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Barack Obama asked us to create something creative. When I'm stressed or have back insomnia I either write, read, create or sing. I'm doing all in this video! Sorry, about the pitch of my voice, I just couldn't get it when the key of the music.
Vocals/Lyrics by: Adrienne Williams
Music by Jimmy Vaughan:
Vote For Change
It was hard for me to get my hands on the words and music to Stevie Wonder's performance accompanied by Take 6 and the Drums of Unity at the DNC in August 2008, so I have listed them below, including the Youtube recording political interjections. May it inspire you as much as it did me!
Fear Can't Put Dreams To Sleep by Stevie Wonder w/Take 6 and Drums of Unity
Lyrics http://choosetochangeradioshow.blogspot.com/2008/09/lyrics-from-september-3-show-fear-cant.html
(more complete lyrics for DNC version in my extended post below)
Youtube recording http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWHwkSgVRNEDNC-Stevie Wonder-Part-1-Aug-28-2008
P.S. My other favorite recording is where some genius superimposed that super clever montage of Obama's speeches to "Never gonna give you up" DURING McCain's!!! acceptance speech - it is soooooooooooooo funny and inspiring!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKgJohn McCain Gets BarackRoll'd
You can now request the original MP3 files of all the songs at WillObamaWin.com! If you would like a CD, the cost is $9.95 (via PayPal) to cover our time & postage from Europe. Go to http://willobamawin.com/getmp3s.htm to e-mail me.
Or you can write directly to mp3request@willobamawin.com See you soon... Thanks, John.
As a fellow Jerseyan, fellow musician and Bruce fan, I was thrilled with The Boss' endorsement of Barack Obama. As great as his words in that article were, I think his lyrics over the years speak best for why we need Obama's brand of political change.
I've got a wide open country in my eyes and these romantic dreams in my head- No Surrender
United in the Obama for America campaign, we see a country of hope and promise, not of fear. "Yes we can" is our call to action. We are dreamers at night, but we are do-ers when we wake up in the morning. We can and will nurse our ailing environment back to health (and create good jobs doing it), provide healthcare to our people and regain our standing in the world.
The flag flying over the courthouse means somethings were set in stoneWho we are, what we'll do and what we won't- Long Walk Home
Obama wisely agrees with the Supreme Court's recent decision that America cannot indefinitely hold prisoners without trial. Under our new President, we'll know that we're no longer torturing people from other lands, and will better guarantee the safe treatment of our people in foreign installations. Our Constitution defines and reflects our American values, and Obama would return us to keeping faith with our vision of a more perfect union. It will be a long walk home, but that's no reason not to take the first step.
If you think your local radio station would be interested in my songs at http://willobamawin.com/songs.htm, then I would love to hear from you! Or maybe you could let them know about the songs? That would be great. Really.
Thanks,
John.
A quick 94-mb download will introduce you to the music of me, Keegan T Miller, in proper form: the zip file which I have just this hour finished compiling, which is available at the address below, contains 15 256kb/s music tracks, album artwork, and lyrics.
Please, we need artists to speak up for Mr. Obama. I am one to raise my voice, and now is a season in which I have many things to say.
I am eager to hear what every one of you think of this album. Here's the address:
Keegan T Miller - Sanguine Ties Skies and Highs (2008).zip
http://intellect.at/file/263
Let me know if you have any difficulty with the download. It's a new system but I think all the bugs have been worked out.
Peace, and let the message of peace be spread by all peace-lovers!
Keegan T Miller
Before I knew much about Senator Obama I read "Audacity of Hope". When I read: the majority of American people are decent, no lie, my first thought was: what rock has he been living under? I have lived in Ku Klux Klan territory and I do not consider people who would join the KKK to be "decent".
I have been called some pretty ugly names because I am a peace activist. The Bush years people seemed to have gotten worse. I have friends of many ethnicities and religious persuasions. Even some of those would jump on the "I hate Muslims" bandwagon. The worst was a Christmas morning email spewing Hebrew and Muslim hatred. I will skip the details on that one.
Seeing such a diverse group of people joining together and working to elect Senator Obama has restored my faith in people. That is the change I want to see in the USA. Unity through diversity. Something more like these lyrics:
"Man and woman, girl and boy, let us try to give a helping hand.This I know and I'm sure, that the love we all could understand.This is our world, can't you see?
Everybody wants to live and be free.Instead of fussing and fighting, cheating and biting, scandalizing and hating.Baby we could have a 'Wonderful World, Beautiful People'..."
(Jimmy Cliff)
A while ago I posted a mash up of lyrics, at time when Yes, We Can positive Obama was the norm here at Obama '08. As a part of that I used lyrics from Al Wilson's 1970s tune "La La Peace Song". He passed away today at age 68 of kidney failure. It seems we have come full circle; then it was the Vietnam war, today Iraq, with Iran on it's coattails.
Just watched a video clip of a PENN voter. A Vietnam veteran, wants out of Iraq, is worried about heading into a recession, does not like our jobs shipped overseas. He voted for McCain. He obviously missed McCain's saying it did not matter to citizens if we stayed in Iraq "100 years", nor that McCain wants new war in Iran. He does not like the way Clinton and Obama fight all the time. Thanks, Hilary for turning a primary election into a war zone. Some lyrics from "La La Peace Song".
A very popular bar song from my days living in the Pocono Moutains was Mere Haggard's tune "Okie from Muskogee". Part of lyrics:
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee; We don't take our trips on LSD We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street; We like livin' right, and bein' free. I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all We don't make a party out of lovin'; We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo; We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy, Like the hippies out in San Francisco do. Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear; Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen. Football's still the roughest thing on campus, And the kids here still respect the college dean.
That was then, this is now, eh. Here is part of a comment from the Pocono Record online forum:
"...who see nothing wrong with the illegal activity. San Francisco fancies itself as the core of liberal thought. So, free bus tickets for all illegal immigrants to SF from the East Coast! There is a 'welfare' program I would support wholeheartedly."
That is the tip of an iceberg. Not the sentiments of all people living in Pennsylvania, nor all people living in small towns in Pennsylvania. More than likely the one who made the comment votes Republican.
When people ask me where my daughters live and I say Allentown, they give me that blank stare. I would say, "you know, 'they're tearing all the factories down', Billy Joel tune...". Of course unless they were a Billy Joel fan or listened to Joel's middle of the road rock 'n roll they still gae me a blank stare. Billy Joel had a hit with "Allentown" in 1982. I often wondered why he choose to sing about Allentown. I later decided it was because he performed in the Allentown state fairs, a largely attended yearly event.
Used without permission, "Allentown" lyrics:
Senator Obama's early speech videos often had music playing as he took the stage. I especially liked the bit of lyrics from Arthea Franklin's 1968 hit: "Think". Sample lyrics:You need me (need me)And I need you (don't you know)Without each otherThere ain't nothing people can doYou better think (think)Think about what you'reTrying to do to meYeah, think (think think)Let your mind goLet yourself be freeOh, freedom (freedomFreedom (freedom)Oh, freedom, yeahFreedom, right nowFreedom (freedomOh, freedom (freedom)Gimme some freedomOh, freedomHey, think about itYou, think about it...
My old joke when people would ask me: What do you think? I would say: I try not to. Thinking, like words, can lead to a good place or a bad place. I would rather be thinking on positive things, like the beauty of flowers and trees, than negative thiings like dead children on the streets of Iraq. I often wonder if people think how their words will affect other people before they speak them or type them. Have to look up a quote about words and post it at a later time.
Earlier today blogger FreeWillie sent me to watch a video. Old fav tune.
Some selected lyrics from Mcfadden and Whitehead's 1979 hit "Ain't no Stopping us Now"Ain't no stoppin' us nowWe're on the moveAin't no stoppin' us nowWe've got the grooveThere's been so many thingsThat's held us downBut now it looks likeThings are finally comin' aroundI know you know someoneThat has a negative vibeAnd if you're trying to make itThey only push you asideBut we won't let nothin' hold us backWe're gonna put ourselves togetherGonna polish up our actIf you've ever been held down beforeI know you refuse to be held down anymoreDon't you let nothing, nothingStand in your wayI want y'all to listen, listenTo every word I say, every word I sayAin't no stoppin' us now(No, no, no)We're on the move!...
I copied a You Tube user's comments for my own information:
On May 11, 2004, Whitehead was murdered while working on his car with his nephew on the street outside of his Philadelphia home. He was shot by two unknown gunmen who fled afterwards. The case remains unsolved. Whitehead was 55 years old.On January 27, 2006, McFadden died of liver and lung cancer. He was 56.
May the guys "rest in peace"; many unsung heros travling life's highway. This song was motivating and joyful many years later. Seems almost perfect for Obama's campaign.
"We're on the move..."
Above the Shots She ShoutsYou let him hit meSo you could be the heroWhen I wasn’t lookingMade me out to be a zeroHe took me down twiceTwo different locationsMight have been more butI rolled into rotationYou stole her heart awayWhile I went reelingTurned everyone’s mindGave ‘em all a good peeling.You chased him down the roadLet him off easyBurned his neighbor’s houseSaid it should please meYou claim that you’re my friendI don’t believe youYou may have fooled themFooled double you tooBut now she’s getting wiseBlame changing weatherAbove the shots she shoutsLet’s be togetherThe tables have turned aroundI’ll get that rascalShe’s with me and Obama nowYou’re outta’ gas pal!Copyright © 2006 this blogger
Hey pretty baby, are you ready for me? Yeah It's your good rockin' daddy up from SC I'm just out of Richmond bound for Pittson With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on
There's a speed trap up ahead in York town But no local yokel gonna shut me down 'Cause me and my boys and girls got this junker unwound And we've come hundreds of miles from an Obama town
Nothin' ever happened 'round my hometown And I ain't the kind to just hang around But I heard someone callin' my destiny one day And I followed that voice down the lost highway
Everybody told me you can't get far On thirty-seven dollars and a Japanese car Now I'm smokin' into PA with the hammer down And a rockin' little group from the Obama town
Hey pretty baby, don't you know? It ain't my fault I love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop Stumble in the restaurant wonderin' why I don't stop
I gotta keep canvassing while I still can I gotta two latte habit and a motel tan When my sneakers hit the sidewalk, I'm a brand new man With a knock on the door, I make my stand
Hey pretty baby, won't you hold me tight? We're loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight One of these days, I'm gonna settle down And take you back with me to the Obama town.
Yes We Can
Artist: Will.I.Am
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.Yes we can to justice and equality.Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.Yes we can repair this world.Yes we can.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. (We want change.)
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about Hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea:
Yes We Can.
"Words can be weapons, they wound sometimes..." Cher song, forget the title at the moment.
Words have the power to lift us up or bring us down. I have this mood meter~when I read positive Obama '08 Community Blog posts, my meter goes up; when I read about his opponent, my mood starts sinking. After page after page of more negative C-stuff, I hit bottom and go on an Obama '08 post frenzy. Great win for Obama last night, wish that happy feeling could be sustained for one day at Obama '08 Community Blogs.
"Oh, listen to me children and-a you will hear About the elininatin' of the negative And the accent on the positive) And gather 'round me children if you're willin' And sit tight while I start reviewin' The attitude of doin' right You've gotta accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with Mister In-Between"
