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Subject: Eco-songs From: GUEST,JTT Date: 28 Dec 00 - 04:16 AM Looking out at the snow beautifully covering Dublin rooves this morning I was reading my Irish Times, which says that in 1996 one US citizen was responsible for producing as many emissions as 19 Indians, 30 Pakistanis or 269 Nepalese (somebody give this man an Alka Seltzer). The US with less than 5% of the world's population, produces 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Between 1990 and 1996 its 8.8% increase in emissions amounted to more than the total combined annual emissions of Brazil and Indonesia, two of the largest developing countries - and so on. I started to try to think of songs about the greenhouse crisis, and I actually can't. The only near neighbour would be John Prine's song about Paradise. Remind me, someone. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: DonMeixner Date: 28 Dec 00 - 07:35 AM Tapestry- Don Mc Lean Whoes Garden Was This- Tom Paxton
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: GeorgeH Date: 28 Dec 00 - 10:35 AM Well as I recall "Hair" touched on this? And certainly MacColl wrote several songs BEFORE it became a topic of widespread concern. As for modern stuff - look out for the band "Seize the Day" - fine performers as well as stong eco-authors. G. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Sorcha Date: 28 Dec 00 - 10:53 AM This Pretty Planet--John McCutcheon(?) |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: DonMeixner Date: 28 Dec 00 - 11:10 AM Eco songs are all about but if you are looking for something about Oh, those dreaful greenhouse gasses, Ruin our lakes and brown our grasses. Nakes our trees unproductive leavers. And confuses even Adirondak beavers. All for the sake of high power wires and goodyear rubbers off road tires That defile the pristine mountain passes, Oh, those dreadful greenhouse gasses."
I aint seen or heard one. Don |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Sorcha Date: 28 Dec 00 - 11:18 AM See also, a song by young people thread, Has 2 good ones in it. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: harpmolly Date: 28 Dec 00 - 11:24 AM Moxy Fruvous has written quite a few songs about the environment and other political subjects, rather cleverly and humorously in my opinion. If you live in Canada or the eastern US, do try to catch them in concert--they hardly ever come to my neck of the woods, sadly. :( Moll |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Susan-Marie Date: 28 Dec 00 - 02:06 PM Bonny Portmore - a early lament about losing trees (well OK, one tree). I believe Rise Up Singing has a section on ecology - don't have it handy but I'm sure someone does and could list the titles int hat section. And then there's always the play list from the No Nukes concert - again, I don't have it handy (darn, why don't I keep my music collection here at work?) I'm sure someone else here at Mudcat has the vinyl or CD. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Bert Date: 28 Dec 00 - 02:26 PM Here's another |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: KathWestra Date: 28 Dec 00 - 02:36 PM Jean Ritchie's "Now Is the Cool of the Day" -- not specifically about greenhouse gases, but definitely about stewardship. The group Magpie (Greg Artzher and Terry Leonino), based in the Washington D.C. area, does many, many "eco" songs. Their recordings would probably be a good source for you. Their latest (about abolitionist John Brown, rather than about ecology)is reviewed in the 50th anniversary issue of Sing Out! |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: GUEST,Stefan Wirz Date: 28 Dec 00 - 03:24 PM Eric von Schmidt's 'Turtle Beach' (on '2nd Right 3rd Row' Poppy PYS-5705 1972) 'Ain't no more turtles on turtle beach ...' |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: catspaw49 Date: 28 Dec 00 - 03:51 PM "Flatulence Express" by Air Biscuit "Fuego Sunshine" by TanMaster George Hamilton "Acid Rain" by The Artist Formerly Known As Earl "Methane Blues" by Cowboy Fred and the Range Riders "Take Your Gripe and Shove It" by George W. Bush "18 Wheels and a Dozen Pollutants" by the Marshall Trucker Band "Bonfire of the Manatees" by Crystal Rivers "Smoggy Mountain Breakdown" by Bronco Ford and the Deadgrass Boys Spaw
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 00 - 04:01 PM 'spaw, it's time to increase your meds again. Or cut back on the sugar. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: NightWing Date: 28 Dec 00 - 06:27 PM I think that I shall never see I'm glad bert posted that link to the thread (about five messages up) about the Survival Songbook 'cause I couldn't remember the name of it, though I know a couple of songs from it. My mom had it when I was a kid. I wonder what happened to it.
BB, |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Ribbit Date: 28 Dec 00 - 06:48 PM "The Coming of the Road" Judy Collins |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Amergin Date: 28 Dec 00 - 06:57 PM Here's a nice little exercise in shameless self promotion |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Susan of DT Date: 29 Dec 00 - 10:37 AM A search for @environment nets you 20 hits in DigiTrad; @ecology gets a couple more. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Fedele Date: 29 Dec 00 - 12:44 PM Dubliners: they sung songs about everything you need. I suggest "What will we tell the children", and, "The Last of the Great Whales", obviously about whales, sung by them, but originally 1983 by some Andy Barnes. Also the Welsh choir Cor Cochion Caerdydd sings it (I talk about them any time I can...) |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Susanne (skw) Date: 29 Dec 00 - 05:41 PM 'Take the Children and Run' by Don Lange; 'Evacuation' by Tom Paxton, which I posted in another thread recently; 'I'm Going Back on the Bicycle' by Tommy Sands; 'It's a Wonderful Day' (for dumping our rubbish) by Harvey Andrews; 'Leave Them A Flower' by Wally Whyton; 'Message From Mother Earth' by Frankie Armstrong; 'Nimby' by Brian Bedford. Haven't checked which of them are in the DT, sorry! |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 29 Dec 00 - 06:03 PM "If a Tree Falls In The Forest" Bruce Cockburn "Stormfront" Garnet Rogers |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Barry Finn Date: 29 Dec 00 - 11:18 PM Metal Drums(I think that's the name) Patty Larkin Exxon Valdez - Geoff Bartley |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Haruo Date: 29 Dec 00 - 11:24 PM Oh, I thought you meant like lyrics intended for the Broadway musical version of Foucault's Pendulum or the Grand Opera (probably not Grand Ol' Opry) Il nome della Rosa ;-) How about Tom Lehrer's Pollution? Or (not salmon-friendly, but definitely pro-hydro-power, which was once a green source) Woody's Roll on, Columbia? Liland |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Date: 30 Dec 00 - 03:22 PM "The Coming of the Roads," was written by Billy Ed Wheeler, not Judy Collins. She recorded it, though. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Grab Date: 02 Jan 01 - 02:08 PM Jeez, how come no-one's mentioned Big Yellow Taxi? And there's any number of anti-whaling songs. I'm dead against whaling, but the songs are (mostly) so tedious that harpooning the singers would be my recommendation... Grab. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Wolfgang Date: 03 Jan 01 - 08:36 AM Shining River (E. Bogle) Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 11 Jul 02 - 12:18 AM I know it's not really a folk song, but Road to Hell-Chris Rea, is an eco protest song. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Genie Date: 11 Jul 02 - 01:53 AM Bovine Belching (David Maloney) What Have They Done To The Rain? (Malvina Reynolds) Pollution (Tom Lehrer) [again) Face The Fire (Dan Fogelberg) |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Sir Roger de Beverley Date: 11 Jul 02 - 03:30 AM Valley of Tees - Vin Garbutt R |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Sir Roger de Beverley Date: 11 Jul 02 - 03:44 AM Rod Calvert, who runs the Hensall folk venue, wrote a song a few years ago called "The Thin blue line" which has a chorus that goes: Thre's a thin blue line that covers the Earth A thin blue line for what it's worth A thin blue line that we hold so dear A thin blue line - the Atmosphere R |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Fossil Date: 11 Jul 02 - 05:23 AM "Green to Grey" - Nic Jones And, of course "Big Yellow Taxi" (thanks Grab for getting that one in!). Even if it does talk about things other than the environment - love, loss and nostalgia. I sing it occasionally and it never fails to move people. Good thread, this... |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 11 Jul 02 - 02:41 PM some of the songs I can think of have already been listed, and I haven't tried the DT. My mother had one about having to pay for air:"Can you picture it folks, there a nickel a smell, and every time you take a breath the meter will ring a bell.." I've been looking via another thread for full lyrics to Barry Moore's 'Lion in a Cage', about uranium mining, and Briege Murphy's recent song about Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant. Paradise is about strip mining - John Prine sang it at my request at a pub session a few nights ago (I was there by lucky chance)- Jean Ritchie also has a song about strip mining in Kentucky - "I ain't got much money not much of a home/I own my own land but my land's not my own ... ... there's scenes of destruction all over the land, black water, black water flows over my land." Pete Seeger has a few, including "God bless the grass that grows through the cracks/They pour the concrete over it and try to keep it back...." 'Before the Deluge' by Jackson Browne, also recorded by Moving Hearts Seán Tyrell sings a new version of the Rising of the Moon, about eco-warriors. I forget the author I heard a German pop song of early 1980s about the nuclear threat, Bezuchten Sie Europa , visit Europe as long as it lasts. Old Gaelic poems/songs often include nature imagery and lament destruction of hunting grounds. The Irish song Cill Cais is partly about the destruction of woodlands. As Fossil suggests many of the songs link concern for the environment with concern for people I believe we have had similar threads, and I may have made some of these suggestions previously. which of the songs mentioned in this thread are specifically about greenhouse gases - Thin Blue Line? (a couple are very close, about air pollution and acid rain) |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: Dave4Guild Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:52 PM I've not yet seen a mention of Tim Henderson's "Rusty old red river", which I believe has been recorded by Annie Hills. I think that this a really lovely song which deserves a wider audience, and should be sung by more people, preferably with a better singing voice than mine! |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 18 Jul 02 - 05:33 PM Recently, Julie B started a thread about incinerator songs and McGrath of Harlow gives many relevant links there. If you come the Earth songs site perhaps you'll find a global warming / greenhouse gases song or two. |
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Subject: RE: Eco-songs From: greg stephens Date: 18 Jul 02 - 05:58 PM There's the fragment on the flyleaf of the Winchester Psalter (c 870 AD) "Whaire havve alle ye mamothes gonne?" |
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