You still can't give up the sky

[djonn]

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

Comments

[cunuodin.livejournal.com]

Very enlightening and beneficial to someone whose been out of the circuit for a long time.

Looking forward to get involved

[(Anonymous)]

Hi - I am definitely glad to find this. Good job!