Bob A. Feldman

Time for N1M music fans and musicians around the globe to eventually rise up against militarism and permanent warmakers--before it's too late and a new world war eventually breaks out on earth?

The latest video from Blackwood. Our version of “Rise.”
Originally performed by The Cult!

Wrote an anti-war folk song, "Merchants of Death", about a year ago. But still attempting to use folk songs as a tool to prevent WWIII from breaking out during current decade and to create world peace in 21st-century. Hope working-class N1M music fans around the world are able to unite and eventually demand an end to war profiteering by (expired link). munitions-manufacturing corporations in 2023, perhaps?

A biographical folk song from 2012 about the life of a 19th-20th century US feminist and fighter for working-class liberation, writtten after reading her autobiography "We Are Many".
lyrics
(chorus)
"We are many, they are few"
She told the working poor
And what she learned, she wrote all down
In "The Life of Mother Bloor."

(verses)
Ella Reeve was born
In 1862
And as a child met Walt Whitman
On the ferry.
Her mother died
When she was seventeen
And at nineteen, she married.
Her husband told her of
The Molly Maguires' Trial
And nineteen innocent miners hanged.
Then she had three kids
And when two of them died
Her own life filled with pain.

She fought for the right
Of women to vote
And joined the Knights of Labor.
Then she divorced
And moved to New York
And heard Debs speak for workers in America.
She organized for
De Leon's group
But felt it ignored the daily fight.
So when she was forty
In 1902
She joined Debs' Socialists one night. (chorus)

When miners struck
In 1902
She raised money for their families.
And she organized the sale
Of "Appeal to Reason"
And spoke against child labor and lynching.
When brickmakers struck
She was there
And organized in Connecticut.
And when Upton Sinclair
Published "The Jungle"
Her research proved true his book.

She worked with Katharine
Hepburn's mother
A leader of suffragettes.
Then organized in Ohio
Where thirteen socialist mayors
Folks did elect.
She talked to miners
In West Virginia
And there met Mother Jones.
And when men attacked
The (expired link). women's march
Ma Bloor marched and
Heard her sisters' moan. (chorus)

She was in Calumet,
Michigan
And saw goons kill seventy-three kids.
And when she helped
Ludlow miners
Saw Rockefeller's troops kill kids again.
She opposed World War I
And worked to free
All Wobblies who were jailed.
Then helped form
The Workers Party
After seeing why Socialists had failed.

She worked to free
Tom Mooney
And save Sacco and Vanzetti.
And on the night
Of their execution
Was arrested by Boston police.
With thousands she marched
At their funeral
And stood next to Sacco's widow
At the New York rally.
And in the Great Depression
Of the 1930s
She helped unionize industry. (chorus)

She fought against
Fascism's rise
And tried to stop a new world war.
All her life she fought
For all workers
And to free those who history books ignored.
So remember Mother Bloor
And learn from Mother Bloor
If still you are ruled by the few.
And organize like Ma Bloor
And fight like Ma Bloor
Until workers create a world that is new. (chorus)

Finished memorizing a 10-minute 2022 folk song, "While The Oceans Heat Up" a few days ago. Hope "Mike Gold" folk song from 2021 can be accessed bia linke I attached. if so, then maybe I can share links to a lot of other folk songs that you ain't likely to hear played on many radio music stations or streamed on most musite sites, perhaps? Hope all is going well for all you music fans in 2022, despite the bleak 2022 situation on earth.--bob (expired link).

I'm more into attempting to use folk songs as a tool to help stop World War III from breaking out in Europe these days than making money from putting together non-commercial-motivated folk songs.. But you can find more songs like the ones posted on N1M to check out at the urls indicated below, if you're able to accesss them..

An anti-war topical folk song about mass shootings in USA and endless (expired link). drone wars abroad that was written after the 2016 massacre in Orlando, Florida.
lyrics
(chorus)
On Virginia Tech's campus
In a Sandy Hook school
And in California and Colorado
And a Black church massacre
In South Carolina
And then 49 killed in Orlando.

(verses)
They claim drone wars in foreign lands
"Protect our security"
Yet the more they make war to change regimes
The less secure people seem to be. (chorus)

They cut programs that treat the mentally ill
To pay billions for "homeland security"
Yet they don't stop weapons being sold to the insane
Before they go on a shooting spree. (chorus)

He worked for G4S
That gets contracts to provide "security"
Yet before licensing him to shoot his gun
They failed to do enough screening. (chorus)

At the LGBT Pulse club
The homophobic guard staged his massacre
To kill civilians was his goal
In his lonely, mixed-up, suicidal war. (chorus)

The leaders still don't know that drone attacks
Create hate and not world peace
And negotiations, not more endless war,
Is the way to get homeland security. (chorus)

Been posting excerpts from a 1991 interview with (expired link). jazz, blues and folk singer Barbara Dane and former Sing-Out! magazine editor Irwin Silber that I noticed recently on some other internet site. Also, now trying to memorize two new folk songs, "Lena Goldfields Massacre" and "Paris Flight", from 2021; and was able to re-memorize the "Hiding In The Shade" folk song from late 20th-century. Hope 2021 is going (expired link). for you all on a personal level, so far, despite the future for music fans still looking bleak to me, unless all musicians and all music fans in USA and around the globe all band together and, collectively, take economic, political and cultural power away from "the 1 percent" who are billionaires or multi-billionaires (especially before some of their governments drag us all into yet another endless military conflict during the 21st-century of "permanet war."); and we all collectively then create a new world of peace, love and economic equality and leisure, etc. in the 21st-century, for all musicians and all music fans (the "99 percent" ).

One way, I think, the over 621 (expired link). billionaires have been able to push large numbers of (expired link). musicians and (expired link). music fans deeper into a current situation of economic exploitation, economic enslavement at many low-wage day jobs, unemployment or a decrease in civil liberties protections is by utilizing a "Divide and Conquer" strategy.

The "Divide and Conquer" strategy (which the (expired link). power elite seems to use its corporate media conglomerates to promote) seems to encourage (expired link). musicians and (expired link). music fans of all racial, religious, national backgrounds or political viewpoints to compete or fight against each other, rather than all uniting together in collective revolt against the (expired link). billionaires who continue to deny us economic and political equality and democracy, an immediate end to institutional racism and institutional classism in the USA, economic prosperity, world peace or full artistic freedom and equal mass media access for all musicians and music fans in 2021.

(expired link). musicians and (expired link). music fans of Woodstock Nation may not be able to gather together in outdoor settings at safe distances from each other, perhaps, in 2021. But if all (expired link). musicians and (expired link). music fans eventually do unite in common mass-based collective protest and collective revolt against our common oppressors--"the 1 percent"--in the current decade, then I think there's still a possibility that a New World of peace, freedom and love can finally be created in the USA. Because in 2021 I think it's still true that "Music Fans, United, Can Never Be Defeated!"

Hope you keep finding it interesting in 2021 to keep checking out for free all the music being posted on the (expired link) music website--especially, since you're still not likely to hear most of what you hear on N1M get too much airplay on the (expired link). power elite's corporate media conglomerate radio stations in 2021. And hope 2021 turns out to be a much less depressing year for you than 2020 likely ended up being for most of us all.--bob (expired link).

Hope N1M music fans, N1M musicians, N1M workers and N1M music site organizers are all doing (expired link), healthwise (both physically and psychologically) during current bleak historical period; and hope loss of weekly income in recent months for N1M music fans, musicians, workers and music site organizers hasn't been too excessive.

I finally memorized lyrics to non-commercially-motivated "Ballad of Liam Mellows" Irish rebel folk song from 1980's, about a month ago. And last week I finally memorized lyrics to a non-commercially-motivated folk love song, also from 1980's, "Hug Me Through The Night" (which you'll probably never get to hear played over corporate media conglomerates' radio airwaves in 21st-century). But following are the four verses to "Hug Me Through The Night":

"There's nothing more to say, my friend,
There's nothing more to prove
There's nothing more to fear, my friend,
There's no need more to move;
There's love that flows from deep inside
Expressed in many ways:
So rest with me and live your dreams
And hug me through the night.

"There's nothing more to seek, my friend,
There's nothing to possess
There's nothing more to keep, my friend,
There's no need more to test;
There's love that seeks to show itself
Revealed in many ways:
So rest with me and live your dreams
And hug me through the night.

"There's nothing more to ask, my friend,
There's nothing more to know
There's nothing to protect, my friend,
There's nothing more to show;
There's love that trusts quite easily
And kisses silently:
So rest with me and live your dreams
And hug me through the night.

"There's slavery out there, my friend,
There's prison and poverty
There's ignorance on top, my friend,
There's pigs and lies and greed;
There's love that's locked in chains by hate
And can't escape it seems:
So rest with me and live your dreams
And hug me through the night."

Been spending last few months still trying to memorize lyrics to a biographical folk song from 1980s, about an Irish freedom fighter was was executed during early 1920s, called "The Ballad of Liam Mellows."

Looks like more of the over 90 percent of N1M music fans, musicians and songwriters around the globe who are neither multi-billionaires, billionaires, multi-millionaires or millionaires in 21st-century are starting to unite more politically; and starting to demand that economic equality and leisure-oriented societies finally be established in USA and other countries--like both Mother Bloor and Woody Guthrie demanded during 20th century.

Haven't written any new non-commercial, public domain folk songs since writing the "On A Highway In Bel Air" folk song in 2019--to mark the approaching 50th anniversary of SNCC civil rights movement workers Ralph Featherstone and "Che" Payne's deaths on a highway in Bel Air, Maryland in March of 1970.

Thanks once again to all of you for spending part of your time occasionally checking out again the "Michael Brown Was Gunned Down," "Orlando Massacre" and "Mother Bloor" folk songs from the 21st-century; and for continuing to listen to and recommend or share the various other types of songs and music that lots of other N1M musicians and other N1M songwriters have been posting onto the N1M webside during 21st-century.--all the best, bob (expired link).

Thanks once again for taking time to subscribe to my N1M channel and to also check out and/or recommend songs that other N1M musicians have been providing you with. After posting public domain "Free Julian Assange," protest folk song for free on some music websites, I also posted for free a folk song that used Percy Shelley's "Men of England" poem as its lyrics and an historical public domain folk song, "On A Highway In Bel Air," (about what happened to two SNCC workers in Maryland in March of 1970) on some music websites. Not sure how much freedom from "working on Maggie's Farm" (to paraphrase one early 1960's protest song) or from economic exploitation, nuclear war, inequality and environmental destruction these new protest folk songs will help win for the 90 percent of music fans and musicians who are still often trapped as politically powerless wage-slaves, after they leave high school or college. But if the over 90 percent of music fans and musicians who aren't billionaires, multi-millionaires or millionaires can eventually avoid being racially and politically "divided and conquered" by the 10 percent (who continued to mess up the world in 2019), perhaps in 2020 a world in which the high-technology and computers are used to liberate music fans and musicians from having to work at jobs they dislike for more than 15 hours/2 days a week (but for which they would still receive the equivalent of their 35 hours/5 day workweek pay), rather than being used for war, for enrichment of corporate investors, for increased surveillance or for corporations that destroy the earth, could eventually begin to emerge?. And "The Leisure-Oriented Peace and Love Society" for all music fans and musicians could finally be created during the new "Roaring Twenties" decade of the 21st-century. Hope all goes well for you in 2020 and that you're able to "Keep The Faith," (as folk music fans and folk musicians used to say in the 1960s) during the next year!--bob (expired link).

Thanks to all you non-commercial folk music fans for subscribing. If you haven't already done so, you might be interested in checking out some of the similar types of non-commercial folk songs that I've been posting for free on additional music sites around the web in recent years. Also. on my "Protest Folk Magazine" blog, I've posted on the internet some videos from Pete Seeger's 1960s "Rainbow Quest" television show series that you might be interested in checking out for free. Hope some of this non-commercial folk music-related activity can help bring more world peace, more individual freedom and collective liberation, more racial justice, more economic equality and economic security, more love and individual happiness/joy, more leisure time and less wage-enslavement and economic exploitation to music fans around the globe. And also hope some of this non-commercial folk music-related activity can help preserve the Earth from corporate environmental destruction and/or a nuclear war; and help create more radically democratized societies for the majority of people currently living on the Earth