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I Come and Stand at Every Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vd9wUO9IE

Garbage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_r66FeuUSY

How Can I keep from Singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRIY2SrYq98

Three lovely songs. It is sad to reflect that humanity, if that is not a misnomer, will never change.

Glad you enjoyed the songs, Tony. We (humanity) have been this way for around 200000 years, starting out with rocks, sticks and stones.

"I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can"

So Long its been good to know you (Woody Guthrie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL78ECyHK9I
The first and last song in the new Dylan movie, sung by Cisco Houston here. The old guys had an appealing simplicity.


The Peat-Bog Soldiers (sung by Paul Robeson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXhu9BFBrk

Hello again, Kush.

Taste of Ashes.

Here is a song by Laurie Lewis. I bought the cd a long time ago. The years pass by, nothing changes, but hope flickers eternally.

https://youtu.be/59A23SVSucE?feature=shared

She also sings a version of ‘Peat Bog Soldiers’.


https://youtu.be/kSoL59aU1SI?feature=shared


The cd , ‘Spain in my Heart’, has an introduction by Pete Seeger.

Thanks Tony. Enjoyed both tracks. I did not immediately recognize the name of the artist but then remembered Kathy Mattea had covered a couple of her songs on her Calling Me Home album.
Here is The Wood thrush's song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xz6QjNwL-Y

The Maple's Lament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2myAvj6-rOA

Thanks, Kush. Very enjoyable. I had not listened to Kathy Mattea for a long time but only yesterday I was playing ‘455 Rocket’! In the second song above there seems to be an element
of Irish music with the regret and wistfulness.
Here is a well known Irish song performed by Mary Black, ‘Raglan Road’, that contains the same emotions.

https://youtu.be/n1RGFmfe9OE?feature=shared

Very nice Tony I had not heard that song before.

I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.

The melody is quite similar to 'I Come and Stand at Every Door'.

The words are by the Irish Poet, Patrick Kavanagh. The song, sung by Luke Kelly of the Dubliners, appears in the film, ‘In Bruges”. The film itself is very good. Here is the link to Luke Kelly’s version:

https://youtu.be/SFlnwSzkoWM?si=6hIkZ9yM7im2yT9z

Here is a link where the history of the song is discussed and with Luke Kelly singing.

https://youtu.be/YfrS8dLx78A?feature=shared

Thanks for the links Tony. I don't believe I have heard Luke Kelly before, what a great voice ! I especially enjoyed the 2nd link, the live version.

But I need to check out the movie In Bruges. I have heard about it for a while now.

More Woody Guthrie...

Grand Coulee Dam (Cisco Houston)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAbhhgvyjf4

Deportee (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvAwxQVRt3M

Jesus Christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oE9C8yQenI

Amazing Grace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6lr9GBx7eY

The Four Insurgent Generals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5fbWV3sQtI

All Men are Brothers (Ode to Joy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40mTmYjPpVc

Hello Kush,

As can be seen in ‘The Four Insurgent Generals’, Paul Robeson was a supporter of the Spanish Republic in the civil war there in the thirties. Apparently the tune is by Federico García Lorca.

Here is a song by Christy Moore on the same subject. As you will see and hear, the audience is supportive and lively.

‘Viva La Quinta Brigada’

https://youtu.be/xQbXO828Vio?feature=shared

Thanks Tony that was very nice. I was also reminded of Paul Robeson's version of the Civil War era song John Brown's Body


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mpFCRbuFw

He was a very brave man and stood up for his beliefs when it was not easy to do so.