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NOW'S THE TIME TO PUT CHILDREN FIRST
There are no easy answers to the problems that we face.
If we truly want solutions, then the mirror is the place
to find the person who can change the world!
With the will, there is the power!
Why wait another day? Why wait another hour?
NOW’S THE TIME!
We debate about healthcare, welfare, warfare,
child care, violence, and crime,
Guns and drugs and second-hand smoke
and daylight savings time,
Education, term limitation, where to cut and who to tax;
And children just keep on falling –
falling through the cracks!!
Children are the greatest gift! Their future is on the line!!
Their legacy is our words and deeds,
and we’re wasting precious time
as fires of ignorance, abuse, hate, and greed so deeply burn!!
For the sake of all the children, I pray someday we’ll learn!!
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time to build firm foundations!
Now’s the time to mold the future! Now’s the time!
Now’s the time to finally realize children do as children see.
They’ll become their parents, brothers, sisters, friends,
and heroes on TV
Do as I say not as I do and dare to just say “NO!”
That didn’t work when I was young. It doesn’t work today
and I know….
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time to build firm foundations!
Now’s the time to mold the future! Now’s the time!
I know there are those public servants
who’ve forgotten who’s serving who!
Now’s the time to let them know our interests are special too,
Because the family is the heart and soul of each and every nation,
and WE THE PEOPLE are the sculptors
of the coming generations!
If not US, who will do it? If not now, tell me when
WE will make this world a better place to raise our children in??
There is compassion, love, courage, concern, hope,
and a giving spirit,
and a voice for change that echoes still!
And if we listen, we can hear it!
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time to build firm foundations!
Now’s the time to mold the future!
Now’s the time for cooperation!
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time for re-dedication!
Now’s the time to come together!
Now’s the time to heal our nation!
NOW’S THE TIME!
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Health care for all and all for one
would someone please help me see
why it works all around the world
but won’t work for you and me?
I know healthcare is big business;
A big business that’s quite healthy
but does it care about your health
or making its investors wealthy?
So what if losing everything you own is just a hospital visit away?
Has putting profit before people become the American way?
Just like big oil, big drug, and big insurance all agree!
It’s all about the money. They don’t care about you and me!
(CHORUS)
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!” NOW’S THE TIME!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way!
(VERSE 2)
For every ill there is a pill for which we’re overcharged
except for one that brings relief for the hypocrisy at large!
From those who protect life religiously
from conception to a baby’s birth
then ignore its health, safety and welfare
once it’s born upon this earth!
(BRIDGE)
Children ARE being left behind as the pentagon spends more!
While millions have no health care it wastes billions waging war!
Corporate puppeteers pull the strings & chart the course
as puppet public servants sell us out without remorse!
(CHORUS)
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!” Now’s the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way.
(VERSE 3)
Now there those who truly believe you either have or you are had!
Right is wrong and wrong is right and the common good is bad!
They want to privatize, or profitize or corporatize our nation
and make our government of the people,
a government of the corporations!
(CHORUS)
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!” Now’s the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way.
Let need, not greed, lead the way.
(EPILOGUE)
Seems welfare is a dirty word when it helps
the sick and needy
but rationalized when it’s disguised as tax cuts,
tax breaks, loopholes,
subsidies, buyouts and bailouts…...
for the rich and corporate greedy!!
Written by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Spaceship Earth
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SPACESHIP EARTH
The Earth is like a spaceship
traveling through time and space.
The crew is every member of the human race.
Success or failure of the mission
will depend upon the crew
having the knowledge, skill, and empathy
to see the mission through.
Knowledge and skill without empathy
are as dark as dark can be!
Edison’s light bulb lights the world,
but many still don’t see
that everyone is different,
but everyone’s the same.
They laugh when they feel happy
and cry when they feel pain.
This century, empathy must finally find a place
in every human heart before we can start
to win……….. the human race!!
by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Medicare for All
03:12
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MediCare for ALL because health care is a right!
MediCare for ALL time the U.S. saw the light
that the best healthcare plan is a single payer plan!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
(VERSE I)
Big health insurance and Big drug wanna kill health care reform my friend!
Their shock & awe campaign of fractured facts will never end!
They want your benefits to benefit their Wall Street friends,
so we pay through the nose for the CEOs and corporate dividends!
"Profit before people & greed before goodwill" is their battle cry
as they move in for the kill!
We the people are collateral damage – Someone’s loved one died today
cause conditions pre-existed or they couldn’t afford to pay!
(CHORUS)
MediCare for ALL because health care is a right!
MediCare for ALL time the U.S. saw the light
that the best healthcare plan is a single payer plan!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
(VERSE II)
Big health insurance went to Congress to insure its own survival
and insure health care reform arrived there,dead on arrival!
They're spreading fear with blatant lies and rhetorical pollution!
They obstruct the truth to protect and serve self-serving institutions!
(BRIDGE)
There's no other way to say it.
We're being lied to and misled
into another greedy, corporate mess!!
How many thousands must lay dead
before we wake up from this nightmare
to the dawn of a new day
when putting people before profit
will become an American Way?
(CHORUS)
MediCare for ALL because health care is a right!
MediCare for ALL time the U.S. saw the light!
that the best healthcare plan is a single payer plan!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
(VERSE III)
Now’s the time to finally realize
we the people must make some choices!
If we want single-payer healthcare,
now’s the time to raise our voices
‘til they hear US in the halls of Government
and behind each corporate door
that we’re sick & tired of gettin’ less and less
while paying more and more!!!
(INTERLUDE)
Now there are those public servants
who’ve forgotten who’s serving who,
and now’s the time we need to let them know
our interests…..are special, too!!!!
(CHORUS)
MediCare for ALL because healthcare is a right
MediCare for ALL, time the U.S. saw the light
that every woman, child, and man should have healthcare in this land!!!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!!!
by Bob Wickline/Cascade Mountain Music/ASCAP
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LET'S TAKE OUR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND
How much can she take? How much can she give?
How much is too much, and how much longer can she live?
As we turn our backs and turn our eyes and pretend we don’t see!
If ignorance is bliss, then full of bliss are we!
As we take, take, take, take, take, take, take!!!
Like a good mother, Mother Nature keeps giving,
but her heart must be ready to break
She’s being abused and overused by her children
who choose to ignore!
There’s only so much that she can give
before she can give no more!!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and open up our eyes!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and finally realize!
That our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need not greed lead the way!
We poison the air, we poison the land
and we poison the water we drink,
and we’re the only known creatures
in the whole universe
with the ability to think,
But we keep on thinking happiness lies in
how much we buy and sell,
and more and more of Paradise is lost
and only time will tell!
What will become of Mother Nature in the coming years
when we will have about 10 Billion neighbors on this sphere.
Will our children’s children wake up to the “American Dream?”
Or will it have become a nightmare beyond imagining!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and open up our eyes!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and finally realize!
That our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need not greed lead the way! Let need not greed lead the way!
We use so much and waste so much!
How much do we really need?
How long can a dream survive
that seems to thrive on greed!
Political pollution is so thick and dark and dense
it contaminates and poisons common good
and common sense!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and open up our eyes!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and finally realize!
That our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need not greed lead the way!
Let need not greed lead the way!
How much can she take? How much can she give?
How much is too much, and how much longer…….!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Wake Up America
02:46
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Welfare for the wealthy, debt, war, corruption,
treason and an open season on human rights
tears at the fabric of our nation, and the tragic realization
is that future generations will pay ....the .... big....price!!!
Wake up and shake it up America
from north to south from east to west
from sea to shining sea!
Our government is of, by, and for
we the people who can't ignore
that we shall reap what we sow,
so we better sow carefully!
"This land is your land! This land is my land!
If we come together and work together, we can pull the weeds
that threaten to destroy our land! I hope and pray you understand.
We cannot reap a good harvest with
a bunch .... of .....bad .... seeds!
Wake up and shake it up America
from north to south from east to west
from sea to shining sea!
Our government is of, by, and for
we the people who can't ignore
that we shall reap what we sow,
so we better sow carefully!
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed "We are a government of the people,
by the people, and for the people,"
not of the corporations, by the corporations,
and for the corporations! He also observed,
"You can fool all the people some of the time
and some of the people all of the time,
but you can't fool all the people all of the time"!
Wake up and shake it up America!
Our government is of, by, and for
we the people who can't ignore
that we shall reap what we sow,
so we better sow carefully!
Wake up and shake it up America
from north to south from east to west
from sea to shining sea!
Our government is of, by, and for
we the people who can't ignore
that we shall reap what we sow,
so we better sow carefully!"
Wake up and shake it up America!
by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Too many people are gunned down in America each and every day
because guns are more protected than the people in the USA.
If more guns could end gun violence America
should be violence free
cause there is no other nation with more guns and wmds.
There's no other way to say it we've been lied to and misled
by puppet politicians. How many thousands must lay dead
before we wake up from this nightmare to the a dawn of a new day
when putting people before profits will become an American way?
Now's the time for we the people
to vote them out when they won't protect us.
Now's the time for we the people! Now's the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today
Let need, not greed, lead the way!
There are many more sane solutions
than more guns and talking tough.
How many more guns? How many more dead?
Before we say ENOUGH?!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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The Children Need Us
03:20
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THE CHILDREN NEED US
We cannot! No, we must not keep cutting education!
Each time we do we cut into the fabric of this nation!!
The greatest hope and gift we’re given
to prepare and take care of
is the miracle of each child
who we must nurture teach and love!
Are we teaching them what they should be learning
and learning from our mistakes?
How much longer can we gamble with so much at stake?
We talk, talk, talk, and say, “Education is the key
that unlocks the doors to who we are and what we hope to be.
And that children are the future, but the future will not wait
while we talk & talk & talk & talk until it is too late!!
The children need us to open up our eyes!
The children need us to finally realize
that their tomorrows depend on what we do today!
Let the needs of the children lead the way!!
Readin’, ritin’, rithmetic, and science are not all
we must learn if we’re going to save ourselves
and this blue-green ball we’re on!
As we continue to debate and create more excuses,
conditions worsen in our schools & everybody loses!
We cannot! No, we must not keep cutting education!
Each time we do, we cut into the fabric of this nation!
We cannot! No, we must not Take any child for granted!
What we reap will be determined by the seeds we’ve planted!
Children are watching, and they’re listening,
and they’re doing what we do!
For better or worse when they grow up,
they’re gonna be like us,
so you and I should be living what they should be learning
and learning from our mistakes!!
We’re ignoring signs of warning,
and I wonder what it’s gonna take????
The children need US, and they need US now!!
The children need US to teach and show them how!
The children need US!
We’re the potters, and they’re the clay!!
Let the needs of the children lead the way.
Let the needs of the children lead the way.
I’ve said it time and time again. I say it here today.
We are the potters of the future, and children are the clay!
Clay we must shape into human vestals in which we must place
enough knowledge, skill, and empathy to save………
the human race!!!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Now’s the time to finally realize
we the people must make some choices!
If we want healthcare for ALL,
now’s the time to raise our voices
‘til they hear US in the halls of Government
and behind each corporate door
that we’re sick and tired of getting less and less
while paying more and more!!!
Put human need before corporate greed!
Join with many doctors, nurses,
and other concerned Americans
who believe healthcare is right
and without healthcare for all,
there is no Liberty and Justice for ALL!”
LET ‘EM HEAR US!!!!
Medicare for ALL because healthcare is a right!
Medicare for ALL time the U.S. saw the light!
that every woman, child, and man
should have healthcare in our land!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
Contact your legislators and tell them
to save Medicare as we know it
and expand it into Medicare as we need it
improved Medicare for all
because YOUR interests are special, too!
by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Healthcare for All promo
01:02
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Now’s the time to finally realize
we the people must make some choices!
If we want Healthcare for All,
now’s the time to raise our voices
‘til they hear US in the halls of Government
and behind each corporate door
that we’re sick and tired of getting less and less
while paying more and more!!!
Put human need before corporate greed!
Join with many doctors, nurses,
and other concerned Americans
who believe Healthcare is right
and without Healthcare for All,
there is no Liberty and Justice for ALL!”
LET ‘EM HEAR US!!!!
Health Care for ALL because healthcare is a right!
Health Care for ALL time the U.S. saw the light!
that every woman, child, and man
should have Healthcare in this land!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
Contact your legislators and neighbors
and tell them to support Healthcare for All
because Healthcare is a right,
and OUR interests are special, too!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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THE TIME FOR PEACE ON EARTH....HAS COME
The hateful, hurtful, wasteful ways of abuse of power and greed
will never lead US down a path of righteousness
or to a promised land of peace & freedom!!
Now, if we would do unto others
as we would have others do unto US!!!”
Maybe then we’d begin to see some peace on earth
and governments We the People trust!! OH
Go shout it from the mountaintop
over the hills and everywhere!!
Go shout it from the mountaintop!!.
The time for peace on earth good will toward all has come!!!
If not US, please tell me who!
If not now, please tell me when
We’re gonna practice what was preached
on the Mount when Jesus reached out in PEACE & LOVE
and taught them saying,
“Do not hate your enemy!!
Love your neighbor and do God’s will!”
Now, what don’t you understand about God’s command,
the one that says, “THOU SHALT NOT KILL???!!!”
Go shout it from the mountaintop
over the hills and everywhere!!
Go shout it from the mountaintop!!.
The time for peace on earth good will toward all has come!!!
by Bob Wickline / Cascdae Mountain Music / ASCAP
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WHAT WILL BECOME OF LADY LIBERTY?
"Should the leaders of a 'nation under God'
believe the end justifies any means
or make a mockery of truth and 'justice for all'
and take liberty with our rights and dreams?
What will become of Lady Liberty in the coming years?
Will her light be burning bright or be extinguished by the tears
Of those whose lives are torn apart by those too blind to see
That the words that follow 'under God'
are the words that could make us free!"
We're never going to be indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,
'til the common good comes before party politics,
and for sale signs are banned in the halls of government.
If we're "one nation under God," God must be disappointed
unless the GOD OF ABUSE OF POWER AND GREED
was recently anointed!
As some still debate about the fate
of the Ten Commandments on the government walls,
we lie and steal for power and kill for oil
and then proceed to break them all!
When We the People do unto others as we'd have done unto US,
maybe then we'll begin to live under God
and in God not gold we'll trust!
What will become of Lady Liberty in the coming years?
Will her light be burning bright or be extinguished by the tears
Of those whose lives are torn apart by those too blind to see
That the words that follow 'under God'
are the words that could make us free!"
Somewhere, someplace, somehow seems we've lost our American way
to pursuing liberty and justice for all, so while I can, I have to say,
for any patriotic, all American woman, child or man,
no flag should ever be more important than the rights for which it stands!
What will become of Lady Liberty in the coming years?
Will her light be burning bright or be extinguished by the tears
Of those whose lives are torn apart by those too blind to see
That the words that follow 'under God'
are the words that could make us free!"
I say that the words that follow 'under God'
are the words that could make us free!"
by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music/ASCAP
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Now's the time (repeat 8x)
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time to build firm foundations!
Now’s the time to mold the future!
Now’s the time for cooperation!
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time for re-dedication!
Now’s the time to come together!
Now’s the time to heal our nation!
NOW’S THE TIME!
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