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Post by 1hooper on Feb 26, 2022 15:26:00 GMT -5
Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
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Post by 1hooper on Feb 26, 2022 15:33:39 GMT -5
Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Ooh yeah I'm gonna fade away
War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our streets today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
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Post by 1hooper on Feb 26, 2022 15:50:33 GMT -5
Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence, caused such silence
Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it's not me
It's not my family
In your head, in your head, they are fighting
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head they are crying
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Post by spiderjohn on Feb 27, 2022 12:29:43 GMT -5
female singer is Chris Whitely's daughter
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Post by tc on Mar 6, 2022 10:00:25 GMT -5
How long must we sing this song? Hopefully not forever.
Amazing that this concert was almost 40 years ago...they all look so young!
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 6, 2022 11:37:24 GMT -5
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Post by halochef on Mar 6, 2022 20:35:57 GMT -5
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 8, 2022 7:28:55 GMT -5
nice change of pace, chef....
that was an anthem of my teen years---actually hired them for a campus show
another from that era:
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 11, 2022 4:40:59 GMT -5
already the weekend
Billy Strings show tonight!
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 11, 2022 4:48:26 GMT -5
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 11, 2022 4:53:27 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 11, 2022 9:44:22 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 11, 2022 16:39:37 GMT -5
I think this was Ronnie Wood's first band. '64 or '65.
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 13, 2022 13:32:42 GMT -5
He blesses the boys as they stand in line
The smell of gun grease
And the bayonets they shine
He's there to help them all that he can
To make them feel wanted he's a good holy man
Sky pilot,
Sky pilot,
How high can you fly?
You'll never, never, never reach the sky.
He smiles at the young soldiers
Tells them it's all right
He knows of their fear in the forthcoming fight
Soon there'll be blood and many will die
Mothers and fathers back home they will cry
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 13, 2022 13:55:03 GMT -5
There's somethin' happenin' here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A-tellin' me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
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Post by shoes on Mar 13, 2022 15:45:47 GMT -5
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line
I was not caught
Though many tried
I live among you
Well-disguised
I had to leave
My life behind
I dug some graves
You'll never find
The story's told
With facts and lies
I had a name
But never mind
Never mind
Never mind
The war was lost
The treaty signed
There's truth that lives
And truth that dies
I don't know which
So never mind
Your victory
Was so complete
Some among you
Thought to keep
A record of
Our little lives
The clothes we wore
Our spoons our knives
The games of luck
Our soldiers played
The stones we cut
The songs we made
Our law of peace
Which understands
A husband leads
A wife commands
And all of these
Expressions of the
Sweet indifference
Some called love
The high indifference
Some call fate
But we had names
More intimate
Names so deep
And names so true
They're blood to me
They're dust to you
There is no need
And this survives
There's Truth that lives
And Truth that dies
Never mind
Never mind
I live the life
I left behind
There's truth that lives
And truth that dies
I don't know which
So never mind
I could not kill
The way you kill
I could not hate
I tried, I failed
You turned me in
At least you tried
You side with them whom
You despise
This was your heart
This swarm of flies
This was once your mouth
This bowl of lies
You serve them well
I'm not surprised
You're of their kin
You're of their kind
Never mind
Never mind
I had to leave my
Life behind
The story's told
With facts and lies
You own the world
So never mind
Never mind
Never mind
I live the life
I left behind
I live it full
I live it wide
Through layers of time
You can't divide
My woman's here
My children too
Their graves are safe
From ghosts like you
In places deep
With roots entwined
I live the life
I left behind
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
Across the line
I was not caught
Tho many tried
I live among you
Well-disguised
{No man can see
The vast design
Or who will be
Last of his kind}
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 18, 2022 16:47:26 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 19, 2022 9:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 19, 2022 9:48:15 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 19, 2022 9:58:53 GMT -5
All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free
Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be
There's peace in the valley, people got to be free
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 20, 2022 10:32:19 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 23, 2022 22:02:52 GMT -5
Pre weekend.
If you sang the song, the way it was written
And you march along to the beat of the drum
Someday soon, you gonna wake up singin'
Battle is over, but the war go on
Everybody plays follow the leader
What if the leader has a gun
Remember when you jumped to the eight o'clock whistle
Battle is over, but the war go on
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Post by spiderjohn on Mar 24, 2022 9:23:55 GMT -5
war transcends weekends....
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 27, 2022 10:47:58 GMT -5
Get it?
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Post by ziggy on Mar 29, 2022 18:50:03 GMT -5
Something a little different
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 31, 2022 8:49:53 GMT -5
All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old,
But there's no England now.
All the wars that were won and lost,
Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore.
All the lies we were told,
All the lies of the people running round,
Their castles have burned.
I see change,
But inside we're the same as we ever were.
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Post by shoes on Mar 31, 2022 15:23:05 GMT -5
Love the song as you might expect hoop. Saw Dave perform it live from right in front (standing only venue) on a solo tour.Dave had just released an autobiography (coincidentally he has a second one coming out soon.) Brother Ray was also doing solo tours and part of Ray's show was reading from his own (very avant garde, atypical) autobiography. Dave in a kidding tone, and I think to mock his brother, about half way through the show, said "now I'm going to read from my book." I held up my copy and he leaned over and took it from me. He opened it and after pretending to look for a passage in it, said something like "bollocks, you're all here to listen to music," and handed it back to me. After the show he autographed it for me.
Great guy and the show was fantastic with a mix of solo stuff and Kinks tunes.
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Post by 1hooper on Mar 31, 2022 16:27:48 GMT -5
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