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That Was The Week 2012
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What passes as mainstream news is mostly entertainment and adulterated while the important events are covered up
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Folk singer, social commentary, satire, people's stories, children's music
Hi Folks, The Bard Insurgent here. My comrade D.O. (the Poet Roofer) and I got that handle (The Bard Insurgents) from traveling town to town performing songs and poetry about people's lives. I've been performing since I was 3 years old, cutting my vocal chords on liturgical and classical music. I was a concert soloist as a child, when I wasn't herding cows, throwing hay and shoveling manure. During the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam war, I began writing songs about social change. I left the country in 1970 and my dozen years in other countries, mostly in Africa & South America, have provided a global perspective to my music. My travels helped me realize that people all around the world are essentially the same in their basic life needs and their desires to live peacefully in their communities. These experiences have informed my commitment to working for international understanding as I organize at home. A powerful way to educate and inspire is with music. I tell people's stories, do social commentary with a touch of satire that I hope you enjoy and share with your friends, as well as sing together in the streets and in your living rooms. I also have children's music written for the children in my life with Jacob and Kayla as primary muses. Looking forward to seeing you on the road, Tom
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Author
Tom Neilson/Dan Hart
Rights
Tom Neilson
Uploaded
December 23, 2012
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MP3 4.6 MB • 128 kbps • 5:03
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There was a famine that happened somewhere, 1 million people without a prayer, But it never made the tv news cause that was the week Mike Jackson got sued And two lands agreed to lay down their guns and end a war that could never be won, But we never gave it one minute of thought cause that was the week Peewee got caught That was the week another 2000 died, Iraqi children from our genocide That was the week they could have been saved, But there wasnt room for them on the front page. That was the week. In East Timor a people going extinct, salvation plans drowned in red ink, but That was the week the games were starting, that was the week of Tanya Harding. Governor running guns & drugs out of Mena, CIA planes are filled with cocaine a Nation is born, a way of life dies, buried beneath innuendo and lies, But we didnt care cause we didnt know. We only saw what they chose to show. We got our kicks, were not complaining. Its only news if its entertaining. That was the week. Monsanto is changing the food that we eat; genetically altering seeds with deceit; Roundup dioxin the earth it is blighting, but that was the week Marv Albert was biting Chiapas is looking like El Salvador. Nafta & the army are killin the poor, But that was the week of a Kennedy member, relating to the opposite gender Plutonium is soaring through outer space, 1 pound can kill the whole human race, but That was the week of Dodi & Di & Henri the driver, DWI, that was the week. That was the week of the paparazzi chase. Thousands on the line for a millionaire face. That was the week for a piece of the pie, 1 shot of cleavage or royal thigh, That was the week Shell kills the Ogoni theres blood in its oil. Texacos burnin a forest to spoil Bovine Growth Hormone is milking the public, but that was the week Hugh Grant was love sick. That was the week of corporate crime, whitewash at justice time after time. But we put it off with a turn of the dial, cause that was the year of the OJ trial That was the week. That was the year. Those were the stories we didnt hear. That was the week.
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