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The Dissidents - Brother Did You Weep

from No Genocide: A Benefit for Mutual Aid in Gaza by Various

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unfortunately this Vietnam-era protest song with lyrics as brutal as any d-beat song is still relevant in 2024. Thanks to Ewan and Peggy for the foundation. Lyrics changed only a little.

thanks to Jack and Shaina for the help with the Hebrew. Oy eicha is used as a refrain in the book of lamentations and literally means "oh how". It's an expression of horror, sadness, disbelief and regret.

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Disc of sun in the belching smoke
Blazing huts where children choke
Burning flesh and blackened blood
Charred and blistered like smouldering wood

O brother, o brother did you weep
O brother, o brother can you sleep

Wall-eyed moon in the wounded night
Touching poisoned fields with blight
Showing the ditch where the dead girl lies
Courted by ants and hungry flies

O brother, o brother did you weep
O brother, o brother can you sleep

Scream of pain in the morning breeze
Thunder of bombs among the olive trees
Hymn of rubble and powdered stone
Anguished flesh and splintered bone

O brother, o brother did you weep
O brother, how can you sleep?

Programmed war, efficiency team
Death brings dollars to the war machine
People trapped between imaginary lines
The total destruction of Palestine

Oh brother, have you got no shame?
Oy eicha, they're killing in my name

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from No Genocide: A Benefit for Mutual Aid in Gaza, released February 16, 2024
written by Ewan MacColl

Rachel - vocals
Janine - bass, vocals
Nicole - guitar, vocals
Bill- guitar
Shawn - drums

learned and recorded in a hurry in Philly 2024

recorded, mixed and mastered by Steve Roche, Permanent Hearing Damage

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The Dissidents Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Angry but kinda melodic political punk with members of Witch Hunt, The Pist, Mischief Brew, and Mankind, among many others.

Rachel - vocals
Janine - bass/vocals
Nicole - guitar/vocals
Bill - guitar/vocals
Shawn - drums ... more

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