Noel Paul Stookey - Give a Damn текст песни

Текст песни Give a Damn - Noel Paul Stookey



You remember the song called "Give a Damn"
Some group sang last summer?
About people livin' with rats and things
The paper couldn't cover?
Well, it wasn't very popular
Nobody wanted to hear
And that's a shame 'cause a pretty tune
Was just what we needed that year
The first thing nobody wanted to hear
Was "damn" - that was on the label
I mean it's okay if you just read it there
But you didn't bring it up at the table
So the radio didn't play the song
Except on the FM stations
Until some looter worked his way
Down to the United Nations
Then word got around that there's this song
All about the riots and stuff
So, they played "Give A Damn" on the noon report
Just once, but that was enough
Some cameraman with groovy footage
Of glowing embers and charred remains
Put the pictures with the song on the six o'clock news
Following the baseball game
Then everybody said it was a real fine song
"Why didn't we hear it before?
Let's all blame the radio stations
For bringing on the domestic war
Oh sure, we'd seen some articles
We knew some people needed help
But social workers take care of that
I mean, why give a damn yourself?"
Well, the reason that you didn't
And the reason that you won't
Is you think you got a lot to lose
And the other fella don't
Oh you give a damn, well so does he
'You think the rest of us are just fakin'?
I mean what do you need that you got to give
Less than what you're takin'?
Where could you go?
Who could you see?
What could you do the best?
The book is in your left hand
Your right hand knows the address
Address your questions, address your money
Address your telephone number
But above all else, please address yourself
To give a damn this summer



Авторы: Noel Paul Stookey


Noel Paul Stookey - The Solo Recordings (1971-1972)
Альбом The Solo Recordings (1971-1972)
дата релиза
18-11-2008

1 River Of Jordan
2 Mary Beth
3 Goodbye Josh
4 Take Off Your Mask
5 Wings of Time
6 Don't Ever Take Away My Freedom
7 Side Road
8 Tall Pine Trees
9 Greenwood
10 Beautiful City
11 Plato's Song
12 Weave Me The Sunshine
13 Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues
14 Been on the Road Too Long
15 Hey Sad Sack
16 Wedding Song (There Is Love)
17 Meanings Will Change
18 Give a Damn
19 Sebastian
20 Lucy
21 Ju Les Ver Negre En Che Ese [Ed's Tune]
22 Tiger
23 Tender Hands
24 John Henry Bosworth
25 The Song Is Love
26 I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado
27 Children One and All
28 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
29 I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)
30 Erika with the Windy Yellow Hair
31 Rhymes and Reasons
32 Follow Me
33 On the Path of Glory (La Colline au Whisky)
34 Circus
35 Song for the Asking
36 Indian Sunset




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