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Busking is a tradition that goes back hundreds probably thousands of years. Now we can busk on the internet.
I want to invite you to send me your 'Save the planet songs'. Send me a low quality mp3 of your song and I'll put it in this space. 'Save the planet songs' are any songs that deal with real issues that effect our abillity to survive and thrive. We need love to survive, we need to share and cooperate. We need to tolerate but we also need to constructively criticise what's around us.
Send songs to david@davidrivettmusic.com.
No explicit langauge and files no bigger than Imeg.
Play as if you are on the street.........Don't worry about the recording quality....plug a mike into your computer. Robert Johnson would have loved to record with the quality every computer on the planet can record...sing your songs to the world.....put them on the
"Save the planet' page.
This is not a competition. There are no fees and no prizes. Your song could touch someone enough for them to strive to be a better person. This planet is being poisoned by carelessness, ignorance, greed and selfishness. Nothing new I supose except that the things we do are infintely more toxic to the planet than they were two hundred years ago. Before then the main misery and suffering was experienced by humans and often caused by other humans. Now the planet is changing because of our activity. The changes will make life even more difficult for millions of people.
Songs have the power to link us emotionally. Emotions drive our behaviour. Sing your songs to evoke the emotions that bring change. Save the planet.....now........
The Beatles and John Lennon changed the world with their music. You can to...just write and sing wherever you are....the butterfly effect......a ripple becomes a tidal wave.
I'll start this page with a song called 'Plant more Trees'. I wrote this for a school performance on 'World Environment Day' 2006. It always amazes me that at big public open space events people just dump their rubbish where they sit. Another thing that upsets me is how many smokers think the world is one huge ash tray......
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Plant More Trees.
Music and Lyrics David Rivett 2007.
Chorus;
Take home all your rubbish
Or put it in the bin
Keep our country beautiful
For us to live in
Look after all the animals
The birds and the bees
Look after each other
And plant more trees.
The forests and the rivers
The mountains and the plains
The plants and the animals
Too many to name
It’s such a beautiful world
That we live in today
But it’s up to each and all of us
To keep it that way.
If we live in the city
Or in a small town
We’re all still a part of the
Environment now
Mother nature needs a hand
From me and from you
We can all do a little
Thing or two
We all need water
The young and the old
Water is so precious
It’s just like gold so
Be careful with the sprinklers
Short showers are best
We can make it last if
We all use less
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Poison Train is the second song I've put on this page, it is a new one. The port town of Esperance on the south coast of WA was exposed to dust from lead shipments being transported through the port. The first warning signs of something wrong was hundreds of dead birds. Many people have unacceptable levels of lead in their blood because of this contamination of an otherwise pristine town. Magellan Metals, the Canadian mining company accused of being responsible was not shut down as you would expect although it was banned from exporting lead through Esperance. It has now got permission from the conservative state government to ship the lead through the port of Fremantle. Why should we trust such a company to not expose the people of Fremantle to lead poisoning?. How can any politician assure us it is safe? Where are they when it goes wrong? The people of Esperance are still waiting for compensation......Now the train being used to ship lead from Wiluna has found to be contaminated with lead dust. The WA government has suspended all shipments......when will they stop this unacceptable risk completely?
There's a verse about Yarloop and it's battle with Alcoa, and one about Wittenoom.
Here are the lyrics to 'POISON TRAIN'
Poison Train: Words and Music David Rivett 2009
There’s a town on the southern sea
Where birds fell from the sky
Drinking water stained with lead
Mother’s asking why
Now that town on the southern sea
Said you’re not welcome here
Sent that train on another track
Wagons full of fear
Chorus;
Poison train coming down the line
Coming to your town
Rattling bones deadening brains
Coming to your town
Lonely town in the red dirt land
With blue dust everywhere
People dying cannot breathe
No-one can live there
A small town in the dairy land
Got people getting sick
Toxic wind from smelter stack
Who can live in it?
Wise man in another land
Said money you can’t eat
Poison running in our blood
Once beneath our feet
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A band called GREEN WARRIORS based in India contacted me with a suggestion to collaborate on some music with a possible tour of the eastern states of Australia. If there are more bands out there with songs about Climate Change etc I will put links here to your music. Busking is about offering your music for free and if people want to throw a coin they can!
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