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Sex, drugs and a federal government small enough to drown in a bathtub

The 50 greatest conservative rock songs of all time.
Tim Grieve

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  • Friday, May 19, 2006 01:15 PM

    Oh, goody,

    skepticism that has been taken literally should qualify:

    "Born in the U.S.A." (they didn't get it)

    "If I Had a Hammer" (they never understood it to begin with)

    "This Land is Your Land" (Guthrie's protest to Kate Smith and "God Bless America")

    I realize some would not classify all of these as rock, but most songs I can think of are in the Country category, and the duel between "Hippie from Olema" and "Okie from Muskogee" (Merle Haggard) happened so long ago that current conservatives probably wouldn't remember it, Country or Rock.

    But for literal mindedness, conservatives win it all. Skepticism, not so much.

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