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Thread #70446 Message #1215225
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
27-Jun-04 - 10:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: If I Were Free (Travis Edmonson)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If I Were Free To Speak My Mind
I used the chorus of this song to tie a medley of several protest songs together. Many of those songs were great songs but may have been from historical movements that might've been discredited, or at least diminished, by revisionist history or just the passing of time---or both. I changed the medley all the time. Current events had a fascinating way of making the old songs mean something again.
As I'm fond of saying, "History repeats. It just costs twice as much every time around."
Or: "If it wasn't for time, we'd have to do everything all at once."