10 Best Protest Songs Of All Time - Rolling Stone Magazine.

and it's 2,3,4 what are we fighting for?

Boris Vian's 1954 protest song "Le déserteur" (The deserter) must be a classic example of the genre - written at the end of the Indochina War., sung later by Joan Baez and others.

Surprised Tom Paxton didn't turn up on that RS list?

He has written some brilliant protest songs over the years.

Indeed Gale and Pete Seeger has not been mentioned yet - btw did he ever find those flowers?

I would have 'My Country tis of thy people you're dying' by Buffy St. Marie and 'Children of Fear' by Tucker Zimmerman:

we were the children of this god
we stood by heaven’s gates
our nation’s scattered to the wind
these Disunited States

we were living in your cities
it’s put us out of touch
oh America, you eat your children
that’s asking much too much too much

Check out the track on Youtube. Tucker deserved much more success than he had.

Lots of great women artists not getting a mention.

Yes David mentioned Buffy St. Marie, who also wrote "The Universal Soldier" the song that Donavon had such a big hit with.  Joni wrote "Woodstock" and mentions "the bomber death planes turning into butterflies across our nation" - that has a resonance to an aging stoned-out hippie I can tell you.

Another Canadian woman is K.D. Lang - great voice (just love to hear her sing) and writer but can't remember any protest songs from her.

Nancy Griffith's wrote one or two and covered some greats from other writers:

From a Distance - Julie Gold.

One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard is "Deadwood, South Dakota", written by Eric Taylor.  Not so much an anti war song, more anti-genocide/anti-white supremacist song.  If you have never heard Nancy sing this song then you really should, it is stunning.

Not forgetting the wonderful Joan Baez of course!

Buffy,

Was one of the very first artists to record a album at home and send it down a phone line to a record company to press and release.

Yes, a classic.