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- Our House

 
I Love My Home - 
I Love My  Country

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Humans as we have noted have a capacity to love all things, not just each other -

and their animals. They can also love their homes and even their country. It's  the stuff

of homesickness and the sort of emotion that can bring a tear to the eye of the hardest, 

toughest people.This sort of love is also the raw emotion that underpins patriotism and

nationalism - the raw emotion that can send men and women to fight for the flag and

even go to war.  Such emotion and such love has been, and is always being, expressed

in Rock. Lets start off with a simple song about home.

Verdelle Smith - Tar and Cement

Paul McCartney & Wings 
- Mull Of Kintyre

Much more than loving

'tar and cement', one can

love a village or a
 
country district, as did

Paul McCartney and

Wings did with the Mull

of Kintyre.

But some can even love

big cities as Jerry and

 the Pacemakers did
 
with Liverpool.

Gerry & The Pacemakers 
- Ferry Cross The Mersey

The Clash - London Calling

Of course The Clash also
 
loved London, as do so
 
many other Rockers.


But still bigger than that,

some like Icehouse loved

whole continents such as

Australia.

Icehouse - Great Southern Land

Peter Allan - I Still Call Australia Home

Peter Allen defintely loved
 
Australia, the place, the

community, he still called

home.


So did Men at Work when

they sang about the Land

Down Under, which has

almost become an informal
 
Australian national

anthem.

Men At Work - Land Down Under

But let's finish this part of the experience with Bruce Springsteen with a song that is

more backhanded in his love for the US - in other words, he didn't like the way his

country was being treated by other Americans - namely those in power.

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

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