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There are many brilliant—and popular—conservative songs.  Here is our growing list (click under "Billboard Rank" to list the most popular first):
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Songs "Classic"
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!Artist
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!Comments
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!Billboard Rank
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!Category
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|-
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|''Living In America''
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|[[James Brown]]
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|Song that espouses the virtues of, and pride in, living in the United States. Appears in the movie "Rocky IV" and on the film's soundtrack.
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|NA
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|Classic/R&B/Funk
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEqzEgDZ0g "Ain't I Right"]
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|[[Marty Robbins]]
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|Song against communism and socialism.
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|NA
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|Classic/Folk
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT88jBAoVIM ''Amazing Grace'']
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|[[John Newton]]
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|A Christian hymn published in 1779.
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|NA
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|Classic/Spiritual
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3S7mlRYL-8 America]
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|Neil Diamond
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|Freedom, Liberty, Patriotism
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|8
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|Classic/Pop
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|-
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|''America USA''
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|Joey Sudyka
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|Not very well known, perhaps, but a good patriotic song.
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|NA
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|Classic/Pop
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPywgiMb4k ''Angry Young Man'']
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|[[Billy Joel]]
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|The doctrinaire leftist radical with "his fist in the air and his head in the sand" comes in for biting criticism.
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|NA
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|Classic/Pop
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eonyfRet8&feature=related ''Back in the U.S.A.'']
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|[[Chuck Berry]]
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|A patriotic song about missing life in the U.S.A.
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|Sixteen
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5GDvN9_OE ''Ballad of the Green Berets'']
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|Sergeant Barry Sadler
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|Pro-American and pro-military.
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|1
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|Classic/Traditional
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/r5Q8Xa0bPy8''Battle Hymn of the Republic'']
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|[[Lee Greenwood]]
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|"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free."
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|NA
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|Classic/Traditional
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|-
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|''Bus Stop''
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|The Hollies
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|Pro-[[chivalry]], pro-romance and pro-marriage: "Someday my name and hers are going to be the same."
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|5
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/cMfrLFirGWc ''Chapel of Love'']
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|Dixie Cups
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|Marriage in a church
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|1
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|Classic/Pop
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIF4U_QFSxQ ''Chores'']
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|Animal Collective
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|"Now I've got these chores / and I'm not gonna hurt no-one" -- Hard work is praised and violence is discouraged. A scary song for [[liberals]]!
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|NA
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|Classic/Traditional
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|-
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|''Country Trash''
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|Johnny Cash
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|In a comedic way, the song praises the small town conservative virtues of the people looked down upon by big city liberals as "Country trash"
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|NA
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Crying-in-the-Chapel-lyrics-Elvis-Presley/E547D833F0BBFADF48256874002B3358 ''Crying In The Chapel'']
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|[[Elvis Presley]]
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|Pro-marriage
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|1
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc&ob=av2n''Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American)'']
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|[[Toby Keith]]
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|A patriotic response to the Sept. 11 attacks
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|1 (Hot Country Songs)
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|''D-I-V-O-R-C-E''
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|[[Tammy Wynette]]
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|This sad song was a huge hit in 1968.
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|1
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38oeBgvbMYA ''Don't Let 'Em Take Your Gun'']
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|Grand Funk Railroad
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|A father gives his son some sage advice.
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/v9BtLRWbkmA ''Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)'']
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|Fleetwood Mac
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|Used by Bill Clinton as his campaign theme song in 1992, but liberals often try to appeal to conservative themes for elections.
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|3
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|''Do You Hear the People Sing''
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|Claude-Michel Schönberg
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|Standing up to government in the name of freedom, from the musical ''Les Miserables''
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY ''Free Bird'']
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|Lynyrd Skynyrd
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|Because [[Conservatives]] want a free country, and [[liberals]] are in love with [[communism]].
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|Nineteen
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/5Jxnt-QY-j4 ''Game of Love'']
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|Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
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|"The purpose of a man is to love a woman, and the purpose of a woman is to love a man...  It started long ago in the Garden of Eden when Adam said to Eve 'Baby, you're for me.'"
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|1
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|Classic/Pop
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|-
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|''Get a Job''
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|The Silhouettes
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|Self-explanatory; a rebuke to lazy [[liberals]] who want to sit around and wait for government handouts.
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|1
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/4ZEE8utquP8 ''Get it Right the First Time'']
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|Louisiana's LeRoux
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|Wealthy Georgia politician is placed in high office and turns out to be a puppet with no ideas of his own.  Released in 1980 when Jimmy Carter was up for re-election.
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzU2iJ9qfXg ''Gimme Back My Bullets'']
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|[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
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|The name says it all.
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z5hD38Bs8Y''God Bless America'']
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|Irving Berlin
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|American patriotic, classic song.
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|NA
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|Classic/Traditional
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|-
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|''God and Guns''
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|[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
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|A powerful new song that elaborates on the song title.
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|NA
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/proudtobeamerican.html ''God Bless the USA'']
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|Lee Greenwood
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|
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|7 (Hot Country)
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5EfwBWgg0&feature=related ''Go Down Moses'']
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|[[Louis Armstrong]]
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|
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|NA
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|Classic/Spiritual
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IStlBOX9F4o ''God's Gonna Cut You Down'']
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|
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|"Go tell that long tongue liar, go and tell that midnight rider, tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter, tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down"
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|NA
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|Classic/Traditional
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|-
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|[http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/jones-george/gods-gonna-get-cha-for-that-6638.html ''God's Gonna Get 'Cha For That'']
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|Tammy Wynette & George Jones
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|You cannot escape God's gaze, no matter who you are
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|25
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/EgkBx8csEws ''Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road'']
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|[[Elton John]]
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|The same message as the [[Prodigal Son]]: look objectively at our own lives, and realize that "I should have listened to my old man."
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|2
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/serve.html ''Gotta Serve Somebody'']
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|[[Bob Dylan]]
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|"It may be the devil or it may be the Lord."
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|24
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|Classic/Folk
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|-
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|[http://www.ixlyrics.com/CLIVE-DUNN/GRANDAD.html ''Grandad'']
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|Clive Dunn
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|UK Number 1 hit, in praise of senior citizens and their values
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZVPv9B-ZlM ''Government Cheese'']
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|The Rainmakers
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|Humorous spoof of welfare.
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU&ob=av2nHave You Forgotten?]
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|Darryl Worley
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|Patriotic response to [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]<ref>http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=15568</ref>
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|1 (US Country)
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KtScrqtbc "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"]
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|Hollies
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|Repeats the slogan of the Boys Town, a Christian charity for youngsters founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan in Omaha<ref>http://www.boystown.org/about/father-edward-|j-|flanagan</ref>
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heL2Czeraw ''I Am America'']
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|Krista Branch
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|American [[Tea Party Movement]] Song
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u0wwCfoJ4 ''I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)'']
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|The Crickets
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|Its title says it all. The version by ''The Clash'' has a particularly good tempo.
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|9 (Bobby Fuller Four version)
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/OtZ5YsvREi4 ''In America'']
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|The [[Charlie Daniels]] Band
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|Patriotism makes a comeback in response to the Iran hostage crisis and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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|Eleven
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|''I Saw The Light''
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|Hank Williams
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|Redemption of sin through faith.
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|NA
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|''It's America''
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|Rodney Atkins
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|Celebrates the American spirit and all the good things about the United States.
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|1 (US Country)
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.justsomelyrics.com/767663/McCarthy-Keep-an-Open-Mind-or-Else-Lyrics ''Keep an Open Mind or Else'']
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|McCarthy
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|About the conservative value of keeping an [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness|open mind]].
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|NA
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|Classic/Pop
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|-
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|''Last Kiss''
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|Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders
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|"Oh where oh where can my baby be; The Lord took her away from me; She's gone to heaven so I got to be good; So I can see my baby when."
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|2 (J. Frank Wilson version)
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/BvPugOWeZiA ''Let It Be'']
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|[[The Beatles]]
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|Very popular in Russia under the Soviets
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|1
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-1_d6bbM1I ''My Love'']
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|[[Petula Clark]]
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|A Christian love in secular form.
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|1
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/kD5M_i6JceU ''Neighborhood Bully'']
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|[[Bob Dylan]]
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|Israel's right to exist and defend itself.
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|NA
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|Classic/Folk
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kZ0pA9REyU ''No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed'']
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|Richie Havens (Covered by Yes)
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|"...I know your cross is heavier With every step Every step But I know a man who'd walk miles for you..."
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZTKvNXxPA "Nothing Like You"]
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|[[Miles Davis]] and Bob Dorough
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|Celebrates the sight of ones beloved - Isaiah 43:4
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE ''Okie From Muskogee'']
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|[[Merle Haggard]]
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|Anti-drug and anti-hippie; a song about praising the traditional American values in Mid-America. Was written in response to the Vietnam War protests and counter-culture movement.
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|1 (Billboard Hot Country)
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|Classic
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|-
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|''People Get Ready''
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|Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions
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|An all-time classic song about the glory of the [[Lord]].
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|3
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|Classic/Spiritual
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6XZDb045xU ''Red White & Blue (Love It or Leave)'']
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|[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
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|"It was all based around this somewhat Utopian view of the world. The idea was that music would lift man up to a higher plane, and that world leaders, if they were able |to sit down on some big grassy knoll where the sun was shining and hear music..." Tom Johnston of LS
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|27
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2lRcxlYx40''Renegade'']
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|[[Steppenwolf]]
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|[[John Kay]]'s childhood escape from Communist [[East Germany]].
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0''Respect'']
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|Aretha Franklin
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|This song is about respecting woman and their choices to be equal members in society.
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|1
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|Classic/Soul
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBohsCG8emk ''Simple Man'']
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|[[Charlie Daniels]]
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|A song about how drugs and poor politics are a result of people putting their bibles down. Also a strongly pro death penalty song.
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|Twelve
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|Classic/Country/Rock
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/RCqxq6xqoXI ''Sin City'']
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|The Flying Burrito Brothers
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|Attacks modern decadence and predicts divine punishment for sin.
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|NA
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPlGFh6OpQ ''Spirit In The Sky'']
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|Norman Greenbaum
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|A religious rock song written in 1969.
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|3
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBirf4BWew ''Stand By Your Man'']
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|[[Tammy Wynette]]
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|Don't expect [[feminists]] to like that one! Or [[Hillary Clinton]]!
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|1 (Hot Country Singles)
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|''Star Spangled Banner''
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|Francis Scott Key
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|The American national anthem.
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|NA
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|Classic/Traditional
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|-
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|''Starting All Over Again''
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|[[Petula Clark]]
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|Keep moving onward, even in the most difficult of times.
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|NA
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|Classic/Traditional
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|-
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|''Stayin' Alive''
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|[[The Bee Gees]]
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|Pro-people and pro-staying alive, and this: "we can try to understand/the [[New York Times]]' effect on man."
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|1
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|Classic/Pop
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgrQST6VlnQ "Stay With Me"]
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|[[Frank Sinatra]]
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|Beautiful song of Christian faith.
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKdAVYKYZfo''Storm the Embassy'']
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|The Stray Cats
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|Another conservative song about the Iran hostage crisis.  "Fifteen man taken captive in a hostile foreign land/Scorchin' sun beaming down onto miles and miles of sand..."
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCXiuqJ1E6g ''Supper's Ready'']
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|[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]
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|''There's an angel standing in the sun, and he's crying with a loud voice, "This is the supper of the mighty one", Lord of Lords, King of Kings, Has returned to lead his |children home, To take them to the new Jerusalem.''
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|''Sympathy for the Devil''
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|The Rolling Stones
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|Reminds humanity that evil is present in the world and needs to be fought.
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukUL_I14GPw''Take Me Home, Country Roads'']
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|John Denver
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|Celebrates Southern country landscape and traditions.
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|2
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|Classic/Folk
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maz9ddxEQnM ''Taxman'']
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|[[The Beatles]]
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|George Harrison said, "Taxman was when I first realized that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes."
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/p6q9nBusrq8 ''That Smell'']
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|[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
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|A very strong anti-drug use song by America's most well-known Southern rock band.
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|NA
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|Classic/Country/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWZhuzFMM8 ''The Ascent of Stan'']
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|[[Ben Folds]]
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|Tells the story of a former "textbook hippie man" who realizes that he has become everything that he was protesting against.
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|NA
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6547 ''The Devil Went Down To Georgia'']
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|[[Charlie Daniels]]
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|A deeper message here, as Daniels explains.
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|3
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAFmFsb9XM&feature=related ''The Fightin' Side of Me'']
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|Merle Haggard
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|A song about patriotism and standing up for [[America]].
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|1 (Hot Country Singles)
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/fHvf20Y6eoM ''Turn, Turn, Turn'']
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|The Byrds
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|An almost word-for-word direct quotation from the [[Bible]], specifically [[Ecclesiastes]], with the addition of the refrain "Turn, Turn, Turn".
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|1
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|Classic/Folk
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/C68J1tJM6vU ''Unborn Child'']
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|Seals and Crofts
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|This pro-life song was a hit single in 1974, but for some reason gets left off the Seals and Crofts greatest hits albums.
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|66
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|Classic/Folk
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|-
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|''Union Sundown''
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|Bob Dylan
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|The title says it all.
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|NA
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|Classic/Folk
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|-
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|''Way Out Here''
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|Josh Thompson
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|"Our house is all protected by the good Lord and a Gun", and "We wont take a dime if we aint earned it, when it comes to weight, brother we pull our own". It is pro gun |ownership, the Lord, and hard work. Also preaches the morals and ethics that are known from small towns.
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|Fifteen (US Country)
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|''We Must Take America Back''
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|Steve Vaus
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|Became an underground country music hit in 1992 after RCA dropped him and took the album out of print due to the political lyrics.
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|NA
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|Classic/Country
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nElc2vMU-b0 ''When You Love A Woman'']
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|Journey
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|True love from the heart
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|Twelve
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5RkzbHb-w ''You Can't Hurry Love (You Just Have to Wait)'']
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|The Supremes
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|Abstinence for rock fans. Also performed by Phil Collins.
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|1
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/lnk8SKD9zcA''You Light Up My Life'']
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|Debby Boone
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|One of the biggest hits ever, but [[liberals]] omit that this song is about [[Jesus]].
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|1
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|Classic
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2UE5g72s0o ''Yours Is No Disgrace'']
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|[[Yes]]
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|Written to, and about, the troops headed for Vietnam.
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|NA
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|Classic/Rock
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|-
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!Songs "Rock"
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!Artist
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!Comments
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!Billboard Rank
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!Category
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|-
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|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVsZap7WBm8 ''All In'']
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|Lifehouse
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|Describes a relationship with God as being full of commitment and without reservations.
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|NA
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|Rock
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|-
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|[http://youtu.be/bHpw6CzprNY ''Bad Rap (Who You Tryin' To Kid, Kid?)'']
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|Steve Taylor
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|Takes aim at LA and NY hipsters, the Village Voice, abortion, and "the left-wing band with their head in the sand".
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|NA
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|Rock
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|-
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|[http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=sex+pistols''Bodies'']
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|The Sex Pistols
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|Profane but graphically anti-abortion.
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|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''Critical Acclaim''
 +
|Avenged Sevenfold
 +
|Pro-America and pro-Military.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVOEoo1oXBs ''Declaration Day'']
 +
|Iced Earth
 +
|A song about the Revolutionary War.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pearl+jam/dissident_20106414.html ''Dissident'']
 +
|Pearl Jam
 +
|About a woman who engages in [[liberal values]] by being impregnated out of wedlock and having an abortion, but immediately regrets doing so.
 +
|3
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/K5N2WJ1szHE ''Father of Mine'']
 +
|Everclear
 +
|A reminder of the importance of good parenting. Everclear singer Art Alexakis wrote much of his material from his own perspective of a troubled childhood. At the end of |the song, Alexakis promises to be a better father than his own had been.
 +
|4
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/zapGC2PrWiU ''Fair Exchange"]
 +
|[[Kansas (band)|Kansas]]
 +
|Warnings about totalitarian governments who want to take away your freedom in the name of utopia.  Also much of their early 80s material, which has Christian lyrics.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRZt7xcwpY&feature=youtu.be "Freedom is Colorblind"]
 +
|JoeDanMedia
 +
|A song about how the left uses race to polarize the country. It is a conservative song that tries to unite the country.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''Iraq No Phobia''
 +
|Pro-Pain
 +
|It is a pro-American, pro-military heavy metal song about the first [[Gulf War]]: ''"Mohammed's no match for the great Uncle Sam."''
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b71clnfgyts ''No Son of Mine'']
 +
|Genesis
 +
|
 +
|Twelve
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzEhnBdOTAM "ONE TEA PARTY"]
 +
|[[Toot Sweet]]
 +
|This song is a metaphoric call to energize, motivate and unite the movement that we are all passionate about... the time is now to stand together, united, "AS ONE".
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/wDrRVlm5HOw "Prayer for America"]
 +
|JoeDanMedia
 +
|A short history lesson put to music regarding our schools and how the Bible was taught there in previous years.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''Welcome to the Family''
 +
|Avenged Sevenfold
 +
|A song about death row, although not anti-death penalty.
 +
|8
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/wq160PIYjHo "No Rules for Radicals"]
 +
|JoeDanMedia
 +
|This song highlights "rules" Saul Alinsky wrote about in his progressive-liberal book, 'Rules for Radicals'. 
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''Real American''
 +
|Rick Derringer
 +
|Patriotic anthem, known as [[Hulk Hogan]]'s pre-match song.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/FAvQSkK8Z8U ''Red Barchetta'']
 +
|[[Rush]]
 +
|Tells the story of a future with excessive regulation, where even driving is illegal.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=096LhjGNNCk ''Something For Nothing'']
 +
|Rush
 +
|"You can't get something for nothing, you can't have freedom for free."
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/cnijc9wNpV4 ''Sparks of the Tempest'']
 +
|[[Kansas (band)|Kansas]]
 +
|Warnings about totalitarian governments who want to take away your freedom in the name of utopia.  Also much of their early 80s material, which has Christian lyrics.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes''
 +
|Kevin Ayers
 +
|Defends the right of businessmen to choose their customers: "we don't serve strangers in blue suede shoes".
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''The Big Money''
 +
|Rush
 +
|Pro-[[capitalism]]
 +
|45
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
!Songs "Spiritual"
 +
!Artist
 +
!Comments
 +
!Billboard Rank
 +
!Category
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/iq10bz3PxyY ''Christmas Shoes'']
 +
|NewSong
 +
|A Christmas song by a Christian band.
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoaH0I9UwLI ''Your Love Is Extravagant'']
 +
|Casting Crowns
 +
|
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnnhYE1DhC4 ''What If His People Prayed'']
 +
|Casting Crowns
 +
|
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA_H6C8iLPA ''Liberalism is a Mental Disorder'']
 +
|The Infidel (Gregory Van Leer Jr.) with an opening from [[Michael Savage]]
 +
|Clearly attacks [[liberal values]].
 +
|NA
 +
|Rap
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1oRP7FfBw ''Sunny Afternoon'']
 +
|The Kinks
 +
|About a rich man trying to enjoy the simple things in life because the Nanny-state has nearly bankrupted him.
 +
|Fourteen
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)''
 +
|Radiohead
 +
|A song chastising people for accepting the mainstream medias version of events and not paying attention.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''No Children''
 +
|The Mountain Goats
 +
|A song about a marriage falling apart because the couple has no children to hold the family together.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuUmLIPSasI ''God Loves My Country'']
 +
|Balthrop, Alabama
 +
|A song that declares that God loves America most of all.
 +
|NA
 +
|Folk
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZE0SrkyNE&ob=av2n ''Where'd You Go'']
 +
|Fort Minor
 +
|Shows the hardship of divorce, liberal values, and the possible future of the families of our service men who could be forced to serve in Libya.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rap
 +
|-
 +
|''Patriotism''
 +
|Company Flow
 +
|While containing bad language it endorses the US as a super-power.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rap
 +
|-
 +
|''Tribute''
 +
|Tenacious D
 +
|Comedy single, but it's also a very popular song about overcoming Satan and alludes to many other Christian themes such as heaven and hell.
 +
|4
 +
|Rock/folk
 +
|-
 +
|''For Martha''
 +
|The Smashing Pumpkins
 +
|Being torn between the anguish of losing a lost one and the joy of knowing you will one day reunite them with in heaven
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDIGzzeQjaE ''Dethharmonic'']
 +
|Dethklok
 +
|Anti-tax
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|''Get Over It''
 +
|The Eagles
 +
|Written by Don Henley (who is a liberal) about his frustration of people blaming others for their own problems and believing the world owes them a favor ''"the big bad |world doesn't owe you a thing,"''
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6oYX1D-0w "I Need A Dollar"]
 +
|Aloe Blacc
 +
|"Please Mr.Bossman I need this job more than you can know" - an excellent paean to the plights of unemployment
 +
|NA
 +
|Pop/Soul
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/RlOQBGjkm78 "Extra Extra"]
 +
|[[Toots Sweet]]
 +
|Toots does a great job at making the clips entertaining as well as informative.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yq8zn15EPE "Somebody Must Be Prayin' For Me]
 +
|[[Tim McGraw]]
 +
|Song about prayer and how it is a necessary part of everyday life.
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual/Country
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNTUADEhC8Q"The List"]
 +
|The Right Brothers
 +
|A song that melodically lists liberal activists.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/8uxAT6dzKSM "We the People"]
 +
|[[Toots Sweet]]
 +
|A song about the Constitution and how the current administration has been abusing the beloved document we are trying to live by.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/AA1aHrfxgEg "Shut up and Teach"]
 +
|The Right Brothers
 +
|Liberal indoctrination runs rampant in our schools. Song expresses the desire to stick to a non-partisan curriculum.
 +
| NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/ROdsgYyheM4 "On Fire"]
 +
|Switchfoot
 +
|This song is about keeping the faith, in people and in our religion.
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pldyz9VS2yY ''Under God'']
 +
|[[Pat Boone]]
 +
|
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EBiei21-C8 ''King Without a Crown'']
 +
|Matisyahu
 +
|A Hasidic Jew raps about God as the source of happiness and salvation from the things of this world: "If you're drowning in the waters and you can't stay afloat ask |Hashem for mercy and He'll throw you a rope."
 +
|7 (Hot Modern Rock Tracks)
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6yilkU1LI ''Fast Car'']
 +
|Tracy Chapman
 +
|Self-help, free market, division of labor, and a criticism of alcohol.  "I know things will get better/You'll find work and I'll get promoted/We'll move out of the |shelter/Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs"
 +
|6
 +
|Folk
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk ''Livin' on a Prayer'']
 +
|Bon Jovi
 +
|Organized labor is harmful to the welfare of workers, who turn to prayer.
 +
|1
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/o-z2D9lo9-8 ''Bush Was Right'']
 +
|The Right Brothers
 +
|Celebrating the Bush Administration's success and policies.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSK98Y2FNg "Stop Global Whining"]
 +
|The Right Brothers
 +
|Anti-Global Warming hoax song.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXAW2snGMI ''Capitalism'']
 +
|Oingo Boingo
 +
|There's nothing wrong with free enterprise.
 +
|NA
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHthaNNnds Keep On Loving You]
 +
|REO Speedwagon
 +
|Love overcomes infidelity "When I said that I love you I meant That I love you forever."
 +
|1
 +
|Pop
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0 ''Sweet Home Alabama'']
 +
|[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
 +
|A response to hippie culture. Defends Southerners from stereotyped attacks by [[liberal]], Canadian rocker Neil Young.  "Well, I hope Neil Young will remember/A Southern |man don't need him around anyhow."
 +
|8
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5aMMRes2u4 ''Still the One'']
 +
|Orleans
 +
|A tribute to fidelity in relationships.
 +
|5
 +
|Pop
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858733660/ ''What's The Use Of Wond'rin?'']
 +
|Amanda Palmer
 +
|Celebrates the command: "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." -Ephesians 5:22
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/Ke-r2K0ymWc ''Lightning Crashes'']
 +
|Live
 +
|The joy and significance of childbirth.
 +
|1
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJprEyXMrIk''Takin' Care of Business'']
 +
|Bachman-Turner Overdrive
 +
|The work ethic and promoting self-employment.
 +
|Twelve
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5r2sp''Cat's In The Cradle'']
 +
|Harry Chapin
 +
|The importance of traditional families and responsible fatherhood.
 +
|1
 +
|Folk
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/bCFWyLwcR6E ''Thank You My Lord'']
 +
|[[Petula Clark]]
 +
|The title says it all.
 +
|NA
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/7NJMTmz7pkg ''Brick'']
 +
|Ben Folds Five
 +
|Shows the regret involved in abortion.
 +
|6 (Modern Rock Tracks)
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://youtu.be/Dw6qmYX1ny4 ''Alive'']
 +
|P.O.D.
 +
|About being thankful for the gift of life.
 +
|2 (US Alternative)
 +
|Rock
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_iNdbPvrYk ''Jesus Christ'']
 +
|Brand New
 +
|The singer turns to God for advice and assurance.
 +
|30 (Hot Modern Rock Tracks
 +
|Spiritual
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU ''Jesus, Take The Wheel'']
 +
|[[Carrie Underwood]]
 +
|A gospel-themed hit from the American Idol winner.
 +
|1 (US Country)
 +
|Country
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBwXKgDTdE ''Mine'']
 +
|[[Taylor Swift]]
 +
|Talks about how her parents stooped to [[liberal values]] and divorced, and how she doesn't want that to happen with the guy she meets, dates, and marries.
 +
|1 (US Adult Contemporary)
 +
|Pop/Country
 +
|-
 +
|-
 +
!Songs "Rap"
 +
!Artist
 +
!Comments
 +
!Billboard Rank
 +
!Category
 +
|-
 +
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v7xNSgBkum7o "Pray"]
 +
|[[MC Hammer]]
 +
|Working hard and giving thanks.
 +
|2
 +
|Rap/Pop
 +
|-
 +
 
 +
|}
 +
|
 +
Please add your best conservative picks.
 +
 
 +
== Debatable Whether Conservative ==
 +
 
 +
The top five in a poll of the greatest songs in the 20th century, according to the Recording Industry Association of America and the [[NEA]]:
 +
 
 +
*''Over the Rainbow'' (Judy Garland)
 +
*''White Christmas'' (Bing Crosby)
 +
*''Respect'' (Aretha Franklin)
 +
*''American Pie'' (Don McLean)
 +
 
 +
Also questionable:
 +
 
 +
*''Rocky Raccoon'' (Beatles) - has multiple references to Gideon's Bible
 +
 +
== References ==
 +
 
 +
<references/>
 +
[[Category:Essays]]
 +
[[category:Music]]
 +
1.[[http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/group/support-conservative-entertainment]]http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/group/support-conservative-entertainment
 +
2.[[http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lmnorton/2011/06/07/bigdawg-spotlight-on-the-in-word-the-antidote-to-liberal-arts-political-correctness]]http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/antidote-to-liberal-arts-political-correctness
 +
3.[http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lmnorton/2011/05/23/bigdawg-spotlight-on-urban-funk-rocker-toots-sweet-a-conservative-sound-in-a-liberal-town/]http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/urban-funk-rocker-toots-sweet-a-conservative-sound-in-a-liberal-town/
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