What's your favorite classic rock eco-ballad?!
Question: What's your favorite classic rock eco-ballad!?
Jackson Browne got my attention with "Before the Deluge" with its insight about reading egocentric meaning into natural disasters (they "Believed that they were meant to live!.")
Then the Eagles really nailed it with their rant about our need to commercialize anyplace that has natural beauty, and to commit cultural genocide against any society that is different, in "The Last Resort" ("Call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye")
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Then the Eagles really nailed it with their rant about our need to commercialize anyplace that has natural beauty, and to commit cultural genocide against any society that is different, in "The Last Resort" ("Call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye")
Anybody got another song to nominate!? Extra credit for lyric samples!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
There's an old John Prine song that John Denver gave some legs to, called (interestingly enough, re the Eagles' lyric you mention) "Paradise" that makes me angry every time I hear it!.
"And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county,
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay!.
'Well I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askin'!.
Mr!. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away!.' "
Ever since I first heard it, I always fantasized about creating a fictional folk musician from Kentucky named "Peabody Coltrane!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
"And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county,
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay!.
'Well I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askin'!.
Mr!. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away!.' "
Ever since I first heard it, I always fantasized about creating a fictional folk musician from Kentucky named "Peabody Coltrane!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
'Morning Dew' ~ Nazareth {cover}
It's about the fallout from nuclear warfare
"Walk me out in the morning dew!. Walk me out in the morning dew today!. I can't walk you out in no morning dew!. I can't walk you out in no morning dew at all!.!.!.
!.!.!.Now there is no more morning dew!. Now there is no more morning dew!. What they've been sayin all these years is true!. Now there is no more morning dew"Www@Enter-QA@Com
It's about the fallout from nuclear warfare
"Walk me out in the morning dew!. Walk me out in the morning dew today!. I can't walk you out in no morning dew!. I can't walk you out in no morning dew at all!.!.!.
!.!.!.Now there is no more morning dew!. Now there is no more morning dew!. What they've been sayin all these years is true!. Now there is no more morning dew"Www@Enter-QA@Com
Michael Jackson "heal the world"Www@Enter-QA@Com