Lyrics about the destruction of nature/trhe earth
jly...@icgroup.net
Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
!!!!
Ronald E. Hontz
You might try "What Have They Done To The Rain?" by the Searchers in
1965 or, even older, (There Was A) Tall Oak Tree" by Dorsey Burnette in
1960-which some call "the first ecology song."
--
Ron from York County, PA, USA
Bass
the last resort (the eagles)
it's kinda anti-christian though...
THE LAST RESORT
She came from Providence, born in Rhode Island
With the Old World shadows hanging heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams, like a refugee
Just as her father came, across the sea
She heard about a place, people were smiling
They spoke about the Red Man’s ways, and how they loved the land
They came from everywhere, to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stay, a place to hide
Down in the crowded bars, out for a good time
Can’t wait to tell you all, what it’s like up there
They called it Paradise, I don’t know why
Somebody made the mountains move, while the town got high
And then the chilly winds, blew down across the desert
From the canyons of the coast, to the Malibu
Where the pretty people play, hungry for power
To light their neon way, to give them things to do
Some rich man came and raped the land, nobody caught him
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes, Jesus! people bought them
They called it Paradise, the place to be
They watched the hazy sun, setting in the sea
We can leave it all behind, and sail to Lahagna
Just like the missionaries did, so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign, it said "Jesus Is Coming"
Brought the White Man’s burden down, brought the White Man’s reign
Who will provide the Grand Design, what is yours and what is mine
‘Cos there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here
We satisfy our endless needs, and justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny, and in the name of God
And you can see them there, on Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about how, and what it’s like up there
They call it Paradise, I don’t know why
You call some place Paradise, kiss it goodbye
Joakim Strand
jly...@icgroup.net wrote:
> =
> Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
> nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
> would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
> !!!!
This traditional song was recorded by Loreena McKennitt
on her 1991 album =94The Visit=94. I quote: =94Over the centuries
many of Ireland=92s old oak forests were leveled for military
and shipbuilding purposes.....The Great Oak of Portmore
stood on the property of Portmore Castle on the shore of =
Lough Beg.=94(L.M.)
BONNY PORTMORE
(Traditional)
O Bonny Portmore you shine were you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore
O Bonny Portmore I am sorry to see
Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree
For it stood on your shore for the many=92s long day
Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away
O Bonny Portmore you shine were you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore
All the Birds in the forest they bitterly weep
Saying =94where will we shelter or where will we sleep?=94
For the Oak and the Ash they are all cutten down
And the walls of Bonny Portmore are all down to the ground
O Bonny Portmore you shine were you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore
Enjoy!
Joakim
Dave
In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>!!!!
One comes to mind. Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi".
The title doesn't have much to do with ecology, but the chorus goes like this:
"Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
You pave Paradise; put up a parking lot."
Note: I think Mitchell performed this at Woodstock.
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rat...@ibm.net
(Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)
charlie sweeney
rat...@ibm.net (Dave) wrote:
How about Paradise by John Prine
When I was a young child my family would travel
down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
There's a backwards old town that I often remember
so many times that my memories are worn.
(chos)
Daddy won't you take me down to Muhlenburg county
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay.
Well I'm sorry my son but your too late in askin',
Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
Sometimes we would travel right down the green river
to the abandoned old prison down by avery hill,
where the air smelled like snakes , and we'd shoot with our pistols
but empty pop bottles is all we would kill
(chos)
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
and they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken'
and wrote it all down as the progress of man.
(chos)
WhenI die let my ashes float down the green river,
let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam.
I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waitin'
just five miles away from wherever I am.
(chos)
**** a nice song, don't you think?***
charlie-virtual guitarist, something black
char...@voicenet.com
www.voicenet.com/~charlies
smtngblac on EFnet #philly, #pennsylvania
"Passion's always half impossibility
The lovers that we lose we never dare to forget
We visit them in mourning in December and in May
In the graveyard of St. Mary's of Regret"
Susan Werner
Art Biermeier
Ronald E. Hontz wrote:
>
> jly...@icgroup.net wrote:
> >
> > Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
> > nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
> > would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
> > !!!!
>
> 1965 or, even older, (There Was A) Tall Oak Tree" by Dorsey Burnette in
> 1960-which some call "the first ecology song."
> --
> Ron from York County, PA, USA
How about "Good News Week" by Hedgehoppers Anonymous. Includes the
line:
Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere contaminating the atnosphere.
Art Biermeier
dw
"F" is for the Father of our country,
"A" is for our Alma Mater fair,
"M" is for our money, which is worthless,
"I" is for Impending despair,
"N" is for the Nuthouse overflowing,
"E" for the Erosion of our dreams,
Put them all together...SPARE CHANGE??
Bobby London, the creator of the underground comic strip
"DIRTY DUCK"
--
"It's time to get the dope dealers out of the White House, and to
put an end to all the negative campaigning that degrades the
entire electoral process."
-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
~GypsyEyes~
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:41:46 GMT, jly...@icgroup.net wrote:
>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>!!!!
"The Ecology (Mercy Mercy Me)" by Marvin Gaye is a great song about
the destruction of the environment, still very fitting to this day
even though it was released in the late 70s
Also, there's an excerpt from "When the Music's Over" by the Doors:
"What have they done to the Earth?
What have they done to our Fair Sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her...
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn and...
Tied her with fences and...
Dragged her down..."
That's all I can think of for right now...if I come across anymore
later I'll post them
~GypsyEyes~
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The story of life is quicker
Than the wink of an eye
The story of love is hello and goodbye
Until we meet again...
- "The Story of Love", Jimi Hendrix
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Helen & Patrick Kelly
jly...@icgroup.net wrote:
>
> Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
> nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
> would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
> !!!!
99 red Balloons by Nena
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes / Ultravox
When the World is Running Down You Make the Best of What's Still Around
/ Police
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) / REM
Red Skies At Night / The Fixx
As for ecological songs, the 70's were a bigger magnet:
Mercy Mercy Me / Marvin Gaye
Big Yellow Taxi / Joni Mitchell
I'm A Stranger Here / 5 Man Electrical Band
Pat
Stephen Sander
(The chords may be out of play due to differences
in font proportional spacing)
GARBAGE
Bill Steele
Am
Mr. Thompson calls the waiter, orders steak and baked potato,
Am E7
Then he leaves the bone and gristle and he never eats the skins.
E7
The busboy comes and takes it with a cough contaminates it
E7 Am
And he puts it in a can with coffee grounds and sardine tins.
E7 Am
Then the truck comes by on Friday, and carts it all away,
Dm G7
And a thousand trucks just like it are converging on the bay ----.
Am E7
Garbage! Garbage! They're filling up the sea with garbage.
E7 Dm Am E7
Garbage! Garbage! What will we do when there's no place left to put
Am
all the garbage.
Mr. Thompson starts his Cadillac and winds it up the freeway track,
Leaving friends and neighbors in a hydrocarbon haze.
He's joined by lots of smaller cars all sending gases to the stars,
There to form a seething cloud that hangs for thirty days.
And the sun licks down upon it with its ultraviolet tongues,
'Til it turns to smog and settles down and ends up in our lungs.
Garbage! Garbage! We're filling up the sky with garbage.
Garbage! Garbage! What will we do when there's nothing left to
breathe but garbage.
Getting home and taking off his shoes he settles down with the evening
news,
While the kids do homework with the TV in one ear.
While Superman for the thousandth time sells sexy dolls and conquers
crime,
Dutifully they learn the date of birth of Paul Revere.
In the paper there's a piece about the mayor's middle name,
And he gets it done in time to watch the All-Star Bingo Game.
Am E7
Garbage! Garbage! They're filling up our minds with garbage.
Garbage! Garbage!
Dm Am E7
What will they do when there's nothing left to read and nothing left
to need?
There's nothing left to watch, and there's nothing left to touch.
There's nothing left to walk upon and nothing left to talk upon.
Nothing left to care about and nothing left to do,
Am
Nothing left to see and nothing left to be but GARBAGE!
Steve Sander
William Ludwig
> >nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
> >would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
> >!!!!
>
> The title doesn't have much to do with ecology, but the chorus goes like this:
>
> "Don't it always seem to go,
> That you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
> You pave Paradise; put up a parking lot."
>
> Note: I think Mitchell performed this at Woodstock.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> rat...@ibm.net
> (Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)
Also:
"Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
"Let Me Die in My Footsteps"--Bob Dylan
Who's Garden Was This?"--Tom Paxton
--
Bill Ludwig
Gregory Wolfe
I'm partial to Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" myself!
-
GREGORY WOLFE ZVK...@prodigy.com
MozartK201
The Pretenders have a song about it. I *think* it's called "Ohio."
I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride...
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Subject: Re: Lyrics about the destruction of nature/trhe earth
From: William Ludwig <wlu...@erols.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 19:12:28 -0500
Message-ID: <3318C5...@erols.com>
Coronal
The Eagles, "The Last Resort".
Andrew Braford
Kind of a funky song is "nothing buy flowers" by the Talking Heads
Jeff Sutch
Civilization's Dying - Zero Boys
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Ship of Fools - World Party
Divide and Conquer - Husker Du
Divide and Fall - Flesh for Lulu
just to name a few
Gabi Lautenbach
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> Kind of a funky song is "nothing buy flowers" by the Talking Heads
>
>
> William Ludwig wrote:
> >
> > Dave wrote:
> > >
> > > In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
> > > >Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
> > > >nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
> > > >would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
> > > >!!!!
> > >
> > > One comes to mind. Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi".
> > > The title doesn't have much to do with ecology, but the chorus goes like this:
> > >
> > > "Don't it always seem to go,
> > > That you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
> > > You pave Paradise; put up a parking lot."
> > >
> > > Note: I think Mitchell performed this at Woodstock.
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > > rat...@ibm.net
> > > (Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)
> >
> > Also:
> > "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
> > "Let Me Die in My Footsteps"--Bob Dylan
> > Who's Garden Was This?"--Tom Paxton
> > --
> > Bill Ludwig
Saltwater - Julian Lennon
The Sun Is Burning - Simon and Garfunkel/Bob Dylan? (Atomic destruction)
Anthony B. Gilpin
Andrew Braford wrote:
>
> Kind of a funky song is "nothing buy flowers" by the Talking Heads
>
> William Ludwig wrote:
> Dave wrote:
In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
> One comes to mind. Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi".
> The title doesn't have much to do with ecology, but the chorus goes
like this:
>
> "Don't it always seem to go,
> That you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
> You pave Paradise; put up a parking lot."
>
> Note: I think Mitchell performed this at Woodstock.
>
Incorrect. Joni Mitchell, who wrote the best known song about Woodstock,
did not attend Woodstock herself. She was scheduled to appear at a
concert in New York City when the news spread about the incredible
festival that was happening upstate. Mitchell's co-stars, Crosby, Stills
and Nash, invited her to fly up to Woodstock, but Mitchell refused,
concerned that they could not return to New York in time for their own
show. Mitchell wrote "Woodstock" based on CSN's descriptions of the
festival.
>
> Also:
> "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
> "Let Me Die in My Footsteps"--Bob Dylan
> Whose Garden Was This?"--Tom Paxton
> --
> Bill Ludwig
"In the Year 2525"
"Pollution" - Tom Lehrer
and here's an obscure one, from a science fiction movie in which Bruce
Dern plays the last American forest ranger who, alone save for three
cute little robots he's named Huey, Dewey and Louie, guards the earth's
last forest, which is preserved under the dome of a space platform
orbiting Saturn. It was a sledge hammer of a message picture, but Joan
Baez sang this song well.
REJOICE IN THE SUN (from "Silent Running")
Music by Peter Schickle (AKA P.D.Q. Bach)
I don't remember who wrote the words, but it was not Baez.
Fields of children running wild, in the sun
Like a forest is your child,
Growing wild,
In the sun.
Doomed in his innocence, in the sun.
Gather your children to your side, in the sun
Tell them all they love will die,
Tell them why,
In the sun.
Tell them it's not too late,
Cultivate, one by one.
Tell them to harvest and rejoice
In the sun.
Oh, well, while I'm here...
POLLUTION
Words and music by Tom Lehrer
When you visit and American city
You will find it very pretty
Just two things of which you must beware,
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air
Pollution, pollution
You've got smog and sewage and mud
Just turn on the tap
And get hot and cold running crud
See the halibuts and the sturgeons
Being wiped out by detergents
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly
But they don't last long if they try
Pollution, pollution
You can use the latest toothpaste
Then rinse out your mouth
With industrial waste
Just step out for a breath of air,
and you'll be ready for Medicare
The city streets are really quite a thrill
If the hoods don't get you the monoxide will
Pollution, pollution
Wear a gas mask and a veil
Then you can breathe
As long as you don't inhale
So come to the city
See the crazy people there
Like lambs to the slaughter
They're drinking the water
and breathing (cough!) the air!
Danny and Debbi
There's also "Blackened" by Metallica from their "...and Justice for
All" album.
Roberta Gledhill
Here in NZ, an artist [whose name escapes me at the moment]wrote a terrific
song *Damn the Dam* protesting about the creation of a hydro-electric dam
and the flooding of the landscape that would occur. One line of the chorus
goes *...to give power to the people, all that beauty has to die.*
Cheers!
Roberta
Takis
On Thu, 06 Mar 1997 21:14:15 -0800, Jeff Sutch
<Jeff....@Documentum.com> wrote:
>William Ludwig wrote:
>>
>> Dave wrote:
>> >
>> > In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>> > >Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>> > >nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>> > >would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>> > >!!!!
>> >
>> > One comes to mind. Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi".
>> > The title doesn't have much to do with ecology, but the chorus goes like this:
>> >
>> > "Don't it always seem to go,
>> > That you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
>> > You pave Paradise; put up a parking lot."
>> >
>> > Note: I think Mitchell performed this at Woodstock.
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------
>> > rat...@ibm.net
>> > (Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)
>>
>> Also:
>> "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
>> "Let Me Die in My Footsteps"--Bob Dylan
>> Who's Garden Was This?"--Tom Paxton
>> --
>> Bill Ludwig
>
>Civilization's Dying - Zero Boys
>Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees
>Ship of Fools - World Party
>Divide and Conquer - Husker Du
>Divide and Fall - Flesh for Lulu
>
>
>just to name a few
All Earth Crisis albums...
R. Alan Squire
> In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>
>>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>>!!!!
Here's one that discusses our obsession with technology, taking
mankind from the comparably mundane interstallar radio
communications of today to the brink of the ultimate discoveries
of tomorrow, then only to say that they'll never happen because
our technology will take us to destruction before it takes us to
discovery...
We were like children shining light
Into each other's eyes
Across the space that lies so tired between us now
But oh like grains of sand into a naked flame
We blew away
Oh, we blew away
Its impact is absent without the music itself. It's by Rupert
Hine (not to be confused with Rupert *Holmes*).
THE CURIOUS KIND
Written by Rupert Hine and Jeannette Obstoo
Performed by Rupert Hine
From "Waving Not Drowning" (1982)
Through the eye of a needle we will travel
On the back of a snowflake, rest our minds as they unravel
Each elastic moment stretching out
Into another one
And onto the edge of blackest night
To where all light must bend
Each hidden trap-door there we'll find
We always were the curious kind
We split the difference and the ripples magnified
Learning, looking under stones
To find the worm disturbed -- he turns and turns
We always were the curious kind
We always were the curious kind
Through the eye of a needle we will follow
From a blur into focus as we penetrate tomorrow
Trespassing on future times to find
We're not the only ones
After all these promised miles to glimpse
The everlasting sight
The slow recurring point unwinds
We always were the curious kind
We were like children shining light
Into each other's eyes
Across the space that lies so tired between us now
But oh like grains of sand into a naked flame
We blew away
Oh, we blew away
We split the difference and the ripples magnified
Learning, looking under stones
To find the worm disturbed -- he turns and turns
We always were the curious kind
We always were the curious kind
We were like children shining light
Into each other's eyes
But oh like grains of sand into a naked flame
We blew away
Oh, we blew away
We split the difference and the ripples magnified
Learning, looking under stones
To find the worm disturbed -- he turns and turns
We always were the curious kind
We always were the curious kind
We always were the curious kind...
--
R. Alan Squire To reply, please remove the "ra" from the email
Halifax, N.S. address (it has been added to deter email spam)
Bob L.
>> In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>>
>>>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>>>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>>>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>>>!!!!
There was the Joni Mitchell one about, "Pave Paradise and put up a
Parking Lot." I'm looking for similar stuff for an Arbor Day play
in late April. If I find it I'll post it here (for educational
purposes and fair use only, of course).
Bob L.
> In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>
>>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>>!!!!
>
Well, I found the one I was looking for. In the process I
completely bypassed the title of "Big Yellow Taxi" but that's
it. This was in OLGA, under M. Somehow that last verse
seems tacked on, like it doesn't relate to the rest. (?)
BIG YELLOW TAXI - Joni Mitchell
Intro :
-------
A A6 A A6 A B B6 B B6 B
E A/E E7 A/E E A/E E7 A/E E etc
A A6 A E A/E E7 A/E E
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
A A6 B B6 E
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot
CHORUS:
E5 Emaj7
Don't it always seem to go
A/E E
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
A A6 B B6 E
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
E A/E E7 A/E E A/E E7 A/E E
(Choo bop bop bop bop, choo bop bop bop bop)
They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em
CHORUS
Hey farmer farmer, put away that D.D.T.
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees
CHORUS
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
CHORUS TWICE (with only one chooo bop... at each end)
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (choo bop bop bop bop)
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
I'm sure this is copyrighted by Joni Mitchell,
from the album 'Ladies of the Canyon', 1970
Contributed to OLGA by Harlan Thompson & Howard Wright
Scott
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 04:04:46 GMT, f...@bar.com (Bob L.) wrote:
>
>> In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>>
>>>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>>>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>>>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>>>!!!!
>>
I can think of three: "War" by Edwin Starr, "Mercy Mercy Me (the
ecology)" by Marvin Gaye and "Eve Of Destruction by Berry McGuire.
john kelley
f...@bar.com (Bob L.) wrote:
>
>
>>> In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
>>>
>>>>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>>>>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>>>>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>>>>!!!!
>
>
>Parking Lot." I'm looking for similar stuff for an Arbor Day play
>in late April. If I find it I'll post it here (for educational
>purposes and fair use only, of course).
>
>
John Patrick Riley
The Joni Mitchell song was called "Big Yellow Taxi" (recently covered by
Amy Grant) IMO Joni's version is much better.
cis4
Ozzy Osbourne...Revelation (Mother Earth)
Pete D
I think Jon Hall (Orleans) had a song. I don't remember the title but one of the
lines in the chorus went like this, "Give me the warm power of the sun". He did
it at the "No Nukes" festival.
Also, on Jackson Browne's 3rd album (my favorite of his) his song "Before the
Deluge" he maps out the destruction of the earth by flood.
Hope this helps
Peter DeMaio spe...@carroll.com
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>f...@bar.com (Bob L.) wrote:
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>>>> In <331369db...@news.icgroup.net>, jly...@icgroup.net writes:
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>>>>>Can any one think of some songs which deal with the destruction of
>>>>>nature or the earth?? If you have any song titles/artists in mind, I
>>>>>would greatly appreciate some advice. Hundreds of thanks in advance
>>>>>!!!!
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>>There was the Joni Mitchell one about, "Pave Paradise and put up a
>>Parking Lot." I'm looking for similar stuff for an Arbor Day play
>>in late April. If I find it I'll post it here (for educational
>>purposes and fair use only, of course).
>>
>>
camgib
Here's this one song, not quite about the destruction of the earth, but
had a very cool memorable chorus, from Midnight Oil:
"How can we dance when the earth is turning?
How can we sleep when our beds are burning?"
I forgot the second part of the chorus! Oh damn. It's Beds Are Burning,
of course.
How the heck can I forget the second part of the chorus...... oh well.
cam gib
EllenSmith
camgib <cam...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Here's this one song, not quite about the destruction of the earth, but
>had a very cool memorable chorus, from Midnight Oil:
>"How can we dance when the earth is turning?
> How can we sleep when our beds are burning?"
Right. The one with the real tall guy with the bald head who dances
weird.
Twelvlefts
'Red Tide', lyrics by Neil Peart, music by Rush
on the album Presto, 1989
nature has some new plague
to run in our streets
history some new wrinkle
we are doomed to repeat
fugitives at the bedroom door
lovers pause to find an open store
rain is burning on the forest floor
and the red tide kisses the shore
THIS IS NOT A FALSE ALARM
THIS IS NOT A TEST
stay out of the sun
it only burns my skin
sky full of poison
and the atmosphere's too thin
bless the sun, the rain no more
river running like an open sore
black wind falling to the ocean floor
and the red tide washes ashore
THIS IS NOT A FALSE ALARM
THIS IS NOT A TEST
nowhwere we can fly away
nowere we can rest
the party is disrupted by
an uninvited guest
deadline approaches
for the weary land
it used to be something
but we let it run down in our hands
too late for debate, too bad to ignore
quiet rebellion leads to open war
bring a sea-change to the factory floor
as the red tide covers the shore
now's the time to turn the tide
now's the time to fight
let us not go gently
to the endless winter night
now's the time to make the time
while hope is still in sight
let us not go gently
to the endless winter night
Richard Of Atlanta
No time to write it out now, but one of the best is by Jamiroquai: "When
You Gonna Learn?"...check it out!
Our Beating Hearts Are In Gyre,
Richard
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From the folk side:
Eileen McGann, "Requiem for the Giant Trees"--I haven't found a copy
of McGann's singing it, but the one on Herdman, Hills, & Mangsen's CD
_Voices_ is incredible...
"In north Ontario some giants still remain
Though few in number now the axman comes again
What will you tell them when your children ask you why
Our last remaining forest giants had to die
"And what gives them the right I ask to take what's not their own
To kill the living beauty that four hundred years has grown
To take and sell our heritage to fill pockets for a day
And when this crop is gone, what will they say..."
Tom Paxton, "Whose Garden Was This" (on _The Very Best of Tom Paxton_,
and elsewhere I'm sure)
Jean Ritchie, "Black Waters" and probably other songs too
Stan Rogers, "The Rawdon Hills" and "Make and Break Harbor" (on
_Fogarty's Cove_)
Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho
That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer
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