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djonn ([personal profile] djonn) wrote2010-09-11 09:19 am
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You still can't give up the sky

As others are posting with memories and reflections on the events of five years ago, it seems appropriate to link to the following song, which I hadn't originally planned to write (and which is in some measure a response to a lot of the other first-wave 9/11 reactions).

You Can't Give Up the Sky

And here, too, are another set of lyrics, these by Randy Sparks, to another song I still find particularly memorable and apt five years later (scroll down to the bottom of the thread).  I first encountered this on a PBS folk music special several years ago:

Just Americans

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