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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 04:54 PM
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Best environmental protest song?
I like Pink Floyd's Take It Back
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 04:55 PM
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1. Tom Lehrer's Pollution
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chickenscratching Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 04:58 PM
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2. joni mitchell-put up a parking lot n/t
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 05:40 PM
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7. Yep - Big Yellow Taxi
definitely
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 04:58 PM
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3. Some Native American rap I listened to on Winamp Streaming Radio
one day. They're really pissed.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 04:59 PM
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4. Paradise - John Prine
Paradise
John Prine

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Repeat Chorus:

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

Repeat Chorus:
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oregonjen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 05:16 PM
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5. I had to pull out John Denver's Rocky Mountain High record
to hear that song again. He sang a lot of John Prine's songs through the years. :hi:
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 05:38 PM
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6. Wow, folks -- these choices are great so far. Can I throw in --
-- "Gaia" from James Taylor's HOURGLASS album?
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 05:43 PM
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8. "The Air" from "Hair".
Not the usual Andrew Lloyd Webber drivel.
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