Save the World - George Harrison
The Trees Are All Gone - Roger McGuinn
Don’t Go Near The Water - The Beach Boys
Which reminded me of:
“Don’t Kill the Whale,” by Yes
“Don’t Ask Me” by Public Image Ltd. An excerpt from the lyrics:
OK everyone. Here’s a pet peeve of mine.
If you’re going to just link to a YouTube video can you at least quote which portion of the song you’re referring to?
Like, I don’t want to click on a blind link and have to listen to a four minute song and figure out what the hell you’re talking about.
OK?
We Kill The World/Don’t Kill The World - Boney M. And it’s the whole song, **Leeffan **
Burn On, Randy Newman’s Cuyahoga River song.
John Denver’s Calypso.
Big Yellow Taxi - aka They Paved Paradise*.
Link to lyrics.
*Well, that’s how I remembered it…
:smack:
…aaaand it’s in the OP.
Don’t Go Near the Water by the Beach Boys (1971)
Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams
Have all been touched by man
The poison floating out to sea
Now threatens life on land
Slower Than Guns by Iron Butterfly (1970)
Can you feel the manmade mist
As it starts to twist your lungs?
Slower than guns
“What Are We Gonna Do?” by Dramarama (“It’s April 21st and everybody knows today is Earth Day/Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday to whoever’s being born…”)
Vengeance, by New Model Army, has the alternative verse
Loading up the barrels at the warehouse gates
Men in overalls on double rates
Put the stuff in the river and away for a beer
Don’t worry too much, they don’t live around here
And the poison seeps into every pore
Every child’s eyes, every innocent’s sore
Everybody knows behind the closed doors
Kick down the doors, kick down the doors
Dead Skunk by Loudon Wainwright III. For Leaffan-- start at 00:00 and end at 3:05.
Paxron also wrote “There Goes The Mountain”.
There goes the mountain, greeter of sunrise
Giant by starlight, the highest and best
The roar of the engines, the first in its lifetime
Will take what man values, and spit out the rest
I vaguely remember some Bob Marley lyrics about the environment, but I can’t remember the words, much less the song title.
“Bears”, by the hard-rock band Zebra, has an unusual anti-hunting message. The first minute of the song gives the gist:
The Grateful Dead had at least two original overtly environmental songs I can think of off of the top of my head, namely Bob Weir’s (lyrics by John Perry Barlow) “Throwing Stones” and Brent Mydland’s “We Can Run” (lyrics by John Perry Barlow) and several that at least touched on various environmental/ecological concerns.
10,000 Maniacs “Poison in the Well”
Oh, they tell us there’s poison in the well
That someone’s been a bit untidy
And there’s been a small spill
And all that it amounts to is a tear in a salted sea
That someone’s been a bit untidy
They’ll have it cleaned up in a week
What have they done to the rain - Malvina Roberts
Covered by loads of people such as The Searchers, Joan BaezThe Dead Milkmen’s Watching Scotty Die is part parody, part ecology. It’s a parody of Bobby Goldsboro’s “Watching Scotty Grow” but in this case, Scotty is dying from chemical pollution (and so is the dog).