<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Here is a more contemporary protest song that is sure to fire you up, V-peeps. </div><div><br></div><div>I know. It did me!</div><div><br></div><div>Protest songs have changed a lot since "the day".</div><div><br></div><div>Now, if only I could get this tune out of my head. Thanks, Deb.</div><div><br></div><div>"Dad's Gonna Kill Me" by Richard Thompson</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Dads_Gonna_Kill_Me.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Dads_Gonna_Kill_Me.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>"Out in the desert there's a soldier lying dead<br>Vultures pecking the eyes out of his head<br>Another day that could have been me there instead<br>Nobody loves me here<br>Nobody loves me here<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br><br>You hit the booby trap and you're in pieces<br>With every bullet your risk increases<br>Old Ali Baba, he's a different species<br>Nobody loves me here<br>Nobody loves me here<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br><br>I'm dead meat in my HumV Frankenstein<br>I hit the road block, God knows I never hit the mine<br>The dice rolled and I got lucky this time<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br><br>I've got a wife, a kid, another on the way<br>I might get home if I can live through today<br>Before I came out here I never used to pray<br>Nobody loves me here<br>Nobody loves me here<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br><br>Dad's in a bad mood, Dad's got the blues<br>It's someone else's mess that I didn't choose<br>At least we're winning on the Fox Evening News<br>Nobody loves me here<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me <br><br>Dawn Patrol went out and didn't come back<br>Hug the wire and pray like I told you, Mac<br>Or they'll be shovelling bits of you into a sack<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me.<br><br>And who's that stranger walking in my dreams<br>And whose that stranger cast a shadow 'cross my heart<br>And who's that stranger, I dare speak his name<br>Must be old Death a-walking<br>Must be old Death a-walking<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me"</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>7 muzzle monkeys standing in a row<br>Standing waiting for The Sandbox to blow<br>Sitting targets in the wild west show<br><br>Nobody loves me here<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br><br>Another angel got his wings this week<br>Charbroiled with his own Willie Pete<br>Nobody's dying if you speak double-speak<br><br>Dad's Gonna Kill Me"</div><div><br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes" by Rod McKuen</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/RodMcKuen/Soldiers_Who_Want_to_be_Heroes.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/RodMcKuen/Soldiers_Who_Want_to_be_Heroes.mp3</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></font>(Sing along . . . )</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Come and take my eldest son, show him how to shoot a gun</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Wipe his eyes if he starts to cry when the bullets fly.</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Give him a rifle, take his hoe, show him a field where he can go</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">To lay his body down and die without asking why</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sticks and stones can break your bones; even names can hurt you</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But the thing that hurts the most is when a man deserts you</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Don't you think its time to weed the leaders that no longer lead</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">From the people of the land who'd like to see their sons again?</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God if men could only see the lessons taught by history</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">That all the singers of this song cannot right a single wrong</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Let all men of good will stay in the fields they have to till</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Feed the mouths they have to fill and cast away their arms</div></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes number practically zero</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But there are millions who want to be civilians."</div></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>