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Human Rights Music Bibliography by Artist J-R


 

 

 

Artist

            Michael Jackson

            Jam

            Jamiroquai

            Wyclef Jean

            Billy Joel

            Jurassic 5

            Mbanna Kantako

            Kid Rock

            Kingston Trio

            John Kongos

Cindi Lauper

Tom Lehrer

John Lennon

Gordon Lightfoot

Linkin Park

LL Cool J

Lil Wayne

Bob Marley

Martha and the Vandellas

Master P

Edwin McCain

Paul McCartney

Barry McGuire

MC Immortal Technique

Lori McKenna

Sarah McLachlan

Metallica

George Michael

Roger Miller

Craig Morgan

Morrissey

Mos Def

Nena           

            Phil Ochs

            Sinead O’Connor

            OMD

            Original Caste

            Outkast

            Paul Revere and the Raiders

            Paper Lace

            Pearl Jam

            Peter, Paul, & Mary

            Pink Floyd

            The Police

            Post Office

            Primal Scream

            Public Enemy

            Rage Against the Machine

            Redgum

            Red Hot Chili Peppers

            Rolling Stones

            Rush

 

Michael Jackson

            Heal the World

 

Artist:                                    Michael Jackson

Song:                                    Heal the World

Album:                        Dangerous

Producer:                        Michael Jackson, David Foster

Year:                                    1991

Label:                                    Epic Records

Genre:                                    Pop

URL:                                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=2boee8XEHA0

Lyrics:                                    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michaeljackson/healtheworld.html

 

There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me

 

Jam

            In the City

            Town Called Malice

 

Artist:                                     The Jam

Song:                                    In the City

Album:                        In the City

Producer:                        Vic Smith and Chris Parry

Year:                        1977

Label:                        Polydor Records

Genre:                                    Punk

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivm0inFdJL8

Lyrics:                                                            http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/IN-THE-CITY-lyrics-The-Jam/97E991913FF0EC6F482569760024E2D1

                                   

In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you

But whenever I approach you, you make me look a fool

I wanna say, I wanna tell you

About the young ideas

But you turn them into fears

In the city there's a thousand faces all shining bright

And those golden faces are under 25

They wanna say, they gonna tell ya

About the young idea

You better listen now you've said your bit-a

And I know what you're thinking

You still think I am crap

But you'd better listen man

Because the kids know where it's at

 

In the city there's a thousand men in uniforms

And I've heard they now have the right to kill a man

We wanna say, we gonna tell ya

About the young idea

And if it don't work, at least we still tried

 

In the city, in the city

In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you

 

Artist:                                     The Jam

Song:                                    Town Called Malice

Album:                        The Gift

Producer:                        Pete Wilson, the Jam

Year:                        1982

Label:                        Polydor           

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zyUgMbGuk

Lyrics:                                    http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/billyelliot/towncalledmalice.htm

 

Better stop dreaming of the quiet life -

cos it's the one we'll never know

And quit running for that runaway bus -

cos those rosey days are few

And - stop apologising for the things you've never done,

Cos time is short and life is cruel -

but it's up to us to change

This town called malice.

Rows and rows of disused milk floats

stand dying in the dairy yard

And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk

bottles to their hearts

Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry

It's enough to make you stop believing when tears come

fast and furious

In a town called malice.

 

Struggle after struggle - year after year

The atmosphere's a fine blend of ice -

I'm almost stone cold dead

In a town called malice.

 

A whole street's belief in Sunday's roast beef

gets dashed against the Co-op

To either cut down on beer or the kids new gear

It's a big decision in a town called malice.

 

The ghost of a steam train - echoes down my track

It's at the moment bound for nowhere -

just going round and round

Playground kids and creaking swings -

lost laughter in the breeze

I could go on for hours and I probably will -

but I'd sooner put some joy back

In this town called malice.

 

Jamiroquai

            Too Young To Die

 

Artist:                                    Jamiroquai

Song:                                    Too Young To Die

Album:                        Emergency on Planet Earth

Producer:                        Jamiroquai

Year:                                    1993

Label:                                    Colombia

Genre:                                    Jazz

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ykhaxE3tFI

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jamiroquai/too+young+to+die_20069382.html

 

Everybody, dont want no war, cos were all too young to die
Many people, all around the world now, seen their brothers fry?
Whats the motive?
In your madness youve made my people cry
So politicians, this time keep your distance
Cos were too young to die
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die.

Whats the answer? to our problems.
I think weve gone to high,
Little children never said a word now, but still they have to die
It wont be long, dancing like we do now,
To put this sad world right
So you dont worry, suffer no more,
Cos were too young to die,
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die.

You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die,
You know were too young to die.

All gone when they drop the bomb.
Can politicians reassure? cos here I am pressuming that nobody here wants a war.
Theres so many people praying just to find out if theyre staying.
But lately, stately governments and disillusioned leader,
So full of empty promises but rarely do they feed us,
Put our backs against the wall, or dont we count at all.

Can you decide, are you mesmerised.
Do you know which side youre standing?
Cos when it falls gonna take us all.
Gotta know what were demanding, I never lie, cant hear you cry,
Coming from on high,
Were too young to die!

 

Wyclef Jean

Diallo

War No More

 

Artist:                                    Wyclef Jean

Song:                                    Diallo

Album:                        The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book

Producer:                        Wyclef Jean

Year:                                    2000

Label:                                    Sony

Genre:                                    Reggae

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBm2KIsqsxs

Lyrics:                         http://www.mp3lyrics.org/w/wyclef-jean/diallo/

 

Boy I am so tired
I'll be glad when I get inside the house
Oh, I dropped my keys
Oh what tis bright light?
My God they must gonna rob me
Who these people with them all
at they gonna rob me
I'm gonna take out my wallet
to make sure they just get
the money
Nothing else.. (??)
Oh it's the police (whew)
I feel so much better
I will show them, I have my ID
so they know I am good people

[ followed by a rapid flurry of gunshots ]

[ Wyclef Jean ]
Even though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death
I fear no evil for thou art
with me thou ride with me
J-J-Jah! Ras-tafari
I can't forget you knotty
dreads, y'all up in here
I gotta respect that, youknowhatI'msayin?
Night is in the air

Enemy.. on the borderline
Who'll be the next to fire
forty-one shots by Diallo's side?

You said he reached sir
but he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
in the belly of the beast sir

You guys are vampires
in the middle of the night
Suckin on human blood
Is that your appetite?

You said he reached sir
but he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
in the belly of the beast sir

Have you ever been shot
forty-one times?
Have you ever screamed
and no one heard you cry?
Have you ever died
only so you can live?
Have you ever lived
only so you can die again, then be born again
from these enemies, on the borderline
Who'll be the next to fire
forty-one shots by Diallo's side?

You said he reached sir
but he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
in the belly of the beast sir

You guys are vampires
in the middle of the night
Suckin on human blood
Is that your appetite sir?

You said he reached sir
but he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
in the belly of the beast sir

Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko
Diallo, Diallo - you told me
the murder was an error
Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged
Diallo, Diallo - according to his words

Have you ever been held
against your will?
Taken to a dark place
where not even scientists can reveal?
So what is for Ceasar
let it be for Ceasar
Cause we don't want no peace
We want equal rights and justice.. for

Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko
Diallo, Diallo - you tell me that
the murder was an error
Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged
Diallo, Diallo - according to his words

You know what?
You told me - that I wouldn't understand man
Tonight some cry - in the streets a burial
Survival of the fittest - only
the strong will survive
How can I survive - with
forty-one shots by my side?

You guys are murderers
in the middle of the night
Killin innocent people
is that your appetite? Ohhh

You said he reached sir
but he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
in the belly of the beast sir

You guys are vampires
in the middle of the night
Suckin on human blood
Is that your appetite?

You said he reached sir
but he didn't have no piece sir
But now he rest in peace sir
in the belly of the beast
sir - lick a shot for

Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko
Diallo, Diallo - I can hear your
spirit callin, I can hear it
Diallo, Diallo - Ten thousand
chariots with no riders
Diallo, Diallo - They on they
way to America, I hear the
tribe singin

They're sayin -

Diallo Diallo, tuye' Diallo [ 14X ]
Se menm jen yo te tuye Matim Luther King
Amadou Diallo..

Now there ain't but 20,000
police in the whole town
Can you dig it? Can you dig
it? CAN YOU DIG IT?!?!

 

Artist:                                    Wyclef Jean

Song:                                    War No More

Album:                        Masquerade

Producer:                        Farel Jean

Year:                                    2002

Label:                                    Sony

Genre:                                    Reggae

URL:                        http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1697287,00.html            

Lyrics:                         http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/wyclefjean/warnomore.html

 

Light is in the air right now
Two thousand and two rebel music
The saga continues
Listen, children

What's the problem in Manhattan
Every ten men they look like Bin Laden
So I have problems when I go to the airport
First thing they do they wanna ask me for my passport
The said Wyclef we love the Fugees the score
But did anybody give you any strange package to bring on board
I was like 'no'
Here comes your national guards
This look like a scene from the movie Star Wars
One foot in, one foot out standing in the airplane
I'm on tour
I'm on my way to Japan
First class, dark shades
Let the fuschia out bed
I want to sleep but keep my eyes on the cock pit
Why just think they stay target- the pilot
We gonna take over the plane
Like the Los Angeles riot
Riot
Riot
The Middle East
The Middle East
The street pack more heat than the Middle East
The Middle East
The Middle East
When will the violence sleep in the Middle East
The Middle East
The street pack more heat than the Middle East
The Middle East
The Middle East
When will the violence
Say peace
Say peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the streets
Peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the Middle East now
Peace, now peace, oh peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the USA say peace
Say peace
Lord, peace
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
Ay, peace
Oh peace
We don't want no war no more
No, no let me hear you say
Peace, peace,
Say peace, say peace
We don't want no war no more
No, no, no, no
Say peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
No more riots
Riots
riots
Riots
Riots
Riots

Riot

 

Billy Joel

            Allentown

 

Artist:                                    Billy Joel                       

Song:                                    Allentown

Album:                        The Nylon Curtain

Producer:                        Phil Ramone

Year:                                    1982

Label:                                    Columbia

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://youtube.com/watch?v=K62DdoFoNeg

Lyrics:                        http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/billy_joel/allentown.html

 

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today

And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown

 

Jurassic 5

            Contribution

 

Artist:                                    Jurassic 5

Song:                                    Contribution

Album:                        Quality Control

Producer:                        DJ Nu-Mark

Year:                        2000

Label:                        Interscope

Genre:                                    Hip-Hop

URL:                                    http://www.amazon.com/Quality-Control-Jurassic-5/dp/B00004THKW

Lyrics:                                    http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Jurassic-5/Contribution.html

 

(EXPLICIT LYRICS)

 

[chorus]

yo, either you a part of the problem

or part of the solution

what's your contribution to life

so many people complain, always talk about change yo

but what's your contribution to life

either you with or ain't with it, if it ain't broke don't fix it

yo what's your contribution to life

either you give or you take, make moves and you wait yo

but what's your contribution to life

 

*your about to witness three of the most common

tales of man, woman and human, the difference between the three

is that there is not difference, just other outcomes

listen and witness the common tales*

 

aye yo my momma and a nigga for life

love carousel, cuss yell and fight

seven nights a week, no respect when they speak

disrespect between the sheets, the ends don't meet

no rice beans or meat

my momma was the bread winner plus

she had to cook his dinner

my daddy was a full time sinner

poppa was a stoner stay gone till November

off of that, gawk?, that made ?emack

like the devil done took his soul and ain't given it back

remember that, when you play for the bless

speedy victory for the poor and the press

I cant stand the stress, its test and time press

up against my momma and daddy chest, I try and rest

with no stretch of the mind, I cant find no piece

of mind within this family of mine, yo

 

[marc 7even]

she got chips and you don't, that's bottom line

that's just the way love goes, *hmmm* lets rewind

you really ain't paid, you clockin minimum wage

now basically you a slave, your wife studies for days

no money for much, just movies and such

the way your two hands clutch, you know its love not lust

now she's sick of the bus, and using you as a crutch

and on top of this stuff, she graduates in a month

damn, her new job got her clocking the dough

now she's buying new clothes, and taken you to the show

you feeling like you the ho, not knowing which way to go

and ultimately you know, you ain't feeling her so

you need to get up, get out and get something

your job ain't nothing, all these years you've just been frontin

thats the way she played ya, the talked in rager went back

to your days of...[chali 2na voices over marc 7even]

 

[chali 2na]

she always said I'm out husslin for food, kitchen indeed

while this nigga spend his ends on booze, bitches and weed

I thought that we'd agree, with two kids to feed

that you would slow your own, but instead of switchin your seed

you slapped me, you cant attack me thinkin I'm be happy

in fact its a packing and we rapidly

after we witness, no love between parents

the father type that was once on the sence vanished

supreme bamish the couples that match these

producin generations of kids with latched keys

her daughter learned from momma

how to reject men, her sons attracts women

that don't respect men, and then

one parental provided can be the plan

but no woman can truly teach a boy to be a man

that's why I'm always telling these many pals of mine

the most that you can spend on any child is time

 

*look we dont have all the answers, we're victims also

to the same situations, but man, plans and the lord plans

and the lord is the best of planners,

so what's your contribution to life*

 

[chorus]

what's your contribution to life

 

Mbanna Kantako

            Gotta Get Those Human Rights

 

Artist:                                     Mbanna Kantako

Song:                                    Gotta Get Those Human Rights

Album:                        Let Us Loose

Producer:                        Unknown

Year:                        2001

Label:                        Unknown                       

Genre:                                    Hip-Hop

URL:                                    http://www.diymedia.net/audio/hrrlul.htm

Lyrics:                                    Unavailable

 

Kid Rock

            Abortion

 

Artist:                                    Kid Rock

Song:                                    Abortion

Album:                        The History of Rock

Producer:                        Mike Bradford, Kid Rock

Year:                                    2000

Label:                                    Lava

Genre:                                    Hip-Hop

URL:                                    http://www.amazon.com/History-Rock-Kid/dp/B00004TCPN            

Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Abortion-lyrics-Kid-Rock/3E57248F52F8E857482568F10009C5DE

 

My veins are poppin from this love inside
I just can't let it out
This pipe and these needles are my only guide
They've got me on the wrong route
What is my life about
Living in the shadows of a man I've never seen
Dreamin' like a lonely child
I know your brothers and your sister and your mother too

Man I wish you could see them too
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Man I wish that you could see them too
Man I wish that you could see them too

So can I come to see you sometime
Cause I been missin you
I've never heard you cry I've never seen you whine
I'm feeling oh so young
But still I must die to get to you
And if I do I wonder how just you will see me
And implicate the things I've done
I'm diein in the shadows of this man I've never seen
I'll see you soon
Now where's my gun

Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Wheres my gun
Oh wheres my gun
Oh Lord
Wheres my gun
Oh Lord
My gun

Let me open your eyes
Let me see who you are
I am you, you are me
We are a part of
The second coming of christ
It's God himself in a jar
Yeah...yeah
Yeah...yeah

Let me open your eyes
Let me see who you are
I am you, you are me
We are a part of
The second coming of christ
Its God himself in a jar
Yeahhhh
Heyyyyyyy

You got me, sad and lonely
When I'm me...me
You know you make me so lonely
I am so alone
And I will pray and then I'll cry
And I will pray and then I'll cry
And I will pray and then I'll cry
And I will pray and then I'll cry

 

Kingston Trio

            Where Have All the Flowers Gone

 

Artist:                                     Kingston Trio (written by Pete Seeger)

Song:                                    Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Album:                        An Evening With the Kingston Trio

Producer:                        Jim Musselman

Year:                        1962

Label:                        Folk Era

Genre:                                    Folk

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8Db7VNgL0

Lyrics:                                    http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/flowers-gone.shtml

 

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the flowers gone?

Girls have picked them every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

 

Where have all the young girls gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the young girls gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the young girls gone?

Taken husbands every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

 

Where have all the young men gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the young men gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the young men gone?

Gone for soldiers every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

 

Where have all the soldiers gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the soldiers gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the soldiers gone?

Gone to graveyards every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the graveyards gone?

Long time ago

Where have all the graveyards gone?

Covered with flowers every one

When will we ever learn?

When will we ever learn?

 

John Kongos 

            He’s Gonna Step on You Again

 

Artist:                                    John Kongos

Song:                                    He’s Gonna Step on You Again

Album:                        Tokoloshe Man

Producer:                        Gus Dudgeon

Year:                        1988

Label:                        See For Miles

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zslrb7O0-6g

Lyrics:                                    http://lyricz.net/J/John+Kongos/113138/

 

Hey rainmaker come away

from that man you know

he's gonna take away your promised land.

Hey good lady

 

he just want what you got

you know he'll never stop

until he's taken the lot.

 

Gonna stamp out your fire

 

he can change your desire

 

don't you know that he can make

you forget you're a man

 

gonna stamp out your fire

 

he can change your desire

 

don't you know that he can make

you forget you're a man

 

you're a man. He's a man.

He's gonna step on you again.

He's gonna step on you again.

He's gonna step on you again.

He's gonna step on you again.

 

Hey rainmaker he got golden plans

I tell you he make you

a stranger in your land.

Hey good lady

 

he got God on his side

he got a double tongue

you never think that he lie.

 

Gonna stamp out...

 

Hey rainmaker come away

from that man you know

he's gonna take away your promised land.

Hey good lady

 

he got God on his side

he got a double tongue

you never think that he lie.

 

 

Cindi Lauper

            Sally’s Pigeons

 

Artist:                                    Cindi Lauper

Song:                                    Sally’s Pigeons

Album:                        Hat Full of Stars

Producer:                        Cyndi Lauper, Junior Vasquez

Year:                                    1993

Label:                                    Epic Records

Genre:                                    Pop

URL:                                    http://youtube.com/watch?v=j1z_5iyvbdc

Lyrics:                        http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cyndilauper/sallyspigeons.html

 

When I was eight I had a friend
With a pirate smile
Make believe and play pretend
We were innocent and wild
Hopped a fence and slammed the gate
Running down my alleyway
In time to watch Sally's pigeons fly

We loved to watch them dive and soar
Circle in the sky
Free as a bird from three to four
And never knowing why
Neighbors pulled their wash back in
Put away my Barbie and Ken
Look out overhead
While Sally's pigeons fly

I had a fool's confidence
That the world had no boundaries
But instincts and common sense
Come in different quantities

My heart began to
Skip to the beat
Of the boy next door
She had her eye across the street
On someone shy and tall
We lived our dreams
And challenged fate
In tears she told me she was late
And Sally let his pigeons out to fly...

On the dresser sits a frame
With a photograph
Two little girls in ponytails
Some twenty one years back
She left one night with just a nod
Was lost from some back alley job
I close my eyes and Sally's pigeons fly
She never saw those birds again
And me, I can't remember when
A pirate smile hasn't made me cry
I close my eyes
And Sally's pigeons fly...

 

Tom Lehrer

            We Will All Go Together When We Go

 

 

Artist:                                    Tom Lehrer

Song:                                    We Will All Go Together When We Go

Album:                        An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

Producer:                        Tom Lehrer

Year:                                    1959

Label:                                    Rhino

Genre:                                    Folk

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv6mPgtay6E            

Lyrics:                                    http://www.atomicplatters.com/more.php?id=70_0_1_0_M

 

Spoken introduction:

I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know whose name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelled it H-E-N-3-R-Y. The 3 was silent, you see. (Laughter) Henry (more laughter), Henry was financially independent, having inherited his father's tar and feather business, and was therefore able to devote his full time to such intellectual pursuits as writing – I particularly remember a heart-warming novel of his about a young necrophiliac who finally achieved his boyhood ambition by becoming
A coroner. (Laughter) The rest of you can look it up when you get home. (Loud and long laughter) In addition to writing, he indulged in a good deal of philosophizing. Like so many contemporary philosophers he especially enjoyed giving helpful advice to people who were happier than he was, and one (Laughter), one particular bit of advice which I recall, which is the reason I bring up this whole dreary story, is something he said once before they took him away to the Massachusetts State Home for the Bewildered (laughter), he said, "Life is like a sewer. What you get our of it depends on what you put into it!" (Long, loud laughter) So it seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha, and so with this in mind I have here a modern, positive, dynamic uplifting song in the tradition of the great old revival hymns. This one might be more accurately termed a survival hymn, it goes like this…

When you attend a funeral
It is sad to think that sooner or
Later those you love will do the same for you
And you may have thought it tragic
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do
(But don't you worry.)

No more ashes, no more sackcloth
And an arm band made of black cloth
Will some day nevermore adorn a sleeve
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve

And we will all go together when we go
What a comforting fact that is to know
Universal bereavement
An inspiring achievement
Yes, we all will go together when we go

We will all go together when we go
All suffused with an incandescent glow
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go

Oh we will all fry together when we fry
We'll be French fried potatoes by and by
There will be no more misery
When the world is our rotisserie
Yes, we all will fry together when we fry

Down by the old maelstrom
There'll be a storm before the calm

And we will all bake together when we bake
There'll be nobody present at the wake
With complete participation
In that grand incineration
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak

Oh we will all char together when we char
And let there be no moaning of the bar
Just sing out a Te Deum
When you see that I.C.B.M.
And the party will be come-as-you-are

Oh, we will all burn together when we burn
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn
When it's time for the fallout
And Saint Peter calls us all out
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn

You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas
Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollahs

And we will all go together when we go
Every Hottentot and every Eskimo
When the air becomes uranious
We will all go simultaneous
Yes, we all will go together
When we all go together
Yes we all will go together when we go

 

John Lennon

            Gimme Some Truth

Give Peace a Chance

Happpy Xmas (War is Over)

Imagine

            Instant Karma

           

Artist:                                    John Lennon                       

Song:                                    Gimme Some Truth

Album:                        Imagine

Producer:                        John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Phil Spector

Year:                                    1971

Label:                                    Apple/EMI

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://youtube.com/watch?v=fBpIfVt46Bk

Lyrics:                        http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4039

 

I'm sick to death of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
Money for dope
Money for rope

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
It's money for dope
Money for rope

Ah, I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

 

Artist:                                    John Lennon           

Song:                                    Give Peace a Chance

Album:                        Single

Producer:                        John and Yoko Ono Lennon

Year:                                    1969

Label:                                    Apple

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk

Lyrics:

http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/john_lennon/give_peace_a_chance/

 

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(C'mon)


Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Minister, Sinister, Banisters and Canisters,
Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis, and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(Let me tell you now)


Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Revolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagellation, Regulation,
Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

 

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna


All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Repeat 'til the tape runs out)

 

Artist:                                    John Lennon

Song:                                    Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Album:                        Single by the Plastic Ono Band

Producer:                        Phil Spector, John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Year:                                    1971

Label:                                    EMI, Parlophone, Apple

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jw-ifqwkM

Lyrics:            http://www.john-lennon.com/songlyrics/songs/Happy_Xmas_War_is_Over.htm

 

(Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)

So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Xmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
And what have we done
Another year over
A new one just begun
And so happy Xmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now

Happy Xmas

 

Artist:                                    John Lennon

Song:                                    Imagine

Album:                        Imagine

Producer:                        John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector

Year:                        1971

Label:                        Apple

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xjw-l673UI

Lyrics:                                    http://www.lyrics007.com/John Lennon Lyrics/Imagine Lyrics.html

 

Imagine there's no Heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

 

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

 

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

 

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

 

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

 

Artist:                                    John Lennon           

Song:                                    Instant Karma (We All Shine On)

Album:                        Single

Producer:                        Phil Spector, John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Year:                                    1970

Label:                                    Apple Records

Genre:                                    Rock           

URL:                                    http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/billy_joel/allentown.html

Lyrics: http://www.lyrics007.com/John%20Lennon%20Lyrics/Instant%20Karma%20Lyrics.html

 

Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head,
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead,
What in the world you thinking of,
Laughing in the face of love,
What on earth you tryin' to do,
It's up to you, yeah you.

Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna look you right in the face,
Better get yourself together darlin',
Join the human race,
How in the world you gonna see,
Laughin' at fools like me,
Who on earth d'you think you are,
A super star,
Well, right you are.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Well we all shine on,
Ev'ryone come on.

Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna knock you off your feet,
Better recognize your brothers,
Ev'ryone you meet,
Why in the world are we here,
Surely not to live in pain and fear,
Why on earth are you there,
When you're ev'rywhere,
Come and get your share.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Yeah we all shine on,
Come on and on and on on on,
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah-.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Yeah we all shine on,
On and on and on on and on.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.
Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.
Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.
Yeah we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.

 

Gordon Lightfoot

            Black Day in July

 

Artist:                                     Gordon Lightfoot

Song:                                    Black Day in July

Album:                        Best

Producer:                        N/A

Year:                        1970

Label:                        Curb Records           

Genre:                                    Pop

URL:                                     http://www.amazon.com/Best-Gordon-Lightfoot/dp/B000000CZ8

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gordon+lightfoot/black+day+in+july_20061532.html

 

Black day in july

Motor city madness has touched the countryside

And through the smoke and cinders

You can hear it far and wide

The doors are quickly bolted

And the children locked inside

Black day in july

Black day in july

And the soul of motor city is bared across the land

As the book of law and order is taken in the hands

Of the sons of the fathers who were carried to this land

 

Black day in july

Black day in july

In the streets of motor city is a deadly silent sound

And the body of a dead youth lies stretched upon the ground

Upon the filthy pavement

No reason can be found

 

Black day in july

Black day in july

Motor city madness has touched the countryside

And the people rise in anger

And the streets begin to fill

And theres gunfire from the rooftops

And the blood begins to spill

 

Black day in july

 

In the mansion of the governor

Theres nothing that is known for sure

The telephone is ringing

And the pendulum is swinging

And they wonder how it happened

And they really know the reason

And it wasnt just the temperature

And it wasnt just the season

 

Black day in july

Black day in july

Motor citys burning and the flames are running wild

They reflect upon the waters of the river and the lake

And everyone is listening

And everyones awake

 

Black day in july

Black day in july

The printing press is turning

And the news is quickly flashed

And you read your morning paper

And you sip your cup of tea

And you wonder just in passing

Is it him or is it me

 

Black day in july

 

In the office of the president

The deed is done the troops are sent

Theres really not much choice you see

It looks to us like anarchy

And then the tanks go rolling in

To patch things up as best they can

There is no time to hesitate

The speech is made the dues can wait

 

Black day in july

Black day in july

The streets of motor city now are quiet and serene

But the shapes of gutted buildings

Strike terror to the heart

And you say how did it happen

And you say how did it start

Why cant we all be brothers

Why cant we live in peace

But the hands of the have-nots

Keep falling out of reach

 

Black day in july

Black day in july

Motor city madness has touched the countryside

And through the smoke and cinders

You can hear it far and wide

The doors are quickly bolted

And the children locked inside           

 

Linkin Park

            The Little Things Give You Away

 

Artist:                                    Linkin Park

Song:                                    The Little Things Give You Away<