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Best Patriotic Songs

Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 10 months ago to The Gulch: General
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I was trying to think of my favorite Patriotic song. I like this one.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 10 months ago
    My vote goes to Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." Beautiful, melodic, descriptive, and a love song to this country.
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    • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 10 months ago
      What next? If I Had a Hammer?
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      • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 10 months ago
        How about "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" by another one of "those," Pete Seeger. Who, by the way co-wrote "Hammer." I'm a child of the folk-song era. I like the music and the way it was sung. Just about all of the performers were commie-libs. If I allowed that to limit my listening, I would not have enjoyed any of the groups and soloists.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 11 years, 10 months ago
      Sorry, do more homework. It's not patriotic. It's communist. Anti-American. Woody's original lyrics attack the idea of private property.
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      • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 10 months ago
        I know he was a radical commie-type, but the lyrics can be interpreted several ways. I choose to interpret them as a description of the beauty and wonders of America. "And this land belongs to you and me" I interpret as "The best things in life are free. (The sun & moon belong to everyone, etc.) If I were to shun every piece of music from someone whose lifestyle I disagree with, I'd be pretty much limited to the "Teensy Weensy Spider."
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        • Posted by $ Snezzy 11 years, 10 months ago
          "radical commie-type"

          Yes, those fellows were working for the Soviet Union whether they knew it or not. The idea was to replace American patriotism in music, theatre and cinema with one-world socialism, i.e. communism. Rand was there, saw it, and saw through it.

          Americans long ago tried and rejected communism. See the piece at http://agem.com/Plymouth_Experiment.htm where we can read in the words of Governor Bradford himself how instituting private property in place of communal ownership saved the Plymouth Colony.
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        • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 10 months ago
          " I interpret as "The best things in life are free."

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          "Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain." He had been still looking at me and added, "If you boys and girls had to sweat for your toys the way a newly born baby has to struggle to live you would be happier... and much richer. As it is, with some of you, I pity the poverty of your wealth."
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          "I fancy that the poet who wrote that song meant to imply that the best things in life must be purchased other than with money — which is true — just as the literal meaning of his words is false. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself — ultimate cost for perfect value.""
          - Robert A Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
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