[Vision2020] [corrected link] A tribute to . . .

[Tom Hansen]

Photo of Spanky and Our Gang
http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Spanky_and_Our_Gang/Spanky_and_Our_Gang.jpg

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


> On Sep 20, 2019, at 5:16 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> 
> . . . Spanky and Our Gang
> <image1.jpeg>
> http://www.TomandRodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Spanky_and_Our_Gang/Spanky_and_Our_Gang.jpg
> 
> “Lazy Day”
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Spanky_and_Our_Gang/Lazy_Day.mp3
> 
> “Like To Get To Know You”
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Spanky_and_Our_Gang/Like_To_Get_To_Know_You.mp3
> 
> “Sunday Morning”
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Spanky_and_Our_Gang/Sunday_Morning.mp3
> 
> “Sunday Will Never Be The Same”
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Spanky_and_Our_Gang/Sunday_Will_Never_Be_The_Same.mp3
> 
> And one of my favorites, from 1969, a song reflecting the attitude of the time . . .
> 
> “Give a Damn”
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Spanky_and_Our_Gang/Give_a_Damn.mp3
> 
> (CRANK IT UP AND SING ALONG!)
> 
> If you'd take the train with me
> Uptown, thru the misery
> Of ghetto streets in morning light,
> It's always night.
> Take a window seat, put down your Times,
> You can read between the lines,
> Just meet the faces that you meet
> Beyond the window's pane.
> 
> And it might begin to teach you
> How to give a damn about your fellow man.
> And it might begin to teach you
> How to give a damn about your fellow man.
> 
> Or put your girl to sleep sometime
> With rats instead of nursery rhymes,
> With hunger and your other children
> By her side,
> And wonder if you'll share your bed
> With something else which must be fed,
> For fear may lie beside you
> Or it may sleep down the hall.
> 
> Come and see how well despair
> Is seasoned by the stifling air,
> See your ghetto in the good old
> Sizzling summertime.
> Suppose the streets were all on fire
> The flames like tempers leaping higher
> Suppose you'd lived there all your life,
> 
> D'you think that you would mind?
> And it might begin to reach you
> Why I give a damn about my fellow man;
> And it might begin to teach you
> How to give a damn about your fellow man
> 
> ———————————————
> 
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
> 
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>   
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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