50 songs about imperialism

I'm teaching a high-school class Monday and started thinking about this, and realized that I haven't heard or found many songs about this subject. For purposes of this thread, consider imperialism to be the aim of one country to dominate one or more other countries politically, economically, or culturally.

1. Lord Invader, "Rum & Coca Cola" (U.S. imperialism)

2. The Clash, "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." (U.S. imperialism)

3. The Clash, "Washington Bullets" (U.S. imperialism with the Soviet and British imperialism thrown in)

4. The Clash, "Charlie Don't Surf" (U.S. imperialism)

5. Minutemen, "The Price of Paradise" (sort of gets at U.S. imperialism with Vietnam)

6. Minutemen, "The Big Stick" (same with Central America, but still vague)

7. Bruce Cockburn, "Yanqui Go Home" (U.S. imperialism with Soviet thrown in)

8. Big Audio Dynamite, "Sony" (Japanese imperialism)

9. Tiger, "Gold in Africa" (against Italian imperialism in Ethiopia, though he satirically tells Mussolini to go look in Austria, Hungary, or America for gold instead)

10-21. Every song on Art Bears' The World As It Is Today
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_as_It_Is_Today)

9. MIA - "paper planes" (the casually imperial west as seen by the "outsider" inside. not really what you're looking for though.)

10. iron maiden - "run to the hills" (america's native genocide)

Camper Van Beethoven "All Her Favorite Fruit" (British occupation of India)

Crass "Sheep Farming In The Falklands" (Falklands war)

Mekons "Brutal" (so so good, deals w/ a lot of various issues incl. East India Tea opium wars)

27(?). the Rastafarians (Santa Cruz) - "Occupation" (Mussolini in Ethiopia)

Neil Young- Cortez the Killer

Warren Zevon- Veracruz

Gang of Four - Cheeseburger
Gang of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles

Good thread idea btw!

Bruce Cockburn - Call It Democracy
Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher
Bruce Cockburn - If A Tree Falls

He probably has others as well.

Discharge - Q: And Children? A: And Children
(reference to My Lai)

U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky

38. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (Norse imperialism)

39 Paul Brady and Andy Irvine/ Planxty/ Bob Dylan - Arthur McBride.

40. The Dead C - Power (US invasion of Panama: 'Hell has come, hell has come now... My baby was shot. My house was bombed. I've got no food. There is no water... all we want is for you to be out of here')

41. Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance

A good one from his Central America phase.

42. R.E.M. - "Welcome to the Occupation"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_the_extermination_of_indigenous_peoples

Bob Dorough - The Shot Heard 'Round The World

Arguably The Decemberists'' "15 Military Wives"

45. Fugazi - Smallpox Champion

Ray Davies - "Who Do You Think You Are?"

47. "Havana Affair," Ramones...kind of, maybe?

48. "Newest Industry," Husker Du--that one I'm more sure of.

Mos Def - New World Water
Immortal Technique - Peruvian Cocaine
Immortal Technique - The Cause of Death
Reflection Eternal - Ballad Of The Black Gold

Elvis Costello (and later Robert Wyatt) - Shipbuilding (UK in Falklands)

"The Internationale" (lots of versions)

The Crass - Sheep Farming In the Falklands
Brad Paisley - Welcome to the Future

(Oops, just noticed Sleeve beat me to the Crass. And I'm at least half joking about the Paisley.)

Naked Raygun - Managua
Banastre Tarleton Band- (We Got To) Invade Grenada

Mofungo - El Salvador
The Ex - Weapons For El Salvador

(probably not the only one, for either band)

Three Johns - Death Of The European

talking heads - the listening wind? kinda.

The Embarrassment –" Woods of Love." Wouldn't say it's about imperialism, but it does mention it: "Americans...in Cambodia. Americans...in Panama. Americans...in Iran. Americans...in Japan. Americans. American barbarians—there's no such thing; it's a world of people, giving us the blame."

And no one has mentioned......

Victoria -The Kinks/ or the Fall

Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
Manic Street Preachers - Imperial Bodybags

Imperial March - Darth Vader

Bob Dylan - "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)"

Silvio Rodriguez - "Testamento" (about the Angolan War)

Skids - Working for the Yankee Dollar

may i... (lyrics to the Mekons' "Brutal", from Curse Of The Mekons)

Here comes McDrug

the English love for China tea
brought deficit to the economy
what could we sell back?
send in the army to deal some smack

drugs and guns and slavery
live together in perfect harmony
where the poppy grew
the soil is blood

the East India Company scum
flooding China with opium
the soil all washed away
flooding Bangladesh today

here comes McDrug

drugs have long been the currency
of the Central Intelligence Agency
U.S.A. and E.E.C.
a long dull story of corruption
now a clown steps over the Berlin Wall
with a burning cross and pills to go
his perestroika dependency will
sit in your gut like a golf ball

noiseless rocks as clear as ice
nursed at home with loving pride
crystal goblets of sherbet
heaped up, flaked up, rosewater snow
needles washed up from the sea
on a beach in Californ-i-ay
help me get me through the day
here comes McDrug

the duffer rests in a fenland graveyard
on his way to Alderman Roberts
he's got the tinctures in his bag
to take away our daily hurts

subtle

Randy Newman - "Political Science"
Randy Newman - "The Great Nations of Europe"

"o superman"

The Dead Milkmen - "Big Lizard"

Midnight Oil: "Short Memory," "US Forces," "Helps Me, Helps You."

John Lennon - "Gimme Some Truth" (I think? I had the impression the line "money for dope" is about the CIA but I could definitely be wrong)

Fela Kuti: Colonial mentality, Gentleman, etc.

Numerous Irish rebel songs.

Big Audio Dynamite, "Union Jack," one of Mick Jones's finer lyrics IMO:

Now in the classroom
I was told
About the empire
How you were bold
A pint of beer
Life passes by
You're spirit's squashed
Just like a fly

Hey, our morning-entry music at my school this morning was "E=MC2"--what a great song.