A recoger tomillo, zagales

Wild Mountain Thyme

Oh, the summer time is coming
And the leaves are sweetly turning
And the wild mountain thyme
Blooms across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go

If you will not go with me
I will surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go

The Byrds

Los topillos, los gatos y los perrillos

The people are scratching

Come fill up your glasses and set yourselves down
I'll tell you a story of somebody's town
It isn't too near and it's not far away
It's not a place where I'd want to stay

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

The winter came in with a cold icy blast
It killed off the flowers and killed off the grass
The rabbits were starving because of the freeze
They started eating the bark off the trees

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

The farmers said, "This sort of thing just won't do
Our trees will be dead when the rabbits get through
We'll have to poison the rabbits, it's clear;
Or we'll have no crops to harvest next year"

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

So they brought the poison and spread it around
And soon dead rabbits began to be found
Dogs ate the rabbits and the farmers just said,
"We'll poison those rabbits 'til the last dog is dead"

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

Up in the sky there were meat-eating fowls
The dead rabbits poisoned the hawks and the owls
Thousands of field mice the hawks used to chase
Were multiplying all over the place.

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

The fields and the meadows were barren and brown
The mice got hungry and moved into town
The city folks took the farmer's advice
And all of them started to poison the mice

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

There were dead mice in all the apartments and flats
The cats ate the mice and the mice killed the cats
The smell was awful and I'm glad to say
I wasn't the man hired to haul them away

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat.

All through the country and all through the town
There wasn't a dog or cat to be found.
The fleas asked each other, "Where can we stay?"
They've been on the people from then 'til this day

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

All you small creatures that live in this land
Stay clear of the man with the poisonous hand!
A few bails of hay might keep you alive
But he'll pay more to kill you than let you survive

Now the people are scratching all over the street
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat

performed by Pete Seeger

It ain't true that everybody's got a price

Star

Are you solid?
Are you solid as a rock?
Have you a strong foundation
Or can your soul be bought
It ain't true that
Everybody's got a price
I sing this song for everyone
Who stands up for their rights

Every brother is a star, every sister is a star
Every brother is a star, every sister is a star

Sister Rosa, Malcolm X, and Dr king
Showed we got power, showed the changes we could bring
To change society, you have got to change the law
Their bodies may be gone but their spirits still live on

Every brother is a star, every sister is a star
Every brother is a star, every sister is a star

Rebels souls!
For the dreamers, rebels souls and future days
Be brave and strong, keep keeping on,
be conscious in the chaos
Queen of England, there's no greater anarchist*
One mans freedom fighter is another's terrorist

Every brother is a star, every sister is a star
Every brother is a star, every sister is a star
Every brother is a star, every sister is a star
Every brother is a star, every sister is a star

Primal Scream

* Personilla Pristinila loves this song, but still desagrees with this unfortunate sentence.

El ritmo está en la sangre

Shakin' Street

Little Orphan Annie and sweet Sue too
They've been coming around
Gives 'em somethin' to do
Their mamas all warned 'em not to come to town
It got into their blood
Now they gonna get down

Shakin' street, it's got that beat
Shakin' street, where all the kids meet
Shakin' street, it's got that sound
Shakin' street, say you gotta get down

Streetlight Sammy decided to make the trip
All the way from New Jersey on his girlfriend's tip
He pulled into town and met skinny leg Pete
Said, "Come here, boy, I heard about the streets"
I heard about the place where all the kids go
Now, I'm a about to flip, by just gotta know about

The shakin' street, it's got that beat
Shakin' Street, where all the kids meet
Shakin' street, it's got that sound
Shakin' street, say you gotta get down

Well the kids on shakin' street never give in
'Cause all of their lives they've been livin' in sin
You know that they're bad
You know that they're mad
They take for the takin'
And they shake for the shakin'

Shakin', shakin', shakin'

The folks keep complaining they find it so shockin'
All the kids wanna do is just keep on rockin'
They ain't got no time to think about stoppin'
They gotta get down and do a little stompin'
Now Sally Baker wants to shake her shaker
And Bobby C. says he's gonna take her to
  

The shakin' street, it's got that beat
Shakin' street, where all the kids meet
Shakin' street, it's got that sound
Shakin' street, you gotta get down

Shakin' street, it's got that beat
Shakin' street, where all the kids meet
Shakin' street, it's got that sound
Shakin' street, say you gotta get down

MC5

The more you ignorme, the closer I get

Always Franco

The more you ignore me, the closer I get
You're wasting your time
The more you ignore me, the closer I get
You're wasting your time

I will be in the bar
With my head on the bar
I am now a central part
Of your mind's landscape
Whether you care or do not
Yeah, I've made up your mind

The more you ignore me, the closer I get
You're wasting your time
The more you ignore me, the closer I get
You're wasting your time

Beware!
I bear more grudges
Than lonely high court judges
When you sleep I will creep into your thoughts
Like a bad debt that you can't pay
Take the easy way and give in
Yeah, and let me in
Oh, let me in
Oh, let me ...
Oh, let me in

It's war, it's war, it's war, it's war, it's war
War, war, war, war

Oh, let me in
Ah, the closer I get
Ah, you're asking for it
Ah, the closer I get
Ooh, the closer I ...

[Song by Morrissey, art by Eugenio Merino]

 

Moralejas:

“Si comprender es imposible, conocer es necesario porque lo sucedido puede volver a suceder, las conciencias pueden ser seducidas y obnubiladas de nuevo, las nuestras también. Por ello, meditar sobre lo que pasó es deber de todos”
Primo Levi

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it”

Edmund Burke

Our welfare on the rich man's hand

They'll Never Keep Us Down

United we stand, divided we fall
For every dime they give us a battle must be fought
So working people use your power the key to liberty
Don't support the rich man's style of luxury

There ain't no way they can ever keep us down
There ain't no way they can ever keep us down
We won't be bought, we won't be sold
To be treated right, well that's our goal
There ain't no way they can ever keep us down

We've been shot, we've been jailed, lord its a sin
Women and children stood right by the men
We've got a union contract that keeps the worker free
They'll never shoot that union out of me

They'll never shoot that union out of me, oh no
They'll never shoot that union out of me
Got a contract in our hand signed by the blood of honest
men
They'll never shoot that union out of me

The power wheel is rolling, rolling right along
The government is keep it going going strong
so working people get your help from your own kind
Your welfare on the rich man's mind

Your welfare on the rich man's mind
Your welfare on the rich man's mind
They want the power in their hands just to keep out of the workers hands
Your welfare on the rich man's mind

They'll never, never, never keep us down
They'll never, never, never keep us down
The cheat, rob and kill but we'll stop that big wheel
They'll never, never, never keep us down

Hazel Dickens