Malvina Reynolds / What Have They Done To The Rain

[Kthe144]

I have heard this song before, but for some reason I just broke out crying this time. The image was so clear in my mind. Malvina you are a wonder.

[theshadow1932]

You know, what tickles me is that people of Malvinas' generation clearly did love freedom. Some of her contemporaries really put their asses on the line, to stop fascism. Sadly, they failed and a lot of good men died, defeating the monsters that she and her songs couldn't wish away.

It's a shame she's not still working. What a team she and Sarah would make. Well, Their day may come! God bless America.

[BBB4MAW]

This sounds even better with rain in the background. Play 'em at the same time and see 4 yourself.

[verbaud]

What a visionary song from a visionary woman. The 1st "ecology song" I ever knew.

[thehockstra]

dogfight :)

[BryanWtby]

WOW! Very touching song. Pretty nuts what our government has done for years and years and things are still the same. Difference is today it isnt nuclear testing but just other "experiments/accidents/natural disasters" that happen "accidently" or "naturally". God bless us, the rain and the grass.

[PeletheCaique]

Part 1:

it was originally written in 1962 as part of a campaign to stop aboveground nuclear testing, which was putting strontium-90 in the air, where it was washed down by the rain, got into the soil and thence to the grass, which was eaten by cows.

[PeletheCaique]

Part 2

When children drank the cows’ milk the strontium-90, chemically similar to calcium but radioactive, was deposited in their bones. Mothers saved their children’s baby teeth and sent them in to be tested by scientists who indeed found elevated levels of strontium-90 in their teeth. A year after this song was written, President Kennedy signed the treaty against aboveground testing. This song is still relevant today. Japan March 11, 2011

[RayBeckerman]

This is the first time I've heard this magical song sung by Malvina Reynolds herself. I am speechless.

[BishiBanger]

@RayBeckerman isn't it beautiful? (asking rhetorically)

[ZEBKRON]

@RayBeckerman lucky you!

[23PowerL]

STOP CASTOR!

[kindguy420]

beautifully tragic