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The Gimme Blues

from Force Field for Good by Barry Lane

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My Momma takes me shopping
almost every day.
She buys me lots of pizza,
and games for me to play.

I really, really like it
when I get all these toys,
but you’d think I would have
learned by now how just to enjoy.

It’s a kind of twisted feeling
that cuts right to the bone.
Why am I so sad,
and why do I feel so alone.

I got the Gimmes,
I got the Gimmes,

I got the Gimmes,
I got the Gimmes.

You’d think that I’d be happy
that I have all this stuff
but I never, never, really know
when I’ve had quite enough

I got the Gimmes.
I got the Gimmes.

Mother earth is wonderful,
she gives us all her soul.
We use it to make tools and toys
to help us to control.
Plastic, metal, steel and string
create our modern world,
but we think she has an endless
stream of stuff to just unfurl.

When will learn to realize
we have this bad disease,
and stop destroying
forests so we can see the trees.We got the Gimmes.
We got the Gimmes.
We got the Gimmes.
We got the Gimmes.

You’d think that we’d be happy
that we have all this stuff,
but we never, never really know
when we’ve had quite enough,

We got the Gimmes.
We got the Gimmes.

Doctor, Doctor, Doctor,
help us, help us, please.
Do you have a cure for
our sad selfish disease?

He says we should
think grateful thoughts
for everyone we know
and learn to love with all our hearts
to make this new world grow.

Think of them before yourself
and listen to their needs.
Find the flower in your heart
that grows among the weeds,

and lose the Gimmes,
and lose the Gimmes,
and lose the Gimmes,
and lose the Gimmes.

Think of them before yourself
and listen to their needs,
find the flower in your heart
that grows among the weeds.

And lose the Gimmes.
And lose the Gimmes.
And lose the Gimmes

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from Force Field for Good, released March 15, 2014

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Barry Lane Vermont

I write songs about kindness for children and songs about hope and justice for adults.

I love Pete Seeger, and believe, as he did, that a single song can help change the world by uniting hearts and minds.


We are the mixed fruit of one tree,

Live in peace and unity.

Forget the old
embrace the new,

Less me, me, me,
more

You, you, you.

For now is the New Day. ... more

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