Bluebear
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Tue Jun-26-07 08:22 PM
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If you'd take the train with me uptown, through the misery of ghetto streets in morning light, it's always night.
Take a window seat, put down your Times. You can read between the lines. Just meet the faces that you meet beyond the window's pane.
And it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man. And it might begin to reach you how to give a damn about your fellow man.
Or put your girl to sleep sometime with rats instead of nursery rhymes, with hunger and your other children by her side, and wonder if you'll share your bed with something else which must be fed, for fear may lie beside you or it may sleep down the hall.
And it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man. And it might begin to reach you how to give a damn about your fellow man.
Come and see how well despair is seasoned by the stifling air. See your ghetto in the good old sizzling summertime. Suppose the streets were all on fire? The flames, like tempers, leaping higher. Suppose you'd lived there all your life, do you think that you would mind?
And it might begin to reach you Why I give a damn about my fellow man. And it might begin to teach you How to give a damn about your fellow man.
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From the 1960's, with love and hope.
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Prisoner_Number_Six
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Tue Jun-26-07 09:01 PM
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1. Banned from airplay in many cities when it came out |
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for obscene language, dammit.
I was listening to Spanky last night. I was always in love with her voice. She does a GREAT version of "Brother Can You Spare A Dime".
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Tue Jun-26-07 09:13 PM
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2. If some of the hits from today could go in front of teh 60's censorship boards... |
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Wed Jun-27-07 02:48 PM
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4. Wow, that was Spanky and Our Gang? |
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I can vouch for it's being banned, then, as that's right from my time frame and I never heard it in my life. Thanks for the post!
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Wed Jun-27-07 09:37 AM
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3. Thanks for the memories! |
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I wasn't very old when that song first came out (only nine, I believe), but I was still moved enough by it that I spent my allowance on a cloth patch that said "Give a damn," which my mother then sewed on to my windbreaker for me.
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