If I had a Hammer.

[sheshe2]

Every sound of the hammer is one more nail in trumps coffin as Biden's Inaugural podium is being built in front on his eyes.

It's the hammer of Justice,
It's the bell of Freedom,
It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.


“If I Had a Hammer” was written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949 as an anthem for many progressive concerns of the day and most specifically the Labor Movement. The song features images of blue-collar workers (hammers and bells to suggest factories, etc.) as a rallying call for justice and equality.
Composer: Pete Seeger, Lee Hays
Form: Anthem

The words tell a story again today:

If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this land

I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.

If I had a bell,
I'd ring it in the morning,
I'd ring it in the evening,
All over this land

I'd ring out danger,
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.

If I had a song,
I'd sing it in the morning,
I'd sing it in the evening,
All over this land

I'd sing out danger,
I'd sing out a warning
I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.

Well I got a hammer,
And I got a bell,
And I got a song to sing, all over this land.

It's the hammer of Justice,
It's the bell of Freedom,
It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.

It's the hammer of Justice,
It's the bell of Freedom,
It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.

(Seeger/Hayes- Ludlow Music Corp. - BMI)









Outside Trump's bedroom window is the sound of building: hammers, drills, trucks.Construction of the parade platform for Biden's inauguration festivities is well underway. The viewing stand and bleachers are almost complete — and all within Trump's view.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/politics/inauguration-day-2021-biden/index.html

Sweet Justice.

[musette_sf]

1. K&R

getting ready for the

[sheshe2]

5. Me as well, musette.

[msongs]

2. together they made such a beautiful sound. so clean and respectful nt

[luvtheGWN]

23. Music is the finest art.

Music fills our soul, stays permanently in our memories and ignites every possible emotion we humans have.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. My parents used to take me to hootenannys and this was a song that I

remember word for word from those days when I could barely walk, long ago. Great memories of far happier times. Thanks for sharing this sheshe2.

❤ lmsp

[DonaldsRump]

4. Wonderful all-time great song. Thanks for posting. n/t

[sheshe2]

6. It is.

I do love your countdown.

[spanone]

7. ....K&R....

Saw Peter Paul & Mary live three times
Such a powerful group.
2 acoustic guitars & a bass player
AWESOME

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. From trumPutin's point of view, Poe might be more appropriate than Pete

Hear the tolling of the bells—
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people—ah, the people—
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All alone,
And who tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone—
They are neither man nor woman—
They are neither brute nor human—
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A pæan from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the pæan of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the pæan of the bells—
Of the bells:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells—
Of the bells, bells, bells—
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells—
Of the bells, bells, bells—
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—
Bells, bells, bells—
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

[burrowowl]

15. Our Mother used to read Poe's poems to us, great memories.

[Talitha]

9. Um... that's a picture of the Capitol Building, not the White House.

Can BunkerBoy see and hear the construction of Biden's Inaugural podium all the way from the White House? I've never been to D.C. but from what I could tell on Google maps, it looks like the Capitol Building is out of sight and out of earshot from BunkerBoy. Or are they closer than they seem?

[BigmanPigman]

13. Good point.

[madamesilverspurs]

10. LOVE it!

And it's the song that came immediately to mind when they showed Nancy Pelosi, wielding that huge gavel (aka hammer), leading the crowd into the Capitol to get the ACA done.

Way back in the day I was part of a group that performed PP&M songs; in '96, just before our 30th class reunion, we gathered to hear them in person. Through a stroke of cosmic blessing we were able to go backstage afterwards and had a delightful conversation with Peter Yarrow; the photo of that meeting still adorns my living room wall. Mary Travers' passing was the only time I've ever cried over a celebrity's death, probably because she and the guys were so much more than mere entertainers. Anyway, I still love listening to them and sometimes play them on the interwebs while working; but for pure nostalgia, nothing comes close to those old vinyls with all their scritches and scratches. It was a time.


.

[sheshe2]

12. So beautiful for you.

They and others shaped my life as well, though I never met them.

[question everything]

11. Oh, what a wonderful image and the song to go with it

Thank you for posting

[George II]

14. It won't be the same as the 2009 Inauguration, but it will still be the 2nd best of my lifetime!

[sheshe2]

16. Okay...

It will be virtual. However the dancing in the streets here and abroad will be breath taking. Look what happened when he was named the winner. It was beautiful to behold. A celebration.

Wait watch what is coming to a street near you.

[George II]

18. I've watched that CNN announcement of Obama's victory dozens of times since Jan 2017....

The weasel in the white house cheated us out of that this year, but he won't cheat us out the celebration on January 20, 2021!

[sheshe2]

19. We will have a celebration like no other.

It is our time and we will be dancing in the streets.

[George II]

20. On Saturday three weeks ago, when Biden was declared the winner, I went into the kitchen....

....to tell my wife.

Halfway through telling her I burst out into tears. That's how emotional I was.

Biden will be a good President, something we need at this time in our history.

[sheshe2]

22. I hear you George.

I didn't cry. I drew in a deep breath with eyes closed for a few moments and then let it all out. I felt clean again.

He will be the one that heals us from deep wounds, to our people, environment and allies. Then, then I see Kamala as the one that will bring us forward. They will be a magnificent tag team playing off each others strengths.

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail. Yes I would.

[burrowowl]

24. Me too!

[patphil]

21. And the "condemned" man gets to see his Presidential gallows being built.

Chief Roberts to preside over the "death" of a failed Presidency.

[niyad]

25. Thank you for this, she. So perfect.

[sheshe2]

28. Hey.

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. That must be just GALLING for him to watch, and I hope his guts are twisting.

One thing I'm sure of - he is going through a prodigious number of Depends, but there will more more yet.

President Biden's inauguration may go down as The Day Of The Depends.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. All over this land. Truth.

[BobTheSubgenius]

29. Thinking about this post and about Pete Seeger after my previous visit, a few minutes ago.

I am still sad and surprisingly angry about the way Pete Seeger was treated - blackballed and deprived of his rightful career because of US military pigheadedness. I think he was a very good songwriter, but more than that he had PASSION and authenticity.

Oddly my favourite Seeger song was written by his daughter, Peggy. It's called "I Wanna Be An Engineer" and if you haven't heard it, you should, and you can probably guess the tenor of the song from the last two lines:

"I'll fight 'em as a woman, not a lady.

I'll fight 'em as an engineer."

[sheshe2]

30. This!

Pete in concert with Arlo Guthrie in the late '70s performs a song written by sister Peggy.

Thank you. First I heard tis one.

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. My short version of this song;

If I had a hammer.....



I'd have a piece of metal on the end of a stick.



Thanks, I'll be here all week.