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Very cool thread. Respect by Aretha Franklin for me.

 

How can today's teens match the coolness of that. Having Aretha playing as you arrive into the world; yeha[cool] [blush]

A 13 year old today will punch in their details and find Spice Up Your Life was the number one when they popped out [crying]

 

Matt

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American Pie by Don McLean. Jan '72

 

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage

My hands were clenched in fists of rage.

No angel born in hell

Could break that satan's spell.

And as the flames climbed high into the night

To light the sacrificial rite,

I saw satan laughing with delight

The day the music died.

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1965.

Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire.

 

 

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyeGkks7YE[/YOUTUBE]

 

 

Who knew a wimpy fist-clenching war protest song would coincide with my birthday while my Dad was at war?

 

[biggrin]

 

Hmmmm.

I guess that would explain a lot about my idealogical/social/political disposition, eh?

 

 

 

Golly, look how far we've come in 44 years, especially with all the Hope & Change we're paying for....

 

The eastern world, it is exploding

Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’

You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’

You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’

And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’

 

But you tell me over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction.

 

Don’t you understand what I’m tryin’ to say

Can’t you feel the fears I’m feelin’ today?

If the button is pushed, there’s no runnin’ away

There’ll be no one to save, with the world in a grave

[Take a look around ya boy, it's bound to scare ya boy]

 

And you tell me over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction.

 

Yeah, my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’

I’m sitting here just contemplatin’

I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation.

Handful of senators don’t pass legislation

And marches alone can’t bring integration

When human respect is disintegratin’

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’

 

And you tell me over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction.

 

Think of all the hate there is in Red China

Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama

You may leave here for 4 days in space

But when you return, it’s the same old place

The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace

You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace

 

And… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend

You don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction

Mm, no no, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction.

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