What are your favorite conservation songs?

[Gabby Hayes]

Here's a handful of starters.......

“Like an Inca” by Neil Young

“Dance of the Maya” by The Mahavishnu Orchestra

“Cool Water” by Marty Robbins

“Deep Blue Day” by Brian Eno

“Free from the City” by The Poppy Family

“Industrial Disease” by Dire Straits

“Calypso” by John Denver

“The Bomb Song” (aka “Please don’t drop that A-Bomb on me”) by Country Joe and the Fish

“Home on the Range” written by Brewster Martin Higley VI and sung by Roy Rogers and The Sons of the Pioneers

Too many songs by Spirit to mention

“Don’t Go Near the Water” by Johnny Cash

[FSogol]

1. "Don't Ask Me" by Public Image Limited (Johhny Rotten)

What you gonna do - When the river runs dry
Put your drills in the mud - Death up in the sky
Should have saved those bottles -
Should have saved those cans
Shouldn't ought'a listen to the plastic man
No more toilet paper - It's gone just like the trees
Do you like the taste of honey - Isn't it best without the bees
Be careful what you're doing - You're messing up my life
And if all this world's a cake - Then you took too big a slice

What's it all about - They scream and then they shout
Don't ask me - Cause I don't know (I don't know)
What's it all about - They scream and then they shout
Don't blame me - I told you so

Entire lyrics here:
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/public-image-limited/dont-ask-me.html

[Gabby Hayes]

2. Amen

[kooljerk666]

3. Tom Lehrer - Pollution.............

[Scuba]

4. Since you mentioned Spirit....

"Fresh Garbage" and "Nature's Way" gotta be up there.

[HopeHoops]

5. "Went Back to Ohio", and while I don't particularly like the music, "Put Up a Parking Lot"

I'm not sure those are the exact titles, but you'll know the songs.

An obscure one I'd also put in the list is "Oh Industry" (Bette Midler in "Beaches&quot

[Brickbat]

6. "Paradise" by John Prine.

When I was a child, my family would travel
To western Kentucky, where my parents were born
And there's a backward old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn

CHORUS:
And daddy won't you take me back to Mulenberg 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

Well sometimes we'd float right down the Green River
To an abandoned old prison down by Atry Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

CHORUS

Then the coal company came, with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

CHORUS

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am

CHORUS

[Brickbat]

7. "This Land Is Your Land," Woody Guthrie

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.

I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

[Bluerthanblue]

8. "Traffic Jam" by James Taylor "Before the Deluge" Jackson Browne

were the first two to come to mind.

[Bluerthanblue]

9. "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot SPOT
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
'Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But LEAVE me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Come and took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

I said
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot