This song was written when the environmental movement was in its infancy. Back in the 1960's we were still dumping raw sewage and industrial waste straight into the Great Lakes, etc. This song is an environmental protest song... akin to Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" (they paved paradise and put up a parking lot!).
@RayMan This was easier to understand. It came out at about the time there was an oil spill in San Francisco. It got quite a few people to volunteer to clean birds.
@RayMan This was easier to understand. It came out at about the time there was an oil spill in San Francisco. It got quite a few people to volunteer to clean birds.
This song was written when the environmental movement was in its infancy. Back in the 1960's we were still dumping raw sewage and industrial waste straight into the Great Lakes, etc. This song is an environmental protest song... akin to Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" (they paved paradise and put up a parking lot!).
@RayMan This was easier to understand. It came out at about the time there was an oil spill in San Francisco. It got quite a few people to volunteer to clean birds.
@RayMan This was easier to understand. It came out at about the time there was an oil spill in San Francisco. It got quite a few people to volunteer to clean birds.