Essay:Greatest Conservative Songs

Conservative songs exist, and some are immensely popular. Here is our growing list:

1. God Bless America Words and music by Irving Berlin.
2. "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. A response to hippie culture. Defends Southerners from stereo-typed attacks by Canadian liberal rocker Neil Young.
3. Lee Greenwood's rendition of Battle Hymn of the Republic. "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free."
4. "My Love" by Petula Clark. Christian love in secular form.
5. "Starting All Over Again" by Petula Clark. Keep moving onward, even in the most difficult of times.
6. "Thank You My Lord" by Petula Clark. The title says it all.
7. "I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)". Its title says it all. The version by The Clash has a good tempo.
8. "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman. Self-help with a criticism of alcohol.
9. "You Can't Hurry Love (You Just Have to Wait)". Abstinence for rock fans. The versions by The Supremes and Phil Collins were popular.
10. "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. Love and a thousand churches for those who are lost.
11. "Pomp and Circumstance" (Land of Hope & Glory) By Freedom gain, by Truth maintain...
12. "Jerusalem" Don't let the sword sleep in the hand.
13. "Brothers In Arms" by Dire Straits. We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms.
14. "The Ascent of Stan" by Ben Folds. Tells the story of a former "textbook hippie man" who realizes that he has become everything that he was protesting against.
15. "Brick" by Ben Folds Five. Shows the regret involved in abortion.
16. "Revolution 1" by the Beatles: Against silly support of Communist revolutionaries.
17. "Alive" by P.O.D.: About being thankful for the gift of life.
18. "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Bob Dylan. "It may be the devil or it may be the Lord."
19. "Stand By Your Man," by Tammy Wynette. Don't expect liberals to like that one!
20. "I Can't Drive 55", by Sammy Hagar. A libertarian protest against highway speed limits.
21. "Jesus Take The Wheel" by Carrie Underwood. A gospel-themed hit from the American Idol winner.
22. "Red Barchetta" by Rush. Tells the story of a future with excessive regulation, where even driving is illegal.
23. "You Light Up My Life" by Debbie Boone. One of the biggest hits ever, but liberals omit that this song is about Jesus.
24. "Father of Mine" by 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.
25. "The Taxman" by The Beatles. 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." [1]
26. "Back in the U.S.A." by Chuck Berry. A patriotic song about missing life in the U.S.A.
27. "Government Cheese" by The Rainmakers. Humorous spoof of welfare.
28. "Angry Young Man" by Billy Joel. The doctrinaire leftist radical with "his fist in the air and his head in the sand" comes in for biting criticism.
29. "Gimme Back My Bullets" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The name says it all.
30. "Let My People Go" by The Pursuit of Happiness. "How will you free us with your hate? How many heads will smash when you smash the state? You say march, I think I'll wait." An anti-protest song.
31. "Don't Let 'Em Take Your Gun" by Grand Funk Railroad. A father gives his son some sage advice.
32. "Something For Nothing" by Rush. "You can't get something for nothing, you can't have freedom for free."
33. "Neighborhood Bully" by Bob Dylan. Israel's right to exist and defend itself.
34. "Get It Right the First Time" by Louisiana's Le Roux. 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.
35. "Only The Young" by Journey. "The shadows of a golden age, a generation waits for dawn, the brave carry on, the bold and the strong". An anthem for the Reagan Generation.
36. "Yours Is No Disgrace" by Yes. Written to, and about, the troops headed for Vietnam.
37. "Fair Exchange" and "Sparks of the Tempest" by 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.
38. "In America" by the Charlie Daniels Band. Patriotism makes a comeback in response to the Iran hostage crisis and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
39. "Storm the Embassy" by the Stray Cats. Another conservative song about the Iran hostage crisis.
40. "We Must Take America Back" by Steve Vaus. Became an underground country music hit in 1992 after RCA dropped him and took the album out of print due to the political lyrics.
41. "Renegade" by Steppenwolf. John Kay's childhood escape from Communist East Germany.
42. "Capitalism" by Oingo Boingo. There's nothing wrong with free enterprise.
43. "Unborn Child" by Seals and Crofts. This pro-life song was a hit single in 1974, but for some reason gets left off the Seals and Crofts greatest hits albums.
44. "Bad Rap (Who You Tryin' To Kid, Kid?)" by Steve Taylor. Takes aim at LA and NY hipsters, the Village Voice, abortion, and "the left-wing band with their head in the sand".
45. "Eat Starch Mom" by Jefferson Airplane. A pleasant surprise from their last album in 1972 to say the least. An angry tirade against vegetarians and tree hugging health food nuts, and a celebration of muscle cars. "It'll move faster than you can, vegetable lover!"
46. "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam. "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 I leave this world"
47. "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" by Phil Ochs. Revealing Liberal hypocrisy for what it is.
48. "America USA" by [2]Joey Sudyka. Not very well known, perhaps, but a good patriotic song.
49. "Red White and Blue" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
50. "Simple Man" by Charlie Daniels. A song about how drugs and poor politics are a result of people putting their bibles down. Also a strongly pro death penalty song.
51. "That Smell" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. A very strong anti-drug use song by Americas most prestigious southern rock band.
52. Virtually anything by Toby Keith, but especially "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American)".
53. "Under God" by Pat Boone.
54. "Fortunate Son" by Credence Clearwater Revival.
55. "Christmas Shoes" by NewSong - a Christmas song by a Christian band.
56. "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood.

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