The original "World Love and Peace: Tribute to" thread is over 100 posts, so I am starting a new one.

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I like that song too, Sabra Thanks for posting the lyrics.

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Since Sucheta liked the last song I posted, I am putting it back up again here with a link to a wav file that has Ben E. King singing Stand By Me.

Enjoy Sucheta .


Sabra


Stand By Me
Ben E. King


When the night has come
and the land is dark
and the moon is the only light we'll see.

No, I won't be afraid, Oh, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

So darling, darling, stand by me
Ohhh stand by me, ohh you stand
stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall
or the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry
No, I won't shed a tear
just as long as you stand
stand by me

And darling, darling stand by me
ohhhh, stand by me, ohh stand now
stand by me, stand by me

Darling, darling stand by me
oh, stand by me, oh stand now,
stand by me, stand by me
whenever you're in trouble
won't you stand by me,
oh stand now, stand, stand by me.

Cool! Thanks Sabra for starting a new thread ,
the recently absent-minded me keeps forgetting.

Here's one of my Beatles Fav.


In My Life
Beatles, Lennon/McCartney


There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends
I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
there is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more

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We Can Work It Out
Beatles, Lennon/McCartney

Try to see it my way
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on
While you see it your way
Run the risk of knowing that or love may soon be gone
We can work it out
We can work it out

Think of what you're saying
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right
Think of what I'm saying
We can work it out and get it straight or say good night
We can work it out
We can work it out

Life is very short and there's no time
for fussing and fighting, my friend
I have always thought that it's a crime
So I will ask you once again

Try to see it my way
Only time will tell of I am right or I am wrong
While you see it your
There's a chance we might fall apart before too long
We can work it out
We can work it out

Life is very short and there's no time
for fussing and fighting, my friend
I have always thought that it's a crime
So I will ask you once again

Think of what you're saying
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right
Think of what I'm saying
We can work it out and get it straight or say good night
We can work it out
We can work it out

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Octopus's Garden
Beatles, Ringo

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade
I'd ask my friends to come and see
In an octopus's garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus's garden near a cave
We would sing and dance around
because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
We would be so happy you and me
No on e there to tell us what to do
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden with you
in an octopus's garden with you
in an octopus's garden with you

Oh, thanks a lot Sabra. How do you ever manage to get hold of all these song files?

ask Athena

Hi Suchi,

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Yes, the lyrics are so peppy, wonder what the actual song must be like

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Look what I found for you . Click on the link Rock Around the Clock and you will hear the music. It is in mp3 format, but should play in Windows Media Player. It also may take a few minutes to load. Hope you enjoy .

Let's Rock and Roll . . .


Sabra



Rock Around The Clock
Bill Haley & The Comets

One, Two, Three O'clock, Four O'clock rock,
Five, Six, Seven O'clock, Eight O'clock rock.
Nine, Ten, Eleven O'clock, Twelve O'clock rock,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.

Put your glad rags on and join me hon',
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one.

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight,
We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes two, three and four,
If the band slows down we'll yell for more.

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight,
We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.

When the chimes ring five, six, and seven,
We'll be right in seventh heaven.

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight,
We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.

When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too,
I'll be goin' strong and so will you.

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight,
We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes twelve we'll cool off then,
Start rockin' 'round the clock again.

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight,
We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.

Oh, Thank you, Sabra! I wish I could locate songs on the internet with such ease.

I'll play the song when my connection is better. I already got a couple of time-out messages.

Check out George Harrisons's Son, Dhani, 24. Got the picture from Los Angeles Times, Calendar section, Nov. 18th issue. Isn't he an amazing replica of his father? He co-produced his father's new album and to be released before the first anniversary of his father's passing.

Yep, there are some very nice pictures of him too in the new sections I was looking at a few days ago at georgeharrison.com. The eyes have it. I've already sent in my check for the offer that combines the new CD Brainwashed and a VHS tape about the making of the album. George talks about life in cycles. I'm really looking forward to receiving those. You can hear samples of the songs at the site. One of them is about being a Pisces fish.

Love,
Maria

Hi Cristina,

Thanks for posting Dhani's pic, you Beatle freak you . You are so right about the amazing replica part. It is the whole face, nose, brow, chin, and bone structure that has it more than anything. On George, the eyes are drooping on the outside corners, while Dhani's eyes are straight across . Here is a very young George:




In the meantime watch out for the Blue Meanie hanging around here . Aye Aye, captain.




Sabra

Maria, I was thinking of you when reading this article yesterday in Canada's Globe and Mail and thought you may want to read it.
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But Britain's taxman likely to collect a lot less than famous song suggests


By ALAN FREEMAN


Saturday, November 30, 2002 – Print Edition, Page A18


LONDON -- George Harrison left an estate valued at £98.9-million ($231-mil- lion), but that's before the taxman takes his share.

Britain's Inland Revenue Department, however, is likely to take a lot less than "one for you, 19 for me," which the ex-Beatle sings about in the famous song.

According to British tax law, any estate greater than £250,000 ($584,000) is taxed at a 40-per-cent rate, but accountants noted that if the beneficiary is the surviving spouse, the estate passes on tax free.

The High Court in London, which released the inheritance figure yesterday on the first anniversary of Mr. Harrison's death, did not disclose the beneficiaries of the estate but his widow, Olivia, and 25-year-old son, Dhani, along with charities are likely to figure high on the list.

As a member of the world's most successful pop-music group, the estate may seem a trifle modest, but watchers of Mr. Harrison note that he was generous with his money during his life.

As early as 1973, he set up the Material World Charitable Foundation, to which he donated royalties from most of the songs on his Living in the Material World recording.

The foundation, which has no Web site and an unlisted phone number, provides money to causes close to Mr. Harrison's heart: the arts, education, and people with special needs.

Rene van Haarlem, editor of Beatles Unlimited, a Netherlands-based fan magazine that's been around for 40 years, said that Mr. Harrison was particularly generous to the Hare Krishna religious group, to whom he donated a mansion in the English countryside, among other things.

He also supported causes around his home in Henley-on-Thames, west of London, including the local independent cinema.

Mr. van Haarlem noted that Mr. Harrison also was active in the movie business, through the firm Hand Made Films.

It scored an early hit with Monty Python's Life of Brian, but later suffered financial reverses on other projects.

Disclosure of the financial details of Mr. Harrison's will came as family and friends, including former Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, gathered at Royal Albert Hall for a memorial concert in his honour.

The Concert for George was kicked off by Eric Clapton, who appeared on the stage under a huge photo of Mr. Harrison.

"We are here to celebrate the life and music of George Harrison," he told the audience of 5,000. "It's been a very spiritual and soulful experience so I hope it comes out as good as it sounded when we rehearsed."

"It's a reflection and a celebration," Mr. Starr said. "My dear friend George died on that day. And it's a positive groove -- Olivia wanted to put it together and we all said, 'Yeah.' "

Other performers included Jeff Lynne, Jools Holland, Tom Petty and stars of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar player whose music so influenced Mr. Harrison, composed the first part of the concert.

The star-studded crowd included Sir Bob Geldof, Annie Lennox and Helena Bonham Carter.

Tickets for the show, at £150 ($350) each, sold out within an hour of being put on sale and were being resold by scalpers for as much as £700 ($1,600). Hundreds of fans gathered outside the hall to gape at the scene and in the vain hope of finding a way to get in.

Ms. Harrison said she hoped that the scalpers would donate their profits to charity. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Material World Foundation.

In a U.S. television interview on Tuesday, Ms. Harrison said that her husband had accepted his cancer. "He gave his life to God a long time ago. He wasn't trying to hang on to anything."

She said her husband had wanted to reach "a higher kind of consciousness, a higher life."

"George dedicated a lot of his life to obtain a good ending, and I don't have any doubt that he was successful."
Taxman

The George Harrison song, which was
recorded by the Beatles in 1966:

Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, 19 for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

Should 5 per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet

Taxman!
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

Don't ask me what I want it for (aah Mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more (aah Mr. Heath)
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

And you're working for no one but me
Taxman!
The Fab Fortune
Ringo Starr: $166-million
George Harrison: $231-million at the time of his death last year; his estate earned about $16-million since then from song and film royalties.
John Lennon: $625-million at the time of his death in 1980, but his estate still earns about $30-million a year from song and art royalties.
Paul McCartney: $2.4-billion

Thank you, Aries. That was really sweet of you. I saw a couple of short blurbs elsewhere, but this one was much better. Shoot, $1,600 and plane fare will get you into a mighty fine concert.

I got to see Paul in the seventies, with Wings. I was too young to drive, so my sister and her boyfriend drove me to the camp-out line for buying tickets and watched over my silly a$s so I could get tickets for myself and a friend. I think that one sold out in two hours, but we made it in. It was a good concert. Never got to see any of the others live.

Love,
Maria

Well, I'll be a phony bologna . Been a while since I heard this but I can't remember when.

Sabra

Petals
by Courtney Love

She is the angel on top of the tree
Sugar-heart here she comes
She's going to fall on me

Innocence was a fire
We told the truth
I miss the sweet boys
In the summer of their youth

Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

It will make you so...so cynical
The fire burns the flesh
Destroyed what's best and made us old

She is the grace of this world
She's too pure
For the likes of this world
This world is a whore

Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

Oh, it's all mine and
Hey, it's all mine and
Hell, it's all mine
I never knew what I could be

All the lilies bloomed and blossomed
Wilted and they're shivering
I can't stop their withering
Oh, this world is a war

Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

You know what, Sabra? You got mad at me because, in the midst of my own life I failed to mind-read that I was supposed to ask you why your feet hurt on the job. I wrote back to please go ahead and tell me, but not to punish me for failing to have known that I was supposed to ask. Immediately afterwards, to my great surprise, you began following me around insulting me, with very personal nasty insults, to which I have not responded. However, I have spoken with you when you have paused in your thrusting of daggers into me.

I did not do anything to deserve this abuse. You used to follow me around lavishing praise on me and promising I would "always" be a queen to you. Then the slightest mis-step in my kindness towards you brings on all this nasty, ridiculous, personal, private, horrible revenge from you.

And you carry it into threads about prayer and meditation and love and peace. You are in the wrong, Sabra. And you need to apologize. And you have no idea how real friends treat each other. You are hideous to your friends if they don't meet your specs.

Maria

whatever!

Should I post some things you sent me privately like you're doing to me? Or start following you around calling you names like you're doing to me? Wouldn't that be just fun? Grow up.

Maria

Come on you guys..play nice

Sabra, I dont know whats going on, but if you're being nasty behind the scenes..you will be mighty embarrassed someday, and you might come back as Marias husband or somethin...

oy vay iz mir!

COME ON PEOPLE NOW... in 2 lyric versions...

Right Now
Cheryl Wheeler, Chet Powers

Maybe it's the movies
Maybe it's the books
Maybe it's the government and all the other crooks
Maybe it's the drugs
Maybe it's the parents
Maybe it's the gangs
Or the colors that we're wearing
Maybe it's the high schools
Maybe it's the teachers
Tatoos, pipe bombs underneath the bleachers
Maybe it's the music
Maybe it's the crack
Maybe it's the bible
Or could it be the lack

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now
Right now

Okay
Maybe it's the papers
Maybe it's the family
Maybe it's the internet, radio, T.V.
Maybe it's the president
Maybe it's the last one
Maybe it's the one before that
Maybe it's the athletes
Maybe it's the ads
Maybe it's the sports fans, agents, fads
Maybe it's the homeless, aliens, immigrants
Maybe it's life
Don't tell me that it's imminent

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right Now
You gotta love one another

Maybe it's the fallout
Maybe it's the ozone
Maybe it's the chemicals, the radiation, cell phones
Maybe it's the magazines
Maybe it's the next page, the lotteries, fast food, bad pleasure, road rage
Maybe it's the unions, big business
Maybe it's the KKK, and the skinheads
Maybe it's the daughters
Maybe the the sons
Maybe it's the brothers or the mothers with the guns

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right Now

You know if we don't talk about it
It ain't gonna gonna get better
You gotta love one another
So what do you say
Let's talk
Maybe it's the arts
Maybe it's the sex
Maybe it's the talk shows
Maybe it's a reflex
Maybe it's the taxes
Maybe it's the system,
Judges, lawyers, prisons
Maybe it's the Catholics
Maybe it's the Protestents
Maybe it's the addicts,
And the hippies, and the communists
Maybe it's a fashion
Maybe it's a trend
Maybe it's the future
Maybe it's the end


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Get Together
Indigo Girls / Strange Fire

Love is but a song we sing
And fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
You may not know why

Come on people now smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Gotta love one another right now

Some may come and some may go
We will surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass yeah

Come on people now smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Gotta love one another right now

Come on people now smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Gotta love one another right now

If you hear the song we sing
You will understand
You hold the key to love and fear
Hold in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at your command

Come on people now smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Gotta love one another right now
Yeah
Come on people now smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Try to love one another right now
Try to love one another right now

Thanks Cristina! This is one of my favorite songs in the world, and has been for years. It's the second version I know, listed as Indigo Girls but first done by the Youngbloods around 1970 I think. But the first version you listed may be even more profound! I can just hear it ringing in my ears.

Love,
Greg

Hi Greg,

It's one of my favorite too. When I was looking for the lyrics, Indigo Girls
did not ring a bell, but now you mentioned Youngbloods, I remembered.
I knew it was in the 70s but couldn't remember the artist's name.
Yes, I agree with you, the first one is quite profound.

Within You Without You ../Within You Without You.mp3
by George Harrison
Recorded: March 15, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England

We were talking
about the space between us all
and people who hide themselves
behind a wall of illusion
never glimpse the truth
then it's far too late
when they pass away

We were talking
about the love we all could share
When we find it
to try our best to hold it there
with our love, with our love
we could save the world
if they only knew

Try to realize it's all within yourself
no one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you

We were talking
about the love that's gone so cold
and the people who gain the world
and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see
Are you one of them

When you've seen beyond yourself
then you may find
peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
when you see we're all one
and life flows on within you and without you

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Klaus Voorman had a harmonium in his house, which I hadn't played before. I was doodling on it, just playing to amuse myself, when "Within You" started to come. The tune came first, then I got the first sentence. It came out of what we'd been discussing that evening.

George,"Within You Without You"

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Here's to Klaus Voorman's harmonium.

...And another word or two from George...

"The problem with talking is, you know, like, the more you say the more you bury yourself. It's very difficult to express what you feel in your heart. In a song, though, because you have the addition of the music and the value of sound, it touches places that other things don't touch, and so it can stir you from a much deeper, subtle level. I try to do my music about what my experiences are." -- George Harrison


Maria

There is something lurking out there
something, a feeling in the air
Bread of shame, source of pain
Crums scattered in our brain

There is something calling out there
something, a tingle in the air
An echo reaching from afar
fading like a fallen star

There is something alive out there
something, struggling in the air
Essence of joy, for all to have
Only found in the heart

There is something waiting out there
something, for us to share
A glimps of a blessed reality
Equality, love eternally

There is something real out there
Tapping gently for us to care
Open your eyes, your heart, your soul
And Peace will reveal itself for all

It is ...

Like a kitten racing softly, swiftly,
almost unheard,
toward the loved one --
the one who is always on the way somewhere.

And twining round about, like a scrap of black velvet
blown by the wind around your feet,
Tiny furry head against one pale shin,
ribbon tail still tickling the other ankle.

Gathering all her energy now,
she presses every ounce of her tiny self
against the legs of the one,
Who scoops her up
And holds her.

Maria,

The quote from George Harrison above you posted; I think the other members of the Fab4 shared that same philosophy which is one of the many reasons (in my view) made the Beatles so great .



Sabra

The Beat Goes On
Sonny & Cher

The beat goes on, the beat goes on.
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.
La de da de de, la de da de da.

Charleston was once the rage, uh huh.
History has turned the page, uh huh.
The miniskirt's the current thing, uh huh.
Tennybopper si our newborn king, uh huh.

And the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.
La de da de de, la de da de da.

The grocery store's the supermart, uh huh.
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh.
And men still keep on marching off to war.
Electrically they keep a baseball score.

And the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.
La de da de de, la de da de da.

Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce
Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss.
The cars keep going faster all the time.
Bums still cry 'Hey buddy, have you got a dime?'

And the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.
La de da de de, la de da de da

A Hard Day's Night
Lennon & McCartney (1964)

It's been a hard day's night
And I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night
I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you
I find the thing that you do
Will make me feel all right

You know I work all day
To get money to buy you things
And it's worth if just to hear you say
You're gonna give me everything
So why I love to come home
Cos when I get you alone
You know I'll feel okay

When I'm home everything seems to be right
When I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight, yeah

It's been a hard day's night
And I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night
I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you
I find the thing that you do
Will make me feel all right
So why I love to come home
Cos when I get you alone
You know I'll feel okay

When I'm home everything seems to be right
When I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight, yeah

It's been a hard day's night
And I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night
I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you
I find the thing that you do
Will make me feel all right
You know I feel alright, you know I feel alright

Ground Control To Major Tom
David Bowie

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five,
Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....

"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."

Ahh, Bowie's Ground Control. Thanks Sabra I love that song.

My Back Pages

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crimson flames tied through my ears, throwing high and mighty traps
Countless fire and flaming road, using ideas as my maps.
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I, proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth, "Rip down all hate," I screamed.
Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed.
Romantic flanks of musketeers, foundation deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach,
fearing not I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach.
My pathway led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect,
deceived me into thinking I had something to protect.
Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Love & Peace, Connie

This one has been going around in my head all day.

ALONE AGAIN (NATURALLY)
Gilbert O'Sullivan

Within a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it's like when you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch by the church
Where people saying: "My God, that's tough
She's stood him up"
No point in us remaining
You may as well go home
Cause I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to wouldn't do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little peices
Leaving me to doubt
About God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me
And in my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

Alone again, naturally

And looking back over the years
When everyone stands and fears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to dry the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to stop with the a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally




Love, Connie

I'm repeating this from the other "World Love and Peace Tribute" thread...


Imagine
Writen by: John Lennon, © Bag productions inc.

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 isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
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 Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.


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Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Words and music by Pete Seeger, ©1961
(Renewed) Fall River Music Inc.

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?

The Merry Minuet
The Kingston Trio

They're rioting in Africa.
They're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida.
And Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans.
The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
For man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa. There's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man.

Love, Connie

Don't Cry For Me Argentina
lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

(Eva:)
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done

You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun

So I chose freedom
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

Chorus:
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired

They are illusions
They are not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

Don't cry for me Argentina

(chorus)

Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do is look at me to know
That every word is true

Madonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita Soundtrack)

Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier

Two days past eighteen
He was waitin' for the bus in his army greens
Sat down in a booth at a café there
Gave his order to the girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gave him a smile
So he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
And talkin' to me I'm feelin' a little low
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
I've got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?

CHORUS:
I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's coming home

So the letters came
From an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told his heart
It might be love
And all of the things he was so scared of
Said when it's gettin kinda tough over here
I think about that day sittin' down at the pier
And close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Now don't worry but I won't be able to write for a while

CHORUS:
I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's coming home

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For the list of local Vietnam dead
Cryin' all alone under the stands
Was the piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and no one really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

CHORUS
I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's coming home

Love and Peace, Connie