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Blast from the Past - 60's, 70's, 80's Music (2021)


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Some musical song history for Let's Work Together.  Originally titled Let's Stick Together it was written by Wilbert Harrison and released as a single in '62.
 


He continued to adapt it and in '69 released Let's Work Together, which became the title track of his '69 album.

 


Canned Heat picked up the song and recorded their famous version of Let's Work Together in '70, which appeared on their Future Blues LP.

 


Bryan Ferry then recorded Let's Stick Together, which became the title track of his '76 album.
 


Decades later . . . . . . . and I'm posting about it all on some Internet site in Asia of all places to a bunch of displaced personages.  Life's a trip.

 

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On 9/16/2021 at 2:05 PM, Tippaporn said:

The Men They Couldn't Hang with Green Fields Of France (No Man's Land) off of their '85 Night Of A Thousand Candles album.

 

 

Sometimes a song's lyrics are so good that I'll post them.  Not only are these lyrics supremely excellent they also speak towards the ultimate folly of man's most repugnant acts . . . war.  War is an accurate indication of the level of our true understanding of life.  Which, it seems to prove, is very, very little.

MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG
The Green Fields Of France (no Man's Land)

 

Well, how do you do, Private William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

 

Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did the rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sound The Last Post in ?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

 

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And, though you died back in 1916,
To that loyal heart are you forever 19?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

 

The sun's shining down on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.

 

And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.


 

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I posted this in response to bannork earlier this year.  It can never be played enough.  The anti-apartheid song Biko as performed by Peter Gabriel in harmony with Playing For Change features Peter joined by Beninese vocalist and activist Angélique Kidjo, Silkroad’s Yo-Yo Ma, bass legend Meshell Ndegeocello and more than 25 musicians from seven countries including South Africa, India, Spain and the USA.

Biko originally appears on the third eponymously titled album, also know as Peter Gabriel 3: Melt, released in '80.
 

 

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