www.davidrovics.com I just saw him for the first time at the protest in Denver. Bought two discs (he charges $12 ) check this man out. New Orleans: Everybody knew that it could happen The likelihood was clear The future was coming And now it’s here They had to fix the levees Because otherwise they’d break On one side was the city Above it was the lake It was in the daily papers In bold letters was the writ What would happen When the Big One hit But every year they cut the funding Just a little more So they could give it to the Army To fight their oil war In National Geographic And the Times-Picayune They forecast the apocalypse Said it was coming soon Preparations must be made, they said Now is the time It was years ago they shouted Inaction was a crime They said the dikes must be improved And the wetlands must be saved But Washington decided Instead they should be paved Because malls were more important Than peoples’ lives So put some gold dust in your eyes And hope no storm arrives New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans Years and years of warning No evacuation plan It was just if the waters rose Just get out if you can There were no buses No one chartered any trains There was no plan to rescue All of those who would remain All the people with no money All the people with no wheels All of those who didn’t hotwire One that they could steal Thousands and thousands of people Abandoned by the state Abandoned by their country Just left to meet their fate New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans And the people died And then they died some more They drowned inside their attics An army of the poor An army of the destitute Who couldn’t get away And the world will remember These sad and awful days When people shouted from their houses Dying on their roofs When people came to find them They were turned back by the troops They died there with no water They died there in the heat They were shot down by the soldiers For trying to find some food to eat New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans And now the city is in ruins A massive toxic sea Scattered through the nation Half a million refugees Here we are In the richest country on the earth Where the color of your skin Determines what your life is worth Where oil is the king Where global warming is ignored Where the very end of life Is the place we’re heading toward Where it’s more than just a metaphor The flooding of the dike And if we don’t stop this madness The whole planet will be like New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans Created September, 2005 and this one off the original name for the Iraq invasion: Operation Iraqi Liberation... what does THAT spell? OIL Operation Iraqi Liberation We’ve got a situation and it calls for a solution That upholds our domination of the planet We’re gonna make our case and we’re gonna make it well But if you don’t like our logic you can can it We’ll use impeccable intelligence from any country in the world As long as we all see eye to eye And if we don’t find quite what we need we know what to do Just look into the camera and lie (Chorus) ‘Cause it’s Operation Iraqi Liberation Tell me, what does that spell Operation Iraqi Liberation O – I – L And we’ll lie about the missiles and the nuclear research We’ll lie about uranium We’ll build military bases and smile for reporters As we give away bubble gum And we’ll lie about bin Laden and his connections with the Saudis And we’ll lie about 9-1-1 And we’ll lie about the Baathists and their connections to Al Qaeda Because we know there’s none (Chorus) And we’ll lie about the North Koreans and we’ll lie about Iran And don’t mention Israel Keep those nuclear weapons out of this song And it will all hold together swell And now we’ll liberate these people, we’ll liberate their money We’ll liberate their soil We’ll liberate their airports, we’ll liberate their harbors And we’ll liberate their oil Created July, 2003 Copyright David Rovics 2003, all rights reserved
nice to see that this forum is its usual exploratory self.... so we can argue about men dead in their graves , whine that we missed the boat while are backs are to the habour? Get curious people! Don't know what cojones are? FIND OUT!
is that copyright correct? 2003? futuristic....oh sorry, i thought that was the NOLA lyrics, looking closer, I see better. (please delete my duplicate posts, something screwing up I guess)
got yer back. I think it's the hang up Skip is attempting to fix soon. (I say delete all people with 0 posts or who have been banned to start getting the bandwidth back) do check him out. his song Fallujah has a really nice guest hip hop artist on it. you can listen to EVERYTHING on the site, free. Sure it's sucky mp3... then check out Jim Paige.
He is quite a good musician, glad this got bumped as I got sidetracked when I posted before, and needed to listen some more. Lots of good songs on his website. I will keep it bookmarked now....
