h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've waited ages for this forum to load, so you can all have a song which should make you think a little. No, not shock, think.

Blood on the World's Hands
(Harris)

Sometimes it makes me wonder
Sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened
Always it makes me angry but ...

When you can see it happening
The madness that's all around you
Nobody seens to worry
The World seens so powerless to act ...

It's out of control
Blood on The World's hands
Each day a new toll

Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings ...

One day another killing
Somewhere there's someone starving
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there's someone laughing at us

It's out of control
Blood on The World's hands
Each day it goes on

Brutality and aggression
Tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid
Praying for a ceasefire ...

They say things are getting better
No need to be complacent
There's chaos across the border
And one day it could be happening to us

It's out of control
Blood in The World's hands
It's our epitaph
It's out of control
Someone should know
Blood on The World's hands


Well, admittadly, it's hardly telling you anything new, is it?
Gioddamn! Next time I'll have something decent!!!

Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?

Except we're not because the forum hasn't loaded.... GRRR...

*I'm rooting back through old forums *

Hey Irv, I ain't forgotten about this place! Tell me when the next big thread starts and I'll be there!

Well, the new forrest thread is going at http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?MESSAGES[(THREADID*49964?forumid*26140)THREADS[(THREADID*49964?forumid*26140?subset*0)#

While the brand spankin' new counter thread (started moments ago by Lil) is now at http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?forum=26140&thread=51409

Thanks for the interest, Mike!

My my, this here anakin guy
may be vader some day later
now he's just a small fry
he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
saying "soon I'm gonna be a jedi."

The Saga Begins - Weird Al Yankovich - (album: Running with Scissors - to the tune of American Pie)

Phil Ochs songs I enjoy:
Boy from Ohio
Outside a Small Circle of Friends
There but for fortune
Draft Dodger Rag
and the Elvis medley from Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
(and when Carnegie Hall turned off the power at the end of the concert, and the fans wanted another encore, they began yelling: Power, Power, Power! Carnegie Hall turned the power back on, they weren't stupid.)

Billy Bragg songs:
Internationale
I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night

Dan Bern songs
Tiger Woods
Krautmeyer
Jerusalem
True Revolutionaries

True revolutionaries don't bomb buildings
It draws too much attention

Yeah, man

I am the eggman (woo)
They are the eggmen (woo)
I am the walrus
Goo goo ga choo

So, just what happens here anyway?

(no time to read)

~Greebo sits forlornly in the forest...~

Nobody loves me.... Me nobody's cat.... ~WAIL!!!~

Greebo! What's wrong? You know people love you! Why don't you come in to the caf� and I'll play the piano for you. http://www.h2g2.com/F26140?thread=66282&post=490969

~Greebo stops singing~.... Me already there... me thinks... tis hard sometimes... being in so many places at the same time... ~grin~

*enters with guitar slung behind back*

Geez, I didn't realize a jam was going on over here, and has been for a long time!

Has that jam got a doughnut around it????

For you, fine Greebo, fresh from the bakery.

*opens small white box that had been well hidden inside guitar*

Powdered or plain?

*wanders into the clearing, very disappointed that she missed all the Phil Ochs references, so many weeks ago, but decides to start humming her obscure little ditty again, anyway*

"The day Marvin Gaye
And Phil Ochs got married...
The trees all waved their giiiiaant arms...
And happiness bled
From every streetcorner...
And biplanes bombed
With fluuuufffyy pillowwwwss...."

*thinks to self: lt's a good thing -someone- had a donut for Greebo...l haven't any on my person at present...*

*wonders about the unbelievably bizarre blend of Phil and Marvin, thinks slide trombone and sitar would best accompany this tune*


*though after further thinking decides Ochs/Gaye might have related well as human-rights writers*

*swings into second verse after pause and intensifying bridge (it is, dear ox, an obscure little ditty from the first TMBG album and, as such, is an arrangement intended solely for two earnest (and loud) singers and some very heartfelt accordion playing)*
Verse Two: (in Grand Dramatic Style)

THE DAAAAYy
MARVIN GAYYYEe
AND PHIL OOOCCHHS GOT MAAIIIRRRIEEDd
THE TREEEES ALL WAVEDd
THEIR GIII-ANT AAAAAAAARMMMS!
AND HAPPINESSS BLED
FROM EVERREY STREEETCO-HORNERrr!
AND BIIIPLA-HANES
BOMBED
WITH FLUUU-FFY PIIIIILLLLLOOOOOOWS!

(fin)
*bows*

Oh, yea? *from out of thin air ox brandishes a magnificent accordian with pearl keyboard and front plate looking like the grill on a '57 Chevy*

sqa-WEEEEZZZZEE!

Let's take that tune from the top!

~Greebo grits her teeth at the dreadfukl noise~

Ooops...sorry, Greebo!

*puts accordian down and has a seat on it instead*

Kind of got a little carried away...


*remaining air in bellows phhhhhtttttts in agreement*