QUTOES
"A
lot of people laugh at us. They say, "Oh, don't you see, it's leaking out as fast
as you're putting it in." Well, we say, "It's leaking out, but we're getting more
people with teaspoons all the time. One of these days, you're gonna see that whole
basket with sand so full…" And people will say, "Gee, how did it happen so quickly?"
Us and our damned little teaspoons." - Pete Seeger
Where
have all the young men gone? Long time passing
Where have all the young men
gone? Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone? Gone for soldiers
every one
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Where
have all the soldiers gone? Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers
gone? Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards
every one
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Where
have all the graveyards gone? Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards
gone?
Long time ago Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with
flowers every one When will we ever learn?
Just
as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might
say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving
the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of
the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their
hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years
ahead, but that’s what we have to do.
Now
somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference?
And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power
must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air."
