SongList

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Songs from last time that we're likely to do again this Friday (but we won't get to all of them):

This Little Light of Mine (Anabel has found updated words)
We Shall Not Be Moved
If I Had a Hammer
Banks of Marble
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
We're Gonna Roll the Movement On
MTA Charlie
Hold On (Keep Your Eyes on the Prize)
No More! (Song for the Occupations)
John Ball
Bring Out the Banners
This Land Is Your Land

New songs (again, we won't get to all of them, but maybe the first 5):


Sit Down (Maurice Sugar and Peggy Seeger)
Rolling Home (John Tams)
You Gotta Go Down And Join The Sit-in (from adaptation by Woody Guthrie)
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Study War No More (as a nod to Veteran's Day)
When I'm Gone (Phil Ochs)
Farther Along
Go Down Moses

 * lyrics and mp3 for Sit Down:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oUDUHD4Nhua9LvjPT7oSmlQcvK7voKaBAGsiD9f-PIQ/edit
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_XBtSTPpOsrYmQwZWVmMmMtNjhkNi00MDE1LWI0YzYtMWY1MmY4Y2ZmMDdk
(Sorry for the nasty URLs; we'll have a better system soon.)

* lyrics and video for Rolling Home:
 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.thorp/lyrrhome.htm
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLa5Tn3-5k

* lyrics for No More (tune: Oh, Mary Don't You Weep) here (4th song
from top) as well as in the booklet:
  http://nycmetro.raginggrannies.org/OccupyWallStreet.htm


Songs we may try in the future:

* They're Taking It Away (Ian Robb) -- lyrics and mp3:
 http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33831
 http://ianrobb.com/IanRobb/14%20They%27re%20Taking%20it%20Away.mp3

* Doggone (Occupation is on) -- lyrics and mp3:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t1h3aQNAW1OCSMpo4YsNLfVnVS6M59gjeMjRqA9mIdg/edit
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_XBtSTPpOsrZWJjZjkwZTgtNjQ3Yi00Y2JmLWE4OWEtZjY3NGQ0ZDc0OWIw

* Bread&Roses
How many people know this?  It's difficult and has no chorus, but it's beautiful and has a couple of anniversaries to recommend it.