[lbo-talk] That shallow American religious piety

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Fri Aug 1 10:03:53 PDT 2003


http://www.insurgentcountry.com/kris_kristofferson_the_silver_tongued_devil.txt
> ...Kristofferson's determination to infuse his songs with a radical
> political
perspective, critical of U.S. policies in El Salvador and Nicaragua, didn't help. The 1986 album Repossessed, which featured the song "They Killed Him" (covered by Bob Dylan), spent six months on the country charts, but 1990's Third World Warrior, with paeans to Nelson Mandela and the Sandinistas, for lack of a better word, bombed.

http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/k/Kris/kris_thirdwar.htm MAL SACATE (Kris Kristofferson) « © '88 Resaca Music »

Mr Money Man I know you've had your way I know the way you're winnin' And that bloody hand you're holding ain't no bargain at the price you had to pay You have stolen all the land that you can steal and you killed so many heroes But the dreams they left behind them ain't as easy as a man to blow away And they say el mal sacate ni el fuego lo quema And los mexicanos dicen cosa mala nunca muere don't you know The fire don't burn a bad weed boy and a bad thing never dies Like the bad weeds growin' wild around the broken wounded body of El Salvador

They killed so many heroes like Zapata (presente) and Fonseca (presente) And Sandino (presente) and Guevarra (presente) And Allende (presente) and Aquino (presente) and Steve Biko (presente) But they can never kill the human spirit not in Nicaragua And they say el mal sacate... Ay ay ay Nicaragua ay ay ay ********** 10. SANDINISTA (Kris Kristofferson) « © '88 Resaca Music »

Sandinista you can hold your head up high You have given back their freedom you have lived up to your name Sandinista may your spirit never die Hold the candle to the darkness you're the keeper of the flame

Sandinista keep believing in the dream Truth is stronger than the shadows keep it shining in your eyes Sandinista may the soldiers disappear May your children live forever may their laughter fill your lives Sandinista (Sandinista) los fuerzas de la oscuridad Nunca pueden extinguir la puridad de tu llama revolutionara Con su terror y sus mentiras con su dinero sys maquinas (Sandinista) la libertad en tus ojus el amor caliente en tu corozon Son fuerzas mas poderosas que las armas de la guerra Sandinista you can hold... (Sandinista Sandinista) ********** http://www.lyrics.net.ua/song/60316 They Killed Him

There was a man named Mahatma Ghandi He would not bow down, he would not fight He knew the deal was down and dirty And nothing wrong could make it right away

But he knew his duty, and the price he had to pay Just another holy man who tried to make a stand MY GOD, THEY KILLED HIM !

Another man from Atlanta, Georgia By the name of Martin Luther King He shook the land like rolling thunder And made the bells of freedom ring today

With a dream of beauty that they could not burn away Just another holy man who dared to be a friend MY GOD, THEY KILLED HIM !

The only son of God Almighty The holy one called Jesus Christ Healed the lame and fed the hungry And for his love they took his life away

On the road to glory where the story never ends Just the holy son of man we'll never understand MY GOD, THEY KILLED HIM !

Sing about Mahatma Ghandi Sing of Martin Luther King Sing Of Jesus Christ Almighty And the brothers Kennedy



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