List of protest songs - Definition and Overview

For information about protest songs in general, see Protest song.

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
• "Kémalo" Ska-P
• "Insensibilidad" Ska-P
• "Looking for Changes" Paul McCartney
• "Meat is Murder" Conflict
• "Meat is Murder" The Smiths
• "Nailing Descartes to the Wall" Propagandhi
• "Purina Hall of Fame" Propagandhi
• "Tame Yourself" Raw Youth
• "This is A.L.F." Conflict
• "Wild Life" Paul McCartney & Wings

Drugs, drug abuse, and drug culture

• "Blow my Mind" Tom Permyakoff
• "Cocaine" Jackson Browne
• "Expecting to Fly" Neil Young
• "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
• "Pusherman" Curtis Mayfield - as well as most of his Superfly album
• "Sam Stone" John Prine
• "Straight Edge" Minor Threat
• "Tired Eyes" Neil Young
• "Tonight's the Night" Neil Young

Environmentalism

• "Apeman" The Kinks
• "Big Yellow Taxi" Joni Mitchell
• "Blue Sky Mine" Midnight Oil
• "Carbon Monoxide" Cake
• "Crazy Horses" The Osmonds
• "Damn this Traffic Jam" James Taylor
• "Eskimo Blue Day" Jefferson Airplane
• "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
• "Run Straight Down" Warren Zevon
• "Saltwater" Julian Lennon
• "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
• "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

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
• "España Va Bien" Ska-P
• "Fanatic Heart" Black 47
• "Flying Arrow" Mason Proffit
• "God Save the Queen" The Sex Pistols
• "Government Walls" James
• "Gimme Some Truth" John Lennon
• "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" Paul McCartney
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "Indian Reservation" Paul Revere and the Raiders
• "James Connolly" Black 47
• "La Sesera No VA" Ska-P
• "Monster" Steppenwolf
• "Revolution" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "Revolution" The Beatles
• "Ringing of Revolution" Phil Ochs
• "Santo Domingo" Phil Ochs
• "Sargento Bolilla" Ska-P
• "The System Works For Them" Aus-Rotten
• "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

Globalization and corporate dominance

• "Big Capital Monster" Tom Permyakoff
• "Californication" Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Everything Counts" Depeche Mode
• "Giants" Five Iron Frenzy
• "Goodbye Desolate Railyard" A Silver Mt. Zion
• "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

Guns and violence

• "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
• "New Day" Wyclef Jean
• "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" Phil Ochs
• "Police and Thieves" Junior Murvin
• "Saturday Night Special" Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Too Many Martyrs" Phil Ochs
• "Tool and Die" Consolidated
• "Where is the Love?" The Black Eyed Peas

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
• "Homophobia" Chumbawamba
• "Homophobes Are Just Mad 'Cuz They Can't Get Laid" Propagandhi
• "The Killing Of Georgie [Parts I & II]" Rod Stewart
• "Luister Anita" Zangeres Zonder Naam
• "Murder in Hollywood" DOA
• "Smalltown Boy" Bronski Beat
• "Glad To Be Gay" Tom Robinson
• "No Clause 28" Boy George

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

Materialism

• "Angels" Crass
• "Consumo Gusto" Ska-P
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "Little Boxes" Malvina Reynolds
• "McDolar" Ska-P
• "Money" Pink Floyd
• "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
• "We're All Bourgeois Now" McCarthy (band)
• "Well Respected Man" The Kinks
• "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
• "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 Moneygoround" Ray Davies and The Kinks
• "Newsworth" Greenslade
• "Panic" The Smiths
• "Pop Singer" John Mellencamp
• "St. Augustine in Hell" Sting
• "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• "The Nickel Song" Melanie
• "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
• "Einstein A Go-Go" Landscape
• "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
• "Pride of Man" Quicksilver Messenger Service
• "Put Down That Weapon" Midnight Oil
• "Redemption Song" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "Russians" Sting
• "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
• "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

Police or authority

• "40-80" Lucky Boys Confusion
• "911 is a Joke" Public Enemy
• "The Fence" Evan Greer (http://www.evangreer.com)
• "A Man in Uniform" Randy
• "Cop Killer" Ice-T
• "Cop Shot" Dead Prez
• "Cops of the World" Phil Ochs
• "Dead Cops" Millions of Dead Cops
• "Fuck the Police" NWA
• "Gang Control" Leftover Crack (http://www.leftovercrack.com)
• "Get Your Riot Gear" Five Iron Frenzy
• "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
• "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
• "The Beast" The Fugees
• "You Can Kill the Protester, But You Can't Kill the Protest" Anti-Flag
• "Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stanley)" Chumbawamba

Politicians or world leaders

• "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
• 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
• "Old Mother Reagan" The Violent Femmes
• "Nuclear Device" The Stranglers
• "Reagan Youth" Reagan Youth
• "Shoot The Dog" George Michael
• "Simpático Holgazán" Ska-P
• "Son of a Bush" Public Enemy
• "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
• "Cloud Nine" The Temptations
• "Cold Dreams" Emcee Lynx
• "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 "Blue" 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
• "Tom Joad" Woody Guthrie
• "We Are the World" USA for Africa
• "Things Going On" Lynyrd Skynyrd

Prohibition and the War on Drugs

• "Burn One Down" Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
• "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

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 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
• "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
• "Down Rodeo" Rage Against the Machine
• "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
• "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" Midnight Oil
• "John Brown's Body"
• "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" Bob Dylan
• "Lucrecia" Ska-P
• "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
• "The Day We Killed" Five Iron Frenzy
• "The Times They Are A-Changing" Bob Dylan
• "Too Many Martyrs" Phil Ochs
• "Trouble Every Day" Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
• "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"
• "In The Flesh" Pink Floyd

Religion

• "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
• "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
• "Reality Show" Ska-P
• "Radio Ga Ga" Queen
• "Spanish Pipe Dream" John Prine
• "Telecide" The Tubes
• "Television, the Drug of the Nation" Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
• "Watching TV" by Roger Waters
• "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles

Terrorism

• "911 For Peace" Anti-Flag
• "Alert Status Red" Matthew Good
• "The Future" Leonard Cohen
• "John Walker's Blues" Steve Earle
• "Mass Destruction" Faithless
• "One" U2
• "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" U2
• "Swastika Eyes" Primal Scream
• "Take a Minute" Antithesis (http://www.antithesistherapper.com)
• "The Gunner's Dream" Pink Floyd
• "(Didn't Know I Was) Unamerican" Ian Rhett
• "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"
• "Between the Wars" Billy Bragg
• "The Blackleg Miners"
• "The Blind Ploughman"
• "The Bonehead Working Man"
• "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
• "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" Harry McClintock
• "Hard Times Come Again No More"
• "The Internationale"
• "It Takes a Long Pull to Get There"
• "John Henry"
• "Joe Hill" Joan Baez and others
• "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
• "The Red Flag"
• "Rebel Girl" Joe Hill
• "Roll the Union On"
• "Shearing In The Bar"
• "Shores of Botany Bay"
• "Sixteen Tons" Merle Travis
• "Solidarity Forever" Ralph Chaplin
• "Stand Up! Ye Workers" Ethel Comer
• "Struggle In The West"
• "The Two Bums"
• "There is Power in a Union" Joe Hill
• "This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
• "Traveling Down the Castlereagh"
• "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

• "2+2=?" Bob Seger
• "1916" Motorhead
• "1917" Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt
• "A New Kind of Army" Anti-Flag
• "Abraham, Martin and John" Dion
• "Albright Monument, Baghdad" Propagandhi
• "All Along the Watchtower" Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix
• "Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie
• "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" Eric Bogle
• "Army Man in Vietnam" Big Joe Williams
• "Army Dreamers" Kate Bush
• "Baghdad" The Offspring
• "Ball Of Confusion" 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
• "Cops of the World" Phil Ochs
• "Civil War" Guns n' Roses
• "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
• "Fighting for Strangers" Steeleye Span
• "Fight War, Not Wars" Crass
• The Final Cut (album) Pink Floyd
• "Fortunate Son" Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
• "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
• "In a World Gone Mad" The Beastie Boys
• "Intifada" Ska-P
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "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 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
• "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
• "Succexy" Metric (band)
• "To Susan On The West Coast Waiting" (Donovan)
• "Today I Killed a Man" P.J. Proby
• "The Train For Auschwitz"
• "Tape From California" Phil Ochs
• "The Post War Dream" Pink Floyd
• "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Bob Dylan
• "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The Byrds or Pete Seeger
• "Universal Soldier" Buffy_Sainte-Marie or Donovan
• "The Unelected President" Crass
• "The Unknown Soldier" The Doors
• "Vietnam" Jimmy Cliff
• "Vietnam" Lars & the Bastards
• "Vietnam Love Song" as sung by Judy Collins
• "Washington Bullets" The Clash
• "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" Pete Seeger
• "War" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "War" Edwin Starr
• "War Pigs" Black Sabbath
• "War Pimp Renaissance" Lard
• "War Story" Choking Victim
• "We gotta have Peace" Curtis Mayfield
• "We Shall Overcome" Traditional
• "With God on Our Side" Bob Dylan
• "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
• "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

Protest songs concerning protest songs

• "I'm Against It" Ramones
• "The Folk Song Army" Tom Lehrer

Other protest songs

• "Ænima" Tool
• "A Month of Sundays" Don Henley
• "Change the World" P.O.D.
• "The Cutty Wren"
• "Excuse Me Mister" Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
• "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
• "Treaty" Yothu Yindi
• any song by Rage Against the Machine

Some protest song artists

• Anti-Flag
• Joan Baez
• Billy Bragg
• Chumbawamba
• The Clash
• Crass
• Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra
• Donovan
• Bob Dylan
• Woody Guthrie
• Joe Hill, see Industrial Workers of the World
• Burl Ives
• Víctor Jara
• Tom Lehrer
• The Levellers (band)
• Bob Marley
• McCarthy (band)
• Manic Street Preachers
• MDC
• Midnight Oil
• NOFX
• NWA
• Phil Ochs
• Public Enemy
• Rage Against the Machine
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• S.T.U.N.
• System Of A Down
• Tom Paxton very prolific
• Tom Permyakoff
• Propagandhi
• Pete Seeger
• Peter Tosh
• Wilco
• Neil Young
• U2
• Aus-Rotten
• Ska-P
• Pink Floyd

External links

• Rockin' In The Free World (http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ritfw.htm) - Analysis of the Lyrics of Neil Young's Song