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The number 2 song on the Billboard charts is not copyrighted, and that has opened up various opportunities for its use, and has boosted its phenomenal popularity. It's a meme, viral video, and korean pop song that has become wildly popular around the world.

John talking to Bobby Bare about how he came to write the song and performs a shortened version.

The song you know as "The star spangled banner" is actually an old English drinking song. Shire choir, you have 2 days to learn the correct words.

An Iraq war veteran has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill his officers after recording a violent rap protest song and sending it to the Pentagon.

Marc Hall, a junior member of an infantry unit, wrote the song in protest at the US army's unpopular policy of involuntarily extending soldiers' service and forcing them to return to Iraq or Afghanistan.

The song kicks ass: http://marcwatercus.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/stoploss.mp3

A very clever rap song with liberty oriented lyrics. Worth a listen.

Song Chart. List of songs that received the most plays the previous week on R&R World.

I heard this song a lot when I was a schoolkid in the 60s/70s. I've even sang it a few times. It helped me to vent frustration from "authorities." If schoolkids were to sing this song these days the government would send out the SWAT team.

If you liked the bed intruder song by Autotune the News then you will enjoy this too. The original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAd8OuwwPk is pretty funny but the remix is awesome (and quite catchy!)

Eerily beautiful, gripping, ironic, and honest song. And weirdly danceable, too.

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