"I Ain't Afraid" by Holly Near with Roy Zimmerman
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025
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More than 50 years and Holly Near is still ahead of me and I am happy to follow. She is magnificent and thank you Roy Zimmerman too.
Holly wrote this song in 2000, before 9/11. How appropriate today, with all the fearmongering about Muslims. Holly Near was before her time! Don't fear religion. Fear what people do in the name of religion. Great, great observation. And Roy....you do this great song honor. Thank you for posting.
this is just amazing....very controversial and powerful lyrics backed up by a haunting melody....love it
I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with both of you on the separate occasions. How great to see you both in the same room. Love you both!
Holly Near wrote the song "We Are A Gentle Angry People", anthem of the GLBTQ movement, among many other significant songs from the 70's and 80's. Gentle Angry People was written for the candlelight vigil when Harvey Milk and George Moscone were assassinated in San Francisco.
That song is just as relevant today as it was when it was first released 40 yrs ago.
Oh wow! She is a powerhouse!! Right on, Roy!
Bravo! Bravo Roy and Holly. This song hits the nail on the head.
Goosebumps! This is crazy good.
I just shared this with my German friends in their kitchen!
New fans you have here, Roy & Holly!
Wow, Holly Near...haven't heard of her in 25 years. Great job!
Beautiful song!
This song!!! And what a great duo. Thanks so much guys 💖
I shared this will lots of my friends and they all love it!
An atheist spiritual! Love it!
Awesome song!
God, that was fantastic!
What a powerful song.
@christallh24 I'm Jewish, and I think the song is great, as well. There is something good here for kind people of all religions as well as atheists or agnostics. Religion itself is neither good nor bad. It's what people do in the name of their religion.
When religion inspires people to do good things, religion is good. When people use religion to justify doing terrible things, that's an abuse of religion. And, there are many good people, doing good things, without the need for religion.
Well played!
She really has a great voice..
Cheers from Malaysia!
WOW! that is a great song
roy is such a great musician
I am in love with this song!!
Wonderful! Thanks for this entire series.
This one gave me the chills, I love it!
Great song.
Very Nice!
Love this song!
Wonderful! I definitely have to learn this one.
Holly Near!!!!
Excellent ! ! !
Great Song
Doing this as an old spiritual is the ultimate irony. Love it.
Holly just verbalized (or sang, more accurately) what I've been feeling for over the last decade!
very nice!
awesome!!!
@joshuagoboom ...it tells us we should just ignore it because jews don't act on them".
your holy book is very clear on it's commands and how life works and how it started. now, tell me mr. interpreter, please explain how you would interpret Deuteronomy 22:28-29??
Love that song ! ! !
Love it.
Awsome, keep it up man!
Wonderful *****
Man this is catchy and so so true!
I love this... anyone know if this is on iTunes ?
Yes!
awesome
love it!!
Dang, haven't thought of Holly in years.
Catchy, soulful, and meaningful-- I LOVE this song. Great job guys :D And if there's any chance you'd post chords/tab; it'd be greatly appreciated, because I know I for one would love to be able to play it
And all this whitout Studio and music "industry" .. more pls. I think best is failure and how it is been resolved so that singing continues and it has something new in it.
great !
Probably the best song I've heard since Voltaire's "God Thinks".
@noirkitten Didn't work, did it?
As a former punk and current hippie, I can only say that the peace and love was much more entertaining and enjoyable than all the anger and destruction.
goosebumps:)
I ain't afraid of your "allah" from Morocco
Moroccans here
beautiful song! I'd like to play it but i can't figure out the tabs. help, please!
Is there a place where I can get this song?/can you set one up?
It's amazing!
Amen :)
woa very nice :-O
song is one of Dan Barker's albums
One more thing: how is a church different from a corporation?
@tarni2222 yeah, whyyyyyyyy
record deal with the wrong company?
not self-publishing?
it's so annoying having to tell the youtube servers that I'm from Trinidad ;)
@noirkitten No, I'm the only one who fits that definition. The rest have their own little amalgamation.
And we have free time because we don't watch TV.
@yasijenny they aren't taxed like corporations
mwah!
@tarni2222 Thanks!
@noirkitten Oh, so one must be emersed in the media to be a hippie?
Who said you get to define it?
I'm not a tofu hippie. I'm a natural living, grow you own hippie.
Translation?
smart people in USA?
This song reminds me of This Jesus Must Die from Jesus Christ Superstar
@MAlejandraReyes
google I an't afraid holly near lyrics
I am afraid of his soul patch.
@noirkitten I don't see how gymnastics makes one clot better, but all righty then. I'll even let you take the first swing.....mind you, I'll probably dodge it, but years of gymnastics AND rodeo made me quick like that. Be warned, there is no such thing as a fair fight.
No, it's not a standard definition. Just one my friends and I came up with. We have free time.
I AM A MUSLIM AND IAM AFRAID OF ALLAH
two people who rated this video were afraid....
@noirkitten I don't know how self-riighteous being happy is, but hey, if that's how you see it, okay. I was actually FAR more self-righteous when I was a punk. All that antiestabilshment hoo-ha, don't ya know.
Who's Rubin? I don't drink soft drinks except for a bit of Coke with my whiskey, so I am not familiar with all the pop culture refreshments.
The money IS better, but I'm also an adult. Generally, adults make more money than teens.
@joshuagoboom The point is to obligate the rapist to provide for her for rest of her life, if that's what either the victim or her father wants. Maybe it's a very poor family, and the rapist is a wealthy man. Since either the girl or her father can decide not to do that, what's the harm? Would would you do? Let the rapist go scott free? At least Jewish law makes the rapist pay a fine and possibly have to take care of the victim for the rest of her life.
@joshuagoboom As I said, anyone can look at scripture and find justification for killing. That's true for every religion. I don't reject scripture. I reject those who interpret scripture as telling them to kill.
Religion, in and of itself, is neither good nor bad. Judge people based on their behavior, not based on what religion they claim to be or claim to act in the name of. Someone who kills in the name of religion does a disservice to the religion, be it Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc..
@joshuagoboom You misread what I wrote. I said there are MORE female Jewish Conservative rabbis entering the rabbinate than there are men. The "laws" you stated simply reflect your misunderstanding of Jewish laws.
I don't know much about Christian law. I don't pretend to. I know a little about Jewish law, but I don't pretend to be an expert.. However, what little I know is infinitely more than what you know. The more you try to speak to Jewish law, the more you show your lack of knowledge.
Wow, the writer of the song forgot her own lyrics! Now I don't feel so bad about me forgetting my lyrics! LOL!
@joshuagoboom The Talmud is not something put in place by "Jews today." Reinterpretation of Jewish law is in the nature of Jewish law. Failure to do so would be a violation of Jewish law. By the way, it's not "my" God. There is but one God. All who believe in one God believe in the same God.
@paulbark 50 silver and he "must" be married. learn to realize that it doesn't state anything about what the woman wants. cause in your good holy book women are properties thus her opinion about doesnt matter.
you're again interpreting your gods words. & it's you're not doing tht good at it either. how the hell can you possibly think that a rapist would "take care" of a woman he savagely raped? your morallity is amazing.
@noirkitten You should smoke a joint. It's not that crucial.
You seem really bitter and angry about hippies and it's sort of sad. They've not done anything to harm you. (Steve Jobs isn't a hippie....too corporate)
Oh, and it's "hippie". "Hippy" refers to someone with wide hips.
@bestvalue
"I ain't afraid of your Hitler,"
If only most historians wouldn't agree he was a Christian I wouldn't really mind you writing that all that much.
@paulbark yes but that doesn't mean that god is real.
and i never said talmud was something that was made recently. nor would it matter. because talmud will still be a symbol of how much of a failure your religion is. a so called omnipotent god who couldn't stop his slaves from misintepreting his cruel commands?
@joshuagoboom Jewish law is designed to be interpreted. No Jewish scholars say to take the word of Torah literally. None. Do you even know what Talmud is? If you did, you would know what I mean. The more you post, the more your ignorance of Jewish law is made obvious. You can't conceive of a non-fundamentalist religion. You have a simple, childish understanding of religion. Thinking people, thinking rabbinical scholars have interpreted, and will continue to interpret scripture.
She's too loud