Author John Prine
Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine)
Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods
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2024/11/15 - 15:02
The Hobo Song
The Hobo Song - John Prine - 1978
There was a time when lonely men
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Contributed by Pluck 2024/11/3 - 02:04
Ain't Got Time for Hate
(2018)
Scritta da John Hahn
dall'album "America's Child"
Backing Vocals – Emmylou Harris, Gretchen Peters, John Prine, Katie Pruitt, Kristi Stassinopoulou, Mary Gauthier, Tommy Womack
Scritta da John Hahn
dall'album "America's Child"
Backing Vocals – Emmylou Harris, Gretchen Peters, John Prine, Katie Pruitt, Kristi Stassinopoulou, Mary Gauthier, Tommy Womack
“I think some people love hating. They love to hate, no matter what. You can say or do anything. It’s the perfect time for people who want to just hate, no matter what.” Little Village
Where's your wings, little angel
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2021/5/21 - 23:40
Hello In There
(1971)
Album: John Prine
Incisa anche da Joan Baez in "Diamonds & Rust" (1975)
Album: John Prine
Incisa anche da Joan Baez in "Diamonds & Rust" (1975)
"I wrote Hello In There on the mail route.
I'd heard the John Lennon song Across The Universe, and he had a lot of reverb on his voice. I was thinking about hollering into a hollow log, trying to get through to somebody - Hello in there. That was the beginning thought; then it went to old people. I've always had an affinity to old people. I used to help a buddy with his newspaper route and I'd deliver to a Baptist old people's home where you'd have to go room -to-room and some of the patients would kind of pretend that you were a grandchild or nephew that had come to visit instead of the guy delivering papers.
That always stuck n my head. It was all that stuff together, along with that pretty melody. I don't think I've done a show without singing Hello In There, nothing in it wears on me." ~ John Prine
I'd heard the John Lennon song Across The Universe, and he had a lot of reverb on his voice. I was thinking about hollering into a hollow log, trying to get through to somebody - Hello in there. That was the beginning thought; then it went to old people. I've always had an affinity to old people. I used to help a buddy with his newspaper route and I'd deliver to a Baptist old people's home where you'd have to go room -to-room and some of the patients would kind of pretend that you were a grandchild or nephew that had come to visit instead of the guy delivering papers.
That always stuck n my head. It was all that stuff together, along with that pretty melody. I don't think I've done a show without singing Hello In There, nothing in it wears on me." ~ John Prine
We had an apartment in the city,
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2009/7/5 - 11:59
Paradise
Album John Prine
Notable covers: Jackie DeShannon, John Denver, Johnny Cash
"Paradise" is a song written by John Prine for his father, and recorded for his 1971 debut album, John Prine. Prine also re-recorded the song for his 1986 album, German Afternoons.
The song is about the devastating impact of strip mining for coal, whereby the top layers of soil are blasted off with dynamite or dug away with steam shovels to reach the coal seam below. The song is also about what happened to the area around the Green River in Kentucky because of strip mining. The song references the Peabody Coal Company, and a town called Paradise in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, where the Tennessee Valley Authority operated the Paradise Fossil Plant, a coal-fired electric generating station.
The area has suffered serious economic downturn because of the decline of coal mining, caused mainly by the abundance of natural... (Continues)
Notable covers: Jackie DeShannon, John Denver, Johnny Cash
"Paradise" is a song written by John Prine for his father, and recorded for his 1971 debut album, John Prine. Prine also re-recorded the song for his 1986 album, German Afternoons.
The song is about the devastating impact of strip mining for coal, whereby the top layers of soil are blasted off with dynamite or dug away with steam shovels to reach the coal seam below. The song is also about what happened to the area around the Green River in Kentucky because of strip mining. The song references the Peabody Coal Company, and a town called Paradise in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, where the Tennessee Valley Authority operated the Paradise Fossil Plant, a coal-fired electric generating station.
The area has suffered serious economic downturn because of the decline of coal mining, caused mainly by the abundance of natural... (Continues)
When I was a child my family would travel
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Contributed by L. E. 2020/5/19 - 23:31
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery, War on Earth
Some Humans Ain’t Human
(2005)
Album: Fair & Square
This is political commentary from Prine on George W. Bush. Prine said in song notes at his website that he didn’t want to die with people not being sure where he stood on Bush.
Album: Fair & Square
This is political commentary from Prine on George W. Bush. Prine said in song notes at his website that he didn’t want to die with people not being sure where he stood on Bush.
Some humans ain't human
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Contributed by L. E. 2020/5/19 - 22:56
Song Itineraries:
George Walker Bush II
Lonesome Friends of Science
The Tree of Forgiveness - 2018
L' Autore dichiara palesemente , con il suo abituale tono bonario ed ironico, di non identificarsi piu' con un mondo condizionato da un certo tipo di Scienziati. Preannunciano la fine del mondo, hanno umiliato Plutone degradandolo da Pianeta a Star di Hollywood, nei loro laboratori fanno esperimenti sulle capre di montagna . Dovrebbero invece lasciare l'universo integro. Lui da tempo vive rifugiandosi negli affetti dei suoi famigliari e del suo cane. Note personali .
L' Autore dichiara palesemente , con il suo abituale tono bonario ed ironico, di non identificarsi piu' con un mondo condizionato da un certo tipo di Scienziati. Preannunciano la fine del mondo, hanno umiliato Plutone degradandolo da Pianeta a Star di Hollywood, nei loro laboratori fanno esperimenti sulle capre di montagna . Dovrebbero invece lasciare l'universo integro. Lui da tempo vive rifugiandosi negli affetti dei suoi famigliari e del suo cane. Note personali .
The lonesome friends of science say
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Contributed by L. E. 2020/5/25 - 08:51
That’s How Every Empire Falls
The song is That’s How Every Empire Falls. It was written by a hitherto unknown Knoxville singer-songwriter, R.B. Morris (website), and appears on his Spies, Lies and Burning Eyes. John Prine recorded a masterful, haunting (as only John can do) cover in 2008 on his Fair and Square EP.
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Tikun Olam תיקון עולם
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Tikun Olam תיקון עולם
The lyrics are a haunting allegory in which the frailties of the human heart are woven into the decline of an empire. It seems, at least for me, that the best songs are the ones that somehow connect the heart with the deeper truths of human society. First, listen to the song and as you hear the last words (the last 8 lines), read these words and think of the 9/11 attacks, all those miserable years under George Bush, and all the lost opportunities we’ve had as a great nation humbled by our own hubris.
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Tikun Olam תיקון עולם
Promoting Israeli democracy, exposing secrets of the national security state
‘That’s How Every Empire Falls’
August 17, 2011 by Richard Silverstein
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Tikun Olam תיקון עולם
Promoting Israeli democracy, exposing secrets of the national security state
‘That’s How Every Empire Falls’
August 17, 2011 by Richard Silverstein
Caught a train from Alexandria
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Contributed by L. E. 2020/5/20 - 10:50
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
1971
"This next song is for Lois and Ernie, I started out delivering mail to Maywood, then Broadview, and ended up with Westchester - routes nobody wanted. We hated to see Readers Digest come, people who would get them, would get them for the rest of their lives. I didn't read any of it except for 'Humor in Uniform'. At the height of the Viet Nam war, there was a silent majority, they were really quiet - Reader's Digest was part of it, they just stuck these plastic flag decals in their magazine, no reason, they just snuck them in there. The next day, there were flag decals everywhere. Anyway, Lois and Ernie owned the 'Dirty Book Store' and this good old protest song is for them." ~ John Prine, Proviso East High School, Maywood Il, 2/26/00
John Prine
"This next song is for Lois and Ernie, I started out delivering mail to Maywood, then Broadview, and ended up with Westchester - routes nobody wanted. We hated to see Readers Digest come, people who would get them, would get them for the rest of their lives. I didn't read any of it except for 'Humor in Uniform'. At the height of the Viet Nam war, there was a silent majority, they were really quiet - Reader's Digest was part of it, they just stuck these plastic flag decals in their magazine, no reason, they just snuck them in there. The next day, there were flag decals everywhere. Anyway, Lois and Ernie owned the 'Dirty Book Store' and this good old protest song is for them." ~ John Prine, Proviso East High School, Maywood Il, 2/26/00
John Prine
While digesting Reader's Digest
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2005/11/29 - 19:33
Take the Star Out of the Window
[1972]
Album “Diamonds in the Rough”
Album “Diamonds in the Rough”
Robert was a sailor
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Contributed by Bartleby 2012/1/17 - 13:59
Song Itineraries:
War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
The Great Compromise
[1971]
Lyrics & Music by John Prine
Album: Diamonds in the Rough [1972]
The theme of this song is the disillusionment of the country during the Vietnam War era. As in the liner notes to his 1993 anthology "Great Days" Prine wrote: "The idea I had in mind was that America was this girl -you used to take to drive-in movies. And then when you went to get some popcorn, she turned around and screwed some guy in foreign sports car. I really love America. I just don't know how to get there anymore…"
Lyrics & Music by John Prine
Album: Diamonds in the Rough [1972]
The theme of this song is the disillusionment of the country during the Vietnam War era. As in the liner notes to his 1993 anthology "Great Days" Prine wrote: "The idea I had in mind was that America was this girl -you used to take to drive-in movies. And then when you went to get some popcorn, she turned around and screwed some guy in foreign sports car. I really love America. I just don't know how to get there anymore…"
I knew a girl who was almost a lady
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/3/3 - 09:28
Sam Stone [There's A Hole In Daddy's Arm]
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[1971]
Lyrics and Music by John Prine
Testo e musica di John Prine
Other Recordings/Altre incisioni
Bob Gibson on Bob Gibson 1970.
Laura Cantrell on Future Soundtrack for America 2004
Tim Grimm on Names 2004
Johnny Cash on Live from Austin, TX 2005
Sam Stone is a song written by John Prine about a drug-addicted veteran with a Purple Heart, and his death by overdose.
It is known for the line "There's a hole in daddy's arm, where all the money goes"
The song can be interpreted as a reference to the phenomenon of morphine addiction among war veterans as a result of its use to treat crippling and painful injuries, and its often lifetime repercussions.
It was said that his inspiration for this song was that of a long time friend of his, named Sam Stone who was an avid lover of marine life, and politics. - en.wikipedia
Lyrics and Music by John Prine
Testo e musica di John Prine
Other Recordings/Altre incisioni
Bob Gibson on Bob Gibson 1970.
Johnny Cash on Live from Austin, TX 2005
Sam Stone is a song written by John Prine about a drug-addicted veteran with a Purple Heart, and his death by overdose.
It is known for the line "There's a hole in daddy's arm, where all the money goes"
The song can be interpreted as a reference to the phenomenon of morphine addiction among war veterans as a result of its use to treat crippling and painful injuries, and its often lifetime repercussions.
It was said that his inspiration for this song was that of a long time friend of his, named Sam Stone who was an avid lover of marine life, and politics. - en.wikipedia
Sam Stone came home to his wife and family
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi
Song Itineraries:
War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
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Il maledetto coronavirus si è portato via anche John Prine.
Coronavirus: muore il cantante John Prine, vincitore di due Grammy
Bob Dylan lo aveva definito uno dei suoi artisti preferiti. Prima di affrontare le complicanze del Covid 19 aveva superato, per due volte un tumore
CCG Staff 2020/4/8 - 09:15
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“I wrote ‘Jesus Was A Capricorn (Owed To John Prine)’ because I was so influenced by John,” said Kristofferson in 2016. “When I heard his songs I felt like his writing had kicked me into doing it. You take things from all over the place, though you don’t always admit it! I was really influenced by Roger Miller, Shel Silverstein, and Mickey Newbury. Everybody you admire influences you somehow in your art.”