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We're building an army of monster elites
They're hungry for blood
and headed for DC
We've lit the funeral pyre
to wake not the dead
While the decadent rich
rest uneasy in their beds
Nosferatu has enlisted in the raging class war
He feeds upon the rich while sparing the poor
Glistening fangs punish bosses for their sins
Making life easier for man union men
At the close of night before the rising of the sun
Shadows cast will whisper
"We've impaled every last one"
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This is the ballad of George Jackson
Dedicated to the revolutionary youth in action
One year to life isn't a sentence
It's a filthy white crime
George never feared the death of 1,000 cuts
from the filthy white swine
Seven years in solitary
he met Marx, Lenin, and Mao
A white guard found beaten and murdered
George and three comrades on trial now
Political power is the same crouching creature as revenge
For both the haunted birth canal
is a smoking fire arm's end
August 21, 1971
The crimson stain bore the proof
Though George is gone his deeds live on
because the mancan't kill the truth
A true servant of the people
A true enemy of the man
"Perfect love, perfect hate"
The mantra by which we shall stand
This is the ballad of George Jackson
Dedicated to the revolutionary youth in action
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They dropped the planes right out of the sky
And we had the nerve to ask them why
Smoldering rubble
there is your proof
That pissed off chickens come home to roost
Home to roost, Home to roost
Pissed off chickens come home to roost
They say the economy needs a boost
But pissed off chickens come home to roost
Those Arabs just love their neck under our boot
Half a million Iraqi babes
laid to rest in Old Glory's grave
Old George W. will hang from a noose
when pissed off chickens come home too roost
They say the economy needs a boost
Those Arabs just love their neck under our boot
Halliburton is making off with all the loot
But pissed off chickens come home to roost
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Is there ought we hold in common
with a greedy parasite
who would lash us into serfdom
and crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us
but to organize and fight?
They don't expect much from us
just look where we come from
They think they've won
but we made the world turn
Never be ashamed of what you never had
Boot-strapism has failed us
Not the other way around
There's a trailer park broken down
on the edge of town
This is a fight song
for those that share my flesh
"When I rise it will not be from the ranks
when I rise it will be with the ranks"
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Liberty!
Fraternity!
Equality!
We've got our own answer
to your cuts in the social safety net
"Laissez le bon temp rouler!"
Along with the heads of the rich
Je m'appelle fucking pissed
Je suis a clenched fucking fist
Guillotines work best when we say
"Union Yes!"
Our comrades of the commune
Broke the chains which bound France
When some rich fuckers' heads
Rolled into a basket
We should learn a fucking lesson
Listen to fucking reason
Procure a union made guillotine
and declare it rich bastard hunting season
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I'm a prodigal son of the working class
Raised on W.I.C., free lunch, and food stamps
Voit sneakers and crooked teeth
hand-me-downs and domestic grief
Grew up huffing gas in the trailer park
Now I'm a mean motherfucking student of Marx
Raining funky wicked thrash on the bourgeois
and counting the day till we hit the streets
It won't be the privileged few
at the head of the march
It'll be the ghetto, barrio, trailer park
Ghetto
Barrio
Trailer park
I've spent my time on the picket line
and my union dues have been worth every dime
I've got straight A's in conflict studies
From blue collar university
Two stick
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They beat the fascist drums of war
for 900 days outside your front door
But death's head didn't deal it's last blow
'Cos Death is afraid of Leningrad, you know
Their aim, to crush you
Leave nothing left
Faced with starving winters
and fascist squads of death
Your resignation
Never did fold
Forever brave
Forever bold
Leningrad is not afraid of Death
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They're moving father's grave to build a sewer
They're moving him regardless of expense
Now what is the use of having a religion
if when you're dead your troubles never cease?
If some rich city chap
wants a pipeline to his crap
They'll never let a workman rest in peace
Now in his lifetime Father was no quitter
I'm sure that he'll be no quitter now
'cos in his ghostly sheet
He'll haunt their porcelain seat
and only let them go when he'll allow
Now won't there be some fucking constipation?
And won't these stupid yuppies rant and rave?
But it's more than they deserve
For having the fucking nerve
to fuck around with some poor worker's grave
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Uwharria - Winter Bear
02:20
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Uwharria - Wild Turkey
02:36
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Uwharria - Devil's Gut
02:29
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Uwharria - Skunks
02:17
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Uwharria - Kudzu
01:54
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Uwharria - Tick Attack
01:01
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Southern Punk Archive Oxford, Mississippi
This page is aims to give otherwise lost punk / punk adjacent music from the Southern United States a platform to be discovered. Some of these recordings may not meet quality standards the artists would have desired of their official releases, but are posted here as a matter historical documentation. ... more
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