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Where Greenland Used To Be
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acoustic folk social commentary political satire western massachusetts oil coal climate change fracking incineration music for social change nuclear energy
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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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Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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Peak #17
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Tom Neilson
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Tom Neilson
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September 03, 2012
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MP3 4.0 MB • 160 kbps • 3:29
Story behind the song
In 2006, while touring in the UK, Tom heard the concerns of many in Scotland, Eire, and England that the Gulf Stream would shift because of global warming with the effect of creating a colder climate in the UK. The Gulf Stream shifted a few years later.
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Where Greenland used to be, now has become the sea Glaciers breaking every day. With the global warmin heat & the nino stormin beat, the ice caps drip & drip away. With the biomass & fracking, sensibility is lacking, CO2 is rising endlessly From the Bushes to Barack, mountaintops they all attack, & Greenland’s melting to the sea. Yo ho ho it’s a land of ice & snow, as cold as cold as it can be. We don’t give a damn about Greenland. Let Greenland melt into the sea. The penguins and sea lions are on the verge of dyin' cause they can’t get to where they used to feed Where the ice is getting thin, walruses are fallin' in, and polar bears are drownin' in the sea. So the walruses and bears are findin different lairs, not the ones there used to be If your feet are gettin wet, it’s a pretty darn good bet that Greenland’s meltin to the sea. At the power plant in Wales are many cancer tales, people dyin door to door And you’re makin a mistake, eatin' fish out of the lake, Trawsfynydd’s polluted to the core. Yes the cancer is a growin if your swimmin or a rowin with radioactivity Way above the average are the cancers in your carriage and Greenland’s meltin to the sea In Ireland they been chillin' from BP’s oil spillin'. Oil & water never mix You see the water density from the oil company on the North Atlantic Drift is playing tricks When you got too much fresh water, salinity’s not what it oughta The North Atlantic Drift has ceased to be As the Gulf Stream is a leavin, Bonnie Scotland is a freezin & Greenland melts into the sea.
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