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| Donovan – Mellow Yellow Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[prog_rocker7:41076] The banana peel thing was a joke by Country Joe MacDonald and it stuck. It was giving people the idea to smoke them.\r\n |
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| Donovan – Mellow Yellow Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[mrs:41075]-mojo-risin when he and Gypsy Dave were roaming the coast he had a bakery in the town that used to give him "Day old Saffron Buns". That\'s according to his biography anyway! |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Find the Cost of Freedom Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[badskooter:40678] Don\'t worry about the format, this is magnificent! One Tin Soldier was one of the first 45s I owned and yes, the song "Cost of Freedom" still comes to mind so much in our lives. I did get a rare opportunity to meet and talk with Senator Tom Hayden regarding SDS days and the Chicago riot. I feel honored to have that opportunity. I knew the basics of the song from CYSN album disc set, but not the Manassas Concert, which clearly has differing lyrics! And Canticle part of Simon and Garfunkel, I sung is school (how amazing were the to even use it). Did you know that "Darkness, Darkness" (Youngblood) has helped so many returning vets experiencing PTSD? I ran across that bit of wisdom, I thought you might like to know. Peace my friend. |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Find the Cost of Freedom Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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I was surely hoping that SOMEONE might have deciphered the lyrics to Winterland (1973) live concert version, that is very long involved including the aspect of the power of bombs we now have been significantly more powerful than muskets and bayonets that were used, (pre civil war), the invention of the Gatling Guns, and so forth that Stills certainly discusses in this song about the Civil War time period.
In my estimation the song is reflecting the fact that we have fought, and fought, and fought wars without thinking. About the generations of bloodshed, the young men who have sacrificed their lives (and now just young people in general), without question. "Buried in the ground/Mother Earth will swallow you/ lay your body down" as lyrics is much the same as Don McLean's "The Grave", referencing the futility of the fact that men did die in trenches, "Don't let me die here, Cover me with the mud and the Earth/The Earth is my grave."
Forgotten often becomes the reason for the fights, and the futility of it all. Vietnam War (and many subsequent wars after) became harder to understand the reasoning for the deaths incurred, because they weren't clear wars and our involvement was much less understood. I am not going to get into the fight of the patriots, they did their best and did what was asked of them, but I was listening to this song last night and went "Wow, where did these lyrics come from!",these lyrics weren't on "Deja Vu," they certainly weren't alternative tracks I could find on the 4 cd set, or anywhere else. I have seen CSN in concert several times and they end the concert with this song, but not these lyrics! |
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