Give Peace a Chance

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  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug
    Give Peace a Chance

    John Lennon

    Ev'rybody's talking about
    Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
    This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.

    All we are saying is give peace a chance
    All we are saying is give peace a chance

    C'mon
    Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers,
    Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
    Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
    And bye bye, bye byes.

    All we are saying is give peace a chance

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

    One of my all time favorites.

    I have been thinking on it a lot lately.

    Wanted to share.

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    Power To The People
    John Lennon

    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people, right on

    Say you want a revolution
    We better get on right away
    Well you get on your feet
    And out on the street

    Singing power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people, right on

    A million workers working for nothing
    You better give 'em what they really own
    We got to put you down
    When we come into town

    Singing power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people, right on

    I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
    How do you treat you own woman back home
    She got to be herself
    So she can free herself

    Singing power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people, right on
    Now, now, now, now

    Oh well, power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people, right on

    Yeah, power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people, right on

    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people
    Power to the people, right on

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos-dDxpJlQ

    Closely followed by this one. I cannot sit still with this one on. I have to dance and let the music and message take over! How about you?

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug
    Bell Bottom Blues
    by Eric Clapton

    Bell bottom blues, you made me cry.
    I don't want to lose this feeling.
    And if I could choose a place to die
    It would be in your arms.

    Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
    Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
    I'd gladly do it because
    I don't want to fade away.
    Give me one more day, please.
    I don't want to fade away.
    In your heart I want to stay.

    It's all wrong, but it's all right.
    The way that you treat me baby.
    Once I was strong but I lost the fight.
    You won't find a better loser.

    Chorus

    Chorus

    Bell bottom blues, don't say goodbye.
    I'm sure we're gonna meet again,
    And if we do, don't you be surprised
    If you find me with another lover.

    Chorus

    I don't want to fade away.
    Give me one more day please.
    I don't want to fade away.
    In your heart I long to stay.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3X1uNSku-I

    I guess I should have named this songs of my youth. Ones that make my heart jump. Because here is one more. From Clapton. I think I just want to share some of my favorites with you all tonight. I cannot sleep and am looking for some of my absolutes. Favs that is.

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug
    Dire Straits
    Brothers in Arms (1985)
    Brothers in Arms

    These mist covered mountains
    Are a home now for me
    But my home is the lowlands
    And always will be
    Some day you'll return to
    Your valleys and your farms
    And you'll no longer burn
    To be brothers in arm

    Through these fields of destruction
    Baptism of fire
    I've watched all your suffering
    As the battles raged higher
    And though they did hurt me so bad
    In the fear and alarm
    You did not desert me
    My brothers in arms

    There's so many different worlds
    So many different suns
    And we have just one world
    But we live in different ones

    Now the sun's gone to hell
    And the moon's riding high
    Let me bid you farewell
    Every man has to die
    But it's written in the starlight
    And every line on your palm
    We're fools to make war
    On our brothers in arms
    More from artist :
    Dire Straits
    More from album :
    Brothers in Arms

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    Father And Son

    Cat Stevens

    Father: It's not time to make a change, just relax, take it easy,
    You're still young that's your fault, there's so much you have to know. Find a girl, settle down, if you want you can marry.
    Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.
    I was once like you were now, and I know that it's not easy
    To be calm when you've found something going on,
    But take your time, think a lot, think of everything you've got.
    For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

    Son: How can I try to explain, 'cause when I do he turns away.
    It's always the same, same old story.
    From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen,
    Now there's a way and I know I have to go.
    Away, I know, I have to go.

    Father: It's not time to make a change, just sit, take it slowly.
    You're still young, that's your fault, there's so much you have to go through.
    Find a girl, settle down, if you want you can marry.
    Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

    Son: All the times that I've cried, keeping all the things I knew inside.
    It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
    If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them they know, not me.
    Now there's a way, and I know that I have to go away,
    I know I have to go.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jek6iP6AuAQ

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    Peace Train

    Cat Stevens

    Now I've been happy lately
    Thinking about the good things to come
    And I believe it could be
    Something good has begun

    Oh I've been smiling lately
    Dreaming about the world as one
    And I believe it could be
    Some day it's going to come

    Cause out on the edge of darkness
    There rides a peace train
    Oh peace train take this country
    Come take me home again

    Now I've been smiling lately
    Thinking about the good things to come
    And I believe it could be
    Something good has begun

    Oh peace train sounding louder

    Glide on the peace train

    Come on now peace train

    Yes peace train holy roller

    Everyone jump up on the peace train

    Come on now peace train

    Get your bags together
    Go bring your good friends too
    Cause it's getting nearer
    It soon will be with you

    Now come and join the living
    It's not so far from you
    And it's getting nearer
    Soon it will all be true

    Now I've been crying lately
    Thinking about the world as it is
    Why must we go on hating
    Why can't we live in bliss

    Cause out on the edge of darkness
    There rides a peace train
    Oh peace train take this country
    Come take me home again

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wEctHyuc0

  • ringo5
    ringo5

    Now from the 80's, a young John Farnham with some great vocals and a similar theme...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99P7TTvpO1g

    You're The Voice

    We have
    The chance to turn pages over
    We can write what we want to write
    We gotta make ends meet before we get much older
    We're all someone's daughter
    We're all someone's son
    How long can we look at each other
    Down the barrel of a gun?

    You're the voice try and understand it
    Make a noise and make it clear
    Whoa oh oh
    We're not gonna live in silence
    We're not gonna live in fear
    Whoa oh oh

    This time
    We know we all can stand together
    We have the power to be powerful
    Believing we can make it better

    We're all someone's daughter
    We're all someone's son
    How long can we look at each other
    Down the barrel of a gun?

    You're the voice try and understand it
    Make a noise and make it clear
    Whoa oh oh
    We're not gonna live in silence
    We're not gonna live in fear
    Whoa oh oh

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    Ringo5

    I think you got it by George!!

    You're the voice try and understand it
    Make a noise and make it clear    Whoa oh oh
    We're not gonna live in silence
    We're not gonna live in fear    Whoa oh oh

    Ding!

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    Deep Purple

    Soldier of Fortune

    I have often told you stories
    About the way
    I lived the life of a drifter
    Waiting for the day
    When I'd take your hand
    And sing you songs
    Then maybe you would say
    Come lay with me love me
    And I would surely stay

    But I feel I'm growing older
    And the songs that I have sung
    Echo in the distance
    Like the sound
    Of a windmill goin' 'round
    I guess I'll always be
    A soldier of fortune

    Many times I've been a traveller
    I looked for something new
    In days of old
    When nights were cold
    I wandered without you
    But those days I thougt my eyes
    Had seen you standing near
    Though blindness is confusing
    It shows that you're not here

    Now I feel I'm growing older
    And the songs that I have sung
    Echo in the distance
    Like the sound
    Of a windmill goin' 'round
    I guess I'll always be
    A soldier of fortune
    Yes, I can hear the sound
    Of a windmill goin' 'round
    I guess I'll always be
    A soldier of fortune

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGHbzP96WWA

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    So here is a more current one that has caught my fancy and I am stuck on it. Day after day till it runs its course in my head.

    I hope you enjoy.

    Devotchka - How It Ends

    Hold your grandmother’s Bible to your breast.
    Gonna put it to the test.
    You want it to be blessed.
    And in your heart,
    You know it to be true,
    You know what you gotta do.
    They all depend on you.
    And you already know.
    Yeah, you already know how this will end.

    There is no escape,
    From the slave-catchers’ songs.
    For all of the loved ones gone.
    Forever’s not so long.
    And in your soul,
    They poked a million holes.
    But you never lettem show.
    C’mon it’s time to go.

    And
    You
    Already know.
    Yeah, you already know
    How this will end.

    Now you’ve seen his face.
    And you know that there’s a place,
    In the sun,
    For all that you’ve done,
    For you and your children.
    No longer shall you need.
    You always wanted to believe,
    Just ask and you’ll receive,
    Beyond your wildest dreams.

    And
    You
    Already know.
    Yeah, you already know
    How this will end.

    You already know (You already know)
    You already know (you already know)
    You already love will end

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0r9Dqk_eo

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