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‘A Little Good News’

Lyrics: American country music songwriter and producer Charlie Black; American country music songwriter and music publisher Rory Bourke, and professional country music songwriter Tommy Rocco.
Vocals: Canadian country-pop artist Anne Murray.

Back in 1983, just like today, when the world already feels full of troubling headlines, Ms Anne Murray recorded a song that really struck a chord with ordinary people. It’s about something we can all relate to; that feeling of turning on the news and just wishing, just for once, that there was something positive to hear.
Written by Charlie Black, Rory Bourke, and Tommy Rocco, this song, hereunder, went on to become a number one country hit and win a Grammy. The song reminds us how much we all need a little hope, or even as the title suggests, ‘A Little Good News.’

‘A Little Good News’

‘A Little Good News’.

I rolled out this morning, the kids had the morning news show on.
Bryant Gumbel was talking ’bout the fighting in Lebanon.
Some senator was squawking ’bout the bad economy.
It’s gonna get worse, you see, we need a change in policy.

There’s a local paper rolled up in a rubber band.
One more sad story’s one more than I can stand.
Just once how I’d like to see the headline say,
Not much to print today, can’t find nothing bad to say,
Because,

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town.
Nobody OD’d, nobody burned a single building down.
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain.
We sure could use a little good news today.

I’ll come home this evening, I’ll bet that the news will be the same.
Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane.
How I wanna hear the anchorman talk about a county fair.
And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care.
Whoa, tell me

Nobody was assassinated in the whole Third World today,
And in the streets of Ireland, all the children had to do was play,
And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA.
We sure could use a little good news today.

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town.
Nobody OD’d, nobody burned a single building down.
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain.
We sure could use a little good news today.

End.

Teach Your Children Well.

Lyrics: British and American musician, singer and songwriter Graham William Nash.
Vocals: Folk rock supergroup composed of the American singer-songwriters David Crosby (formerly of ‘The Byrds’) and Stephen Stills (formerly of ‘Buffalo Springfield’) and the English-American singer-songwriter Graham Nash (formerly of ‘The Hollies’) and Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, (formerly of ‘Buffalo Springfield’), collectively known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Released in 1970, “Teach Your Children” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is a warm, reflective song about the relationship between generations. Written by Graham Nash, it highlights how parents and children can learn from each other, encouraging understanding, guidance, and the passing on of better values for the future.

Teach Your Children Well.

Teach Your Children Well.

You who are on the road,
Must have a code that you can live by.
And so become yourself,
Because the past is just a goodbye.
Teach your children well,
Their father’s hell did slowly go by.
And feed them on your dreams,
The one they picked the one you’ll know by.
Don’t you ever ask them why,
If they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh,
And know they love you.
And you of tender years,
Can’t know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well,
Their children’s hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams,
The one they picked the one you’ll know by.
Don’t you ever ask them why,
If they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh,
And know they love you.

END.