UNITED - Obama - Joe Strummer - Johnny Appleseed Cover

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of individuals or a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."

--Barack Obama 11/4/2008

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
"Johnny Appleseed"

Lord, there goes Johnny Appleseed
He might pass by in the hour of need
There's a lot of souls
Ain't drinking from no well locked in a factory

Hey - look there goes
Hey - look there goes
If you're after getting the honey - hey
Then you don't go killing all the bees

Lord, there goes Martin Luther King
Notice how the door closes when the chimes of freedom ring
I hear what you're saying, I hear what he's saying
*Is what was true now no longer so

Hey - I hear what you're saying
Hey - I hear what he's saying
If you're after getting the honey - hey
Then you don't go killing all the bees

What the people are saying
And we know every road - go, go
What the people are saying
There ain't no berries on the trees

Let the summertime sun
Fall on the apple - fall on the apple

Lord, there goes a Buick forty-nine
Black sheep of the angels riding, riding down the line
We think there is a soul, we don't know
That soul is hard to find

Hey - down along the road
Hey - down along the road
If you're after getting the honey
Then you don't go killing all the bees

Hey - it's what the people are saying
It's what the people are saying
Hey - there ain't no berries on the trees
Hey - that's what the people are saying, no berries on the trees
You're checking out the honey, baby
You had to go killin' all the bees


(Youtube wouldn't let me show a clip from the speech due to copyright law.)

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[FlaviaSantosbr]

I wish Obama were a brazilian president...rrsss... Very nice, Jer! By the way, did you vote for him?

[PianoIsTheRemedy]

Yes I did. I'm not sure if I'll vote for him again though.  It's not that I think he's a bad president. But since I'm kind of right down the middle, I think America may be getting too liberal, and I'd like to see it balance out more.

[Pootnam]

Are you sure you're not Joe Strummer? Damn man you sound like him.

[PianoIsTheRemedy]

Thanks, lol.

[bubonicnate]

rock!

[PianoIsTheRemedy]

on!

[DeadCTR]

@PianoIsTheRemedy So far, he's been governing from the middle. The right wing is doing everything in their power to make him seem like he's on the far left.

Your options in 2012 are going to be either Obama or a hard-right republican candidate. My prediction is that unless the right gets wise and puts forth a true centrist, your vote will wind up with Obama.

[stonedstoner111]

would like to add.. nice message and everything too 5/5

[stonedstoner111]

real good man. well done

[oldloafandyoung]

Absolutley Great mate. One of my fav Joes Strummer songs. Loved that

[lisarcastic]

Are you sure you don't mean Joe "The" Strummer?

Nice cover.

[infernalikeness]

what all them guys said plus an ounce of love <3