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* Pete Seeger wrote a number of these, perhaps the most famous being "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", which uses a [[Here We Go Again]] motif to comment on the futility of war.
* Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes", which satirizes suburban conformity and was famously covered by Pete Seeger. Tom Lehrer, apparently not a fan, once called it "the most sanctimonious song ever written".
* "[[Alice's Restaurant|The Alice's Restaurant Massacree]]" (sic) by Arlo Guthrie, an 18-minute-long talking blues ballad that many classic rock stations traditionally play in its entirety on [[
* His father, Woody Guthrie, also had his share of these, up to and including "This Land Is Your Land".
** Woody's guitar had a sign on it: "This Machine Kills Facists". And it's an odd commentary on the American Culture. "This Land Is Your Land" is sung by every kid in grade school, though they hardly ever get past the first verse and when we grow up it's dismissed as just a children's song. It was only as an adult that this troper realized just how subversive, how powerful and how it is even more relevant today:
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