Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
List of protest songs
For information about protest songs in general, see Protest song.
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Animal rights and meat consumption
- "Anarcho Pie" Oi Polloi (a vegetarian recipe set to music)
- "The Animals Song" Robb Johnson
- "Berkshire Cunt" Conflict
- "Boxing Day" Robb Johnson
- "Corporate Deathburger" MDC
- "Dapple Rose" Slade
- "Insensibilidad" Ska-P
- "Kémalo" Ska-P
- "Looking for Changes" Paul McCartney
- "Meat is Murder" Conflict, The Smiths
- "Nailing Descartes to the Wall" Propagandhi
- "Purina Hall of Fame" Propagandhi
- "Shock the Monkey" Peter Gabriel
- "Tame Yourself" Raw Youth
- "This is A.L.F." Conflict
- "Wild Life" Paul McCartney & Wings
- "Testure" Skinny Puppy
Drugs, drug abuse, and drug culture
- "Cocaine" Jackson Browne
- "Coma White" Marilyn Manson
- "Expecting to Fly" Neil Young
- "Hand of Doom" Black Sabbath
- "Hurt" - Nine Inch Nails or Johnny Cash
- "Kicks" Paul Revere & The Raiders
- "Master of Puppets" Metallica
- "The Message Part 2" Grandmaster Flash
- "The Needle and the Damage Done" Neil Young
- "The Pusher" Steppenwolf
- "Pusherman" Curtis Mayfield - as well as most of his Superfly album
- "Sam Stone" John Prine
- "Slow Motion" Third Eye Blind
- "Straight Edge" Minor Threat
- "Tired Eyes" Neil Young
- "Tonight's the Night" Neil Young
- "Womb of the Worm" Skyclad
Environmentalism
- "Animal Farm" The Kinks
- "Apeman" The Kinks
- "Big Yellow Taxi" Joni Mitchell or Counting Crows
- "Blue Sky Mine" Midnight Oil
- "Carbon Monoxide" Cake
- "The Cradle Will Fall" Skyclad
- "Crazy Horses" The Osmonds
- "Cuyahoga" R.E.M.
- "Damn this Traffic Jam" James Taylor
- "The Disenchanted Forest" Skyclad
- "Emergency On Planet Earth" Jamiroquai
- "Eskimo Blue Day" Jefferson Airplane
- "Fall on Me" R.E.M.
- "If a Tree Falls" Bruce Cockburn
- "Kyoto Now" Bad Religion
- "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" Marvin Gaye
- "Only So Much Oil In The Ground" Tower of Power
- "Paradise" John Prine
- "Rape of the World" Tracy Chapman
- "Run Straight Down" Warren Zevon
- "Saltwater" Julian Lennon
- "Too Young To Die" Jamiroquai
- "When You Gonna Learn" Jamiroquai
- "Wild Life" Paul McCartney & Wings
Feminism
- "Better Man" Pearl Jam
- "Double Dare Ya" Bikini Kill
- "Freedom" Aretha Franklin
- "Fuck Machine" Propagandhi
- "I Am Woman" Helen Reddy
- "I Wanna Be an Engineer" Peggy Seeger
- "Jump Mama Jump" The Poison Girls
- "Ladies Night in Loserville" Propagandhi
- "One Girl Army" Five Iron Frenzy
- "Only Women Bleed" Alice Cooper
- "Sisters are doing it for themselves" Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin
- "Woman is the Nigger of the World" John Lennon
- "Women" Crass
Globalization and corporate dominance
- "21st Century Living" Matthew Good
- "Bullet in your head" Rage Against the Machine
- "Californication" Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Call it Democracy" Bruce Cockburn
- "Everything Counts" Depeche Mode
- "Giants" Five Iron Frenzy
- "Goodbye Desolate Railyard" A Silver Mt. Zion
- "The Great Brain Robbery" Skyclad
- "I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler" Tom Paxton
- "Liberation Frequency" Refused
- "Mind The GATT" Anti-Flag
- "Movement" S.T.U.N.
- "New Feudalism" No WTO Combo
- "Panic" The Smiths
- "Radio, Radio" Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- "Solamente por Pensar" Ska-P
- "The State Lottery" Propagandhi
- "Throw Away Your Television" Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Vultures" Five Iron Frenzy
- "We love the Pirate Stations" reportedly The Rocking Berries although credited to 'The Roaring Sixties' to distance themselves from the campaign to save offshore radio around the UK.
- "Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who
- "WTO" Pennywise
Governments and imperialism
- "All Hawai'i Stand Together" Dennis Pavao
- "America Latina ¡¡Libre!! Ska-P
- "Black 47" Black 47
- "A Design For Life" Manic Street Preachers
- "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" Bernice Johnson Reagon, cover version by Billy Bragg is also well known
- "España Va Bien" Ska-P
- "Fanatic Heart" Black 47
- "Flying Arrow" Mason Proffit
- "Gimme Some Truth" John Lennon
- "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" Paul McCartney
- "God Save the Queen" The Sex Pistols
- "Government Walls" James
- "Imagine" John Lennon
- "Indian Reservation" Paul Revere and the Raiders
- "James Connolly" Black 47
- "La Sesera No VA" Ska-P
- "Monster" Steppenwolf
- "Revolution" The Beatles
- "Revolution" Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "Ringing of Revolution" Phil Ochs
- "Santo Domingo" Phil Ochs
- "Sargento Bolilla" Ska-P
- "The System Works For Them" Aus-Rotten
- "The Nature of the Threat" Emcee Lynx
- "Tío Sam" Ska-P
- "Volunteers" Jefferson Airplane
- "War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, May All Your Intervention Be Humanitarian" Propagandhi
- "What About Me?" Quicksilver Messenger Service
Guns and violence
- "Bad Habit" The Offspring
- "Both Sides of the Tweed" Capercaillie
- "Don't Forget the Guns" Cheryl Wheeler
- "If It Were Up to Me" Cheryl Wheeler
- "Lou Marsh" Phil Ochs
- "Luka" Suzanne Vega
- "Melt the Guns" XTC
- "New Day" Wyclef Jean
- "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" Phil Ochs
- "Police and Thieves" Junior Murvin
- "Saturday Night Special" Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" U2
- "Too Many Martyrs" Phil Ochs
- "Tool and Die" Consolidated
- "What's the Matter Here?" 10,000 Maniacs
- "Where is the Love?" The Black Eyed Peas
- "Zombie" The Cranberries
Homosexuals
- "Fahrenheit" Five Iron Frenzy
- "Fuck Aneta Briant " (sic) David Allen Coe
- (Presumably, the spelling of Anita Bryant's name was altered to avoid slander charges.)
- "Gay Rude Boys Unite" Leftover Crack
- "Glad To Be Gay" Tom Robinson
- "Homophobes Are Just Mad 'Cuz They Can't Get Laid" Propagandhi
- "Homophobia" Chumbawamba
- "I Heart Fags" MC Frontalot
- "The Killing Of Georgie [Parts I & II]" Rod Stewart
- "Luister Anita" Zangeres Zonder Naam
- "Murder in Hollywood" DOA
- "No Clause 28" Boy George
- "Smalltown Boy" Bronski Beat
- "When Two Men Kiss" Oi Polloi
Land Rights
- "Beds are Burning" Midnight Oil
- "The Diggers Song"
- "Paradise" John Prine
- "This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
- "Where The Hell Are We Going To Live?" The Levellers (band)
- "World Turned Upside Down" Leon Rosselson
- "No More Roads" Oi Polloi
Materialism
- "Angels" Crass
- "Bullet in your Head" Rage Against the Machine
- "Consumo Gusto" Ska-P
- "Imagine" John Lennon
- "I'm a Celt" Emcee Lynx
- "Little Boxes" Malvina Reynolds
- "McDolar" Ska-P
- "Money" Pink Floyd
- "Most Exclusive Residence For Sale" The Kinks
- "Mr. Clean" The Jam
- "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" Bonzo Dog Band
- "Pleasant Valley Sunday" The Monkees
- "Poptones" Public Image Limited
- "Revistas del Corazón" Ska-P
- "Rockin' in the Free World" Neil Young
- "This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
- "Time" Pink Floyd
- "Well Respected Man" The Kinks
- "We're All Bourgeois Now" McCarthy
- "What Do You Want From Life" The Tubes
- "Where Do the Children Play" Cat Stevens
Music critics and the music industry
- "Anything Right" P.O.D.
- "Blue Mixes" Five Iron Frenzy
- "Child's Play" Lucky Boys Confusion
- "Cockamamie Business" George Harrison
- "Dump Pop Song" Lucky Boys Confusion
- "Have a Cigar" Pink Floyd
- "Hip Hop" Dead Prez
- "Hurry Up Garry (The Parson's Farted)" Crass
- "Jimmy Buffett Doesn't Live in Key West Anymore" David Allen Coe
- "Jules and Jim" Pete Townshend
- "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- "Money for Nothing" Dire Straits
- "The Moneygoround" Ray Davies and The Kinks
- "Newsworth" Greenslade
- "The Nickel Song" Melanie
- "Panic" The Smiths
- "Pop Singer" John Mellencamp
- "Radio, Radio" Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- "St. Augustine in Hell" Sting
- "Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" Rolling Stones
- "Welcome to the Machine" Pink Floyd
- "Y'all Want a Single" Korn
Nuclear weapons
- "99 Luftballons" Nena
- "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" Bob Dylan
- "Boom!" System of a Down
- "Breathing" Kate Bush
- "Cruise Missiles" Fischer-Z
- "Einstein A Go-Go" Landscape
- "Electric Funeral" Black Sabbath
- "Enola Gay" OMD
- "Hiroshima" Todd Rundgren/Utopia
- "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette" Jim Page
- "I Come And Stand At Every Door" The Byrds
- "Killer of Giants" Ozzy Osbourne
- "Made a Bomb" Poison Girls
- "Nagasaki Nightmare" Crass
- "Power" The Temptations
- "Pride of Man" Quicksilver Messenger Service
- "Put Down That Weapon" Midnight Oil
- "Redemption Song" Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "Russians" Sting
- "Soviet Jewellery" BB Gabor
- "Stand or Fall" The Fixx
- "The Sun is Burning" Simon and Garfunkel
- "They've Got a Bomb" Crass
- "This Is War" Smile Empty Soul
- "Total Eclipse" Klaus Nomi
- "Two Suns in the Sunset" Pink Floyd
- "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" Bonnie Dobson, covered by Jeff Beck, Grateful Dead, Lulu
- "We Will All Go Together When We Go" Tom Lehrer
- "What Have They Done to the Rain?" Malvina Reynolds
- "Wooden Ships" Crosby Stills and Nash
- "Nuclear Waste" Oi Polloi
- "No Filthy Nuclear Power" Oi Polloi
Police or authority
- "40-80" Lucky Boys Confusion
- "911 is a Joke" Public Enemy
- "A Man in Uniform" Randy
- "The Beast" The Fugees
- "Cherry Beach Express" Pukka Orchestra
- "Cop Killer" Ice-T
- "Cop Shot" Dead Prez
- "Cops of the World" Phil Ochs
- "Dead Cops" Millions of Dead Cops
- "Fuck Tha Police" NWA
- "Gang Control" Leftover Crack
- "Get Your Riot Gear" Five Iron Frenzy
- "Hate the Police" Mudhoney
- "I Fought the Law" Bobby Fuller Four
- "I Shot the Sheriff" Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "I'm Going to Say it Now" Phil Ochs
- "Killing in the Name" Rage Against the Machine
- "LAPD" The Offspring
- "Liddle Towers" Angelic Upstarts
- "A Bullet in the Chamber" Emcee Lynx
- "Ohio" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- "Pigs Will Pay" Propagandhi
- "Police On My Back" The Levellers (band)
- "Police Story" Anti-Flag
- "Police Story" Black Flag
- "Police Truck" The Dead Kennedys
- "Prison Song" System of a Down
- "Romero El Madero" Ska-P
- "Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stanley)" Chumbawamba
- "You Can Kill the Protester, But You Can't Kill the Protest" Anti-Flag
Politicians or world leaders
- "American Idiot" Green Day
- "The Ballad of Ronald Reagan" The Austin Lounge Lizards
- "Battalions of Fear" Blind Guardian
- "Big Brother" Stevie Wonder
- "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" The Ramones
- "Bullshit Politicians" Propagandhi
- "California Über Alles" Dead Kennedys
- "Corporate Deathburger" MDC
- "Dickie's Such an Asshole" Frank Zappa
- "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" David Bowie
- The Final Cut (album) Pink Floyd
- "Get your filthy hands off my desert" Pink Floyd
- "Gimme Some Truth" John Lennon
- "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" Phil Ochs: new lyrics for his original "Here's to the State of Mississippi"
- "Idiot Son of an Asshole" NOFX
- "Irish Blood, English Heart" Morrissey
- "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" Frank Zappa
- "The Love of Richard Nixon" Manic Street Preachers
- "Maggie" by The Exploited
- "Nuclear Device" The Stranglers
- "Old Mother Reagan" The Violent Femmes
- "Pig Nixon" Red Star Singers
- "Reagan Youth" Reagan Youth
- "Shoot The Dog" George Michael
- "Simpático Holgazán" Ska-P
- "Son of a Bush" Public Enemy
- "Stand Down Margaret" The Beat
- "Turncoat" Anti-Flag
- "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" Dead Kennedys (to the tune of California Über Alles, but about Ronald Reagan)
Poverty
- "Another Day In Paradise" Phil Collins
- "Bangla Desh" George Harrison
- "Bourgeois Blues" Leadbelly
- "Cloud Nine" The Temptations
- "Cold Dreams" Emcee Lynx
- "Dead End Street" The Kinks
- "Dirty Boulevard" Lou Reed
- "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid
- "Do They Owe Us a Living?" Crass
- "Electric Avenue" Eddie Grant
- "El Olvidado" Ska-P
- "Freddie's Dead" Curtis Mayfield
- "Harvest For The World " The Isley Brothers The Christians
- "Hobo's Lullaby" Goebel Reeves
- "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore" Woody Guthrie
- "I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto" Tupac
- "Insecto Urbano" Ska-P
- "In the Ghetto" Elvis Presley
- "Kill the Poor" Dead Kennedys
- "Let's Lynch the Landlord" Dead Kennedys
- "Linoleum" NOFX
- "The Message" Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
- "Pastures of Plenty" Woody Guthrie
- "Poverty" Bobby Bland
- "The Procession of Popular Capitalism" McCarthy (band)
- "Rambling Boy" Tom Paxton
- "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "There But For Fortune" Phil Ochs
- "Things Going On" Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Tom Joad" Woody Guthrie
- "We Are the World" USA for Africa
- "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" The Animals
Prohibition and the War on Drugs
- "Burn One Down" Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
- "Copperhead Road" Steve Earle
- "Coming into Los Angelese" Arlo Guthrie
- "Henry" New Riders of the Purple Sage
- "Illegal Smile" John Prine
- "Legalize It" Peter Tosh
- "Police in Helicopter" John Holt
- "The Pusher" Steppenwolf
- "Smoke Two Joints" Sublime
- "What's A Simple Man To Do?" Steve Earle
Racism, apartheid and civil rights
- "7 o'Clock News/Silent Night" Simon and Garfunkel
- "A La Mierda" Ska-P
- "Ali El Magrebi" Ska-P
- "All My Trials" Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary et al.
- "Ballad of Ira Hayes" Johnny Cash
- "Ballad of William Worthy" Phil Ochs
- "Big Brother" Stevie Wonder
- "Biko" Peter Gabriel
- "Birmingham Sunday" Joan Baez
- "Black or White" Michael Jackson
- "Blackheart Man" Bunny Wailer
- "Blowin' in the Wind" Bob Dylan
- "Brother Louie" Hot Chocolate
- "Buffalo Soldier" Bob Marley
- "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" Buffy Sainte-Marie
- "Can Blue Men sing the Whites?" Bonzo Dog Band
- "Cry Freedom" Dave Matthews Band
- "Dance Stance" Dexy's Midnight Runners
- "The Day We Killed" Five Iron Frenzy
- "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" Sly & the Family Stone
- "Down Rodeo" Rage Against the Machine
- "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone
- "Fight the Power" Public Enemy
- "Free Nelson Mandela " The Specials
- "Get Up, Stand Up" Bob Marley
- "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" Eddy Grant
- "Hurricane" Bob Dylan
- "If I had a Hammer" Pete Seeger
- "Imagine" John Lennon
- "In All Rwanda's Glory" Rx Bandits
- "In The Flesh" Pink Floyd
- "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" Midnight Oil
- "John Brown's Body"
- "Life" Sly & the Family Stone
- "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" Bob Dylan
- "Lucrecia" Ska-P
- "Message From a Black Man" The Temptations
- "Mestizaje" Ska-P
- "Mississippi Goddam" Nina Simone
- "Ohio" Neil Young
- "Om Nia Merican" Saul Williams
- "Oxford Town" Bob Dylan
- "Proud to Be Black" Run DMC
- "Redemption Song" Bob Marley
- "So Strong" Labi Siffre
- "Society's Child" Janis Ian
- "Southern Man" Neil Young
- "Strange Fruit" Billie Holliday
- "Sun City " Artists Against Apartheid
- "Take off Your Swastika" Phranc
- "They Schools" Dead Prez
- "The Times They Are A-Changing" Bob Dylan
- "Too Many Martyrs" Phil Ochs
- "Trouble Every Day" Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Underdog" Sly & the Family Stone
- "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" The Temptations
- "Violencia Machista" Ska-P
- "We Shall Overcome"
- "Where Is the Love" - Black Eyed Peas
- "Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom"
Religion
- "Baba" Alanis Morissette
- "Beautiful World" Emcee Lynx
- "Easter" Jefferson Airplane
- "Failure to Excommunicate" Relient K
- "Imagine" John Lennon
- "Kasposos" Ska-P
- "La Mosca Cojonera" Ska-P
- "Marilyn Manson Ate My Girlfriend" Relient K
- "Moral Majority" Dead Kennedys
- Religion Public Image Ltd.
- "Religious Vomit" Dead Kennedys
- "Satellite" The Hooters
- "Sectas" Ska-P
- "Seguimos en Pie" Ska-P
- "Sexo y Religión" Ska-P
- "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" John Prine
Slavery
- "Mister Charlie" Robert Hunter/Grateful Dead
- "Redemption Song" Bob Marley
Television
- "I Am the Slime" Frank Zappa
- "MTV Get Off The Air" Dead Kennedys
- "Radio Ga Ga" Queen
- "Reality Show" Ska-P
- "Spanish Pipe Dream" John Prine
- "Telecide" The Tubes
- "Television, the Drug of the Nation" Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
- "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles
- "Watching TV" by Roger Waters
Terrorism
- "911 For Peace" Anti-Flag
- "Alert Status Red" Matthew Good
- "(America's the) Terrorist" Shamako Noble , Emcee Lynx, and Dub Cee
- "(Didn't Know I Was) Unamerican " Ian Rhett
- "The Future" Leonard Cohen
- "The Gunner's Dream" Pink Floyd
- "John Walker's Blues" Steve Earle
- "Love is Blindness" U2
- "Mass Destruction" Faithless
- "One" U2
- "Peace On Earth" U2
- "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" U2
- "Swastika Eyes" Primal Scream
- "Take a Minute" Antithesis
- "Zombie" The Cranberries
Unions and labor
- "1913 Massacre" Woody Guthrie
- "Allentown" Billy Joel
- "Angel of Freedom"
- "Banks of Marble"
- "Bear The Burden in The Heat of The Day"
- "Bells of Rhymney" Pete Seeger, covered by The Byrds, The Soft Boys
- "Between the Wars" Billy Bragg
- "Billy Hunt" The Jam
- "The Blackleg Miners"
- "The Blind Ploughman"
- "The Bonehead Working Man"
- "Career Opportunities" The Clash
- "Casey Jones - The Union Scab" Joe Hill
- "Centralia"
- "Coal Miner's Blues"
- "Coal Miner's Grave"
- "The Coal Owner And The Pitman's Wife"
- "Come All You Coal Miners"
- "Come Join the One Big Union, Do" Richard Brazier
- "Common Ground" Chumbawamba (re. 1984-1985 Miners Strike )
- "Do or Die" Dropkick Murphys
- "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" John Brill
- "El Vals del Obrero Ska-P
- "Fitzwilliam" Chumbawamba (re. 1984-1985 Miners Strike)
- "From Little Things Big Things Grow" Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody
- "Got a Letter" Emcee Lynx
- "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" Harry McClintock
- "Hard Times Come Again No More"
- "The Internationale"
- "It Takes a Long Pull to Get There"
- "Joe Hill" Joan Baez and others
- "John Henry"
- "Labor's Dixie" Charles M. Robinson
- "Little Man, You Had a Busy Day"
- "Ludlow Massacre" Woody Guthrie
- "Naval Xixón" Ska-P
- "One Big Industrial Union" George G. Allen
- "One by One" Chumbawamba (about the late 1990s Liverpool Dockers Strike )
- "The Parasites" John E. Nordquist
- "Part Of The Union" The Strawbs
- "Peg and Awl"
- "The Popular Wobbly"
- "The Preacher and the Slave" Joe Hill
- "Rebel Girl" Joe Hill
- "The Red Flag"
- "Roll the Union On"
- "Shearing In The Bar"
- "Shores of Botany Bay"
- "Sixteen Tons" Merle Travis
- "Smithers-Jones" The Jam
- "Solidarity Forever" Ralph Chaplin
- "Stand Up! Ye Workers" Ethel Comer
- "Struggle In The West"
- "There is Power in a Union" Joe Hill
- "This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
- "Traveling Down the Castlereagh"
- "The Two Bums"
- "Union Burying Ground" Woody Guthrie
- "Union Maid" Woody Guthrie
- "The Union Scab" Joe Hill
- "The Union Train"
- "Wage Workers, Come Join the Union"
- "Which Side Are You On?" Billy Bragg
- "Workers of the World" James Connell
- "Workers of the World, Awaken" Joe Hill
- "Workingmen, Unite!"
War
- "1916" Motörhead
- "1917" Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt
- "2+2=?" Bob Seger
- "A New Kind of Army" Anti-Flag
- "Abraham, Martin & John" Dion
- "Albright Monument, Baghdad" Propagandhi
- "Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie
- "All Along the Watchtower" Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix
- "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" Eric Bogle
- "Army Dreamers" Kate Bush
- "Army Man in Vietnam" Big Joe Williams
- "Baghdad" The Offspring
- "Ball Of Confusion (That's What the World is Today) " The Temptations
- "Ballad of Penny Evans" Steve Goodman
- "Beach Party at Vietnam" Dead Milkmen
- "Belsen Was A Gas" The Sex Pistols
- "Bleed For Me" Dead Kennedys
- "Blowin' in the Wind" Bob Dylan
- "Boom!" System of a Down
- "Born in the U.S.A." Bruce Springsteen
- "Bring the Boys Home" Freda Payne
- "Brothers in Arms" Dire Straits
- "Buffalo Soldier" Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "Bullet the Blue Sky" U2 or P.O.D.
- "Chicago" Graham Nash
- "Children of the Revolution" Kirsty MacColl
- "Civil War" Guns n' Roses
- "Cops of the World" Phil Ochs
- "The Crow on the Cradle " Sydney Carter
- "Dachau Blues" Captain Beefheart
- "Desolation Row" Bob Dylan
- "Dialogue" Chicago
- "Die For Your Government" Anti-Flag
- "Don't Let The Bastards (Get You Down)" Kris Kristofferson
- "Door Into Summer" The Monkees
- "Dover Beach" The Fugs
- "Draft Dodger Rag" Phil Ochs
- The Electric Spanking of War Babies (album) Funkadelic
- "Eve of Destruction" Barry McGuire
- "Far Away Coast" Dropkick Murphys
- "Fight War, Not Wars" Crass
- "Fighting for Strangers" Steeleye Span
- The Final Cut (album) Pink Floyd
- "For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
- "Fortunate Son" Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "The Four Insurgent Generals"
- "The Four Rivers"
- "Freedom" Richie Havens
- "Freeze Up" Operation Ivy
- "Give Peace a Chance" John Lennon & Yoko Ono
- "The Green Fields Of France" Eric Bogle
- "Gun in Your Hand" Rx Bandits
- "The Gunner's Dream" Pink Floyd
- Hair (musical)
- "Handsome Johnny" Richie Havens
- "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" John Lennon & Yoko Ono
- "Head, Chest, or Foot?" Propagandhi
- "Heroes" David Bowie
- "How Does It Feel?" Crass
- "The Human Being Lawnmower" (MC5)
- "I Ain't Marching Any More " Phil Ochs
- "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" John Lennon
- "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" Morton Harvey
- "The 'I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die' Rag" Country Joe and the Fish (song also known as "123 What Are We Fighting For?", after a line in the song)
- "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" Bruce Cockburn
- "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" Manic Street Preachers
- "Imagine" John Lennon
- "In a World Gone Mad" The Beastie Boys
- "Intifada" Ska-P
- "Is There Anybody Here?" Phil Ochs
- "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" Irish traditional, many versions
- "Killing Song"
- "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round" Dead Kennedys
- "La Resistance" South Park
- "Last Train to Clarksville" The Monkees
- "Let The Sunshine In" - Hair (musical)
- "Lookin' Back" Bob Seger
- "Machine Gun" Jimi Hendrix
- "Major General Despair" Crass
- "Masters of War " Bob Dylan
- "Mr. Churchill Says" Ray Davies and The Kinks
- "Mother" James
- "Mothers, Daughters, Wives"
- "My Generation" The Who
- "My War" Black Flag
- "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" Eric Bogle
- "Ohio" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - about the Kent State massacre
- "Oliver's Army" Elvis Costello
- "One More Parade" Phil Ochs
- "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)" Coven
- "Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)" Anti-Flag
- "Paddy's Lamentation" Irish, from the American Civil War
- "Paramilitar" Ska-P
- "Peace" Los Lobos
- "Peace Call" Woody Guthrie
- "Peace Frog" The Doors
- "Peace Train" Cat Stevens
- "Peat Bog Soldiers"
- "People Gotta Be Free" The Young Rascals
- "Pills and Soap" The Imposter
- "Plattgefickt" Ellen ten Damme
- "The Post War Dream" Pink Floyd
- "The Price of Oil" Billy Bragg
- "Readjustment Blues" John Denver
- "Rejoice" Jefferson Airplane
- "Roll With It" Ani DiFranco
- "Rooster" Alice in Chains
- "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" Kenny Rogers
- "Run Through the Jungle" Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Running Gun Blues" David Bowie
- "Sam Stone" John Prine
- "Santo Domingo" Phil Ochs
- "Send in the Marines" Tom Lehrer
- "Shipbuilding" Elvis Costello
- "Signs" The Five Man Electrical Band
- "Sky Pilot" Eric Burdon
- "Southampton Dock" Pink Floyd
- "Stop the War Now" The Temptations
- "Succexy" Metric (band)
- "Symptoms" Alanis Morissette
- "Tape From California" Phil Ochs
- "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Bob Dylan
- "To Susan On The West Coast Waiting" (Donovan)
- "Today I Killed a Man" P.J. Proby
- "The Train For Auschwitz "
- "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The Byrds or Pete Seeger
- "The Unelected President" Crass
- "Universal Soldier" Buffy_Sainte-Marie or Donovan
- "The Unknown Soldier" The Doors
- "Us and Them" Pink Floyd
- "Vietnam" Jimmy Cliff, Country Joe and the Fish, Lars & the Bastards
- "Vietnam Love Song" as sung by Judy Collins
- "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" Pete Seeger
- "War" Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "War (What Is It Good For) " Edwin Starr
- "War Pigs" Black Sabbath
- "War Pimp Renaissance" Lard
- "War Story" Choking Victim
- "Washington Bullets" The Clash
- "We Gotta Have Peace" Curtis Mayfield
- "We Shall Overcome" Traditional
- "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
- "What's That I Hear" Phil Ochs
- "When Ya Get Drafted" Dead Kennedys
- "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger, covered by many; hit versions by Kingston Trio, Johnny Rivers
- "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" Phil Ochs
- "With God on Our Side" Bob Dylan
- "Yes Sir, I Will" Crass
- "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" John Prine
- "Zor and Zam" The Monkees
Youth Rights
- "Another Brick in the Wall" Pink Floyd
- "Bored Teenagers" The Adverts
- "Dyers Eve" Metallica
- "Fight for Your Right (to Party)" Beastie Boys
- "Hell is for Children" Pat Benatar
- "If The Kids Are United" Sham 69
- "Minor Disturbance Too Young To Rock" The Teen Idles
- "My Generation" The Who
- "Nowhere Kids" Smile Empty Soul
- "Prisoner of Society" The Living End
- "The Young Folks" by Diana Ross & the Supremes; covered by The Jackson 5
Protest songs concerning protest songs
- "The Folk Song Army" Tom Lehrer
- "I'm Against It" Ramones
Other protest songs
- "Ænima" Tool
- "A Month of Sundays" Don Henley
- "Awakening Americans" Alanis Morissette
- "Change the World" P.O.D.
- "The Cutty Wren"
- "Excuse Me Mister" Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
- "Female Mudwrestling" Phranc
- "The Fields of Athenry" Pete St. John . Also sung by the supporters of Celtic Football Club
- "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" Frank Zappa
- "Industrial Disease" Dire Straits
- "One in a Million " Guns N' Roses
- "Rain on the Scarecrow" John Cougar Mellencamp
- "Retrospect for Life" Common featuring Lauryn Hill
- "Treaty" Yothu Yindi
- many songs by Rage Against the Machine
Some protest song artists
- Anti-Flag
- Aus-Rotten
- Joan Baez
- Billy Bragg
- Chumbawamba
- The Clash
- Crass
- Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra
- Donovan
- Bob Dylan
- Emcee Lynx
- Steve Earle
- Woody Guthrie
- Joe Hill, see Industrial Workers of the World
- Burl Ives
- Víctor Jara
- Karel Kryl
- Tom Lehrer
- The Levellers (band)
- Bob Marley
- MDC
- Manic Street Preachers
- McCarthy (band)
- Midnight Oil
- NOFX
- NWA
- Phil Ochs
- Phranc
- Tom Paxton
- Pink Floyd
- Propagandhi
- Public Enemy
- Rage Against the Machine
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Pete Seeger
- Ska-P
- Skyclad
- Sly & the Family Stone
- S.T.U.N.
- System Of A Down
- The Temptations
- Peter Tosh
- U2
- Wilco
- Neil Young
External links
- Rockin' In The Free World - Analysis of the Lyrics of Neil Young's Song
- Songs About Nuclear War from the Eighties
- Greatest Eighties Protest Songs
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