1965 Jan. Free Speech Songbook.pdf

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INTRODUCTION
Throughout the free speech controversy it has been evident
that the administration has assumed that the students would act as
individuals who could be easily ftightened away by a token exercise
of authority. They expected that we would act with the same regard
for precedent and pecking order that they had. The record has
shown that we have acted more commendably.
From the beginning we have acted as a group, a community which
would suffer no individual to be singled out for punishment for
what all had done or should have done. Every action taken by the
students has been a mass action. We have never turned our backs
and hoped that the problem would go away if we ignored it. That
course was consistently taken by the Administration, and their
problems did not go away, but increased. Finally, they admitted
defeat on December 3rd by calling in hundreds of policemen to drag
the problems off to jail.
The press has been almost uniformly unfavorable to us, to say
the least. But there are among us many people who know
,
from
the exampleso-f the IWW and the CIa that a good song lasts far
longer and has a wider circulation than any editorial.
And so the songs were written, for the most part individually
by students caught up in the movement. The subjects are many,and
more songs are constantly being written. "The Twelve Days of
Semes ter" and the ·'Lament 'of a Minor Dean" as well as the page
of Christmas Carols were written as part of a songwriting
project by Joe La Penta, Ken Sanderson, Dusty Miller and Barry
Jablon. The carols have been recorded on a 45-RPM record entitled
"Joy to U.C.". They deal with the original demonstrations of
October 1st-2nd. "Free Speech"was written about the Sproul Hall
sit-in of December 2nd-3rd by Malvina Reynolds, grand old gal
of topical songs. "Womb with a View" concerns the maddening
paternalism that is Administration policy, and "Join the FSM"
is a general recruiting type song. Both were written by Dan Paik,
one of the arrested students.
The distortions of the press are handled by Genevieve Hailey
in "President Kerr". Dave Mandel wrote "Battle of Berkeley Talking
Blues" which satirizes the events surrounding the October demon-
strati
ons.
"Put My Name Down" was wri
t
ten by myself for Nov. 9th
whe n t
he FSM
a
gain
set up more
tables and
gave the Deans more
n
a~e
s t
h
R
~
t
hey
could handle.
Th ~s
i
s
a
lso the subject
of
Dan
Pai k's
"M;-3.!1
Goin' Round Takin
' lW
:::lc
s","Hey, Mister Newsman" by
Ri
chard
Kampf addresses itself t
o
those journalists who pay
more
attention to unconventional dress than to the issues
involved.
"An
Age Old Tale" by Paul Gilbert will, as its marne
i
mplies,
be good for a few more a
ges,
as it describes the general
s
itua
tion in its poetic verses. Ri chard Schmorleitz, press
se
cretary
of
t
he
FSM, found
time fr
om
h
is
duties to
wri t
e
"I
lia L<.ed cut
1n
'the Streets of Berkeley" al
ong
with Dan Pa lko
"Ti
;:if't;
&
1' 8
Gr=;
tting Hard" by Kitty Piper and
·'I
Don't W t Your
an
Kind
Prote c
tion" by Peter
'Krug
were written in off moments at
FSM
Central, our main office. There are more, for which I
do not have space to mention.
These, then, are our songs, and they constitute a powerful
weapon. No amount of sanctimonious speeches can stop
t
hem,
no number of frantically summoned policemen can eapture and
im
prison them. Sing them loud and Sing them often. You will
be helping to fight
'
the battle for Constitutional rights.
Lee
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Felsenstein
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.ti'REE SPEECH
·Words
and music by
Malvina Reynolds
How'd
YO~
like to be a cop arresting students?
ijow'd you like to be a copper clubbing brains?
They're the most illegal law
That the students ever saw,
And they shove the Constitution down the drains.
Free speech, it's in the Bll1 of Rlghts,
Free speech is our pride,
And we'll fight until we win,
And get our liberty again,
And if we go to Santa Rita
We'll sing "Freedom! Freedom!"
As we ride.
Well, a cop's idea of order 1s a nightstick.
His persuasion Is
a
heavy left and right,
When that freedom cry goes up,
He reacts like Pavlov's pup,
And starts beating every picketer in sight.
CHORUS
Well, we got an education in the classroom
vJl1ere
""
8
use
d t
he
te
xt
book and the old slide rule,
Bu t whe n
poI
ice
t:J3d
e
a call
On the ki
ds
in
~
r~oul
Ball,
Well, we l
e
arned some t
h
ings we never learned in school.
CHORUS
Well,
W8
know wh8t's goj.ng 0n
o1..~tside
the campus,
A~ d we'~e
c
1
.
t
i~
en
3
who
MG&
n
t
o
~a
ve
our say,
Ji.
~
d
~AJe
'
11
k
p;~;:?
OL
'Jpr'2ici.i1[.:
f
r'ce,
And we 'll c
all
'
em
a~
we
fEd
,
Even though they take our loudspeakers away.
CHORUS
.
Let the students and professors run the college,
Mr. Kerr can tend the
I.B.~1'.
machines,
Let them kn
ow
t
b&
~
our U.C.
Is no robot fact
ory,
But a place to learn what justice really means.
CHORUS
copyright
1964
by
Schroder Music Company
2027
Parker Street
Berkeley, Calif.,
94704
I WALKED OUT IN BERKELY
tune: Streets of Laredo
by Richard
Schmorleitz
and Dan Palk
copyright 1964 by
Fantasy/ Galaxy Records.
As I was out walking one morning in Berkeley,
As I walked out in Berkeley one day,
I spied an old man all sad and dejected
His hands they were shaking, his hair it was gray.
"I see by your
Ttlese words he
"Come sit down
He then shook
books,boy, that you are a student"
did say as I tried to go by,
beside me and hear my sad story"
his head and he gave a deep sigh.
"It is here on the campus that I am the Chancellor
I push the buttons and run the whole show,
These are my children but now they're ungrateful
They think they are adults, they think they are grown.
"Can you hear them shouting and screaming and singing?
They think they're so smart and they think they're so strong
They want to make speeches but never say nice things,
But they're only students so they're in the wrong."
They stopped my cop car and kept making speeches,
Those beatniks and communists sat in my hall.
We can do without them, they always cause trouble,
This school'd look its best with no students at all.
It was then that I left him to go to my classes
But I heard some voices and noticed a crowd.
I left off my studies and listened to their side,
I gathered my books and sat down on the ground.
I wish he had been there to watch and to listen,
To hear what all of those students did say.
It wasn't a final or even a midterm
But we showed we'd learned something at Berkeley that day.
(Repeat first verse)

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