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Bill Elliot and the Elastic Oz Band: God Save Us (1971)
The problem with political songs is that so often they are merely sloganeering and headlines. Fine print and nuance can't make it into a three minute song.
Still, there's nothing quite like a chant such as "power to the people" -- even if we are never quite sure which people should have the power.
For a few years from the late...
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