Biography:
Billy Bragg (Stephen William Bragg, Barking, Essex, England, 20 December, 1957) is an English singer, songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes.
In 1977, Bragg formed the punk rock/pub rock band Riff Raff, and toured London's pubs and clubs. The band released a series of singles, which did not receive wide exposure. He also worked in Guy Norris Records in Barking.
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Other songs:
- A New England (kingblues)
- Old Clash Fan Fight Song
- To Have And To Have Not
- A Lover Sings
- A New England
- A13 Trunk Road To The Sea
- Accident Waiting To Happen
- Airline To Heaven
- All You Fascists
- At My Window Sad And Lonely
- Bad Penny
- Between The Wars
- Birds And Ships
- Blood Of The Lamb
- Brickbat
- Bugeye Jim
- California Stars
- Chain Of Broken Hearts
- Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
- Days Like These
- Dry Bed
- Eisler On The Go
- Everybody Loves You Babe
- Everywhere
- Feed Of Man
- Full English Brexit
- Greetings To The New Brunette
- Handyman Blues
- Hard Times Of Old England Retold
- Help Save The Youth Of America
- Hesitating Beauty
- Hobos Lullaby
- Honey Im A Big Boy Now
- Hoodoo Voodoo
- I Aint Got Not Home
- I Almost Killed You
- Ideology
- Ingrid Bergman
- It Says Here
- Levi Stubbs Tears
- Life With Lions
- Life With The Lions
- Like Soldiers Do
- Listening To The Wind That Blows
- Little Time Bomb
- Lovers Town Revisited
- Loving You Too Long
- M For Me
- Must I Paint You A Picture
- My Thirty Thousand
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Never Buy The Sun
- Never Cross A Picket Line
- New England
- No One Knows Anyone Anymore
- No Power Without Accountability
- Northern Industrial Town
- Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
- One By One
- Only One
- Ontario Quebec And Me
- Price I Pay
- Raglan Road
- Railroad Bill
- Remember The Mountain Bed
- Richard
- Rotting On Remand
- Rule Nor Reason
- Rumours Of War
- Saturday Boy
- Secret Of The Sea
- Sexuality
- She Came Along To Me
- Shes Got A New Spell
- Sin City
- Sing Their Souls Back Home
- Someday Some Morning Sometime
- Spacerace Is Over
- St Swithins Day
- Stetson Kennedy
- Take Down The Union Jack
- Talking Wag Club Blues
- The Boy Done Good
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
- The Home Front
- The Internationale
- The Man In The Iron Mask
- The Only One
- The Passion
- The Price I Pay
- The Price Of Oil
- The Short Answer
- The Unwelcome Guest
- The Warmest Room
- There Is Power In A Union
- There Will Be A Reckoning
- Upfield
- Valentines Day Is Over
- Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
- Walt Whitmans Niece
- Warmest Room
- Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key
- Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
- Where The Roses Are In Bloom
- Why We Build The Wall
- Wishing The Days Away
- World Turned Upside Down
- You Make Me Brave
- You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
"Remember The Mountain Bed"
F C Bb
Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Bb F C
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
F Bb
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves. Face, breast, hips, and thighs
F Bb F
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes
F C Bb
Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bb F C
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine
F Bb
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
F Bb F
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me
F C Bb
Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Bb F C
Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
F Bb
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
F Bb F
Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there
F C Bb
Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
Bb F C
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
F Bb
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
F Bb F
Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go
F C Bb
There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
Bb F C
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
F Bb
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why
F Bb F
The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die
F C Bb
The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
Bb F C
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
F Bb
Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
F Bb F
I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...
F C Bb
I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams
F C
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
F Bb
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
F Bb F
And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands
F C Bb
I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
F C
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here
F Bb
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
F Bb F
Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.
F C Bb
All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
F C
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
F Bb
My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
F Bb F
Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again
F C Bb
Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Bb F C
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
F Bb
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves. Face, breast, hips, and thighs
F Bb F
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes
F C Bb
Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bb F C
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine
F Bb
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
F Bb F
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me
F C Bb
Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Bb F C
Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
F Bb
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
F Bb F
Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there
F C Bb
Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
Bb F C
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
F Bb
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
F Bb F
Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go
F C Bb
There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
Bb F C
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
F Bb
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why
F Bb F
The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die
F C Bb
The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
Bb F C
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
F Bb
Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
F Bb F
I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...
F C Bb
I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams
F C
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
F Bb
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
F Bb F
And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands
F C Bb
I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
F C
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here
F Bb
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
F Bb F
Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.
F C Bb
All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
F C
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
F Bb
My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
F Bb F
Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again
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