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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Sun May 3, 2015, 10:48 PM May 2015

How Can I Keep From Singing?-Pete Seeger

(includes the words added to the song about the fall of tyrants during the blacklist era)

Seems fitting for a time filled both with deep sadness and deep hope.

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How Can I Keep From Singing?-Pete Seeger (Original Post) Ken Burch May 2015 OP

What a Beautiful, Soulful, Haunting Song! panfluteman May 2015 #1

Here is Jean Redpath singing the same song Fortinbras Armstrong May 2015 #2

Pete would have been 96 this past Saturday. RoccoR5955 May 2015 #3

Enya took this song to another level. AtheistCrusader May 2015 #4

panfluteman

(2,065 posts)

1. What a Beautiful, Soulful, Haunting Song!

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Mon May 4, 2015, 01:01 AM

May 2015

I've heard it before, I don't remember who the artist was - perhaps it was Enya. Anyway, I am a type of person who listens more to the music and to the melody of a song than to the lyrics. This time, I concentrated on the lyrics more, and found out that they were political, and beautifully democratic and progressive. This is what our nation so desperately needs - a total spiritual and political regeneration of such profoundness and magnitude that the the people will not be able to keep from singing!