Essay:Greatest Conservative Songs
From Conservapedia
There are many brilliant—and popular—conservative songs. Here is our growing list (click under "Billboard Rank" to list the most popular first):
| Songs "Classic" | Artist | Comments | Billboard Rank | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living In America | James Brown | 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. | NA | Classic/R&B/Funk |
| "Ain't I Right" | Marty Robbins | Song against communism and socialism. | NA | Classic/Folk |
| Amazing Grace | John Newton | A Christian hymn published in 1779. | NA | Classic/Spiritual |
| America | Neil Diamond | Freedom, Liberty, Patriotism | 8 | Classic/Pop |
| America USA | Joey Sudyka | Not very well known, perhaps, but a good patriotic song. | NA | Classic/Pop |
| Angry Young Man | Billy Joel | The doctrinaire leftist radical with "his fist in the air and his head in the sand" comes in for biting criticism. | NA | Classic/Pop |
| Back in the U.S.A. | Chuck Berry | A patriotic song about missing life in the U.S.A. | Sixteen | Classic/Rock |
| Ballad of the Green Berets | Sergeant Barry Sadler | Pro-American and pro-military. | 1 | Classic/Traditional |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | Lee Greenwood | "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free." | NA | Classic/Traditional |
| Bus Stop | The Hollies | Pro-chivalry, pro-romance and pro-marriage: "Someday my name and hers are going to be the same." | 5 | Classic |
| Chapel of Love | Dixie Cups | Marriage in a church | 1 | Classic/Pop |
| Chores | Animal Collective | "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! | NA | Classic/Traditional |
| Country Trash | Johnny Cash | 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" | NA | Classic/Country |
| Crying In The Chapel | Elvis Presley | Pro-marriage | 1 | Classic |
| Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American) | Toby Keith | A patriotic response to the Sept. 11 attacks | 1 (Hot Country Songs) | Classic/Country |
| D-I-V-O-R-C-E | Tammy Wynette | This sad song was a huge hit in 1968. | 1 | Classic/Country |
| Don't Let 'Em Take Your Gun | Grand Funk Railroad | A father gives his son some sage advice. | NA | Classic/Rock |
| Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow) | Fleetwood Mac | Used by Bill Clinton as his campaign theme song in 1992, but liberals often try to appeal to conservative themes for elections. | 3 | Classic/Rock |
| Do You Hear the People Sing | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Standing up to government in the name of freedom, from the musical Les Miserables | NA | Classic |
| Free Bird | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Because Conservatives want a free country, and liberals are in love with communism. | Nineteen | Classic/Rock |
| Game of Love | Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders | "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.'" | 1 | Classic/Pop |
| Get a Job | The Silhouettes | Self-explanatory; a rebuke to lazy liberals who want to sit around and wait for government handouts. | 1 | Classic |
| Get it Right the First Time | Louisiana's LeRoux | 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. | NA | Classic |
| Gimme Back My Bullets | Lynyrd Skynyrd | The name says it all. | NA | Classic/Rock |
| God Bless America | Irving Berlin | American patriotic, classic song. | NA | Classic/Traditional |
| God and Guns | Lynyrd Skynyrd | A powerful new song that elaborates on the song title. | NA | Classic/Country |
| God Bless the USA | Lee Greenwood | 7 (Hot Country) | Classic/Country | |
| Go Down Moses | Louis Armstrong | NA | Classic/Spiritual | |
| God's Gonna Cut You Down | "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" | NA | Classic/Traditional | |
| God's Gonna Get 'Cha For That | Tammy Wynette & George Jones | You cannot escape God's gaze, no matter who you are | 25 | Classic |
| Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road | Elton John | The same message as the Prodigal Son: look objectively at our own lives, and realize that "I should have listened to my old man." | 2 | Classic |
| Gotta Serve Somebody | Bob Dylan | "It may be the devil or it may be the Lord." | 24 | Classic/Folk |
| Grandad | Clive Dunn | UK Number 1 hit, in praise of senior citizens and their values | Classic | |
| Government Cheese | The Rainmakers | Humorous spoof of welfare. | NA | Classic |
| You Forgotten? | Darryl Worley | Patriotic response to September 11, 2001 attacks[1] | 1 (US Country) | Classic/Country |
| "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" | Hollies | Repeats the slogan of the Boys Town, a Christian charity for youngsters founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan in Omaha[2] | NA | Classic |
| I Am America | Krista Branch | American Tea Party Movement Song | NA | Classic |
| I Fought the Law (and the Law Won) | The Crickets | Its title says it all. The version by The Clash has a particularly good tempo. | 9 (Bobby Fuller Four version) | Classic |
| In America | The Charlie Daniels Band | Patriotism makes a comeback in response to the Iran hostage crisis and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. | Eleven | Classic/Country |
| I Saw The Light | Hank Williams | Redemption of sin through faith. | NA | Classic/Country |
| It's America | Rodney Atkins | Celebrates the American spirit and all the good things about the United States. | 1 (US Country) | Classic/Country |
| Keep an Open Mind or Else | McCarthy | About the conservative value of keeping an open mind. | NA | Classic/Pop |
| Last Kiss | Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders | "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." | 2 (J. Frank Wilson version) | Classic |
| Let It Be | The Beatles | Very popular in Russia under the Soviets | 1 | Classic |
| My Love | Petula Clark | A Christian love in secular form. | 1 | Classic |
| Neighborhood Bully | Bob Dylan | Israel's right to exist and defend itself. | NA | Classic/Folk |
| No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed | Richie Havens (Covered by Yes) | "...I know your cross is heavier With every step Every step But I know a man who'd walk miles for you..." | NA | Classic/Rock |
| "Nothing Like You" | Miles Davis and Bob Dorough | Celebrates the sight of ones beloved - Isaiah 43:4 | NA | Classic |
| Okie From Muskogee | Merle Haggard | 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. | 1 (Billboard Hot Country) | Classic |
| People Get Ready | Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions | An all-time classic song about the glory of the Lord. | 3 | Classic/Spiritual |
| Red White & Blue (Love It or Leave) | Lynyrd Skynyrd | to sit down on some big grassy knoll where the sun was shining and hear music..." Tom Johnston of LS | 27 | Classic/Rock |
| Renegade | Steppenwolf | John Kay's childhood escape from Communist East Germany. | NA | Classic/Rock |
| Respect | Aretha Franklin | This song is about respecting woman and their choices to be equal members in society. | 1 | Classic/Soul |
| Simple Man | 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. | Twelve | Classic/Country/Rock |
| Sin City | The Flying Burrito Brothers | Attacks modern decadence and predicts divine punishment for sin. | NA | Classic/Country |
| Spirit In The Sky | Norman Greenbaum | A religious rock song written in 1969. | 3 | Classic |
| Stand By Your Man | Tammy Wynette | Don't expect feminists to like that one! Or Hillary Clinton! | 1 (Hot Country Singles) | Classic/Country |
| Star Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key | The American national anthem. | NA | Classic/Traditional |
| Starting All Over Again | Petula Clark | Keep moving onward, even in the most difficult of times. | NA | Classic/Traditional |
| Stayin' Alive | The Bee Gees | Pro-people and pro-staying alive, and this: "we can try to understand/the New York Times' effect on man." | 1 | Classic/Pop |
| "Stay With Me" | Frank Sinatra | Beautiful song of Christian faith. | NA | Classic |
| Storm the Embassy | The Stray Cats | 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..." | NA | Classic/Rock |
| Supper's Ready | Genesis | children home, To take them to the new Jerusalem. | NA | Classic/Rock |
| Sympathy for the Devil | The Rolling Stones | Reminds humanity that evil is present in the world and needs to be fought. | NA | Classic/Rock |
| Take Me Home, Country Roads | John Denver | Celebrates Southern country landscape and traditions. | 2 | Classic/Folk |
| Taxman | 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." | NA | Classic/Rock |
| That Smell | Lynyrd Skynyrd | A very strong anti-drug use song by America's most well-known Southern rock band. | NA | Classic/Country/Rock |
| The Ascent of Stan | Ben Folds | Tells the story of a former "textbook hippie man" who realizes that he has become everything that he was protesting against. | NA | Classic |
| The Devil Went Down To Georgia | Charlie Daniels | A deeper message here, as Daniels explains. | 3 | Classic/Country |
| The Fightin' Side of Me | Merle Haggard | A song about patriotism and standing up for America. | 1 (Hot Country Singles) | Classic/Country |
| Turn, Turn, Turn | The Byrds | An almost word-for-word direct quotation from the Bible, specifically Ecclesiastes, with the addition of the refrain "Turn, Turn, Turn". | 1 | Classic/Folk |
| Unborn Child | 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. | 66 | Classic/Folk |
| Union Sundown | Bob Dylan | The title says it all. | NA | Classic/Folk |
| Way Out Here | Josh Thompson | ownership, the Lord, and hard work. Also preaches the morals and ethics that are known from small towns. | Fifteen (US Country) | Classic/Country |
| We Must Take America Back | 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. | NA | Classic/Country |
| When You Love A Woman | Journey | True love from the heart | Twelve | Classic/Rock |
| You Can't Hurry Love (You Just Have to Wait) | The Supremes | Abstinence for rock fans. Also performed by Phil Collins. | 1 | Classic |
| You Light Up My Life | Debby Boone | One of the biggest hits ever, but liberals omit that this song is about Jesus. | 1 | Classic |
| Yours Is No Disgrace | Yes | Written to, and about, the troops headed for Vietnam. | NA | Classic/Rock |
| Songs "Rock" | Artist | Comments | Billboard Rank | Category |
| All In | Lifehouse | Describes a relationship with God as being full of commitment and without reservations. | NA | Rock |
| Bad Rap (Who You Tryin' To Kid, Kid?) | Steve Taylor | Takes aim at LA and NY hipsters, the Village Voice, abortion, and "the left-wing band with their head in the sand". | NA | Rock |
| Bodies | The Sex Pistols | Profane but graphically anti-abortion. | NA | Rock |
| Critical Acclaim | Avenged Sevenfold | Pro-America and pro-Military. | NA | Rock |
| Declaration Day | Iced Earth | A song about the Revolutionary War. | NA | Rock |
| 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 |
| Father of Mine | Everclear | the song, Alexakis promises to be a better father than his own had been. | 4 | Rock |
| Fair Exchange" | 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 |
| "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 |
| No Son of Mine | Genesis | Twelve | Rock | |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| Red Barchetta | Rush | Tells the story of a future with excessive regulation, where even driving is illegal. | NA | Rock |
| Something For Nothing | Rush | "You can't get something for nothing, you can't have freedom for free." | NA | Rock |
| Sparks of the Tempest | 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 |
| Christmas Shoes | NewSong | A Christmas song by a Christian band. | NA | Spiritual |
| Your Love Is Extravagant | Casting Crowns | NA | Spiritual | |
| What If His People Prayed | Casting Crowns | NA | Spiritual | |
| Liberalism is a Mental Disorder | The Infidel (Gregory Van Leer Jr.) with an opening from Michael Savage | Clearly attacks liberal values. | NA | Rap |
| 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 |
| God Loves My Country | Balthrop, Alabama | A song that declares that God loves America most of all. | NA | Folk |
| 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 |
| Dethharmonic | Dethklok | Anti-tax | NA | Rock |
| Get Over It | The Eagles | world doesn't owe you a thing," | NA | Rock |
| "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 |
| "Extra Extra" | Toots Sweet | Toots does a great job at making the clips entertaining as well as informative. | NA | Rock |
| "Somebody Must Be Prayin' For Me | Tim McGraw | Song about prayer and how it is a necessary part of everyday life. | NA | Spiritual/Country |
| "The List" | The Right Brothers | A song that melodically lists liberal activists. | NA | Rock |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "On Fire" | Switchfoot | This song is about keeping the faith, in people and in our religion. | NA | Spiritual |
| Under God | Pat Boone | NA | Spiritual | |
| King Without a Crown | Matisyahu | Hashem for mercy and He'll throw you a rope." | 7 (Hot Modern Rock Tracks) | Spiritual |
| Fast Car | Tracy Chapman | shelter/Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs" | 6 | Folk |
| Livin' on a Prayer | Bon Jovi | Organized labor is harmful to the welfare of workers, who turn to prayer. | 1 | Rock |
| Bush Was Right | The Right Brothers | Celebrating the Bush Administration's success and policies. | NA | Rock |
| "Stop Global Whining" | The Right Brothers | Anti-Global Warming hoax song. | NA | Rock |
| Capitalism | Oingo Boingo | There's nothing wrong with free enterprise. | NA | Rock |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Still the One | Orleans | A tribute to fidelity in relationships. | 5 | Pop |
| 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 |
| Lightning Crashes | Live | The joy and significance of childbirth. | 1 | Rock |
| Takin' Care of Business | Bachman-Turner Overdrive | The work ethic and promoting self-employment. | Twelve | Rock |
| Cat's In The Cradle | Harry Chapin | The importance of traditional families and responsible fatherhood. | 1 | Folk |
| Thank You My Lord | Petula Clark | The title says it all. | NA | Spiritual |
| Brick | Ben Folds Five | Shows the regret involved in abortion. | 6 (Modern Rock Tracks) | Rock |
| Alive | P.O.D. | About being thankful for the gift of life. | 2 (US Alternative) | Rock |
| Jesus Christ | Brand New | The singer turns to God for advice and assurance. | 30 (Hot Modern Rock Tracks | Spiritual |
| Jesus, Take The Wheel | Carrie Underwood | A gospel-themed hit from the American Idol winner. | 1 (US Country) | Country |
| 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 |
| "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
- ↑ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=15568
- ↑ http://www.boystown.org/about/father-edward-|j-|flanagan
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