# Righty Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596 "2009-01-23T06:08:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/41 "2009-01-24T02:48:51Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Does [“Tomorrow Belongs to Me”](http://www.metrolyrics.com/tomorrow-belongs-to-me-lyrics-skrewdriver.html) (from _Cabaret)_ count? It did for G. Gordon Liddy. _G_ ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/42 "2009-01-24T05:12:27Z")
_When in doubt, I whip it out…_ Yep, apparently Ted Nugent and Larry Craig do share similar philosophies. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/43 "2009-01-24T05:27:48Z")
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles Not right-wing at all, especially by today’s standards, but it paradoxically compared political correctness in California to Hitler’s regime. I’m thinking that’s an argument you’re more likely to hear on the Rush Limbaugh Show than at your local farmer’s market. Really, quite a lot of punk and related genres like trad Oi! (yes, the non-racist/anti-racist kind) seem to engender anti-statist feelings. Once you go far enough left, after all, you hit anarchism, and if you add just a drop of realism, voila, you’ve got libertarianism–and now you’re right of center. [qoute=spoke-]Also, some of Oingo Boingo’s stuff seems pretty law-and-order, like Only a Lad [/quote] Yep, I always wondered about that song… ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/44 "2009-01-24T05:44:06Z")
Oh, and half of The Who was staunchly anti-drugs at a time when that pretty much pegged you as a conservative. A few years ago, I wrote a 13-page analysis of _Tommy_ which argued (with quite a lot of support, if I do say so myself) that the album was essentially about Pete Townshend trying to get spiritual without LSD. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/45 "2009-01-24T05:47:41Z")
Phil Ochs wasn’t a right-winger, but no one could have skewered a subset of the Left any better than he did in “Love Me, I’m A Liberal”: _"Once I was young and impulsive I wore every conceivable pin Even went to the socialist meetings Learned all the old union hymns But I’ve grown older and wiser And that’s why I’m turning you in So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal_" ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/46 "2009-01-24T06:14:25Z")
Frank Zappa on unions: > [@Frank Zappa](#): > > It ain’t no better, they’s makin’ it worse > The labor movement’s got the Mafia curse > […] > When the union tells you it’s time to strike > Tell the motherfucker to take a hike ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/47 "2009-01-24T13:44:35Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > “Red Barchetta” is a dystopic future story about a world in which the state has regulated cars off the road. There are a couple of anti-cyclist Pit threads that now make a lot more sense. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/48 "2009-01-25T04:23:39Z")
I know Ray Davies is not a Conservative, but he’s often conservative. That is, I don’t think he had much use for Margaret Thatcher, but “The Kinks Are the Villlage Green Preservation Society” was a very conservative album, in that it celebrated OLD rustic England, and its customs and traditions (including virginity). That must have SEEMED mighty reactionary at the height of Free Love and the hippie movement. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/49 "2009-01-25T06:04:01Z")
Maybe I’m wrong about this song, 'cause I haven’t heard it in years, but I seem to remember George Thorogood had a song called “Get A Haircut.” Get a haircut and get a real job… ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/50 "2009-01-26T01:41:32Z")
> [@Lucky\_13](#): > > Maybe I’m wrong about this song, 'cause I haven’t heard it in years, but I seem to remember George Thorogood had a song called “Get A Haircut.” > > Get a haircut > and get a real job… I don’t know anything about Mr. Thorogood’s politics. However, this song doesn’t work as a right-wing anthem- quite the opposite, in fact. It’s about his parents urging someone to get a haircut and a real job, but they instead stick with their band and eventually hit it big. [Here’s a link to the lyrics.](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/george-thorogood-get-a-haircut-lyrics.html) > [@](#): > > My parents taught me what life was about > So i grew up the type they warned me about > They said my friends were just an unruly mob > And i should get a haircut and get a real job > [@](#): > > I hit the big time with my rock ‘n’ roll band > The future’s brighter now than I’d ever planned > I’m ten times richer than my big brother bob > And he, he’s got a haircut he’s got a real job I like that song ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/51 "2009-01-26T04:20:33Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > I’m gonna say [Right Here, Right Now](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jesus+jones/right+here+right+now_20070879.html) by **Jesus Jones**. > > The song starts out with a jab at Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ About a Revolution” and takes that as a starting point for celebrating the fall of communism. I loved this song, but it isn’t righty in any way. Both righty’s and lefty’s were happy about the fall of communism. Communism isn’t any more lefty than fascism is righty. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/52 "2009-01-26T05:52:22Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > I loved this song, but it isn’t righty in any way. Both righty’s and lefty’s were happy about the fall of communism. Communism isn’t any more lefty than fascism is righty. Start a GD thread if you like, but I think most folks would agree that Communism is lefty (albeit way out on the far end of the spectrum). The fact that those of us more toward the center-left celebrated the end of Communism doesn’t negate the fact that it’s a lefty philosophy. And what makes the song righty is the taunting of Tracy Chapman in the first stanza: _A woman on the radio talkin’ bout revolution When its already passed her by_ Now if you know Tracy Chapman’s [Talkin bout a Revolution](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYWOwWAguk), well, you have to admit it’s kinda pinko: _Poor people gonna rise up and take what’s theirs_ And it seems pretty clear that Jesus Jones is taking a poke at that particular brand of lefty thinking ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596/53 "2009-01-26T06:49:36Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Is _THAT_ what that song is about? I’m usually pretty hip to song meanings but that one has always baffled me. My wife and I heard it while driving awhile back and we were singing along, and then we both stopped and looked at each other and said, “what the hell is this song about?” I’d heard the baby’s breath line, but for some reason I always thought he was referring to [this](http://www.thriftyfun.com/images/gg/Baby's-Breath300x313.jpg). Apparently so, as explained [here](http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2474). If it makes you feel better, I didn’t get it either, and I must have heard that song a million times. I kind of thought his girlfriend had killed herself because he broke up with her. Other than the “baby’s breath” line, is there really anything to indicate it’s about an abortion? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/righty-songs/482596.md?page=2)