Eugene McDaniels was an American singer and songwriter who initially had success with jazz soul. From the late 1960s, however, McDaniels turned his attention to a more black consciousness form of music. Soul combined with funk and even proto-hiphop was overlaid with radical politics and social commentary.
‘Under conditions of national emergency, like now, there are only two kinds of people – those who work for freedom and those who do not… the good guys and the bad guys.’ – McD
Check out the albums Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse, Outlaw, Natural Juices as well as Universal Jones Vol. 1, a band recording.
THE SILENT MAJORITY
The silent majority
Is calling out to you and me
I said the silent
Yeah, yeah, yeah majority
Is calling out to you and me
Silent majority
Is calling out loud to you and me
From Arlington Cemetery
To stand up tall for humanity
To heed the call to democracy, yea
Silent majority
Gathering around the hanging tree
Negative voices in unity
Creating souls of immunity
Ignoring the call to humanity
Silent majority
Stuffing their faces with pastry
Children are dying in poverty
Fear lives in the land of liberty
And justice is a phrase of fantasy
Silent majority
Lining their feelings with currency
Capital gains remains a mystery
Ask them if they care and they laugh at me
Where is your love for humanity
Silent majority
With a lifestyle tempo of one and three
Two and four lives for my friends and me
When your mind is open then your body is free
Two and four against one and three now
Silent majority
Not so silent far as I can see
War in, war out, they peddle Christmas trees
Gaggin’ on their own hypocrisies
Death comes round, you find them on their knees, yeah
Vocal minority
Heeding the lessons of history
Knowing the logical choice to be
To stand up tall for democracy
To heed the call to humanity
Yeah, yeah, yeah
