• Amity
    5.3k
    Also, surprisingly there are lyrics buried in the song.

    “The best thing about life is knowing you put it together.”
    Pinprick

    Buried too deep for me, I'm afraid. Where are they supposed to be ?

    I read in one of the earlier posts that: 'the deepest tunes have no lyrics'.
    It reminded me of a conversation I had with someone who didn't see the point of poetry.
    Most of the songs he enjoyed were instrumental.
    However, he remembered one with lyrics which moved him.
    'Goodnight Saigon' - Billy Joel
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzjhl-QztE

    We met as soul mates
    On Parris Island
    We left as inmates
    From an asylum
    And we were sharp
    As sharp as knives
    And we were so gung ho
    To lay down our lives

    We came in spastic
    Like tameless horses
    We left in plastic
    As numbered corpses
    And we learned fast
    To travel light
    Our arms were heavy
    But our bellies were tight

    We had no home front
    We had no soft soap
    They sent us Playboy
    They gave us Bob Hope
    We dug in deep
    And shot on sight
    And prayed to Jesus Christ
    With all of our might

    We had no cameras
    To shoot the landscape
    We passed the hash pipe
    And played our Doors tapes
    And it was dark
    So dark at night
    And we held on to each other
    Like brother to brother
    We promised our mothers we'd write
    And we would all go down together
    We said we'd all go down together
    Yes we would all go down together

    Remember Charlie
    Remember Baker
    They left their childhood
    On every acre
    And who was wrong?
    And who was right?
    It didn't matter in the thick of the fight

    We held the day
    In the palm
    Of our hand
    They ruled the night
    And the night
    Seemed to last as long as six weeks
    On Parris Island

    We held the coastline
    They held the highlands
    And they were sharp
    As sharp as knives
    They heard the hum of our motors
    They counted the rotors
    And waited for us to arrive
    And we would all go down together
    We said we'd all go down together
    Yes we would all go down together

    Songwriters: Billy Joel
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch

    What is that if not poetry ?
    It's another way to connect...
  • Amity
    5.3k
    'I'll Stand By You' - Chrissie Hynde ( live with orchestra )

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yyb2RX0hii8

    Oh, why you look so sad?
    Tears are in your eyes
    Come on and come to me now
    Don't be ashamed to cry
    Let me see you through

    'Cause I've seen the dark side too
    When the night falls on you
    You don't know what to do
    Nothing you confess
    Could make me love you less

    I'll stand by you
    I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you

    So if you're mad, get mad
    Don't hold it all inside
    Come on and talk to me now
    Hey, what you got to hide?
    I get angry too

    Well I'm a lot like you
    When you're standing at the crossroads
    And don't know which path to choose
    Let me come along
    'Cause even if you're wrong

    I'll stand by you
    I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you
    Take me in, into your darkest hour
    And I'll never desert you
    I'll stand by you

    And when
    When the night falls on you, baby
    You're feeling all alone
    You won't be on your own

    I'll stand by you
    I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you

    I'll stand by you
    Take me in, into your darkest hour
    And I'll never desert you
    I'll stand by you
    I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you
    I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you
    Take me in, into your darkest hour
    And I'll never desert you
    I'll stand by you

    Source: LyricFind
    Songwriters: Thomas Kelly / Christine Hynde / Billy Steinberg
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k


    Slip slidin' away
    Slip slidin' away
    You know the nearer your destination
    The more you're slip slidin' away

    I know a man
    He came from my home town
    He wore his passion for his woman
    Like a thorny crown
    He said Delores
    I live in fear
    My love for you's so overpowering
    I'm afraid that I will disappear

    Slip slidin' away
    Slip slidin' away
    You know the nearer your destination
    The more you're slip slidin' away

    I know a woman
    Became a wife
    These are the very words she uses
    To describe her life
    She said a good day
    Ain't got no rain
    She said a bad day's when I lie in bed
    And think of things that might have been

    Slip slidin' away
    Slip slidin' away
    You know the nearer your destination
    The more you're slip slidin' away

    And I know a father
    Who had a son
    He longed to tell him all the reasons
    For the things he'd done
    He came a long way
    Just to explain
    He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
    Then he turned around and headed home again

    He's slip slidin'
    Slip slidin' away
    You know the nearer your destination
    The more you're slip slidin' away


    God only knows
    God makes his plan
    The information's unavailable
    To the mortal man
    We work our jobs
    Collect our pay
    Believe we're gliding down the highway
    When in fact we're slip slidin' away


    Slip slidin' away
    Slip slidin' away
    You know the nearer your destination
    The more you're slip slidin' away

    Slip slidin' away
    Slip slidin' away
    You know the nearer your destination
    The more you're slip slidin' away

    "Slip Slidin' Away" (4:43)
    Greatest Hits, etc, 1977
    Paul Simon
  • Amity
    5.3k

    I heard that song a lifetime ago but never really listened to it until now.
    So good.
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    [ Olivier5 - hope this is OK and not too much off topic ? ]Amity

    No problem, death is a philosophical topic.

    I have thought about it but haven"t found a good idea yet.
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Thanks for Paul Simon's Slip Slidin' Away. Ain't that the truth.


    One day my father came home with a new LP by this guy called Bob Dylan. This wouldn't happen often, so we all listened to it. There was this song in it which spoke to me, more than the others, and since the lyrics were in the LP, I tried to understand them, putting my very poor English to use.

    It was a long story, like a novel, but it was not a novel.



    Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
    Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
    She sees a bartender in a pool of blood
    Cries out my God, they killed them all

    Here comes the story of the Hurricane
    The man the authorities came to blame
    For somethin' that he never done
    Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
    The champion of the world

    Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
    And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously
    I didn't do it, he says, and he throws up his hands
    I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand
    I saw them leavin', he says, and he stops
    One of us had better call up the cops
    And so Patty calls the cops
    And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
    In the hot New Jersey night

    Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
    Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around
    Number one contender for the middleweight crown
    Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
    When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
    Just like the time before and the time before that
    In Paterson that's just the way things go
    If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
    'Less you want to draw the heat

    Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
    Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
    He said, I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
    They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates
    And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
    Cop said, wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead
    So they took him to the infirmary
    And though this man could hardly see
    They told him that he could identify the guilty men
    Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in
    They took him to the hospital and they brought him upstairs
    The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
    Says, wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!

    Here's the story of the Hurricane
    The man the authorities came to blame
    For somethin' that he never done
    Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
    The champion of the world

    Four months later, the ghettos are in flame
    Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
    While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
    And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame
    Remember that murder that happened in a bar
    Remember you said you saw the getaway car
    You think you'd like to play ball with the law
    Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night
    Don't forget that you are white

    Arthur Dexter Bradley said I'm really not sure
    The cops said a poor boy like you could use a break
    We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
    You don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow
    You'll be doin' society a favor
    That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver
    We want to put his ass in stir
    We want to pin this triple murder on him
    He ain't no Gentleman Jim

    Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
    But he never did like to talk about it all that much
    It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
    And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
    Up to some paradise
    Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
    And ride a horse along a trail
    But then they took him to the jailhouse
    Where they try to turn a man into a mouse
    All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
    The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance
    The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
    To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
    And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
    No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
    And though they could not produce the gun
    The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
    And the all-white jury agreed

    Rubin Carter was falsely tried
    The crime was murder one, guess who testified
    Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
    And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride
    How can the life of such a man
    Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
    To see him obviously framed
    Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
    Where justice is a game
    Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
    Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
    While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
    An innocent man in a living hell

    That's the story of the Hurricane
    But it won't be over till they clear his name
    And give him back the time he's done
    Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
    The champion of the world


  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    :cool: He's overrated (fuck that Nobel Prize) but "Hurricane" is cool.
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    overrated180 Proof

    I don't know Dylan enough to comment. I mean, I did listen to other albums but never "clicked". Rolling Stone is a good text.
  • Amity
    5.3k
    'If I Had a Hammer' - Peter, Paul and Mary (in 1963)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWTDcP9Y5E

    I had no idea that this song was so controversial... until I read it this morning:

    [The right-wing magazine] 'Counterattack' and the FBI succeeded in blacklisting the Weavers, but If I Had A Hammer was unconquerable. The song had a specific radical message in 1952; when Seeger suggested the Weavers perform it on bookings, one of them answered, "Oh no. We can't get away with anything like that."

    "Why was it controversial?" Pete reflected. "In 1949 only 'Commies' used words like 'peace' and 'freedom'. ... The message was that we have got tools and that we are going to succeed. This is what a lot of spirituals say. We will overcome. I have a hammer. [...] No one could take these away." The Weavers never had the opportunity to make a hit of this - that honor fell to Peter, Paul and Mary - but they had the satisfaction of seeing that no edict and no committee could kill [the] song. (Dunaway, Seeger 157)

    [1989:] It was becoming dangerous to be a performer if you were suspected of having left-wing views, and the following year Seeger and [Paul] Robeson faced their most dangerous concert of all. The venue was Peekskill, New York State, where on 4 September 1949 they both appeared at an outdoor show that turned into one of the most terrifying and violent events in the history of pop music.

    http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/i/ifihhamm.html

    f I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning
    I'd hammer in the evening all over this land
    I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out warning
    I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
    All over this land

    If I had a bell I'd ring it in the morning
    I'd ring it in the evening all over this land
    I'd ring our danger, I'd ring out warning
    I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters
    All over this land

    If I had a song I'd sing it in the morning
    I'd sing it in the evening all over this land
    I'd sing out danger, I'd sing out warning
    I'd sing out love between my sisters and my brothers
    All over this land

    When I've got a hammer, and I've got a bell
    And I've got a song to sing all over this land
    It's a hammer of justice, it's a bell of freedom
    It's a song about love between my brothers and my sisters
    All over this land

    (as sung by Peter Paul & Mary)
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    :up:



    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.
    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.

    Old man look at my life,
    Twenty four
    and there's so much more
    Live alone in a paradise
    That makes me think of two.

    Love lost, such a cost,
    Give me things
    that don't get lost.
    Like a coin that won't get tossed
    Rolling home to you.

    Old man take a look at my life
    I'm a lot like you
    I need someone to love me
    the whole day through
    Ah, one look in my eyes
    and you can tell that's true.

    Lullabies, look in your eyes,
    Run around the same old town.
    Doesn't mean that much to me
    To mean that much to you.

    I've been first and last
    Look at how the time goes past.
    But I'm all alone at last.
    Rolling home to you.

    Old man take a look at my life
    I'm a lot like you
    I need someone to love me
    the whole day through
    Ah, one look in my eyes
    and you can tell that's true.

    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.
    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.

    "Old Man" (4:08)
    Live At Massey Hall, 1971
    Neil Young

    NB: Only recently did I realize how this soulful, old song had seeped into my bones decades ago and then in years since would spark these speculations on my/our many-tensed selves ...
    I'd become conditioned, I guess, to conceive of 'my self' in different tenses (i.e. a non-unitary past self – present self – future self simultaneously) ...180 Proof
    Based on inherent vulnerability to consequent harms, how can a future self [FuS] be judged not to have standing on, or claim to, the moral concern (i.e. judgments and conduct) of its past self [PaS] which includes most proximately the present self [PrS]? In the same sense that a future self [FuS] is always at risk of e.g. lung cancer caused by its past self's [PaS]'s cigarette habit, a claim on the present self's [PrS]'s agency (especially when foreseeable) functions as a tradeoff - cautionary -  constraint on judgments (i.e. preferences, priorities ...) and conduct (i.e. practices, relationships ...) vis-à-vis health. Is concern for 'moral health', so to speak, really any different?180 Proof
    We only need to consider that persons have (asymmetrically) 'temporal parts', so to speak, which are simultaneously anterior and posterior (except at both ends) much like the stages of development - infant, toddler, child, adolescent, young adult, middle age adult, elder adult - none of which are "the same person" only bearers of a shared continuity of memories, relationships and embodied perspective (vide Parfit ...)180 Proof

    ... and driven to ask – rather than "what is the good life?" or "what is the meaning of life?" – What kind of ancestor (past self of future selves) will you be? In what ways today are you striving to be a 'less harmful' past self to your future self/selves (i.e. future peoples)? which invokes the Great Law of the Iroquois 'seven generations' thinking... Thus, there really are no "others", just
    You and the You next to You — Berlin church poster, c1980
  • Amity
    5.3k

    That is such an amazing post. I love it :starstruck:

    A profound song from an unusual perspective. Usually, it's from the old to the young, saying I'm a lot like you were. You too will get old !

    There's a poem 'What do you see, Nurse ?' to a young nurse from an older patient. And the response from a nurse.
    https://thenerdynurse.com/poetic-exchange-between-a-patient-and-nurse/

    It starts with:
    What do you see, nurse, what do you see?
    What are you thinking when you’re looking at me?
    A crabby old woman, not very wise,
    Uncertain of habit, with far away eyes.

    Who dribbles her food and makes no reply
    When you say in a loud voice, “I do wish you’d try?”
    Who seems not to notice the things that you do,
    And forever is losing a stocking or shoe..

    Later...
    But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,
    And now and again my battered heart swells.
    I remember the joys, I remember the pain,
    And I’m loving and living life over again...

    Only recently did I realize how this soulful, old song had seeped into my bones decades ago and then in years since would spark these speculations on my/our many-tensed selves ...180 Proof

    I too am coming to a later realisation of the meaning of songs.
    It is beautiful to be able to do this...and share :sparkle:
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    Yeah. The poem reminds me of my mother who I remember in immaculate hospital white with her youthful figure, who is now a comfortable, still healthy, great-grandmother of 78 and retired nurse. Thanks. :flower:
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    If you search for tenderness
    It isn't hard to find
    You can have the love you need to live
    But if you look for truthfulness
    You might just as well be blind
    It always seems to be so hard to give

    Honesty is such a lonely word
    Everyone is so untrue
    Honesty is hardly ever heard
    And mostly what I need from you

    I can always find someone
    To say they sympathize
    If I wear my heart out on my sleeve
    But I don't want some pretty face
    To tell me pretty lies
    All I want is someone to believe

    Honesty etc.

    I can find a lover
    I can find a friend
    I can have security until the bitter end
    Anyone can comfort me
    With promises again
    I know, I know
    When I'm deep inside of me
    Don't be too concerned
    I won't ask for nothin' while I'm gone
    But when I want sincerity
    Tell me where else can I turn
    'Cause you're the one I depend upon

  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    :up:

    *



    Joseph's face was black as night
    The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
    His path was marked
    By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
    And he walked his days
    Under African skies

    This is the story of how we begin to remember
    This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein

    After the dream of falling and calling your name out
    These are the roots of rhythm
    And the roots of rhythm remain


    In early memory
    Mission music
    Was ringing 'round my nursery door
    I said take this child, Lord
    From Tucson Arizona
    Give her the wings to fly through harmony
    And she won't bother you no more

    This is the story of how we begin to remember
    This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein

    After the dream of falling and calling your name out
    These are the roots of rhythm
    And the roots of rhythm remain


    Joseph's face was black as night
    And the pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
    His path was marked
    By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
    And he walked the length of his days
    Under African skies

    "Under African Skies" (3:37)
    Graceland, 1986
    performed by Paul Simon (writer), with Linda Ronstadt
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    I'm pretty sure Nelson, Lefty & Charlie passed the audition. :clap:
  • Amity
    5.3k

    Pretty sure :cool:

    I hadn't a clue who you were talking about so I did my usual.
    Found this:
    https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-billion-dollar-quintet/

    I just love the story of how the individual great talents came together to form the Traveling Wilburys.
    Also, how they combined to create a song like 'Handle With Care'. There's even a wiki article on that !
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    I'm pretty sure Nelson, Lefty & Charlie passed the audition. :clap:180 Proof

    They can play, as jazz cats used to say.
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    If we talk of Africa, we got to let the Africans talk, no?


    Ahmadou, K'naan
    The original East Coast-West Coast collaboration
    Rock in

    Oh! Mes amis, on ne choisit pas son destin
    Les jours se ressemblent mais ne sont pas les mêmes
    Les doigts de la main ne sont pas tous égaux
    Dans ce monde, on est complémentaire

    Now you can show me everything that you know
    I wanna travel, let me into your curves

    En Afrique, il y a la canicule
    Il y a le soleil. Il y a la chaleur humaine
    Il y a le soleil, la joie de vivre
    Il y a le soleil, on est tous ensemble

    I'm going up and down
    Oh baby round and round

    Africa! Africa! Africa!
    Solidarité !
    Africa! Africa! Africa!
    C'est la joie de vivre

    Tell them again
    Here we go...

    Il y a des pays où, c'est la neige
    Il y a des pays, c'est la canicule
    Il y a des pays où, c'est les tempêtes
    Il y a des pays où, c'est des îles
    Dans ce monde, on est complémentaire

    It's just jealousy
    Everything for you and me
    You ready? Here we go.

    I got my feet, I'm jumping high off the wall
    I got my heart, I aint afraid of the fall
    I got my duffel bag that daddy packed for me
    I got my ear so I hear when you call
    I don't need eyes just to see you look good
    You always did, but they misunderstood

    I'm goin' up and down
    And baby round and round
    I wanna touch you down the river below
    And then I'll kiss you from your head to your toe
    You take me so high up, and then you let me down

    Africa! Africa! Africa!
    Solidarité !
    Africa! Africa! Africa!
    C'est la joie de vivre

    En Afrique, il n'y a pas que la guerre
    En Afrique, il n'y a pas que la famine
    En Afrique, il y a la solidarité
    Il y a les parents, il y a aussi les frères
    Il y a les soeurs, il y a aussi les cousins
    Il y a les amis, il y a aussi la famille
    La communauté, on est tous ensemble
    En Afrique, il y a la joie de vivre

    Africa! etc.

  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    "... matter of fact, it's all dark."



    And I am not frightened of dying
    Any time will do,
    I don't mind.
    Why should I be frightened of dying?
    There's no reason for it,
    You've gotta go sometime.

    I never said I was frightened of dying.

    "The Great Gig in the Sky" (4:47)
    The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973
    performed by Pink Floyd, with Clare Torry
    lyrics by Roger Waters

    *



    Breathe, breathe in the air
    Don't be afraid to care
    Leave, don't leave me
    Look around, choose your own ground

    Long you live and high you fly
    Smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry

    And all you touch and all you see
    Is all your life will ever be


    Run, rabbit, run
    Dig that hole, forget the sun
    When at last the work is done
    Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one

    Long you live and high you fly
    But only if you ride the tide
    Balanced on the biggest wave
    Race towards an early grave

    "Speak to Me" (1:13)
    "Breathe" (2:47)
    "On The Run" (3:36)
    The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973
    performed by Pink Floyd
    lyrics by Roger Waters

    "Well I mean, they're not gonna kill ya, so like, if you give 'em a quick sh ... short, sharp shock, they don't do it again. Dig it? ..."
  • Amity
    5.3k
    'The Sound of Silence' - Simon & Garfunkel (from The Concert in Central Park)

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NAEppFUWLfc
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    :fire:

    A few days after my birthday, I was a college freshman, a girl took me to this concert in Central Park (my first outdoor show?) since we were both native New Yorkers like S&G. I hazily recall a wild night bar-hopping afterwards in the East Village late late into the wee hours, and then ... Anyway, decades on, I've listened to recordings of that show only a couple of times, I think, just to hear what I'd missed that evening way back in the crowd blissfully stoned with a girl.

    ... And the people bowed and prayed
    To the neon god they made
    And the sign flashed out its warning
    In the words that it was forming
    And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets
    Are written on the subway walls
    And tenement halls
    And whispered in the sounds of silence.'
  • Amity
    5.3k
    just to hear what I'd missed that evening way back in the crowd blissfully stoned with a girl.180 Proof

    :smile:
    You are so bringing back memories of youth, I could almost cry.
    For me, twas mere alcohol or cannabis that led me astray :love:

    'Dreamer' - Supertramp (with lyrics)

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SD1MJRXnZfE
  • Pinprick
    950
    Buried too deep for me, I'm afraid. Where are they supposed to be ?Amity

    Sorry for the late reply, but if you’re truly interested, the best way is to use headphones, but only use the left side. It’s easiest to hear at the very beginning, but supposedly loops throughout the song.
  • Pinprick
    950
    Original by Bruce Springsteen



    [Verse 1]
    Man walks along the railroad track
    He's goin' some place and there's no turnin' back
    The Highway Patrol chopper comin' up over the ridge
    Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge
    The shelter line stretchin' around the corner
    Welcome to the New World Order
    Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest
    No job, no home, no peace, no rest, no rest

    [Chorus]
    And the highway is alive tonight
    Nobody's foolin' nobody as to where it goes
    I'm sitting down here in a campfire light
    Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

    [Verse 2]
    He pulls his prayer book out of a sleepin' bag
    The preacher lights up a bud and takes a drag
    He's waitin' for the time when the "last shall be first, and the first shall be last"
    In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
    With a one-way ticket to the promised land
    With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
    Lookin' for a pillow of solid rock
    Bathin' in the city's aqueducts

    [Chorus]
    And the highway is alive tonight
    Nobody's foolin' nobody as to where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad

    [Verse]
    Now Tom said
    "Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin' a guy
    Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
    Wherever there's a fight against blood and hatred in the air
    Look for me, Ma, I'll be there
    Wherever somebody's strugglin' for a place to stand
    For a decent job or a helpin' hand
    Wherever somebody is strugglin' to be free
    Look in their eyes, Ma, you'll see me
    You'll see me
    You'll see me
    You'll see me
    You'll see me
    You'll see me
    You'll see me
    You'll see me
    You'll see me

    [Chorus]
    And the highway is alive tonight
    Nobody's foolin' nobody as to where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of Tom Joad
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    'Fine Friends' - Lesley Duncan from her album Moonbathing (1975)

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJ8H0hb_PM

    When the walls that divide us have crumbled
    And there's no game to win,
    When the tides run it's course
    And we've tumbled
    To the feelings within,
    Then you know we'll be- very fine friends.

    When there's no gain or loss to be treasured
    And we stand in the sun,
    Then we'll know that true love
    Can't be measured,
    There s no prize to be won
    And then we'll be free to blend
    Into very fine friends.

    When the time comes to give to each other
    As we surely Know it will,
    You could be my teacher or my lover,
    Take the cup and drink your fill
    And you always will be,
    Cherished by me.
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    'Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon: How one band turned a tale of death, madness and disillusionment into one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.'

    https://www.loudersound.com/features/50-years-of-pink-floyd-the-making-of-dark-side-of-the-moon-1971-197

    Lesley Duncan played a small part in this.

    Sporadic sessions were held in Abbey Road during October, during the first of which Dick Parry, an old friend of the band’s from Cambridge, overdubbed sax solos to Money and Us And Them.

    Later in the month a quartet of female session vocalists – Doris Troy, Lesley Duncan, Liza Strike and Barry St John – were brought in to embellish Us And Them, Brain Damage and Eclipse.

    "They weren’t very friendly," said Duncan looking back. "They were cold, rather clinical. They didn’t emanate any kind of warmth… They just said what they wanted and we did it… There were no smiles. We were all quite relieved to get out."

    'Us and Them' - Pink Floyd

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbeqj-1XOo

    Us (us, us, us, us) and them (them, them, them, them)
    And after all we're only ordinary men
    Me
    And you (you, you, you)
    God only knows
    It's not what we would choose (choose, choose) to do (to do, to do)
    Forward he cried from the rear
    And the front rank died
    And the general sat
    And the lines on the map
    Moved from side to side
    Black (black, black, black)
    And blue (blue, blue)
    And who knows which is which and who is who
    Up (up, up, up, up)
    And down (down, down, down, down)
    And in the end it's only round 'n round (round, round, round)
    Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
    The poster bearer cried
    "Listen son", said the man with the gun
    There's room for you inside

    "I mean, they're not gonna kill ya
    So if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock
    They won't do it…

    Source: LyricFind
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    :up:
    Might give it a go...later...
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