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Songs Of The Times
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 Rock legend
Neil Young has for decades protested against the American status
quo, both in his music and in his life. His latest foray into
grassroots activism is his Living With War Today web site, where
he auditions, then showcases "Songs Of The Times", a collection of
anti-war and social justice music of the masses, and other cultural
expressions of dissent.
Nora Callahan has her own contribution
to this effort: Our Own Kind, a "folkalypso"
ballad about the abuses of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison,
Iraq. At last count, and without any fanfare on our part, Our
Own Kind is at 243 out of 1000 in web listener popularity
at Neil Young's web site.
Our Own Kind
was written and performed by Nora Callahan, with musical accompaniment
and arrangement by Katana Christen and Josh Speigel
Find Our Own Kind at the Songs
Of The Times web site, at: www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html
Enjoy some of Nora's other musical performances
at: www.november.org/LocalScenes
Our Own Kind
Across this land of America, prisons
abound
Over 2 million citizens, in the bowels of hell
They're our own kind, been down a long time
Then went guards from US prisons,
headed to Iraq
Unleashed on an unsuspecting people?
No, they've expected us, a long time, a long time ago
Not in Bush's America, he didn't
like it one bit
Nor did Haider al-Abbadi, to have his manhood
In his own kind, what was on his friend's mind?
Not in his America, his soldiers
stripped them down
Hoods on heads and limbs were bound, by our own kind
Our own kind. Our own kind
Just a few bad apples, fallen off
the bush?
I wanna know how high is up, and that it's understood
It's his kind, and they're out of their minds
Guards and dogs and prisons; rape,
torture, death
Happens every day in America, the leading jailer on Earth
It's our own kind, our own kind of design
Have we lost our minds? It's our
own kind.
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