my nomination for our new national anthem:

[rae121452]

Heaven Help Us All
Stevie Wonder

Heaven help the child who never had a home
Heaven help the girl who walks the streets alone
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
Heaven help us all

Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day
Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away
Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl
Heaven help us all

Heaven help us all
Heaven help us all, help us all
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call
When we fall, oh yeah

Heaven help the boy who won't reach twenty-one
Heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun
Heaven help the people with their backs against the wall
Lord, Heaven help us all, oh all right

Heaven help us all, Lord
Heaven help us all
Heaven help us all, help us all
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call
When we fall, oh, help us all

Now I lay me down before I go to sleep
In a troubled world, I pray the Lord to keep
Keep hatred from the mighty and the mighty from the small
Heaven help us all

Oh, oh, oh, yeah
(Heaven help us all) help us all
(Heaven help us all) I need you Lord
(Heaven help us all) Need your help, need you now
(Heaven help us all) Need you now
Songwriters: Miller Ronald Norman
For non-commercial use only.


joan baez did a really excellent version.

i really wish i could believe in a higher power but so far, no dice. nice thought, tho.

 

[oddity83]

How about highway to hell? Think A.C. D.C. would be good with it?

 

[Champakian]

Da Comrade.


What's the problem now? Imagine never caught on?


I think you probably prefer this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

 

[Champakian]

How about highway to hell? Think A.C. D.C. would be good with it?

California already called dibs...

 

[HisArpy]

What's wrong with the old one?

 

[Champakian]

Too "white."


Nothing about it makes you feel gay...

 

[rae121452]

Da Comrade.


What's the problem now? Imagine never caught on?


I think you probably prefer this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

well, my first choice was actually the george clinton song 'paint the white house black'. but you probably never heard that, because, you know, 'black'.

 

[rae121452]

Too "white."


Nothing about it makes you feel gay...

now you're talking, miss thing! i now nominate sylvester's '(you make me feel) mighty real'!!!

 

[Champakian]

I've been to one of his concerts jackass...


Because, you know, member of the minority community,
because as you point out, white people would never listen to black musicians...






Quit working to be stupid.
Your racialism is on display in too many threads this morning.

You sir, are no Dr. King.

 

[rae121452]

I've been to one of his concerts jackass...


Because, you know, member of the minority community,
because as you point out, white people would never listen to black musicians...






Quit working to be stupid.
Your racialism is on display in too many threads this morning.

You sir, are no Dr. King.

(cue violins)

 

[rae121452]

You sir, are no Dr. King.

for once in your life you've actually made an astute observation. i'm sure it's a fluke.