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To me the way that time is accelerating these days is unprecedented, and here we are coming into a new month in the New Year already. Anyone else?
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And the world changes and doesn't change all at the same time. Songs I co-wrote or wrote 6 years ago sound like they were written yesterday...immigration (Home of the Brave), gun control (Change the Laws), even Rising in Love (1986) with lines like "lifting eachother up instead of giving one another a shove" sounds like it could have been penned after watching tonight's evening news (which I didn't).
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What did the Youngbloods sing?
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"Come on people...smile on your brother
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Try and love one another right now..."
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Enough trying. Time for doing.
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On the day we have elections opportunities abound
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To turn a corner, turn a page and turn this thing around
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But I have seen the greater good replaced with scorn and spite
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There are bigger things to focus on than simply picking fights
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Bigger things to focus on than simply picking fights
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Bigger things to focus on than simply picking fights
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Things like, oh, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
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There are bigger things to focus on than simply picking fights
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Instead the scores get settled up, get even, tit for tat
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Meanwhile all constituents get swept under the mat
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This isn’t red or blue or purple, pink or brown or green
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It’s non-partisan frustration when grown people are so mean
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There are bigger things to focus on than simply picking fights
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Bigger things to focus on than simply picking fights
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Things like, oh, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
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There are bigger things to focus on than simply picking fights
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On the day we have elections opportunities abound
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To turn a corner, turn a page and turn this thing around
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Thus, an open note to politicians, vengeful and so fervent
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The two words that you overlook in this are
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So sorry my latter January concerts in Ormond Beach, Eustis, Gainesville, Jacksonville, and Melbourne (all Florida) were cancelled...I had to return home to New England for a family health emergency that has thankfully begun to resolve (not covid). I'll hope to reschedule that second half of what started off as a great tour sooner rather than wait another year til next January.
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6-10 ~ Provincetown, MA ~ Cape Cod Songwriters Retreats
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25 ~ Essex, MD ~ True North w/ Sloan and Tom Prasada Rao
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26 ~ Havre de Grace, MD ~ w/ Sloan and TPR once more
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APRIL ~ Washington, Oregon, help me fill in the blanks...
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Two double rooms have just opened up for Ireland
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June 12-21 this year, and this will be my 10th trip leading for Inishfree Tours where we find the best Irish music everywhere we go, every day and night while learning about the amazing history of the Emerald Isle in the process...truly magnificent experience. Join us in Counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway, and Clare over 10 days. First come...write me for more info
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11 down, 11 spots remain for
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My dear pal and musical mensch Glen Roethel will join the river adventure and the campfire music each night under the stars. It's going to be amazing. Write for more info.
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See y'all out there somewhere!
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“In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.”
— Linda Ellerbee
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