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  • It's so sad that more than 20 years later this song still reflects some people's current situation. Will we ever learn?

  • Lets burn this motherfucker down and rebuild it from the ground up. Who is with me?

  • just words put into a magical way

  • great song

  • dont ye no traceys the 1

  • RON PAUL 2012!

  • 2011 !!! Still Listening ! And Waiting...

  • thumbs up for waving guy at 1:36

  • absolutely amazing person !! I love her music

    

  • Beautiful Woman

  • What is there NOT to love about this song ???

  • @BipolarBabble some people are just natural debbie downers. they make me sick. blah.

  • @greenrosa99 I'm a bipolar person, and weather it makes you sick, I travel the lows as well as the highs (still trying to figure out how to stay in the middle) !!!

  • gr8 song i cover it many times,thumbs up!

  • i have discography.

    I love this voice.

  • i luv this song

  • takin' about the 1% REVOLUTION

  • She has a beautiful voice! I love the message... the tables are starting to turn..... I certainly hope so! Thank you Tracy for this wonderful song (in your beautiful voice)!!!

  • OCCUPY TOGETHER

    

  • @dynomight12 F.Y.I we are more closely related to apes than monkeys.....chill.

  • @dynomight12 infidels look in ur pants cumskin

  • She's fantastic!

  • OCCUPY EVERYTHING, finally the tables are starting to turn.

  • I remember watching Live Aid on tv with my mum when I was 9, the next Monday she went to Woolworths to buy Tracy's CD - still one of my favourite albums 25 years on.

  • check out my site Goozled.com....it gets no better...

  • The mother fucking anthem. Lets take this place back.

  • occupy wall street

  • obviously whites have viewed this vid cancerous scum

  • @BUCKSHOTBLACK00 Umm.. There are white revolutionaries for social justice too.

  • @PhiloAmericana there called cia agents who secretly try to dismantle our revolutions

  • @Burcakful if you want some political education from music listen to pink floyd !

    Maggie what happend to the post war dream ?

  • 2011 ^^ ... I`m still listening... and hoping... and believe... till the end of my days !

    Gänsehaut Pur !!!

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  • If you like this video you will luv my site Goozled.com

  • 10 people have got wax in their ears and shit in their eyes

  • (Claps)

  • I love this live version... She has a great voice...

  • Breathtaking. I felt her vibe all over me

  • her voice is the revolution

  • LOVE her smile at the end :-)

  • i prefer this to the internationale.

  • Saw her play in Zimbabwe in 1988 at the Human Rights Now concert! It was awesome!

  • no bad tune

  • Watch her eyes...she looks like she's wondering just how in the hell she ended up in front of thousands of people singing a song that sounds like it came from the street corners in the neighborhoods she's singing about...wow.

  • My country needs to hear this song!!!

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  • 10 bilderbergers clicked the 'dislike' button

  • the best video and record i have ever seen and heard of mrs chapman ever...

    pretty amazing and sooooo much emotional... it makes me a cry ...

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  • I think this was in a festival (dont remember the name) when all amplifying equipment failed live,... so they chose this girl while they fix the equipment. It was kind of an intermission... little they knew, Tracy Chapman became the voice of the things they wanted to keep quiet. what an irony.

  • Thank u Tracy for not operating your nose, your lips, changing your hair, doing a "body enhancing" surgery... for being just a true inspired singer, not a marketing comitee's product pitched for the alienated masses...hope they listen to you!!

  • Thank you

  • I love how she sings with so much emotion. Her songs are from the heart and when she sings you can see how true and passionate she is about her music.

  • Looks like a girl finally

  • It makes me think of the Egyptian revolution...<3 <3 <3

  • Such a beautiful song, I wish music was still this good right now... but I fear those days are long gone. kinda depressing!

  • I dedicate this to Greece and Spain ... Revolution !!!

  • @alepossss and America!

  • @alepossss what about italy dude !!

  • @rockamillo To Italy and also to the whole world my freind .... It is time to rise up !!!

  • tu meki

  • theres always some prick whos gotta press the dislike button

  • Viva la revolucion!

  • wouldn't the revolution just speed up with the crying at the welfare lines.... guess they would be forced into action no?

  • @baihbalm Maybe they’d be given a chance and the tools to act instead of being thrown on the scrap heap generation after generation because the money needed to give them a chance in life is sitting in the banks of the ever richer

  • @ajpenno The tools are there, always have been. The courage is lacking. Not only that, but if things get desperate quick... lets say a dollar crisis for example. The second amendment guarantees protection against government raids. Something the Egyptians didn't have. Don't get me started on the IMF and the world bank... they promote lawful generational poverty by forcing the poor to borrow more then they can pay back. Watch the documentary "confessions of an economic hitman" if you haven't

  • @baihbalm What is the jist of confesions of an economic hitman ? Sounds like my kinda thing ?

  • @scooby180169 Quote from book -> "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly-paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources.

  • @scooby180169 Rest of quote -> Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."

  • @baihbalm Thanks i,ll have a look for it, sounds educational ;) regards scby

  • TuNiSiA ****************TunISIA

    

  • 11 people have no soul or brain.

  • I must have watched this 10 times now. I have liked this song for years but the live version is amazing. Truely amazing. I cannot believe 11 idiots "disliked" it.

  • Now, this is music!

  • lets see......tracy chapman, bruce springsteen, dylan, the stones, etc, VS lady gaga, justin beiber, little wayne, the black eyed peas, and anything freakin hip hop. i feel sorry for anyone in this generation (or any generation) who thinks the second group's music, and i use that term loosely, will be around in what, say 10,20,30,40,50 years like the first group's, is as worthless as the music they listen to.

  • @uglytilmidnight those so called artists (ga ga et al) are forgotten the minute the track is over. Music like this changes the way we see the world for the better and so it lasts.

  • @uglytilmidnight good modern music isn't mainstream. That's the difference between now and then. Don't assume you've heard all new music. There was a lot of shitty music back then too.

  • @uglytilmidnight I do agree with what your saying but at the end of the day music is there to be enjoyed and make people smile and be happy and that cant be a bad thing so for the one thing in the world that bring us together there should be no divide.

  • live this song <3

  • sutr

  • 1:35

    wow. a lot of people. and it's so quiet.

  • if only this was written during the civil rights movement

  • me and my girlfriend (now wife of 25 years)lay in bed in our first house we bought. watching live aid all day and this fantastic unknown woman walked on stage and sang to us both and it was one of the most fantastic moments of our lives

    thank you Tracy

  • she's got this ,soulful,Fiona apple ish,Erica badu ish ,earthy vibe about her...I love it :)

  • eat ur heart out out all u teeny bobbers !

  • The first time i hear this song...and for some reason i want to tear up with sadness and joy for our people ...the multicultural people...all people love sees no gender class age race class.....and much more....

  • ...pure God given talent...

  • Singers like beyonce and lady Gaga who rely on camera work and make up to enhance ther personas will never be able to have what Tracey has PURE AND UTTER SOUL!!! All she needs is a guitar and shes one of the best singers in the world !

  • This was amazing the first time I saw this, didn't know who she was at the time but after her appearance at Live aid, the whole world knew who Tracy Chapman was.

  • Nice voice! I Love this woman!

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  • 11 people are probably thinkin 'bout being a dickhead.

  • voice of an angel.

  • Throw her down a well

  • @Robertnuns ...and youre a typical cunt

  • @Robertnuns Racist scum. Try going outside in public and saying something like that. Oh, that's right, you CAN'T. Your hate is confined to spiteful, immature comments on YouTube, because your kind has LOST.

  • @johnmiles Fuckin' well said brother

  • @johnmiles Well said

  • divna je,neverovatna....bez sminke,sa tugom u ocima i prelepom pameti,sama sa svojim glasom i gitarom,kakva zena.....:)

  • so cool this woman have a nice voice sounds like a man but is amazing i can feel your music she signs even better in live

  • Mark not too sure! She'll be an old bird now lol about late 40's! I reckon she should tho! She's brilliant :D

  • Brillint! Lovely :)

  • @roundybambino do u know is she doing anymore songs/albums

  • Perfect timing.

  • I think around 100 or more of the hits are just me : )

    Makes me want to get of my lazy ass and do something,

    Revolution is taking place all over the entire world, how hard do we have to be pushed until we start fighting back?

  • How applicable at thi time, looking at northern Africa... "Poor people gonna rise up And get their share Poor people gonna rise up And take what's theirs Don't you know You better run, run, run, run, run, Run, run, run, run, run, run, run Oh I said you better Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, Run, run, run, run, run"
  • @sarahangelhotmail it is lady that is singing, clues in the name

  • @sarahangelhotmail Its a lady

  • This is so Awesome from a reluctant star and that beautiful shy smile at the end. This song wills tand the test of time.

    At this time it is the fall of Tunisia and Egypt. I've listened to this song over and over as we wait for Libya to fall. Truely inspiring since AMERICA needs a revolution to free itself from corporate greed and corporate slavery of the common folk. Capitalism requires at least 30% of the population to hit below poverty in a 10 year span. There must be poor people!

  • just wow i hope to be 1% AS GOOD AS U

  • I saw her play twice at Wembley :))

  • Tracy Chapman is timeless. I love her now as much as ever. 

  • is that the same geeeetar that Kurt uses on Unplugged in NY?

  • @shiggins1981 noooooooo its not! lol. Very similar sound, i agree, but there are times you can tell its not the same guitar. That would be pretty awesome though. Tracy Chapman is amazing btw.

  • This song should be the anthem for Egypt right now.

  • But, is this the same "T.C." that tore a pic ov the Pope in half on TV,like a hundred years ago? Shaved head,an whyt I thought.....

  • @UzerBoy1 You are thinking of Sinead O'Connor...

  • This would be an adequate soundtrack for Egypt! "Finally the tables are staring to turn, talking about a revolution”.

  • It's 2011 !

    YOUTH of Egipt, Iran, Lebanon, Tunis, Syria,Libya

    will be PROUD of SECULAR & DEMOCRATIC HOMELAND !

    LET'S BE !

  • Touched in 88' -- and still. . . .

  • Nice voice and music! Dedicaced from the people of Tunisia! I Love my Country!

  • Gosh, listen to that voice. Just so, so, so unique and so bone chilling. I just love it. A true musician.

  • first album i ever bought and this is still one of my all time favourite songs

  • Thanks for sharing this with us :)

  • thank you Tracy Chapman

  • Maybe it should be played in every country in the world which has students. Then they could rise up and smash every little retail outlet and shop window which happened to be on their demo route - juicy, easy, targets. All that misguided spite. Easy to get away with in the UK, with a police force run by kids. Or maybe this song should be played when decent folk, sick of British street disorder, bullying and violence, have had enough. And they themselves take to the streets. Only Tracy knows.

  • Thank you!

    Riia

  • This ought to played full blast in the middle of London as the students crash through the gates of Parliament and Buckingham Palace.

  • @shanepaulcoward

    well said!

  • @shanepaulcoward love from the free british/irish/whatever republicanisles!

  • @shanepaulcoward It should happen world wide. The elite are screwing the youth of today, including our elders.

  • @shanepaulcoward Nice vision!

  • Too beautiful.

  • so amazing. what a strong women ♥

  • I´m an egoistic person

  • The reason why today's singer have to show skin , wear make-up and show fast cars... Singers like Tracy can't be outclassed. She brings tears to my eyes.

  • This is so beautiful!

  • Don't you know... I'm waiting!!!!

  • i love it :):)

  • It makes me cry! I love her!

  • she's so sweet !!! <3 Beautifull and great singer!

  • So many good memories from this song <3

  • Damn, this woman sings from the absolute depths of her heart.

  • I don't know why, but her music always make me shed a tear or two..

  • "Wasting time in the unemployment line..." -- this line means something so totally different to me at 40 than it did at 18. At 18, I was a typical college kid and rallied around the sentiments in this song.

    After 22 years of strife and hard work, going from poor to well off, you realize that poor people can rise up -- not to "take what's theirs" but instead to "earn their living." It's a big difference that the young and idealistic fail to grasp.

    I sure did not.

  • honestly is it a male or female? i was thinking male but Horseluver said she. it's not a girl right?

  • @limahl123123 it's a woman :)

  • i didn't knew pigs could click the thumbs down button

  • this is music!

  • well i guess.. she is a liberal..just a guess..??lol under Obama.. there needs to be a revolution. a little over one year in and look at us..

  • welchen 8 assis gefällt des net ?

  • 8 taube idioten

  • Beautiful

  • speachless

  • this is the best musician to have ever lived, simply amazing, all her live performances gives me goosebumps.

    "This is insane!!"

    - "Nooo, this is tracy!!!!" (kicking you down in the deep pithole)

  • A woman, her guitar and a gazillion people. Now thats beautiful.

  • amazing she sounds better live.

    shes real, wat singers are now a days...?

  • great voice!

  • wow! is this a song for the times or what :)

  • a revolution song............more than music

  • she´s so wonderful :)

    Her smile at the end .. :) amazing :)

  • just fell in love with slight smile at the end of the video

  • It's nice to know that there is still raw, amazing, non influenced-by-hollywood talent out there ;)

  • wispers from the soul.

  • Tracy Chapman is love. This is one of my all time favorite songs and this recording is nothing short of AMAZING. Thank you.

  • love it :)

  • PERFEITO MARAVILHOSO SIMPLES E ENCANTADORA

  • I love the humility in her smile a proud glowing little girl in there! : ) love her!

  • these are the true leaders of our world

  • No Go-Go-Girls, no gay background dancers, no lightshow, now orchestra, just an ordinary looking girl with her guitar. Crowd nonetheless loves it. Song must be a masterpiece. ;-)