to Kill, Bob Dylan
Light One Candle, Peter, Paul & Mary
Little Boxes, Pete Seeger
Living in the Promiseland, Willie Nelson

Lives in the Balance, Jackson Browne
London Calling, The Clash
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Bob Dylan
Longhaired Redneck, David Alan Coe
Look for the Union Label
Los Angeles, X
Lost in the Supermarket, The Clash
Love Me, I'm a Liberal, Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon
Love Train, The O'Jays

M
Marilyn Manson, The Fight Song
Bob Marley, Africa Unite
Bob Marley, Ambush in the Night
Bob Marley, Babylon System
Bob Marley, One Drop
Bob Marley, Survival
Bob Marley, Buffalo Soldier
Bob Marley, Redemption Song
Bob Marley, Ride Natty Ride
Bob Marley, So Much Trouble in the World
Bob Marley, Top Rankin'
Bob Marley, We and Dem
Bob Marley, Zimbabwe
Dave Matthews Band, Cry Freedom
Barry McGuire, Eve Of Destruction
Don McLean, American Pie
James McMurty, We Can't Make It Here Anymore
John Mellencamp, Our Country
John Mellencamp, To Washington
Metallica, Don't Tread on Me
Midnight Oil, Beds Are Burning
Steve Miller Band, Never Kill Another Man
Steve Miller Band, Jackson-Kent Blues
Les Miserables, Do You Hear the People Sing?
Christy Moore, Victor Jara

M
The Magnificent Seven, The Clash

A Man in Uniform, Gang of Four
Mass Destruction, Faithless
Masters of War cover
Masters of War, Eddie Vedder
Meat is Murder, The Smiths
Mi Patria, Quilapayan
Mr. Lincoln, Hank Williams Jr.
Le Marseillaise, Claude de Lisle
Monster-Suicide-America, Steppenwolf

Mosh, Eminem
My Back Pages, The Byrds
Mercy, Mercy Me, Marvin Gaye
Minority, Green Day
Mississippi Goddam, Nina Simone
Money, Pink Floyd
Money for Nothing, Dire Straits
M.T.A., Kingston Trio
My Youngest Son Came Home Today, Billy Bragg






N
Jim Nabors, Battle Hymn Of The Republic
Willie Nelson, Living in the Promiseland
Nena, 99 Red Balloons
Randy Newman, In Germany Before the War
Randy Newman, Political Science
Randy Newman, Rednecks
Randy Newman, The Great Nations of Europe
Thunderclap Newman, Something In the Air
Nightwish, 10th Man Down
Nine Inch Nails, Head Like a Hole
N.W.A., Fuck the Police
N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton

N
National Anthem, USA, Lee Greenwood
Never Kill Another Man, Steve Miller Band
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Black Crowes
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Band
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Johnny Cash
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Joan Baez
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Richie Havens
The Night They Drive Old Dixe Down, Karaoke Style!
99 Red Balloons, Nena
No Easy Walk to Freedom, Peter, Paul, and Mary
No Time Flat, Kevin Devine
Not Ready to Make Nice, The Dixie Chicks

O
Phil Ochs, Power and Glory
Phil Ochs, I Ain't a Marching Anymore
Phil Ochs, The Ringing of Revolution
Phil Ochs, What Are You Fighting For
The O'Jays, Love Train
The Offspring, Americana
Outkast, Bombs Over Baghdad

The Oppressed, The Anti-Fascist Action Song

O
Ohio, Neil Young
Okie from Muskogee, Merle Haggard
Oliver's Army, Elvis Costello
One Drop, Bob Marley
One Tin Soldier, Coven
Only in America, Brook and Dunn
Only in America, Jay and the Americans
Our Country, John Mellencamp

P
Dolly Parton, Working 9 to 5
Tom Paxton, Born on the Fourth of July
Johnny Paycheck, Take This Job and Shove It
Pearl Jam, World Wide Suicide
Pearl Jam, Do the Evolution
Peter, Paul & Mary, If I Had A Hammer
Peter, Paul & Mary, El Salvador
Peter, Paul & Mary, No Easy Walk to Freedom
Peter, Paul & Mary, Light One Candle
Peter, Paul & Mary, Blowin' in the Wind
Edith Piaf, Ca Ira
Pink Floyd, Money
Pink Floyd, The Wall
Basil Poledouris, Hymn To Red October
Prince, Sign of the Times
John Prine, The Great Compromise
Prussian Blue, Skinhead Boy
The Pogues, Eve of Destruction
Public Enemy, Fight the Power

Public Enemy, Shut 'Em Down
Public Enemy, Revolution
Elvis Presley, An American Trilogy
Elvis Presley, In the Ghetto
The Police, Invisible Sun
The Police, Bombs Away
The Prodigy, Their Law
The Princely Prayers, Oh Freedom
Pythia, Army of the Damned

P
The Partisan, Leonard Cohen
Peace Train, Cat Stevens
People Have the Power, Patti Smith
People Got to Be Free, The Rascals
The Pill, Loretta Lynn
Piss Factory, Patti Smith
The Pledge of Allegiance, Lee Greenwood
Political Science, Randy Newman
Political World, Bob Dylan
Polyushka Polye, Russian Red Army Choir
Power and Glory, Phil Ochs
Power to the People, John Lennon
Power to the People, Black Eyed Peas















Q
Queen, I Want to Break Free
Queensryche, Revolution Calling
Quilapayan, Mi Patria
Q



R
Radiohead, Electioneering

Rage Against the Machine, Killing in the Name
Rage Against the Machine, Bullet in the Head
Rage Against the Machine, Freedom
Rage Against the Machine, Guerilla Radio
Rage Against the Machine, Take the Power Back
Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine, Wake Up
Rage Against the Machine, War Within a Breath
Rage Against the Machine, Voice of the Voiceless
Rage Against the Machine, Fuck The Police
The Rascals, People Got to Be Free
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Throw Away Your Television
Helen Reddy, I am Woman
Paul Revere and the Raiders, Indian Reservation
Charlie Rich, America the Beautiful
The Right Brothers, Bush was Right
Paul Robeson, Ballad for Americans (lyrics)
Paul Robeson, The House I Live In
Paul Robeson, Soviet National Anthem in English
Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil
Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man
Russian Red Army Choir, Polyushka Polye
Rush, The Trees

R
Racist Friend, The Special AKA
Ragged Old Flag, Johnny Cash
Red, White, and Blue, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Redemption Song, Bob Marley
Redneck, Randy Newman
Remember the Heroes, Sammy Hagar
Revolution Calling, Queensryche
Revolution Rock, The Clash
Revolution, Toots and the Maytals
Revolution, Public Enemy
Revolution, The Beatles
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott Heron

The Revolution Starts Now, Steve Earle
Rich Man's War, Steve Earle
Richard Cory, Simon and Garfunkel
Ride Natty Ride, Bob Marley
Ringing of Revolution, Phil Ochs
Rise, Flobots
Roads to Moscow, Al Stewart
Rock the Casbah, The Clash
Rockin in the Free World, Neil Young
Run Through the Jungle, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Russians, Sting


S
Barry Sadler, Ballad of the Green Beret
Scorpions, Wind Of Change

Peter Schilling, Berlin
Pete Seeger, Little Boxes
Pete Seeger, We Shall Overcome
Pete Seeger, What Did You Learn In School?

Pete Seeger, Solidarity Forever
Pete Seeger, Talking Union
Pete Seeger, Which Side Are You On

Ben Selvin and the Crooners, Happy Days are Here Again
Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen
Paul Simon, American Tune
Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddam
Simon and Garfunkel, 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
Simon and Garfunkel, The Times They Are A-Changin'
Simon and Garfunkel, America
Simon and Garfunkel, Richard Cory
Simon and Garfunkel, He Was My Brother
Simon and Garfunkel, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
Simple Minds, The American
Frank Sinatra, The House I Live In
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Red, White, and Blue
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sweet Home Alabama
Sly and the Family Stone, Stand!
Sly and the Family Stone, Everyday People
Sonic Youth, Swimsuit Issue
The Smiths, Meat is Murder
Edwin Starr, War
Cat Stevens, Peace Train
Al Stewart, Roads to Moscow
Barbara Streisand, Happy Days Are Here Again
Styx, Blue Collar Man
Steppenwolf, Draft Resister
Steppenwolf, Monster-Suicide-America
Patti Smith, Piss Factory
Patti Smith, People Have the Power
The Specials, Free Nelson Mandela
The Special AKA, Racist Friend
Bruce Springsteen, This Land is Your Land
Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA
Bruce Springsteen, Chimes of Freedom
Ray Stevens, Surfin' USSR
Sting, Russians
Supertramp, The Logical Song







S
Sacco & Vanzetti, Franz-Josef Degenhardt
Saigon Bride, Joan Baez
Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud, James Brown
Seattle Was a Riot, Anti-Flag
7 O'Clock News/Silent Night, Simon and Garfunkel
Share the Land, The Guess Who
She is Always Seventeen, Harry Chapin
Shipbuilding, Elvis Costello
Shut 'Em Down, Public Enemy
Si Somos Americanos, Inti Illimani
Sign of the Times, Prince
Sign of the Times, Donna Fargo
Signs, Five Man Electrical Band
Simon Bolivar, Inti Illimani
Simple Song of Freedom, Bobby Darin
Simple Man, Charlie Daniels
Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Sisters o Sisters, John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Skinhead Boy, Prussian Blue
Sky Pilot, Eric Burdon and the Animals
Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves, Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox
So Much Trouble in the World, Bob Marley
Socialist World Republic

Society, Eddie Vedder
Society's Child, Janis Ian
Soldat, Soldat, Wolf Biermann
Solidarity Forever, Pete Seeger
Some Gave All, Billy Ray Cyrus
Something About England, The Clash
Song of the Patriot, Johnny Cash
South's Gonna Do It Again, Charlie Daniels
Southern Man, Neil Young
Soviet National Anthem
Soviet National Anthem in English, Paul Robeson
Soviet Pioneer Song: May There Always Be Sunshine
Spanish Bombs, The Clash
Stand! Sly and the Family Stone
Stars and Stripes of Corruption, The Dead Kennedys
Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday
Student Demonstration Time, The Beach Boys
Sweet Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Something in the Air, Thunderclap Newman
Stand Down Margaret, The Beat
Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A.
Street Fighting Man, Rolling Stones
Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2
Sunday Papers, Joe Jackson
Surfin' USSR, Ray Stevens
Survival, Bob Marley
Swimsuit Issue, Sonic Youth
Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones

T
James Taylor, Johnny Has Gone to a Soldier
Team America, America, Fuck, Yeah
Ten Years After, I'd Love to Change the World
3 Doors Down, Dangerous Game
3 Doors Down, Citizen Soldier
3 Doors Down, When I'm Gone
The Temptations, Ball of Confusion
Three Dog Night, Black and White
Aaron Tippin, Where The Stars And Stripes And Eagles Fly
Toots and the Maytals, Revolution
Tupac, Keep Ya Head Up

















T
Take the Power Back, Rage Against the Machine
Take This Job and Shove It, Johnny Paycheck
The Taliban Song, Toby Keith
Talking Union, Pete Seeger
Taxman, The Beatles
Talkin' John Birch Society Blues, Bob Dylan
Talkin' World War III Blues, Bob Dylan
Talkin 'Bout a Revolution, Tracy Chapman
The Law is for the Protection of the People, Kris Kristofferson

10th Man Down, Nightwish
Terminal Preppie, The Dead Kennedys
The Logical Song, Supertramp
The Times They Are A-Changin', Eddie Vedder
The Times They Are A-Changin', Simon and Garfunkel
The Trees, Rush
Their Law, The Prodigy
These Are My People, Rodney Atkins
These Colors Don't Run, Iron Maiden
They Don't Care About Us, Michael Jackson
This Ain't No Rag It's A Flag, Charlie Daniels
This Land is Your Land, Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger
This Land is Your Land, Bruce Springsteen
Throw Away Your Television, Red Hot Chili Pepper
To Washington, John Mellencamp
Too Late to Apologize
Top Rankin', Bob Marley
21 Days, Green Day
Two Tribes, Frankie Goes to Hollywood

U
U2, The Hands That Built America
U2, In the Name of Love
U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday


U
Uneasy Rider, Charlie Daniels
Union Sundown, Bob Dylan
United States Marine Corp Hymn
Universal Soldier, Donovan
The Unknown Soldier, The Doors
V
Eddie Vedder, The Times They Are A-Changin'
Eddie Vedder, Society
Eddie Vedder, Masters of War



V
Venceremos
Venceremos, Inti Illimani
Victor Jara, Arlo Guthrie
Victor Jara, Christy Moore
Vietnam, Jimmy Cliff
VOA, Sammy Hagar
The Voice of Government, Bad Religion

Voice of the Voiceless, Rage Against the Machine
Volunteers, Jefferson Airplane
война, Кино-Виктор Цой

W
War, Why Can't We Be Friends?
John Wayne, America, Why I Love Her
Orson Welles, Battle Hymn of the Republic
Horst Wessel, Die Fahne Hoch
The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again
will.i.am, Yes, We Can (Obama Song)
Hank Williams, Jr., A Country Boy Can Survive
Hank Williams, Jr., Mr. Lincoln
Hank Williams, Jr., I've Got Rights
John Williams, Born on the Fourth of July
Stevie Wonder, Big Brother
Stevie Wonder, You Haven't Done Nothing
Darryl Worley, Have You Forgotten?






























W
Wake Up, Rage Against the Machine
The Wall, Pink Floyd
War, Edwin Starr
War No More, Wyclef Jean
War Pigs, Black Sabbath
War Within a Breath, Rage Against the Machine
Warrior, Steve Earle
Washington Bullets, The Clash
The Way it Is, Bruce Hornsby
We Can Be Together, Jefferson Airplane
We Can't Make It Here Anymore, James McMurtry
We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang, Heaven 17
We Shall Overcome, Pete Seeger
We Shall Overcome, Joan Baez
We and Dem, Bob Marley
West of the Wall, Toni Fisher
What Are You Fighting For, Phil Ochs
What Did You Learn In School? Pete Seeger
What is Truth, Johnny Cash
What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
What's Going On, Richie Havens
What's Up, 4 Non Blondes
When I'm Gone, 3 Doors Down
Where is the Love, Black Eyed Peas

Where The Stars And Stripes And Eagles Fly, Aaron Tippin
Which Side Are You On, Pete Seeger
The Whipping Post, The Allman Brothers
White Riot, The Clash
Whitey on the Moon, Gil Scott-Heron
Why Can't We Be Friends, War
Wind Of Change,Scorpions
With God on Our Side, Joan Baez
Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Marlene Dietrich
Where Were You When the World Stop Turning, Alan Jackson
Why I Love Her, John Wayne
Wooden Ships, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Wooden Ships, Jefferson Airplane
Woodstock, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who
Working Class Hero, John Lennon
Working Class Hero, Green Day
Working Man's Blues, Merle Haggard
Working 9 to 5, Dolly Parton
World Wide Suicide, Pearl Jam

X
X, Los Angeles
XTC, Dear God

X


Y
Neil Young, Alabama
Neil Young, Cortez the Killer
Neil Young, Ohio
Neil Young, Southern Man
Neil Young, Rockin in the Free World
The Youngbloods, Get Together
The Youngbloods, Hippie from Olema

Y
Yes, We Can (Obama Song), will.i.am
You Haven't Done Nothing, Stevie Wonder




Z
Zager and Evans, In the Year 2525
Warren Zevon, Lawyers, Gun, and Money
Z
Zimbabwe, Bob Marley

Zombie, The Cranberries

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