Radio Paradise

Let's put our heads together and start a new country up
Our father's father's father tried, erased the parts he didn't like
Let's try to fill it in, bank the quarry river, swim
We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red

This is where we walked, this is where we swam
Take a picture here, take a souvenir

This land is the land of ours, this river runs red over it
We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red
And we gathered up our friends, bank the quarry river, swim
We knee-skinned it you and me, underneath the river bed

Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga, gone

Let's put our heads together, start a new country up,
Underneath the river bed we burned the river down
This is where they walked, swam, hunted, danced and sang,
Take a picture here, take a souvenir

Rewrite the book and rule the pages, saving face, secured in faith
Bury, burn the waste behind you

This land is the land of ours, this river runs red over it
We are not your allies, we can not defend

Inamorato

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Location: Twin Cities
Gender: Male

Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 12:34pm

Coaxial wrote:

Yeah, me too. There were many speakers in El Paso,,,There were many green joints...Yes we were all very green that day. {#Meditate}

Except for the eyes, they were red.

Yes, I recall a golden aura surrounding the first Earth Day observance. My rock-ribbed Republican parents had a green sensibility long before there was a name for it and back when moderates had a voice in the Republican Party, so Earth Day didn't seem like anything subversive. Earth Day was when I first realized that a concerted effort to protect our world might be effective. Some of those battles have been won, many are still being fought, and some have just begun. Remember the ecology flag?

Coaxial

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Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas
Gender: Male

Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 10:57am

woozurbuddy wrote:

I remember the first Earth Day in 1970 very well. I was a Junior in high school. It was thought of as some kind of hippie kind of thing. We didn't do much in our small Texas town but the school did some clean up projects and we talked about it in class all week. Saving the planet seemed like so much science fiction - there was no global warming and all that back then.

Do something for your planet today...let your freak flag fly. We're all on this planet together.

{#Group-hug}

Yeah, me too. There were many speakers in El Paso,,,There were many green joints...Yes we were all very green that day. {#Meditate}

Except for the eyes, they were red.

Zep

Location: Funkytown

Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 10:49am
SantaFeGrace wrote: Anyway, HAPPY EARTH EVERYONE!

SantaFeGrace

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Location: Santa Fe, NM
Gender: Female

Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 7:47am

woozurbuddy wrote:

I remember the first Earth Day in 1970 very well. I was a Junior in high school. It was thought of as some kind of hippie kind of thing. We didn't do much in our small Texas town but the school did some clean up projects and we talked about it in class all week. Saving the planet seemed like so much science fiction - there was no global warming and all that back then.

Do something for your planet today...let your freak flag fly. We're all on this planet together.

{#Group-hug}

Wow! I had no idea that it started that long ago! The first I heard about it was in the early 90s...maybe because I grew up in polluted California! My mother always taught us to respect the earth - not littering & stuff like that.

I wish I had something special planned for the day, but unforturnately I have work and other commitments getting in the way!

Anyway, HAPPY EARTH EVERYONE!

{#Group-hug}

bokey

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 6:34am

woozurbuddy wrote:

I remember the first Earth Day in 1970 very well. I was a Junior in high school. It was thought of as some kind of hippie kind of thing. We didn't do much in our small Texas town but the school did some clean up projects and we talked about it in class all week. Saving the planet seemed like so much science fiction back then - there was no global warming and all that back then.

Do something for your planet today. . . let your freak flag fly. We're all on this planet together.

{#Group-hug}

I guess I'll celebrate the same way I did on 4-20. {#Roflol}

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