Play an Earth Day song

[Inchworm]

Any Genre

Play a song about Earth, environment, habitat... etc.

Well, you know I was gonna do it :P

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Edit: Forgot Artist/song title

Neil Young - Be the Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-grY0V3RDc

Save the planet for another day
Attention shoppers.
Buy with your conscience and save.

Save the planet for another day
Save Alaska!
Let the caribou stay.

Don't care what the governments say
They're all bought
and paid for anyway.

Save the planet for another day
Hey Big Oil!
What do you say?

We were runnin' through the night
Never knowin' if we would see the light
Paranoid schizophrenic visions
Livin in fear of the wrong decisions

We got to wake up
We got to keep goin'
If they follow us
There's no way of knowin'

We got a job to do
We got to save Mother Earth


Be the ocean when it meets the sky
You can make a difference.
If you really try.

Be the magic in the Northern lights
Six Days...
Six nights.

Be the river as it rolls along
It has three-eyed fish.
And it's smellin' strong.

Be the rain you remember fallin'
Be the rain.
Be the rain.

Yeah, rain was fallin' and we're soakin' wet
Hail is beatin' down on our heads
The wind is blowin' through our hair
Faces frozen in the frigid air

We got to get there
Alaska
We got to be there
Before the big machines

We got a job to do
We got to save Mother Earth


Dream the hunter on the western plain
The birds are all gone.
Where did they go?

Dream the fisherman in his boat
He's comin' home empty.
He's barely afloat.

Dream the logger in the great northwest
They're runnin' out of trees.
They got to give it a rest.

Dream the farmer in the old heartland
Corporate greed and chemicals
are killin' the land.

Next mornin' Sun was up at dawn
She looked around and Earth was gone
Dark visions he had last night
He needed peace, he needed light.

He heard the rumble and
He saw the big machines
The green army rose
It was a bad dream

He had a job to do
He had to save Mother Earth


Be the ocean when it meets the sky
Greek freighters are dumping
crap somewhere right now.

Be the magic in the northern lights
The ice is melting!

Be the river as it rolls along
Corporate greed!
Toxic waste!

Be the river you remember flowin
Be the rain.
Be the rain.

Be the rain you remember fallin'
Be the rain.
Be the rain.

Save the Planet for another day
Be the rain.
Be the rain.
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:hippie:

[oregonjen]

1. How about this one...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDJ0kHZbNU


Earth Day, Every Day

Celebrate morning
The cry of a loon on a lake in the night
the dreams that are born in the dawns early light
Celebrate morning

Celebrate living
The laughter that sings in the heart of a child
The freedom that flies at the call of the wild
Celebrate living

Celebrate evening
The stars that appear in the loss of the sun
Whispering winds, We are one, we are one...

Celebrate earth Day, every day
Celebrate earth Day, every day
Celebrate land and sea
Celebrate you and me
Celebrate earth Day, every day

Words and music by John Denver

[Inchworm]

3. That'll sure stick in your head

hehe. Good one!

:hi:

[stuntcat]

2. The Ecology

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI
(oops, by Marvin Gaye!)

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
No, no
Where did all the blue sky go?
Poison is the wind that blows
From the north,and south, and east

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
No, no
Oil wasted on the oceans
and upon our seas,
Fish full of mercury

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
No, no
Radiation under ground and in the sky
Animals and birds who
live nearby are dying

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from
man can she stand?
My sweet Lord
My sweet Lord
My sweet Lord

[Inchworm]

4. Never thought of this song

Good eyes!..err..ears ;)

:hi:

[Mojambo]

5. "Watch it Die" - Bad Religion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUwUTUxSWA

I was born on planet earth
the rotating ball where man comes first
it's been around for a long, long time
but now it's time to watch it die

I saw a man on my big blue screen
he ruled the world economy
he said the rich would never concede
but some day soon he'll be put to sleep

I've seen the life of the forest green
and adaptations of the deep blue seas
and who knows who is the fittest
they will all soon be put to rest

On a plunging flight and we're sitting
in the pilots seat in the midst of life
people on a dark horizon praying
somebody will save their lives

I was born on planet earth
at a drastic time full of plastic mirth
and everyday I've seen increasing signs
and you would too if you'd opened your eyes
you had a chance you did not try
so now it's time to watch it die

Yeah I know, not a terribly uplifting one.

But then I'm not terribly optimistic about our chances.

[Inchworm]

7. Watch it die!

hehe. Thanks :)

:hi:

[suninvited]

6. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMEPk6fvpg


They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

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
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away that d.d.t. now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

[Inchworm]

9. I absolutly love this song

:yourock:

[Enrique]

8. Stevie Wonder

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0SEqYDPvy-A&feature=related

"Outside my window"

Much has been written about
The world and all its kind of loves
But the sweetest of them all
You seldom will find stories of, oh oh oh oh

My love lives outside my window
Clouds burst to give water
So her love can grow, oh
My love smiles to me each morning
Says she’ll never leave me and I know it’s so

You don’t have to look around
Or ask yourself if she is there
‘Cause the fragrance of her love
Says hi with every breath of air, oh oh oh oh

You will often hear her name
Describing another’s prettiness
But if ever there was choice
My flower would be the prettiest, oh oh oh oh

My love lives outside my window
Clouds burst to give water
So her love can grow, oh
My love smiles to me each morning
Says she’ll never leave me and I know it’s so

[Inchworm]

10. That a cool one

My love smiles to me each morning
Says she’ll never leave me and I know it’s so

Lets hope she don't go. That's what today is all about.

:thumbsup:

[hellbound-liberal]

11. Song for America by Kansas..A song about the rape of the New World by the colonists

You can play this for Thanksgiving too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_O3XCmIc1o

Song for America

Virgin land of forest green, dark and stormy plains,
Here all life abounds
Sunlit valley, mountain fields, unseen in the rain,
Here all life abounds
No man rules this land, no human hand has soiled this paradise
Waiting patiently, so much to see, so rich in Earth's delights

Painted desert, sequined sky, stars that fill the night,
Here all life abounds
Rivers flowing to the sea, sunshine pure and bright,
Here all life abounds
No man rules this land, no human hand has soiled this paradise
Waiting patiently, so much to see, so rich in Earth's delights

So the maiden lies in waiting for the sails to reach the shore
Land of beauty and abundance, innocent, you opened wide your door
Wanderers found the waiting treasure,
Full of gifts beyond their measure
Milk and honey for our pleasure...

Across the sea there came a multitude, sailing ships upon the wave
Filled with visions of Utopia and the freedom that they crave
Ravage, plunder, see no wonder,
Rape and kill and tear asunder
Chop the forest, plow it under...

Highways scar the mountainsides, buildings to the sky,
People all around
So we rule this land, and her we stand upon our paradise
Dreaming of a place, our weary race is ready to rise

[Inchworm]

12. Dude! That reminds me of a song

Perfect. Thanks Irk!!

:yourock:
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Eagles - Last Resort

She came from Providence,
the one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang
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 smilin'
They spoke about the red man's way,
and how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere
to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand
or 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
And they called it paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
while the town got high

Then the chilly winds blew down
Across the desert
through the canyons of the coast, to
the Malibu
Where the pretty people play,
hungry for power
to light their neon way
and give them things to do

Some rich men came and raped the land,
Nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly
boxes, and Jesus
People bought 'em
And they called it paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun,
sinking in the sea

We can leave it all behind
and sail to Lahaina
just like the missionaries
did, so many years ago
They even brought a neon
sign: "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?
'Cause 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 the name
of God

And you can see them there,
On Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about
what it's like up there
They call it paradise
I don't know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye
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:applause:

[hellbound-liberal]

13. That's one of my favorite Eagles songs. They don't get the credit they deserve for the depth

of their music. Thanks for reminding me!:toast:

[taterguy]

14. I can see the concrete slowly creeping, Lord take me and mine before that comes . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGQvKU8Iaz4

[Inchworm]

15. I was going to open with this one

In my top 3 of Skynyrd songs.

Excellent.

:yourock:
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - All i can do is write about it

Well this life that I've lead has took me everywhere
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
But its kind of like the saying that you heard so many times
Well there just ain't no plae like home
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee

And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes
Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'
Do you like to see a youngun with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin'
Well you better listen to my song
I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well you can take a boy out of ol' Dixieland
But you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy

And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes
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:applause:

[hellbound-liberal]

16. That's my all-time favorite song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. They were put on this earth to do that song!

Free Bird is a close second and Tuesday's gone would be third! I'm glad I'm not the only ne who likes it.