Everybody Knows...

Yeah, I know, I was supposed to continue with my drivel about "Bubble Ships" and my two cents towards the debate about evolution and stuff.

However, I got sidetracked because somebody told to sign up on "My Space", which I have done and you can here a recording of "Everybody Knows", a song I knitted approx. 1972. The text is below.

There is a brief story about this song. I was playing some place and this fellow came up and asked if I could write some socialistic songs. I was flabbergasted and flummoxed -- I had just played this song! O, well, at least that let me know something of hoe Guthrie felt when somebody asked him to make a song about the "Ladies' Auxiliary"...

Everybody knows: when the rain falls down,
it falls all over the ground...
And everybody knows: when you chop a tree down,
it falls and makes a great big sound..!

Chorus:
O,don't everybody see...how we need that new society..?
The old one ain't just bugging me --
it's a-gettin'... it's a-gettin'... it's a-gettin'...
ON MY NERVES! AARRRGGGHHH!!!!

Everybody knows: when the shit hits the fan,
it blows all over every man...
And everybody knows: when you see a friend in need,
you lend him a helping hand...

Everybody knows: when the Sun shines bright,
it shines on every hand...
And everybody knows when your Sun goes down
darkness must cover the land...