Take A Part #1 (Ottawa R to R)
Let's dismantle nuclear bombs! Take A Part is my first and one of my best songs. It's one of the ten songs of the You Won't Like Most Of It Tape.
Elisha Zaporelostzi's first performances were the Open Stages put on by the Bytown Live in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. It is how Neil Young and Joni Mitchell started.
Phreap magazine is a one page thing that went around Ottawa in the 1980s. Now it is a web site;
http://home.att.ne.jp/blue/patchan
With the help of Joe-Charly Smith, Molly Ding, Calhoon-Fred Febealie, and Butter Jones I was able to put out Phreap magazine.
Story behind the song
Recorded - Guitar & vocals - in Ottawa produced by Tom Pirosok mixed by Bryan Claremont -
Song # 1 Take A Part
Comments by the Author
Take A Part is my first and one of my best songs. It was written on the first day of the new decade after going through the last decade with no inspiration ever hitting me. It was originally titled Let's Start All Over -, it had a more universal meaning; "If we don't start soon there will be bombs [flying] all over." In June, 1981 I changed words to "Let's start to dismantle nuclear bombs" after I had been marching in demonstrations organized by Jim Stark's Operation Dismantle. "Dismantle" is a bit of a mouthful and I have since made the song more elegant and wide ranging. P. T. C.
Publishing Recording & Performance History
Take A Part was played on the radio in 1986 by the Carlton University Station, CFMU. It is one of the ten songs of the You Won't Like All Of It Tape and was published in Phreap 04. All the songs of the Won't Like All Of It Tape were printed in Phreap and were performed at the open stage on Sunday nights at the Jack Percel Community Center in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Take A Part was played Fed. 5, 1984 on my seventh performance at the Hoot. it has been recorded many, many times since. Take A Part is also one of the original songs I have played the most, but not enough. P. T. C.
Dates of Composition
Written on - ... June 20, 1981, September 8 & 14, 1989, March 21, 1990 Typed April 25, 1994, Editing & note August 8, 2000.
Lyrics
Take A Part
Music & Words by Patrick Thomas Connolly
You can -
You can change -
You can change the way we live.
You can change and rearrange the world at large.
So lets get down to what matters.
Tell all your sisters,
Tell all your brothers,
Tell all your convictions.
We can be a part together,
We can be apart a part.
We need to be together
And never to fall a part.
Oh Wimin, we've gotta work sisters.
Being a part won't make us stronger.
So look things over 'n' see we got to take A Part.
Let's start to obliterate hate,
Let's tear apart nuclear plants.
Let's start to dismantle the war machine.
Let's start taking apart nuclear bombs.
Yes lets get down to what really matters.
Tell all your sisters,
Tell all your brothers,
Tell all your believings.
Everybody sing your part together,
Everybody sing your part apart.
It's time we all got together
So we can give anyone a part.
Oh people, we can try to make it work brothers.
Look where we're headin' before life's all over.
Also let's get it all - - together.
Let's start to abandon fear,
Let's tear apart nuclear subs.
Let's start to stop hunger.
Let's take apart nuclear bombs.
