PROTEST! Submit to Ball of Wax 38

Photo courtesy Flickr user Wystan, via Creative Commons license. (Cropped from original)

Photo courtesy Flickr user Wystan, via Creative Commons license.

Is it just me, or does it seem like there’s a lot to protest lately?

For the next volume of Ball of Wax, to be released this fall, I have decided it’s time to get feisty (and no, I don’t mean move to Canada and sing catchy hooks in a coy, pretty voice). I am calling for songs of protest!

Your submissions can be straightforward political songs, surreal, fictional, and/or satirical takes on the form; direct or oblique, earnest or cheeky, angry or sad . . . channel your inner Bragg/Baez/Mingus/Styrene/Riley and get up in arms about something!

Deadline: September 15

Submission guidelines over here.

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One Response to PROTEST! Submit to Ball of Wax 38

  1. Ian Jones says:

    Listened to a religous right show on cable and thought I’d submitt a song

    O God loves the U.S. of A.
    Yes God Loves the U.S. of A.
    He’s blessed us with tanks and with nukes and with bombers
    For God Loves the American way

    O God Loves the U.S. of A
    Though he works in mysterious ways
    Columbine, Sandy Hook were both works of the Devil
    But Gods blessed us with the N.R.A.

    O God loves the U.S. of A.
    Yes God Loves the U.S. of A.
    He’s blessed us with tanks and with nukes and with bombers
    For God Loves the American way

    O God loves the U.S. of A
    We’re Gods new chosen people folk say
    We’re sullied with black people, Gays and Hispanics
    But Gods blessed us with the K.K.K.

    O God loves the U.S. of A.
    Yes God Loves the U.S. of A.
    He’s blessed us with tanks and with nukes and with bombers
    For God Loves the American way

    O God loves the U.S. of A.
    Where the Pro life opinion holds sway
    Though once it is born if you can’t afford health care
    The Kids gotta die anyway

    O God loves the U.S. of A.
    Yes God Loves the U.S. of A.
    He’s blessed us with tanks and with nukes and with bombers
    For God Loves the American way

    O God Loves the U.S of A
    He will let no one stand in our way
    Though Muslims and Arabs may have all the oil,
    We just shoot them and take it away

    O God loves the U.S. of A.
    Yes God Loves the U.S. of A.
    He’s blessed us with tanks and with nukes and with bombers
    For God Loves the American way

    O God Loves the U.S. of A.
    But on one thing we must disagree
    The Lord preached for free, but not us no Sireey
    But God still loves the U.S. of A
    Yes the Lord preached for free, but not us no Sireey
    For God still loves us anyway.

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