“Don’t Iraq Iran” … Julie Felix sings ...

Dylan at Piccadilly, London

Excerpt, minor edit by Carolyn Bennett 

Masters of War

Come you masters of war 

 You that build all the guns

 You that build the death planes

 You that build all the bombs

 You that hide behind walls

 You that hide behind desks

 I just want you to know

 I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin’

 But build to destroy

 You play with my world

 Like it's your little toy

 You put a gun in my hand

 And you hide from my eyes

 And you turn and run farther

 When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old

 You lie and deceive

 A world war can be won

 You want me to believe

 But I see through your eyes

 And I see through your brain

 Like I see through the water

 That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers

 For the others to fire

 Then you set back and watch

 When the death count gets higher

 You hide in your mansions

 As young people's blood

 Flows out of their bodies

 And is buried in the mud.

You’ve thrown the worst fear

 That can ever be hurled

 Fear to bring children

 Into the world

 For threatening my baby

 Unborn and unnamed

 You ain’t worth the blood

 That runs in your veins.

How much do I know

 To talk out of turn

 You might say that I’m young

 You might say I'm unlearned

 But there's one thing I know

 Though I'm younger than you

 That even Jesus would never

 Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question

 Is your money that good

 Will it buy you forgiveness

 Do you think that it could

 I think you will find

 When your death takes its toll

 All the money you made

 Will never buy back your soul.…

Singer, guitarist, songwriter (genres folk, folk rock) Julie Ann Felix was born (June 14, 1938) in the United States, lives in England, and has been performing since 1963 under the recording labels Decca, Fontana, RAK, EMI, and her own label, Remarkable.

 For the past few years, Julie Felix has appeared annually at the Wynd Theater in the heart of historic Melrose in the Borderlands of Scotland. The Wynd is a small privately managed professional theater for live performances of all disciplines.

A remarkable career

In 1964, Julie Felix was the first solo folk artist to be signed to a major British record company.  Her first album, ‘Julie Felix,’ and first single, ‘Someday Soon,’ were released.

In 1968, Felix accepted a television series of 17 shows, directed by Stanley Dorfmann, the first color series produced by the BBC. The series, whose guests included Spike Milligan, Richard Harris, Leonard Cohen, Dusty Springfield, Donovan, and Jimmy Page, was sold to virtually every country in the world including Russia.

In the 1970s she moved to the EMI label and recorded the album “Lightning” (producer Del Newman); toured Japan, Australia and New Zealand; and relocated to Norway where the title track of her 1976 album “Hot Chocolata” rose to number 1 on the singles chart.

In the early 1980s, she took a break from music and returned for a while to her native California. But in the late 1980s, she participated in a peace march through Central America; and on this dangerous journey, she witnesses the suffering of Latin America’s indigenous peoples and is, in her words,  “inspired to return to singing.”

Back home in England’s Hertfordshire, Julie Felix begins singing for Latin American refugees, for women’s and gay rights, for peace projects — including demonstrations against the Persian Gulf War.

She establishes the first New Age Folk Club, The Magic Messenger, to offer a platform for budding musicians and poets; and creates her record label, Remarkable Records, that releases her first album, “Bright Shadows,” after a ten-year hiatus. In the 1990s, she sets up Goddess Tours, which arranges trips and pilgrimages to sacred sites throughout Britain, Turkey, France and the U.S. Southwest. The year 1998 marked her 35th year of professional singing in what she terms a lifetime “blessed with music, magic and adventure.”

Sources and notes

Lyrics at http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bob_dylan/masters_of_war.html

Julie Felix - Masters of War (Bob Dylan lyrics) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q4LvC0ipVo&feature=youtu.be

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Felix

http://www.thewyndmelrose.com/about.html

May 25 in London, “Leading figures from the arts will perform in protest against plans to attack

Iran,” Stop the War Coalition announces. Among the scheduled performers are  Alberto Portugheis, piano virtuoso, antiwar campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee (performing two Chopin pieces); and British folk legend Julie Felix (singing her hits Tiger Eyes and Children of Abraham), http://youtu.be/2q4LvC0ipVo.

Friday May 25, 2012, 7.30 p.m., St James’s Piccadilly, London

Reserved seats – standard £20 or concessions £15; Unreserved seats – standard £15 or concessions £10; 50 percent ticker price reduction for Friends of Stop the War, details at http://bit.ly/IjsOen. STOP THE WAR COALITION Special Bulletin May 16, 2012, Email: office@stopwar.org.uk; Tel: 020 7561 9311

Web: http://www.stopwar.org.uk

Twitter: http://twitter.com/STWuk

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition

http://www.knibbworld.com/juliefelix/biography.htm

Short list of Julie Felix’s most recent CD/cassette recordings and gigs

Bright Shadows (Cassette Only), Remarkable RR199, 1989; Branches in the Mist, Remarkable RR399, 1993; Windy Morning (CD Only), Remarkable RR499, 1995; Fire - My Spirit (CD only), Remarkable RR599, 1998; Live From the QEH Birthday Concert (Double CD), Remarkable RR699-2, 2000; Starry Eyed and Laughing. Songs by Bob Dylan, Remarkable RR799, 2002; I Walk With Beauty, Remarkable RR800, 2003; Rainbow Collection, Trak TR1048, 2004; Bright Shadows (CD Only), Remarkable RR900, 2006 (http://www.knibbworld.com/juliefelix/discography.htm)

JULIE FELIX GIG GUIDE late May 2012

Friday May 25, 2012: St James’s 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL

TONY BENN & ROY BAILEY perform their sell out show “The Writing on the Wall”; readings and performances by Mark Rylance, Brian Eno, Kika Markham, Al Kennedy, Roger Lloyd Pack, Alberto Portugheis, Cat Phillips, Peter Kennard, Amir Amirani

Wednesday, May 30, 2012, Hazelwood House, Loddiswell, Near Kingsbridge South Devon TQ7 4EB, http://www.knibbworld.com/juliefelix/gigs2000.htm

Images

http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=469105

Julie Felix, Masters Of War, UK, Deleted, CD ALBUM, 469105

eil.com

Resisting the new world order, http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/un-shocked-by-gaza-destruction

http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february282012/gulf-warnomgers-sl.php
Julie Felix sang Blowing In The Wind for thousands of anti-war protesters ...
knibbworld.com

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