I knew the man who wrote this song, Ed McCurdy...he died 3 weeks after my first son was born. I'm so glad that my son got to meet such an amazing man even though he doesn't remember it. I do. And it's a wonderful memory...
This is a Fact...are U signing now? Have U had enough blood? "Guns, swords, and uniforms were scattered on the ground..." that is the way it will be. Period. Oh...by the way, we take no substitutions.
I cried fo days when John died. Our music has not been quite the quality he offered us to listen to. This song brings tears to my eyes. How horrible it mut have been for our men were destroyed & killed all in vain all for political gain.
Love John Denver ...miss him so much ...he left some good music behind ..too bad this one is still at war instead of Peace..Peace JD..Peace everyone ..we can pray for that and maybe someday it will happen !!
Found a John Denver cassette when I was 9 years old.. ever since then, he has been my favorite country singer.. This song means just as much now as it did back in Nam.
I can't believe it, this was actually a hymn we used to sing in Primary School (that's age 7-9 for Americans). What a legendary secular school, every school should sing this instead of praise to a made-up paedophile. I wish I knew the teacher who chose it.
I wish John Denver, Paul Robson, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, and Phil Ochs would all come back and join Pete Seeger and who ever else is left for the greatest peace concert ever! Guess that is also strange. Let us never forget to pursue peace.
Wouldn't it be FAR OUT (as John would have put it), if we all went to bed tonight to wake up in the morning and find out that The strangest dream had come true? :)
@5723maddy Yeah Maddy, of course it would be great if we didn't kill each other, THERE'S NO MONEY IN PEACE or HEALTH! But you know what perpetuates Greed, Violence, Power CIRCUMCISION, or GENITAL MUTILATION....look at who's killing each other the most in the Middle East, JEWS, MUSLIMS and CHRISTIANS all MONOtheistic Abrahamic Faiths. These cultures CIRCUMCISE most! HOW CAN A LITTLE HELPLESS INFANT EVER, REPEAT E V E R TRUST ANOTHER HUMAN BEING AFTER BEING INTRODUCED INTO THIS PLANET THIS WAY?
John Denver is my All-Time favorite singer. I always felt like he was my brother. I was born just 14 days after he was and I've just always felt this connection. (yes, that makes BOTH of us 67!!!) Who knows? I miss being able to see him in person, but his music will live forever and ever amen! It was amazing to hear this song again. Been a very long time. I really think the world missed out by his later songs not being played on the air! He was a beautiful singer and followed his dream!
love, peace, truth, sharing your gifts! peace and beauty starts from within. When their is peace and beauty within, their is peace in the family. if their is peace in a family,there is peace and beauty in a community. When their is beauty in a community, it spreads to the rest of the country. When their is peace within a country, their is peace and BEAUTY within the world.
Thanks, John for sharing your gifts.
We can all share our gifts, to bring beauty to this world.
Seems he was more a folk singer than a country singer in those days. Wish he'd explored this style more. Very powerful and genuine singing. Maybe he got over-commercialised later in his career. Another of the greats gone too soon.
@xentric2000 Ed McCurdy wrote this song in the 1950s and this song has been recorded hy JD, Simon and Garfunkle to name a few. One of the first anti war, folk songs ever written.
the most beautiful voice i ever heard, he was one of the few musicians who could so honestly express their feelings with a pure spirit of humanity. truly inspirational performance RIP.
Wouldn't it be FAR OUT, as John would have said, if we all went to bed tonight and woke up in the morning to find out the "strangest dream" had come true. :)
Yes indeed and it's a great song. Unfortunately there is a whole industry and profits to be earned from encouraging conflict and war. More so than peace, since when you destroy things you have to rebuild them. War reduces product life cycles and increases production frequency (economic/ business principle). More importantly can we eliminate the war profiteers and instigators, the military financial banking complex. Rothschilds and others of their type -that is my dream.
Remember, "last night" was 1950; 60 years ago when Ed McCurdy penned those words. See the nations unite in good intention, to bring aid to the distressed, to defend the peacemakers, to make the world a better place.
If religion is the cause of war, then explain why chimps have wars with neighboring clans. Chimps dont have religion, never has been any documentation of them making idols and or praying, even though chimps can make tools, learn sign, and live in structured families.
btw, you need some music in your homepage, can take from mine.
Evolutionist believe we humans evolved from chimps. Pretty much all war protesters are liberal: atheist, agnostic, etc. and wars with humans has been going on for thousands of years, so much so not even ONE century has gone by with no wars between humans somewhere on this planet. So then, if youre an evolutionist, hey war is just part of life, chimps do it, and we are from them, you say, so that is just the way it is. Correct? Correct.
UM- NOT correct- I think you need to take your high school biology over again or READ Dawin's book- cause you won't find anywhere in the book that people evolved from chimps. You can try but won't find it. Dawin's theory is that apes, chimps, etc and humans evolved from a common ancestor- get it right- please.
JD was pro peace. I think that's more powerful than saying your anti-war, because then you focusing on what you DON"T want instead of what you DO, which is peace. so Mother Teresa was invited to an anti-war rally, and she refused, saying, "when you have a Pro-peace rally, call me!"
unlike amyINRG I feel the richest people are those who keep things simple.I feel sorry for amyINRG that they hold hatred towards a song.This song and this singer can reach out to people.John Denver paid highly for singing this song.The govt pushed his record label to drop him but he went on to sing on his own label and still voiced his opinion against war.Wish there were simple people like him about today
Yeah, but what did all you hippies actually accomplish? The people who like this track are, in my experience, unanimously in favour of sitting around smoking dope and telling everyone what a dreadful thing war is, but their total accomplishment in real terms is a big, fat nothing. Willing something doesn't make it so. You all thought you were going to change things, but you didn't.
@amylNRG You are wrong about me.I am not a hippy so I cant answe what they accomplished.But I will say this that i am sure even you must think war is a dreadful thing.There are no winners in war
@amylNRG It may be true that many people sang or talked about changing the world and didn't really try to do anything about it, but this isn't true of John Denver. He was actively involved in many organizations that endeavored to improve the world and he even cofounded a few, such as Windstar. So I think it is very unfair to group John Denver in with these people.
@amylNRG Ghandi (a very wise and effective man in terms of getting things done) once said: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Why, I know you are speaking from the ego, and that is why you feel pessimistic and like peace is impossible. It's not. But you can create your own world around what ever it is YOU wish to manifest in your life. just remember, that a legacy of kindness and love is more valuable and inspiring to change than many, many lifetimes of hate and regret.Peace!
You've got some magical device that allows you to read my mind, have you? Feel free to quote more fluff at me if you wish, but remember that it's just you reading your subconscious interpretation of things onto me, and nothing to do with me.
@amylNRG Ghandi (a very wise and effective man in terms of getting things done) once said: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Why, I know you are speaking from the ego, and that is why you feel pessimistic and like peace is impossible. It's not. But you can create your own world around what ever it is YOU wish to manifest in your life. just remember, that a legacy of kindness and love is more valuable and inspiring to change than many, many lifetimes of hate and regret.Peace!
@amylNRG Amy, you are dead wrong. The effect that anti-war activists had washington's psyche was very real and profound. With the media's help, it was this activism that eventuall led to the withdrawal of troops in vietnam. Otherwise, many more thousands of lives could have been lost in that jungle over nothing. Never underestimate the power of the little man, especially prior to an election year. Every voice matters.
Don't be ludicrous. Certainly the power of the "little man" had huge impact on the ending of the Vietnam War, but it was people in the heartlands watching the war on TV, then writing to the President and their Representatives, who had the influence, not demonstrators in Washington. For clear evidence of both these points, read Kissinger's memoirs, and Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
@citidwellerzinc yes but war =MONEY thats what war is all about mind you i dont belive in it and if i had tomake money that way i would rather be broke
Oh how I hate this song. It's been years since I heard it, and it's still as naive and simplistic today as it was in the 70s. It breaks my heart that even today so many people can be taken in by trite sentiment. I've spent a huge part of my life working to make the world a better place, and the single greatest obstruction isn't the obvious bad guys, it's the inactive and selfish left-overs from the 60s and 70s, who think that singing about wanting good is the same as actually doing good.
@amylNRG you absolutly have the wrong mindset if you think music like this didnt make a difference.. and there was no one less selfish than John Denver
I heard this song for the first time in a long time now! We used to sing it in elementary school, a lot. Also in a Frisian version. I had no idea that is was such a well known song.
John Denver sacrifices his career for the things he truely believed in. World Peace, Trying to save our ONE WORLD. hunger, all children, animals. He did anything and everything he could. I'm glad he is not here right now to see all that is going on. At least now he is with his mother Erma whom he loved so much and she was always so proud of him God be with you Erma. You were a great mom to your two sons John and Ron.
Yes indeed JD was close to Erma - RIP Erma- you were a great mom. I would also like to send my condolences and wishes not only to Ron but also to Annie, the grandkids,great grandkids, her sister, and all the rest who knew her so well over the years.
"Ohrwurm" is called a song which you cannot stop "thinking" about. Not thinking in an intellectual way. You just "hear" the song(you think you hear it) and sometimes people cannot stop whistling the song. This was happened me today at school. I rember this song and cannot get it out of my brain or better said ears. ;-) Word by word translation of "Ohr-wurm" is "ear-worm". How ever. This is a "Ohrwurm".
John Denver does an excellent performance of this song. I don't know how many others recorded this song but the earliest version I've seen was on the first album by Simon & Garfunkel titled "Wednesday Morning 3 A.M." The song was copyrighted by E. McCurdy in 1950 on Almanac Music Inc.
I'm not sure if this is a great truth or just an ancient "truism"....but right this minute, listening to John, I don't really care....I just miss knowing he is alive and singing somewhere on this earth....heaven might be wonderful, yet this earth is all I am sure of.
I love this song only because John Denver is singing it!
I don't believe God needs anyone to be his/her policemen of the world. God is a convenient and motivational excuse to wage war for land, resources, or hatred. DieKarooKind ... do I correctly understand you to say you would go to war to fight evolution ? I suppose this means the teaching of evolution ... as in suppressing an idea or knowledge you don't endorse. Evolution doesn't exclude God from the creation role ... it's merely a tool.
The only way we will have peace is to stop relying in god and rely on the intelligence of mankind. War in the name of god has gone on for millenium after millenium.
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My God teaches "Blessed are the Peacemakers" and "Love thine enemy".
If I was to go to war in the name of God it would be to right unjustice. Like dictators that send millions of people to gas chambers. Or in the name of Racial Cleansing and Evolotuion.
The only way we will ever have peace is by God working I'm the heart of man. Gods word penetrates even to the bone. John understood this and this song speaks of it. As long as time exists in our free will most people will choose sin.
I once saw a quote that read...."when the power of love overcomes the loveof power, then the world will know peace". I think this is what John was trying to say. The greed and self righteous attitude of the worlds leaders and governments just can't get beyond their own agendas, and selfishness to bring about true peace. Just look at what is happening in the world today. I am convinced that man will never be able to rule himself and attain true peace....history proves it!
There will always be war while guns and arms are manufactured. While human lives to be worth less than the arms. We should fight for the increase in value of the human life. To struggle to show more love for the human being.
Sorry I was wrong! Perhaps should human race desapear from this planet. But forever ('n ever, amen!) this time. Perhaps this shall be the only way for paradise again. Perhaps humans are even the worst plague on Earth. Sorry. ... perhaps..
I am an aging "hippie" who continues to embrace innocence and idealism,albeit difficult to seewith all the turmoil in the world. I'm still convinced there is HOPE FOR PEACE. Let's get those men and women talking once more---put them all in a room with young children of every ethnic diversity in the world. Show them the kids don't notice differences aqmongst their playmates until they are taught to hate by the adults in their lives. Tell the world to be childlike. Sang this Dupont Circle l965.
Great thought, but how do you begin to think it will work 'this time'? How long have we been saying the same things over and over,and in the end, nobody (important) listens? I'm most likely about your age...(aging hippie and all?) but I've pretty much given up hope. I've had them dashed just too often now. Note, things have gone from bad to worse. Humans simply can not/will not learn, not from history or any other lesson.I USED to be an optimist, but, sadly, no longer am.
"nobody (important) listens" - therein lies the dilemma; no one gives you 'importance', you choose it. Thus; Let there be peace and let it begin with me.
my dad use to sing this to me and ive never forgot it... i didnt realise who sang this till i looked it up and the man hu did wos a legend and im onli 16 so i wasnt really his era but i love him and his ways may he R.I.P
Republican or democrat, I think most people can agree that peace is best, the manner in which we accomplish this peace is much different... If only we could use this common ground to our advantage rather than focusing on the differences which separate us. I will side that war is necessary at times, but there are many more times where war is a pure political agenda that is oftentimes overlooked by many. Certainly we must be willing to go to war if necessary, but we must also deny corrupt wars.
and last night i had this strengest dream of seeing another john denver again, but when i woke up there were none..
the war was there, it is still here, but there is no john denver anymore i like hard rock, and their way of expressing inner anguish,but although now too many people know how to express the rage through song, no singer knows how to write a song to curb it like john did
Someday........
notadude 1 day ago
It would be far out if in 1950 Ed McCurdy dreamed of a yet future session of the United Nations!
sonofahen 1 week ago
Such beautiful person... we will miss him forever... looks like 19 people prefer destruction of the wars. Sad...
BytomGirl 2 weeks ago
His is my favorite version. Too bad he didn't record it.
redwoodcitizen 3 weeks ago
I know this from the Johnny Cash version.
Nucleartist 1 month ago in playlist My Top Favorites
JD was an Angel
GaryDenverShaw 1 month ago
It's on an old cassette recording somewhere. I'll have t search for it some time!
NorthAmericanSkies 1 month ago
Somwhere I have a recording of John singing this in Denver at the State Capitol in the early 80s.
NorthAmericanSkies 2 months ago
@NorthAmericanSkies Wow!Would I love to have a copy of that!!!!!
bjf19432104 1 month ago
Such talent!
FrogmenChannel 3 months ago
very moving & inspirational folk song by an equally inspirational artist of all time,along w/ peter,paul & mary,don mclean,matt monroe,etc.
madaratobiMaStEr 3 months ago
40 years on and still we haven't learned !.
turboarrowIII 3 months ago
RIP all those guys that died in battle. They too, wanted to end war. If only their dream could have come true...
Happy Remembrance Day.
Litterboxer529 4 months ago
I knew the man who wrote this song, Ed McCurdy...he died 3 weeks after my first son was born. I'm so glad that my son got to meet such an amazing man even though he doesn't remember it. I do. And it's a wonderful memory...
melaniegraves 4 months ago
This is a Fact...are U signing now? Have U had enough blood? "Guns, swords, and uniforms were scattered on the ground..." that is the way it will be. Period. Oh...by the way, we take no substitutions.
JoannofHtown 4 months ago
I cried fo days when John died. Our music has not been quite the quality he offered us to listen to. This song brings tears to my eyes. How horrible it mut have been for our men were destroyed & killed all in vain all for political gain.
sunshinegal1946 4 months ago
Love John Denver ...miss him so much ...he left some good music behind ..too bad this one is still at war instead of Peace..Peace JD..Peace everyone ..we can pray for that and maybe someday it will happen !!
pegsantus 4 months ago
Found a John Denver cassette when I was 9 years old.. ever since then, he has been my favorite country singer.. This song means just as much now as it did back in Nam.
Dllshockk 5 months ago
we are singing this beautiful song in every icea meeting! all together! as if an official song of icea!
kobanic 6 months ago
I cried
Jordanx67 6 months ago
PRAY FOR PEACE EVERYONE!
jlundell59 7 months ago in playlist John Denver - Country Roads 1987 (With lyrics) (WideScreen/S
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melaniemckown 7 months ago
I can't believe it, this was actually a hymn we used to sing in Primary School (that's age 7-9 for Americans). What a legendary secular school, every school should sing this instead of praise to a made-up paedophile. I wish I knew the teacher who chose it.
nickshel 7 months ago 2
Beautiful words, beautiful tune, a beautiful man. R.I.P. John Denver.
LARATTAE9174 8 months ago 3
Bless you, John
TheNumber1songwriter 9 months ago 3
I wish John Denver, Paul Robson, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, and Phil Ochs would all come back and join Pete Seeger and who ever else is left for the greatest peace concert ever! Guess that is also strange. Let us never forget to pursue peace.
VJ254 9 months ago
Wouldn't it be FAR OUT (as John would have put it), if we all went to bed tonight to wake up in the morning and find out that The strangest dream had come true? :)
5723maddy 9 months ago
@5723maddy Yeah Maddy, of course it would be great if we didn't kill each other, THERE'S NO MONEY IN PEACE or HEALTH! But you know what perpetuates Greed, Violence, Power CIRCUMCISION, or GENITAL MUTILATION....look at who's killing each other the most in the Middle East, JEWS, MUSLIMS and CHRISTIANS all MONOtheistic Abrahamic Faiths. These cultures CIRCUMCISE most! HOW CAN A LITTLE HELPLESS INFANT EVER, REPEAT E V E R TRUST ANOTHER HUMAN BEING AFTER BEING INTRODUCED INTO THIS PLANET THIS WAY?
artashes 7 months ago
As I recall Ed wrote this song just as the cold war was ramping up - even before Korea and Viet Nam.
The dream lives on even if not Ed or John. Keep singing and keep dreaming and keep sharing the dream.
rdvqc 9 months ago
the sad thing is that a dream of wold peace in the strangest one he had ever had.
MrWooaa 9 months ago
taken from an old irish ballad ithink?
frostytincan99 9 months ago
Excellent ! Well the incerdible thing is that this beautiful song composed by the great Ed McCurdy looks so much like a lute tune composed in 1615 !
I play it "Loch lomond/A Scots tune (Last night I had the strangest dream) " on Youtube.
Great thanks ! Best wishes.
C6H12B26 10 months ago
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Peace , peace , peace
Amen to that.
jesusismylord1ful 10 months ago
John Denver is my All-Time favorite singer. I always felt like he was my brother. I was born just 14 days after he was and I've just always felt this connection. (yes, that makes BOTH of us 67!!!) Who knows? I miss being able to see him in person, but his music will live forever and ever amen! It was amazing to hear this song again. Been a very long time. I really think the world missed out by his later songs not being played on the air! He was a beautiful singer and followed his dream!
imgrandmacarol 11 months ago 3
i had this dream... too bad it can never become more then just a dream!
tnb35 11 months ago
we need to revive the movement. Peace!!!!
HazeFerRillz 11 months ago 6
What a voice !
daggad03 11 months ago
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This took place the day my son was born. John was such a great humanitarian. He was my favorite entertainer and I really miss him.
Peace
bacformor 1 year ago
This took place the day my son was born. John was such a great humanitarian. He was my favorite entertainer and I really miss him.
Peace
bacformor 1 year ago
This took place the day my son was born. John was such a great humanitarian. He was my favorite entertainer and I really miss him.
Peace
bacformor 1 year ago
This took place the day my son was born. Where are the anti-war protesters today?
John Denver was my favorite entertainer. He was a great humanitarian. I really miss him.
bacformor 1 year ago
Timeless!
1bol390 1 year ago
love, peace, truth, sharing your gifts! peace and beauty starts from within. When their is peace and beauty within, their is peace in the family. if their is peace in a family,there is peace and beauty in a community. When their is beauty in a community, it spreads to the rest of the country. When their is peace within a country, their is peace and BEAUTY within the world.
Thanks, John for sharing your gifts.
We can all share our gifts, to bring beauty to this world.
Thanks
WildAlaskanBlossom 1 year ago
PEACE IS NOT STRANGE IT THE PEOPLE WHO FORGOTTEN PASS ON PEACE NOT WAR PLEASE`
Rockonchick2 1 year ago
I told my mom about this video, and she said that she was at this demonstration !
oh542545 1 year ago 4
I can't say anything but AWESOME!
jilliannemirate 1 year ago
John had a real gift on a 12 strings guitar! Great great player!
sardinianwestcoast 1 year ago
I miss John.
marybdvm 1 year ago
Seems he was more a folk singer than a country singer in those days. Wish he'd explored this style more. Very powerful and genuine singing. Maybe he got over-commercialised later in his career. Another of the greats gone too soon.
waldentree 1 year ago 2
Search for Cornelis Vreeswijk, the person who made this song.
xentric2000 1 year ago
Cornelis didnt make this song. He rewrote it in swedish under the title "Inatt jag drömde", but he didnt write or compose the original.
KalleJularbo 1 year ago
@xentric2000 Ed McCurdy wrote this song in the 1950s and this song has been recorded hy JD, Simon and Garfunkle to name a few. One of the first anti war, folk songs ever written.
puck57 1 year ago
Im singing this song in my school for remeberance day :)
DragonFly9025 1 year ago
the most beautiful voice i ever heard, he was one of the few musicians who could so honestly express their feelings with a pure spirit of humanity. truly inspirational performance RIP.
deadhead1065 1 year ago
@deadhead1065 you're so right
MsButterflyuk 1 year ago
best voice i ever heard!
beer19711971 1 year ago
@beer19711971 absolutely!
MsButterflyuk 1 year ago
Miss ya John!
TheNhwolf 1 year ago
Dude, I had the same dream! You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, hope someday you'll join us, and the world may live as one!
sonofahen 1 year ago
We still miss you John.
jeffpoet 1 year ago
I were swingin on a swing at a park as I were young and heard this song from a car at a distance! " It touched me!" and it still does ♥
shieldwolf49 1 year ago
Fantastic!
17twinkle 1 year ago
If only people would listen to this and act on it. There is still war. You would have thought by now we would know better. Lets put a stop to it.
MsElvisman 1 year ago 4
the great song
yandri3 1 year ago
@denversong
You said what my sorrowful heart could not
racheljlc1 1 year ago
In erinnerung an Lynda
bonsai462 1 year ago
God bless you, John.
JimLaddie 1 year ago 2
Wouldn't it be FAR OUT, as John would have said, if we all went to bed tonight and woke up in the morning to find out the "strangest dream" had come true. :)
5723maddy 1 year ago 14
@5723maddy
Yes indeed and it's a great song. Unfortunately there is a whole industry and profits to be earned from encouraging conflict and war. More so than peace, since when you destroy things you have to rebuild them. War reduces product life cycles and increases production frequency (economic/ business principle). More importantly can we eliminate the war profiteers and instigators, the military financial banking complex. Rothschilds and others of their type -that is my dream.
majik2hanz 1 year ago
Beautiful
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5723maddy 1 year ago
what a song, it takes me back to my childhood listening to my grandad singing ...lovin memories !!
manchkinable 1 year ago
Words don´t come easy, watching this. Absolutly amazing!!!.
I wish some day this dream come true!!.
EduardoPL1 1 year ago 2
If only this dream could come true.
God, I miss him.
retiredis 1 year ago
Absolutely beautiful, I still miss the man thank god we have his music.
racheljlc1 1 year ago
* John Denver for President!!! *
GaryDenverShaw 1 year ago 4
Wish we all had this same dream.
Wolfiemouse 1 year ago 2
Remember, "last night" was 1950; 60 years ago when Ed McCurdy penned those words. See the nations unite in good intention, to bring aid to the distressed, to defend the peacemakers, to make the world a better place.
sonofahen 1 year ago
With us in Spirit.
oleainatoivo 1 year ago 3
@oleainatoivo i should hope so he has/had soo much to teach us just listen to his songs
Nirad007 1 year ago
@igrlivingston1
If religion is the cause of war, then explain why chimps have wars with neighboring clans. Chimps dont have religion, never has been any documentation of them making idols and or praying, even though chimps can make tools, learn sign, and live in structured families.
btw, you need some music in your homepage, can take from mine.
hemet92544 1 year ago
Thank you John. I miss you. So glad I can revisit your beautiful energy on YouTube! You were gone too soon. And yet left us with much.
indigalactica 1 year ago 2
Evolutionist believe we humans evolved from chimps. Pretty much all war protesters are liberal: atheist, agnostic, etc. and wars with humans has been going on for thousands of years, so much so not even ONE century has gone by with no wars between humans somewhere on this planet. So then, if youre an evolutionist, hey war is just part of life, chimps do it, and we are from them, you say, so that is just the way it is. Correct? Correct.
hemet92544 1 year ago
@hemet92544
UM- NOT correct- I think you need to take your high school biology over again or READ Dawin's book- cause you won't find anywhere in the book that people evolved from chimps. You can try but won't find it. Dawin's theory is that apes, chimps, etc and humans evolved from a common ancestor- get it right- please.
puck57 1 year ago
@puck57
King Kong might be your uncle but not mine
hemet92544 1 year ago
@puck57
You need to relax and enjoy the song posted on this page. Simmer down with the righteous rage; this isn't the place for it.
YAMSunshine 1 year ago
I love this. He is so missed. What a lovely voice. This is a lesson in love. That's not a strange dream at all.
pamphish 1 year ago
JD was pro peace. I think that's more powerful than saying your anti-war, because then you focusing on what you DON"T want instead of what you DO, which is peace. so Mother Teresa was invited to an anti-war rally, and she refused, saying, "when you have a Pro-peace rally, call me!"
WildAlaskanBlossom 1 year ago 2
wow I've never seen that clip anywhere, thats brilliant
chrisbannisterone 1 year ago
I wuz born dis day.
kawkhammer 1 year ago
unlike amyINRG I feel the richest people are those who keep things simple.I feel sorry for amyINRG that they hold hatred towards a song.This song and this singer can reach out to people.John Denver paid highly for singing this song.The govt pushed his record label to drop him but he went on to sing on his own label and still voiced his opinion against war.Wish there were simple people like him about today
PURPLEBEATTIE1 2 years ago 2
@PURPLEBEATTIE1, leeses1973:
Yeah, but what did all you hippies actually accomplish? The people who like this track are, in my experience, unanimously in favour of sitting around smoking dope and telling everyone what a dreadful thing war is, but their total accomplishment in real terms is a big, fat nothing. Willing something doesn't make it so. You all thought you were going to change things, but you didn't.
amylNRG 1 year ago
@amylNRG You are wrong about me.I am not a hippy so I cant answe what they accomplished.But I will say this that i am sure even you must think war is a dreadful thing.There are no winners in war
PURPLEBEATTIE1 1 year ago
@amylNRG It may be true that many people sang or talked about changing the world and didn't really try to do anything about it, but this isn't true of John Denver. He was actively involved in many organizations that endeavored to improve the world and he even cofounded a few, such as Windstar. So I think it is very unfair to group John Denver in with these people.
azahora22 1 year ago
@amylNRG Ghandi (a very wise and effective man in terms of getting things done) once said: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Why, I know you are speaking from the ego, and that is why you feel pessimistic and like peace is impossible. It's not. But you can create your own world around what ever it is YOU wish to manifest in your life. just remember, that a legacy of kindness and love is more valuable and inspiring to change than many, many lifetimes of hate and regret.Peace!
WildAlaskanBlossom 1 year ago
@WildAlaskanBlossom
You've got some magical device that allows you to read my mind, have you? Feel free to quote more fluff at me if you wish, but remember that it's just you reading your subconscious interpretation of things onto me, and nothing to do with me.
amylNRG 1 year ago
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@amylNRG Ghandi (a very wise and effective man in terms of getting things done) once said: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Why, I know you are speaking from the ego, and that is why you feel pessimistic and like peace is impossible. It's not. But you can create your own world around what ever it is YOU wish to manifest in your life. just remember, that a legacy of kindness and love is more valuable and inspiring to change than many, many lifetimes of hate and regret.Peace!
WildAlaskanBlossom 1 year ago
@amylNRG Amy, you are dead wrong. The effect that anti-war activists had washington's psyche was very real and profound. With the media's help, it was this activism that eventuall led to the withdrawal of troops in vietnam. Otherwise, many more thousands of lives could have been lost in that jungle over nothing. Never underestimate the power of the little man, especially prior to an election year. Every voice matters.
citidwellerzinc 1 year ago
@citidwellerzinc
Don't be ludicrous. Certainly the power of the "little man" had huge impact on the ending of the Vietnam War, but it was people in the heartlands watching the war on TV, then writing to the President and their Representatives, who had the influence, not demonstrators in Washington. For clear evidence of both these points, read Kissinger's memoirs, and Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
amylNRG 1 year ago
@citidwellerzinc yes but war =MONEY thats what war is all about mind you i dont belive in it and if i had tomake money that way i would rather be broke
ritch341976 1 year ago
39 years ago, sadly not much has changed, but John Denver is an American icon to me..lovely
racheljlc 2 years ago 3
Oh how I hate this song. It's been years since I heard it, and it's still as naive and simplistic today as it was in the 70s. It breaks my heart that even today so many people can be taken in by trite sentiment. I've spent a huge part of my life working to make the world a better place, and the single greatest obstruction isn't the obvious bad guys, it's the inactive and selfish left-overs from the 60s and 70s, who think that singing about wanting good is the same as actually doing good.
amylNRG 2 years ago
@amylNRG you absolutly have the wrong mindset if you think music like this didnt make a difference.. and there was no one less selfish than John Denver
leeses1973 2 years ago 3
Music so moves us all. Just too hear this lets me remember what a joy it ie to hear this song.
Thank you for the post. From Earl.
JEMCO2008 2 years ago
despite the sad way he died young when I hear him sing it makes me happy, if only for a few moments, and that is a gift.
joeygsmom 2 years ago 23
I heard this song for the first time in a long time now! We used to sing it in elementary school, a lot. Also in a Frisian version. I had no idea that is was such a well known song.
fanke23 2 years ago
John Denver was a handsome young man with a voice of an angel. His baby daughter Jessebelle looks just like him.
May God bless his 3 children & all his loved ones. ~~Ava~~Beautiful singing thanks for sharing.
sweetpea027 2 years ago 3
Sing it again! ... Everybody! ... All together now!
sonofahen 2 years ago 13
sonofahen - amen to that little brother!
ASeasonedWitch 2 years ago
Wow sis, "his lovely voice can calm a storm!"... speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Question for all...
Of the near 7 billion people living on earth today, how many would you say will sincerely sign such a document to put an end to war, 6.5 billion + ?
sonofahen 2 years ago 4
Couldn't agree more, John's voice and music always calmed me down!
kryckeestrooff 2 years ago 3
sonofahen - I'll sign up. In my heart, I've already signed as I believe you have too.
Peace and Joy to you! And to everyone!
ASeasonedWitch 2 years ago
he have such a beautiful voice. noone will ever sing as good as him
RIP John
07GreenArrow 2 years ago 3
John Denver sacrifices his career for the things he truely believed in. World Peace, Trying to save our ONE WORLD. hunger, all children, animals. He did anything and everything he could. I'm glad he is not here right now to see all that is going on. At least now he is with his mother Erma whom he loved so much and she was always so proud of him God be with you Erma. You were a great mom to your two sons John and Ron.
My condolences to Ron
Anarosaz 2 years ago 4
Yes indeed JD was close to Erma - RIP Erma- you were a great mom. I would also like to send my condolences and wishes not only to Ron but also to Annie, the grandkids,great grandkids, her sister, and all the rest who knew her so well over the years.
puck57 2 years ago 3
His lovely voice can calm a storm! I miss him so much!!!
sismischen 2 years ago 5
Of the near 7 billion humans on earth today, how many would you say will sincerely sign such a document?
6.5 billion +?
sonofahen 2 years ago 5
Excellent! Thank you for sharing.
cAtKitty47 2 years ago 4
First time I have seen this, I will be turned in again. He has such a beautiful voice...miss him.
borders4ever 2 years ago 3
Time for everyone to post this on their sites....of course its past ime actually!
remeredyth 2 years ago 5
What means "Ohrwurm" in English?
"Ohrwurm" is called a song which you cannot stop "thinking" about. Not thinking in an intellectual way. You just "hear" the song(you think you hear it) and sometimes people cannot stop whistling the song. This was happened me today at school. I rember this song and cannot get it out of my brain or better said ears. ;-) Word by word translation of "Ohr-wurm" is "ear-worm". How ever. This is a "Ohrwurm".
NetzKaiser 2 years ago 7
@NetzKaiser
Yeah, that's really a "catchy song" :)
oOYukeOo 2 years ago
Beautiful... I love John Denver and this clip!!!! Thanks!!
:)
marzenna1957 2 years ago 6
I miss John. I miss having him on the planet. He had an angels voice.
wndyvl 2 years ago 59
I watch this over and over.Brilliant
PURPLEBEATTIE1 2 years ago 8
I hope to know this soon. Thnks for your vision
Heartforce 2 years ago 4
Wishful thinking John.
wyliesnyder 2 years ago 5
I love this clip so much, thanks
creepmag62 2 years ago 9
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
The whole world is one family
aamrun 2 years ago 8
John....What a fella right there.
ROBERTyay 2 years ago 5
John Denver does an excellent performance of this song. I don't know how many others recorded this song but the earliest version I've seen was on the first album by Simon & Garfunkel titled "Wednesday Morning 3 A.M." The song was copyrighted by E. McCurdy in 1950 on Almanac Music Inc.
LPORanger 2 years ago 3
Is vis pacem, para bellum
( If you wish for peace, prepare for war)
I'm not sure if this is a great truth or just an ancient "truism"....but right this minute, listening to John, I don't really care....I just miss knowing he is alive and singing somewhere on this earth....heaven might be wonderful, yet this earth is all I am sure of.
I love this song only because John Denver is singing it!
lynage1 2 years ago 3
I don't believe God needs anyone to be his/her policemen of the world. God is a convenient and motivational excuse to wage war for land, resources, or hatred. DieKarooKind ... do I correctly understand you to say you would go to war to fight evolution ? I suppose this means the teaching of evolution ... as in suppressing an idea or knowledge you don't endorse. Evolution doesn't exclude God from the creation role ... it's merely a tool.
LPORanger 2 years ago 3
I didn't know he was there (1971 Washington Peace March) and he sang this. My respect for him has increased tenfold.
larean57 2 years ago 10
The only way we will have peace is to stop relying in god and rely on the intelligence of mankind. War in the name of god has gone on for millenium after millenium.
axdrea 2 years ago
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My God teaches "Blessed are the Peacemakers" and "Love thine enemy".
If I was to go to war in the name of God it would be to right unjustice. Like dictators that send millions of people to gas chambers. Or in the name of Racial Cleansing and Evolotuion.
DieKarooKind 2 years ago
Does anyone know where I can get this version???
mduck92 2 years ago 3
hatred of war will not bring about peace. only love of peace will bring about such a thing. - quote i'm butchering by seth
billyjoel88 2 years ago 5
The only way we will ever have peace is by God working I'm the heart of man. Gods word penetrates even to the bone. John understood this and this song speaks of it. As long as time exists in our free will most people will choose sin.
rosskunkler 2 years ago 3
best song in the world. i will record this song in sanskrit and latin!
MAHALAYAM 2 years ago 4
thank you for the post ,
From Earl in Huntington Beach Ca,
JEMCO2008 2 years ago
5*****
yustforfunonly 2 years ago
A great song by a great singer. I think we'll only ever get peace in the world by dreaming. Reality sadly proves it.
A truly beautiful song.
googieengland 2 years ago 2
So who starts the peace process........
You, me , someone else???
indah007 2 years ago 2
I once saw a quote that read...."when the power of love overcomes the loveof power, then the world will know peace". I think this is what John was trying to say. The greed and self righteous attitude of the worlds leaders and governments just can't get beyond their own agendas, and selfishness to bring about true peace. Just look at what is happening in the world today. I am convinced that man will never be able to rule himself and attain true peace....history proves it!
Beetlehorn 2 years ago 3
That's quite the point, I think. We CAN dream, its free and from such quiet 'nonsense' great things may come:)
lilgrublet 2 years ago 3
JD was a man of peace.
bjicjds 2 years ago 3
There will always be war while guns and arms are manufactured. While human lives to be worth less than the arms. We should fight for the increase in value of the human life. To struggle to show more love for the human being.
SergioChoinski 2 years ago
there were wars before guns, before swords. Do not blame the tools.
episkipos 2 years ago 2
Sorry I was wrong! Perhaps should human race desapear from this planet. But forever ('n ever, amen!) this time. Perhaps this shall be the only way for paradise again. Perhaps humans are even the worst plague on Earth. Sorry. ... perhaps..
SergioChoinski 2 years ago
I am an aging "hippie" who continues to embrace innocence and idealism,albeit difficult to seewith all the turmoil in the world. I'm still convinced there is HOPE FOR PEACE. Let's get those men and women talking once more---put them all in a room with young children of every ethnic diversity in the world. Show them the kids don't notice differences aqmongst their playmates until they are taught to hate by the adults in their lives. Tell the world to be childlike. Sang this Dupont Circle l965.
eawarshaw 2 years ago 2
Great thought, but how do you begin to think it will work 'this time'? How long have we been saying the same things over and over,and in the end, nobody (important) listens? I'm most likely about your age...(aging hippie and all?) but I've pretty much given up hope. I've had them dashed just too often now. Note, things have gone from bad to worse. Humans simply can not/will not learn, not from history or any other lesson.I USED to be an optimist, but, sadly, no longer am.
2hotinaz 2 years ago
BTW; the (below?) comment was addressed to eawarshaw
2hotinaz 2 years ago
"nobody (important) listens" - therein lies the dilemma; no one gives you 'importance', you choose it. Thus; Let there be peace and let it begin with me.
Sointula2 2 years ago 2
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eawarshaw 2 years ago
No one will ever compare to John
OShaughnessyk 2 years ago 7
couldn't have said it any better
flbckfilms 2 years ago 3
I miss his voice.
elasatlaculos 2 years ago 3
my dad use to sing this to me and ive never forgot it... i didnt realise who sang this till i looked it up and the man hu did wos a legend and im onli 16 so i wasnt really his era but i love him and his ways may he R.I.P
5* frm me
ninjerVEKTOR 2 years ago 2
Republican or democrat, I think most people can agree that peace is best, the manner in which we accomplish this peace is much different... If only we could use this common ground to our advantage rather than focusing on the differences which separate us. I will side that war is necessary at times, but there are many more times where war is a pure political agenda that is oftentimes overlooked by many. Certainly we must be willing to go to war if necessary, but we must also deny corrupt wars.
ovensleeper 2 years ago 2
and last night i had this strengest dream of seeing another john denver again, but when i woke up there were none..
the war was there, it is still here, but there is no john denver anymore i like hard rock, and their way of expressing inner anguish,but although now too many people know how to express the rage through song, no singer knows how to write a song to curb it like john did
himanqwert 2 years ago 5
i love him and his song
they don't make them anymore
my 3 on top 10
9.5/10 rate
barirdeeee2 2 years ago
I regret not going to see him live when he was here in 96. They don't make men like this anymore. tear*
crystalhaiku 2 years ago 4
The Vietnam War Era music (of all genres) is like 1000X better than today's cheap, pop Jonas Bros. garbage.
busterbone 2 years ago 12
our Republicans are still as shitty now as they were then.
elasatlaculos 2 years ago
Im 50 and have listened to this guy since I was 12 he is the best and he kissed my hand after a concert in Edinburgh x
dundeedfc 2 years ago 7
Hippy!
I only became a fan of him yesterday. He's frigging awsome!!!
powergirl07 2 years ago