If I Had A Hammer - Pete Seeger [23/24]
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I wish the audience would clap on 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3. Pet peeve. Excellent song, and big audience participation though
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I love this song. But I find funny how 'proper' and not angry sounding this protest song is... oh the times... it's not a bad thing ... a protest in disguise. It's just different from other later protest songs...
Great song!
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@KennBurch You are right. I had a friend. A neighbor of mine who had been in his youth a member of the Komintern sentenced to gulag for spying (not true). He survived and joined the west. Though he recognized he had mistaken, until his death he said that another world of justice, brotherhood and freedom was possible. Read the life of my friend Jacques Rossi. Talk around you about him. He is a hero of the 20th century because he showed us a part of the way…
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The reason why jobs and industry is being out sourced to countries with no labour unions.
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I don't hate him. Quite contrary. I like him and and I like his music a lot. But my taste does not blot out the fact that he was a kind of useufu innocent.
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@MMDC2001 He was never exclusively defined by his (short-lived)alliance with the CP. More than anything else, Pete was and is universalist and humanist. He doesn't deserve your hatred, and it's not like the ONLY alternative to greed is the Gulag. We can design a system that protects freedom AND equality Just have to put our minds and souls to it.
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@rounds1954 Pete quit the Party in 1949. That's over sixty years ago. And his music was never controlled by Stalin.
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beautiful
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Listened to this song and Where Have All The Flowers Gone and realised it was songs that a school teacher used to sing to the class when I was about 6 years old! Fantastic memory, I'm now 38!
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im learning this song for my chorus class! i love it :)
GOd love labour rights, unions, folk music, honest labour and small towns all over the world.
Love you all!
markse4444 2 years ago 49
God Bless Pete Seeger!!
kogcc 2 years ago 42