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Charles Brewer’s Redemption Song Lyrics by Charles Brewer Can be played to the tune of Oh please don’t build the cul–de–sac. And let your streets be narrow. Won’t you help me sing Oh don’t build the gated community. Oh please don’t segregate uses. Won’t you help me sing Oh don’t be afraid of density. Don’t make me look at garage doors. Won’t you help me sing And oh ye government officials: You don’t need to rule by mandate, Won’t you help me sing |
From the Springfield, MO, group, Big Smith
http://www.bigsmithband.com/
BARREL SPRINGS
(Mark Bilyeu/Jody Bilyeu)
CHORUS:
Come forth you vandals
What were you thinkin'
Are you crazy
Or were you drinkin'
They're tearin' up the hills all around
What made you tear the Barrel Springs down
Such folly friend
Such a waste of time
You could get paid for just such a crime
There's only money
There's only fame
When you play
The vandal's game
And they're gratin' in
The Goodnight holler
To get a piece of the real estate dollar
One million years
Of the master's landscape
Gone with a pen stroke smile and a handshake
Oh me oh my it's gone it's gone it's gone
CHORUS
This is the time that land forgot
What was here
And what was not
They stay entwined
Like love and pain
My world is lost
Your world has gained
Don't worry boy
The wealth will spread quick
If you've got time sir
We'll drive to Chadwick
The earth is turned
The show is through
There's a happy man down in old Honolululu
Oh me oh my it's gone it's gone it's gone
CHORUS
QUARRY ANTHEM
(Mark Bilyeu)
CHORUS:
So sorry, but you can't put your quarry in our backyard
You can try real hard
But you can't put your quarry in our backyard
We're meetin' at the library
We're gonna fight this quarry
I hate to be contrary
But have you heard what they want to do to our backyard
What is it 'bout a man
Who sees a good piece of land
And says hey, I'm gonna blow it all to sand
Well he doesn't understand that's our backyard
CHORUS
That greedy old devil
He makes his wage in hot gravel
Let's shovel it on back to hell
Where it won't be smellin' up our backyard
That land it ain't mine
But that land ain't their mine
This land is our land
And we've gotta take a stand in our backyard
CHORUS
Lead vocal: Mark; Banjo: Bill Thomas
The No Quarry Chorale: Mark, Rik, Jay, Mike, Bill Thomas, Kirk Young, Matt Netzer
Where Do the Children Play?
by The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens
Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes.
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch on summer from a slot machine.
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything.
I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.
And you make them long, and you make them tough.
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off.
Oh, I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air.
But will you keep on building higher
'til there's no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?