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List of protest songs
For information about protest songs in general, see Protest song.
Animal rights and meat consumption
Drugs, drug abuse, and drug culture
Environmentalism
Feminism
Globalization and corporate dominance
Governments and imperialism
Guns and violence
Homosexuals
Land Rights
Materialism
Music critics and the music industry
Nuclear weapons
Police or authority
Politicians or world leaders
Poverty
Prohibition and the War on Drugs
Racism, apartheid and civil rights
Religion
Slavery
Television
Terrorism
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
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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
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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
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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
Protest songs concerning protest songs
Other protest songs
Some protest song artists
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