A powerful message coupled with an irresistible beat. Bruce Cockburn, whom I've had the pleasure of interviewing twice, is one of Canada's national treasures. We're happy to share him with the rest of the world.
I have about 77% of his beautiful music in my listening library. I play bass and it was my mission to learn the entire first album "note for note"....Mr. Cockburn is my musical Psychotherapist, I listen to him all the time!
He exposed many crimes against humanity... a true hero. In today's world- a criminal. What have we let our world become? And can we ever get it back? I fear not
As the Amazon today burns, Bruce foretold us 30 years ago of the coming demise. Nobody listened then , nobody listens now. See the forest fall, ...and with it, ourselves.
I listened last night when I saw him live. Everyone there seemed to connected to his message. I hope humanity can move forward with more intelligence. Art is a powerful way to share and he does this so beautifully.
it would be great if there was a way to revive this video through an international environmental protest action whereby people planting trees is mixed with the imagery of the original video...short clips of people doing the same thing...
On July 25th 1991, I lost my girlfriend . she died in a plane crash in a forest of kaoris in the mountains of Santo in Vanuatu . Cassandra Clunies Ross was 25 years old. She was a VSO volunteer working in forestry.WE found her camera ,processed the film and her last shot was of a kaori tree.I also had a cd by bruce Cockburn with this song on it. Probably listened to this song a 1000 times and every time I cried not only because I was devastated but also because this is a superb song.
😟😢😢😢💔💔💔 I'm at this age myself where many old hallmarks of my early life are passing away, my Dad only 20 days ago. He was the one who's musical tastes had a huge impact on me, including Bruce Cockburn, particularly his "Stealing Fire" album, which I was delighted to buy on cd when I got my first job back in 2000 (20 flippin years ago...seems like a blink). I appreciate your remarks. Sorry to hear it, too.
thank you. I am still living in Vanuatu, still doing photography. I have a wife, a son aged 16 and a daughter aged 14. Today april 3rd 2020, still no corona virus in Vanuatu. Not many kaories left in Vanuatu. Keep in touch
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Bruce Cockburn has one of Canada's most beautiful singing voices! I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Bruce many years ago in Dawson City at the music festival. He asked me if I was one of the people who prepared the wonderful food and I told him I was not. I was another performer at the festival. He said that the food was great and I agreed. He was so nice that he wanted to compliment someone on taking such good care of us! 🥰
Bruce, I hope you read this: this song touched my heart as a kid, and all these years later, I work trying to help/protect wildlife. It brings a tear to my eye to this day. Thank you.
Here in Canada, we have a radio programming policy called CanCon. Required # of 🇨🇦 somg airplay. The government requires it to protect our culture and artists. Including Bruce Cockburn. Thank goodness.
Agreed! A fantastic song by a great Human Being! And a Canadian!
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No he wasn't ahead . They gave him a narrative and he provided the soundtrack. You've never heard of Greenpeace? It was connected to Canada since the mid 70s and they evolved into organizations that did million dollar charity fund raisers that went into their side coat pockets and they did NOTHING for solutions. It's like Antifa.
Dave Druid ......yes indeed, a man Bruce admired greatly. You may know that in 2001, Bruce was inducted into the “Canadian Music Hall of Fame” by David Suzuki and Gordon Lightfoot.
I’m an American so I’m late to the party. I discovered this song last year along with the world of Bruce Cockburn. This is my favorite environmental anthem. It encapsulates everything one feels for this world of wonders.
Grew up on the US Canada border. Picked up this song and a lot of others when they drifted over the border in the 80s. Thank you Lemmington , Ontario for playing them
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit, world where wild things have to go, to disappear, forever. People like to say his line about kicking at the darkness till it bleeds light is powerful, but that, that line is a soul crusher.
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I first heard this song when I was 7. I'm 40 now and all I've seen my whole life is the rate of destruction accelerate. The part in the song about Brazilian deforestation mainly driven for methane farting cows is something most people still don't understand.
“ IN THE WOODS IS PERPETUAL YOUTH. WITHIN THESE PLANTATIONS OF GOD A DECORUM AND SANCTITY REIGN. IN THE WOODS WE RETURN TO REASON AND FAITH. ” - EMERSON
When I heard this song in 1988, I knew that our planet was in serious trouble. Now 30 years later, have we really made any progress. Simply NO! The relentless burning off fossil fuels and the greed of the world’s greedy commercial system is destroying this planet - it’s all about money, profits - at the expense of animals, humans and the climate.
Awe, stay positive Mother Earth will make sense of it and she can heal herself or maybe something worse like put a curse upon us. She still loves us so far stay positive 👍😎🌎😎👍
NORMALIZATION OF IGNORANCE sometimes it takes raising awareness of the situation to get more involved and through the collective joining of attention, intention, and forces, coming together to create a solution. He can’t do it all himself! Join in and be proactive yourself instead of grumbling. That’s like complaining when someone has given you the menu at at restaurant. It’s your choice. Your responsibility. Don’t expect one person to do everything and then you get to sit back and say whether it’s worthy or not. It’s your life. Get involved. What’s your plan?
Sorry, but I am in no way grumbling , I am %100 serious . The human race is a not worthy of this planet. What more do you need to see in this world before you come to the same conclusion.You really think there is a solution to this madness, we lost this planet year's ago when the corporations bought it, a death sentence for us all, they do not care for you or me or this planet, nothing will change unless people are willing to die to change it, are you ready to die for your cause ? revolution is the only way, and to be honest, people are to consumed with their own greed and standard of living to give a shit. and you seem smart enough to know that, where you going to go tomorrow, WORK or a SAVE THE WORLD RALLY, I rest my case...peace.
arrow64 64 it is what I am doing and what I do every day; bitching and complaining only makes for a more miserable existence and pushes people away from doing anything about it because they want to get away from misery, so instead of encouraging people to be proactive, the negativity only encourages more people to check out-or that’s what I’ve observed in the last 20 years of my personal activism. Personal responsibility and something to work for other than “we’re doomed” because then it’s just “eat,drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die”.
I heard Bruce Cockburn for the first time when I was 14 at a party.. Making Contact.. had an amazing night.. been an avid BC fan especially his protest songs.. I’m 28 and will be a fan for life, always sharing with all my American friends!!
I watched with my Mother and her Sister my Aunt Aggie Live at the Forum along with Martha & the Muffins in the early '80,s sitting on the Lawn very few people there at that Time yet what a musical pleasure to behold.!!!
This guy is great and too smart for the common folk. Any artist who lyrically forces you to think, question things and go against the grain never gets his shine or gets to smell the roses. Sad really
30 years later and the Cortez rhythm of falling timber continues. We weren’t listening. Now the Amazon is teetering on the brink of disappearing forever.
Asphalt - so much of it - creates urban heat islands that raise the temp by more than most ppl realize. Forests, vegetation, etc actually reduces temperatures
A consumate musician with a humanitarian conscience. Something that this myopic money hungry world abandoned half a century ago. Unsurprisingly, all that follows is the end!
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Bruce Cockburn who gave an exceptionally brilliant, authentic message of hope and inspiration to the Laurier University Teachers College and Music Grads yesterday (June 14, 2024) as he was given an Honourary Doctorate of Music! Degree
Saw Bruce at a church on Bloor near Spadina in like 1981-82. He had was accompanied by Guatemalan refugees. I then realized it was a part of a fund raising campaign for the refugees. We emptied our pockets. He performed many songs and I think it was the first time he performed "If I had a rocket Launcher" live. Good times!
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@@jacobfinder7476Ignorance and apathy are the greatest pandemics and there is no cure, since it requires instilling people with intellectual curiosity, ethics, empathy, critical thinking and patience to read. All those traits are dying quick deaths in current society.
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I worked in the big palm oil plantations many years ago. But I remember the frightened ,sad look on the face of the Orangs that we dispatched to the spirit world.
I'm sorry to have to tell you but it will never change! Governments and corporations will do what they want as they always have - and that's just the way it is.
This song is an indictment of big business, with a message 38 years old now, and yet there are still deniers. I spent hours with my Telecaster trying to get that chiming tone. Lotsa Boss effect later…. A great song underpinned with a great riff.
I don't know much about this bloke, but this song is about nature and a political statement. Midnight oil from Australia are also sing the same agenda Great music
He's one of our Canadian treasures. From Ottawa moved to my home city Toronto where he did most of his work. This "protest song" was almost uncool in the greed soaked 1980s. It was way ahead of the times. The world needs to hear it now and weep and ask for forgiveness.
This is a video everyone on Earth should see! Greatness in every aspect of music and video production to truly get a message across ... and to boot being a vegetarian (at least I was from the age of 17 and 3/4) leads to a healthier existence and makes it easier on the planet, the environment and everyone. I'm sharing this baby on Facebook everyday! You should too!
I'm not an environmentalist by any means however Bruce Cockburn's song addresses an actual problem and calls attention to it by elevating it to an almost heroic artistic act of concern.
People like you should try to get more eco-friendly. Instead of going the run of the mill way straight into corporate control and a facist military state. When are you going to realize without healthy forests there is no fish, birds, insects, water, mammals, or oxygen?
Can't believe ONLY 23 people have WHO'S HERE in 2020? We should have a MOMENT OF SILENCE for seriously UNDERRATED. My neighbours must LOVE this song cuz I always turn it up when they knock. COVID!!! :/
this genius artist Mr. Bruce Cockbourn with this song and video makes the world see the thrue politics and government around the world make this artist disappear just because is telling as the thrue. Mr. Cockburn GOD bless you and than you
We hippies have to relive our youth and the revolution continues. The sound track was laid down in the 1900s and the heavy lifting will continue til we get it right. Til then, the band plays on. ShakeUp
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I have seen the best of the best in my time. That probably doesn't come close to what was. This man is not only the best songwriter I've ever heard..hes the the best guitar player I've ever seen. Truly, and what a gentleman. I floated back to my camper trailer at the Winnipeg folk festival 2006....sober and had the best sleep i ever had.. I am 54 years past, and my son is 3. He loves Bruce as much as me. EXTRAORDINARY.
I listened to this song once at work 21 years ago and I've been looking for it until today. Although I knew some songs from Bruce I didn't think it was from him. I found it today. It's a wonderful song. For 21 years I sang the chorus in front of me again and again and never forgot........(:
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First time I’ve heard of Bruce Cockburn. This is a beautiful track. Very impressed with the music and lyrics are something else. Roll a cheeky smoke and chill back listening to great music ☮️❤️
He’s a very talented musician and gifted songwriter. I had the privilege to see him a few years ago, but I’ve been listening to him since I was a tot (my dad and godfather were big fans). Lovers in a Dangerous time and If I had a rocket launcher are some of my other favorites. But, this song is my earth day anthem!
480 million animals were wiped out during the 2019-20 Australia fires. And theyre saying wildlife such as the koala bear and other species could be extinct in several years time. Heartbreaking
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There's some great protest singers in the world and Bruce is one of the best this song If a tree Falls, Call it Democracy, Stolen Land, and many many more from Bruce and an incredible guitar player as well been listening to some of his acoustic finger picking instrumentals he's as good as it gets the world needs to hear this incredible artist some of his lyrics will bring you to tears we're living in very dangerous times gotta make them stair down the throat of the beast they call the REVOLUTION go Bruce.🌍🌎🌏🌐♨️
A powerful message coupled with an irresistible beat. Bruce Cockburn, whom I've had the pleasure of interviewing twice, is one of Canada's national treasures. We're happy to share him with the rest of the world.
he should get that last name checked out though, i think they have creams for that now
@@jamescheddar4896 Haha. He has one of the most-mispronounced surnames in history.
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Bruce Springsteen and I will meet in Heaven one day. I just want to salute him. ❤
I have about 77% of his beautiful music in my listening library. I play bass and it was my mission to learn the entire first album "note for note"....Mr. Cockburn is my musical Psychotherapist, I listen to him all the time!
this guy is so criminally underrated in america.
really
In Canada too actually
And around the world my friend
But those of us who rate him highly put him WAY WAY WAY up high on our list.
He exposed many crimes against humanity... a true hero. In today's world- a criminal. What have we let our world become? And can we ever get it back? I fear not
Bruce Cockburn is THE BEST political songwriter.
Sounds like hyperbole at first, but if you think about it, you are right
@Peter A. I disagree. We especially need more political songwriters (of the progressive kind, of course).
Really! Better than Dylan? Joni Mitchell? Joe Strummer? I don’t know about that.
As the Amazon today burns, Bruce foretold us 30 years ago of the coming demise. Nobody listened then , nobody listens now. See the forest fall, ...and with it, ourselves.
I listened last night when I saw him live. Everyone there seemed to connected to his message. I hope humanity can move forward with more intelligence. Art is a powerful way to share and he does this so beautifully.
it would be great if there was a way to revive this video through an international environmental protest action whereby people planting trees is mixed with the imagery of the original video...short clips of people doing the same thing...
The wrong Amazon is on fire, pity the fool who doesn't remedy same!
Very well-stated.
They mAy listen to our reply or we .must sing a new song. Bruce?
On July 25th 1991, I lost my girlfriend . she died in a plane crash in a forest of kaoris in the mountains of Santo in Vanuatu . Cassandra Clunies Ross was 25 years old. She was a VSO volunteer
working in forestry.WE found her camera ,processed the film and her last shot was of a kaori tree.I also had a cd by bruce Cockburn with this song on it. Probably listened to this song a 1000 times and every time I cried not only because I was devastated but also because this is a superb song.
Philippe Metois why haven’t a thousand people people given a thumbs up to this? I think think this song is an achingly beautiful
My deepest feelings to ,my brother in pain and life. We can still save the world. For our lost loved ones.
😟😢😢😢💔💔💔 I'm at this age myself where many old hallmarks of my early life are passing away, my Dad only 20 days ago. He was the one who's musical tastes had a huge impact on me, including Bruce Cockburn, particularly his "Stealing Fire" album, which I was delighted to buy on cd when I got my first job back in 2000 (20 flippin years ago...seems like a blink).
I appreciate your remarks. Sorry to hear it, too.
Very sorry to hear of your loss Philppe, I hope you are doing well and living a life she would be proud of
thank you. I am still living in Vanuatu, still doing photography. I have a wife, a son aged 16 and a daughter aged 14. Today april 3rd 2020, still no corona virus in Vanuatu. Not many kaories left in Vanuatu. Keep in touch
Maybe the best Canadian music video of all time.
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Brian Adams is pretty cool though!
It’s a fave of mine and I’m Canadian.
Bruce Cockburn has one of Canada's most beautiful singing voices!
I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Bruce many years ago in Dawson City at the music festival. He asked me if I was one of the people who prepared the wonderful food and I told him I was not. I was another performer at the festival.
He said that the food was great and I agreed. He was so nice that he wanted to compliment someone on taking such good care of us! 🥰
"Anybody hear the forest fall?" is a golden lyric. Majestic perhaps.
I might put it on a shirt.
There should be no thumbs down option for this song.
He made Canada proud. He is a human treasure.
August ‘21: I would imagine Bruce takes little satisfaction in saying “I told you so.”
Bruce, I hope you read this: this song touched my heart as a kid, and all these years later, I work trying to help/protect wildlife. It brings a tear to my eye to this day. Thank you.
Would've never known about this guy if it weren't for college radio in Amarillo, TX.
Here in Canada, we have a radio programming policy called CanCon. Required # of 🇨🇦 somg airplay. The government requires it to protect our culture and artists. Including Bruce Cockburn. Thank goodness.
One of our most gifted songwriters. He was decades ahead of the rest of us.
Everyone should listen to the whole album. It's just Amazing!!
This song was released in 1988, Bruce was way ahead of his time. We are the epitome of our own demise.
Yep.
Agreed! A fantastic song by a great Human Being! And a Canadian!
No he wasn't ahead . They gave him a narrative and he provided the soundtrack. You've never heard of Greenpeace? It was connected to Canada since the mid 70s and they evolved into organizations that did million dollar charity fund raisers that went into their side coat pockets and they did NOTHING for solutions. It's like Antifa.
Our David Suzuki was saying such things in his Nature of Things Show in the late 70s - early 80s.
Dave Druid ......yes indeed, a man Bruce admired greatly. You may know that in 2001, Bruce was inducted into the “Canadian Music Hall of Fame” by David Suzuki and Gordon Lightfoot.
Peace to humanity, our Earth, and all Beings. Love from Australia.
Can't believe only 68000 people have listened to this...can't be right. This is one of the most powerful Save The Earth Anthems I know of
Totally agree with you Kevin Larson.
Cheers
Don't forget, there is a generation of older people that don't give two shits about youtube music videos. They knew about this song long before YT. :D
it's not the only instance that's been on youtube
Too many Trump supporters.....
I’m an American so I’m late to the party. I discovered this song last year along with the world of Bruce Cockburn. This is my favorite environmental anthem. It encapsulates everything one feels for this world of wonders.
This man stands for many things. What a great artist 🌍🌎🌏
Grew up on the US Canada border. Picked up this song and a lot of others when they drifted over the border in the 80s. Thank you Lemmington , Ontario for playing them
The talent and depth of this humanitarian...
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit, world where wild things have to go, to disappear, forever. People like to say his line about kicking at the darkness till it bleeds light is powerful, but that, that line is a soul crusher.
Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏
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At the time this guy was spot on......since then the world has sold itself....for what!
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I first heard this song when I was 7. I'm 40 now and all I've seen my whole life is the rate of destruction accelerate. The part in the song about Brazilian deforestation mainly driven for methane farting cows is something most people still don't understand.
“ IN THE WOODS IS PERPETUAL YOUTH. WITHIN THESE PLANTATIONS OF GOD A DECORUM AND SANCTITY REIGN. IN THE WOODS WE RETURN TO REASON AND FAITH. ” - EMERSON
which is exactly why man-unkind is slowly going insane.
Canada loves YA Bruce ❤🙏 for the 🌎 it's all we got
Truer than ever. Could have been written today. Made me cry.
As a Canadian singer songwriter, he’s up there with Joni, Leonard and Neil.
Don't forget Gordon Lightfoot
And Fred Eaglesmith
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YES, I , heard them fall AND the cry was deafening!!!!
When I heard this song in 1988, I knew that our planet was in serious trouble. Now 30 years later, have we really made any progress. Simply NO! The relentless burning off fossil fuels and the greed of the world’s greedy commercial system is destroying this planet - it’s all about money, profits - at the expense of animals, humans and the climate.
Yep.
I ran to a tree that fell got out of da Wood
I remember this song when I was about 4 years old. I cried everytime I heard it... still do
Awe, stay positive Mother Earth will make sense of it and she can heal herself or maybe something worse like put a curse upon us. She still loves us so far stay positive 👍😎🌎😎👍
The human race committing suicide, " problem solved " but no one will help...
NORMALIZATION OF IGNORANCE sometimes it takes raising awareness of the situation to get more involved and through the collective joining of attention, intention, and forces, coming together to create a solution. He can’t do it all himself! Join in and be proactive yourself instead of grumbling. That’s like complaining when someone has given you the menu at at restaurant. It’s your choice. Your responsibility. Don’t expect one person to do everything and then you get to sit back and say whether it’s worthy or not. It’s your life. Get involved. What’s your plan?
Sorry, but I am in no way grumbling , I am %100 serious . The human race is a not worthy of this planet. What more do you need to see in this world before you come to the same conclusion.You really think there is a solution to this madness, we lost this planet year's ago when the corporations bought it, a death sentence for us all, they do not care for you or me or this planet, nothing will change unless people are willing to die to change it, are you ready to die for your cause ? revolution is the only way, and to be honest, people are to consumed with their own greed and standard of living to give a shit. and you seem smart enough to know that, where you going to go tomorrow, WORK or a SAVE THE WORLD RALLY, I rest my case...peace.
arrow64 64 it is what I am doing and what I do every day; bitching and complaining only makes for a more miserable existence and pushes people away from doing anything about it because they want to get away from misery, so instead of encouraging people to be proactive, the negativity only encourages more people to check out-or that’s what I’ve observed in the last 20 years of my personal activism. Personal responsibility and something to work for other than “we’re doomed” because then it’s just “eat,drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die”.
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I heard Bruce Cockburn for the first time when I was 14 at a party.. Making Contact.. had an amazing night.. been an avid BC fan especially his protest songs.. I’m 28 and will be a fan for life, always sharing with all my American friends!!
I watched with my Mother and her Sister my Aunt Aggie Live at the Forum along with Martha & the Muffins in the early '80,s sitting on the Lawn very few people there at that Time yet what a musical pleasure to behold.!!!
Never heard this track before til today. It's almost Lou Reed meets Zappa or something. This is strong.
First time for me now, too. I would say Lou Reed set to Country-Rock. It is very strong.
First time here too.
This guy is great and too smart for the common folk. Any artist who lyrically forces you to think, question things and go against the grain never gets his shine or gets to smell the roses. Sad really
Many moons ago at the Catalyst, Santa Cruz..he was there and I saw him😁
30 years later and the Cortez rhythm of falling timber continues. We weren’t listening. Now the Amazon is teetering on the brink of disappearing forever.
Asphalt - so much of it - creates urban heat islands that raise the temp by more than most ppl realize. Forests, vegetation, etc actually reduces temperatures
And now sinkholes happening!!!
welcome to southwest Florida...
outrageous down here.
and nobody gives a shit.
THE WORLD DIDN'T 🌎 LISTEN TO BRUCE... WHAT A SHAME 😢HE WAS SO RIGHT ON EVERY POINT
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A consumate musician with a humanitarian conscience. Something that this myopic money hungry world abandoned half a century ago. Unsurprisingly, all that follows is the end!
can we have a minute of silence for this dying earth that we are all responsible for
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Are you still alive?
Bruce Cockburn who gave an exceptionally brilliant, authentic message of hope and inspiration to the Laurier University Teachers College and Music Grads yesterday (June 14, 2024) as he was given an Honourary Doctorate of Music! Degree
1988 but where have we gone from here with this songs message? We are still destroying the planet 🌍
Another masterpiece from Bruce. What a stellar song!
Even today in 2019 we still don't get the message...we are still in denial
GREED
GREED
GREED
and MORE GREED
I saw this on much music in the 80s and loved it then. Love it now
Saw Bruce at a church on Bloor near Spadina in like 1981-82. He had was accompanied by Guatemalan refugees. I then realized it was a part of a fund raising campaign for the refugees. We emptied our pockets. He performed many songs and I think it was the first time he performed "If I had a rocket Launcher" live. Good times!
He's making a lot of sense now isn't he, our planet is finished with us, very soon!!
I LOVE Bruce Cockburn. But I also love hamburgers. I feel so torn.
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This is exactly what the world has come to, this is a sad end for Earth.😔🌍🌎🌏
100 O/O Correct ❤.
Yes. After being involved with conservation for fifty years. My hopes are gone 🥲
@@jacobfinder7476 I sadly agree with you 👍🙏
@@jacobfinder7476Ignorance and apathy are the greatest pandemics and there is no cure, since it requires instilling people with intellectual curiosity, ethics, empathy, critical thinking and patience to read. All those traits are dying quick deaths in current society.
And no one cares, because there is money to be made...(for a very few, the others have to suffer... by design; capitalism 2.0)
7/13/91 Darien Lake, Bruce opened up for Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman. What a great day/night.
One of the best guitar hooks, so tight and catchy, up there with the best of Nick Lowe or Elvis Costello. He is so underrated as a musician.
“Forever” gets me every time. 😢
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I worked in the big palm oil plantations many years ago. But I remember the frightened ,sad look on the face of the Orangs that we dispatched to the spirit world.
I remember when this song came out over thirty years ago. Thirty years! Why was nothing done? Now are we facing the end?
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@@jamesc4812 What now Bruce? We trashed our home.
I'm sorry to have to tell you but it will never change! Governments and corporations will do what they want as they always have - and that's just the way it is.
Yes
Bruce is a living legend. Inspiration for me becoming a vegetarian
He Bruce should inspire yourself to be a Beautiful Human Being and Respecting Humanity as well as Nature.!!!
Grrr, wish I'd written this SMFH, thanks Bruce Cockburn for being a global conscience for the masses!
why does some of the best music on youtube have the least hits
I so wish this was re-mastered in HD
I do to…it’s a classic. ❤
Absolutely incredibly true song ❤
Can not wait to see you tonight in Flagstaff, Bruce. Right On! Power To The People!!
This song is an indictment of big business, with a message 38 years old now, and yet there are still deniers. I spent hours with my Telecaster trying to get that chiming tone. Lotsa Boss effect later…. A great song underpinned with a great riff.
This song needs way more views!!
I don't know much about this bloke, but this song is about nature and a political statement.
Midnight oil from Australia are also sing the same agenda
Great music
I love Midnight Oil!!
I live in Oz and midnight oil is highly reguared 😁
He's one of our Canadian treasures. From Ottawa moved to my home city Toronto where he did most of his work. This "protest song" was almost uncool in the greed soaked 1980s. It was way ahead of the times. The world needs to hear it now and weep and ask for forgiveness.
Always raw, always relevant. Cockburn is too honest a songwriter to be recognized as he should have been.
Love this song. Bruce is so in touch with our world.
Yes. If I had a rocket launcher, some SOB WOULD die. I would retaliate, not hesitate!
This is a video everyone on Earth should see! Greatness in every aspect of music and video production to truly get a message across ... and to boot being a vegetarian (at least I was from the age of 17 and 3/4) leads to a healthier existence and makes it easier on the planet, the environment and everyone. I'm sharing this baby on Facebook everyday! You should too!
Holy shit this is magic. How can anything modern ever hold a candle to this? This man knows how to whammy bar.
Jerry springer look alike but what a beat ,and then he sings absolutely brilliant lovvvvvvvvve it
Beautiful MOTHER EARTH forgive us😭😭😭
I'm not an environmentalist by any means however Bruce Cockburn's song addresses an actual problem and calls attention to it by elevating it to an almost heroic artistic act of concern.
People like you should try to get more eco-friendly. Instead of going the run of the mill way straight into corporate control and a facist military state. When are you going to realize without healthy forests there is no fish, birds, insects, water, mammals, or oxygen?
Most well meaning lyrics and earnest musician. True gentle soul.
Can't believe ONLY 23 people have WHO'S HERE in 2020? We should have a MOMENT OF SILENCE for seriously UNDERRATED. My neighbours must LOVE this song cuz I always turn it up when they knock. COVID!!! :/
this genius artist Mr. Bruce Cockbourn with this song and video makes the world see the thrue politics and government around the world make this artist disappear just because is telling as the thrue. Mr. Cockburn GOD bless you and than you
We hippies have to relive our youth and the revolution continues. The sound track was laid down in the 1900s and the heavy lifting will continue til we get it right. Til then, the band plays on. ShakeUp
'This is the world that we have set on fire.' - Wendell Berry
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I have seen the best of the best in my time. That probably doesn't come close to what was. This man is not only the best songwriter I've ever heard..hes the the best guitar player I've ever seen. Truly, and what a gentleman. I floated back to my camper trailer at the Winnipeg folk festival 2006....sober and had the best sleep i ever had.. I am 54 years past, and my son is 3. He loves Bruce as much as me. EXTRAORDINARY.
Love the loon. Got to watch loons teaching babies to dive. It was a lot of fun for me. I bet for them, too. I know joy when I see it!
I listened to this song once at work 21 years ago and I've been looking for it until today. Although I knew some songs from Bruce I didn't think it was from him. I found it today. It's a wonderful song. For 21 years I sang the chorus in front of me again and again and never forgot........(:
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A great song and the video clip brings a tear to my eye. Did anybody hear you, Bruce?
I love this song ,,i hope people listen
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First time I’ve heard of Bruce Cockburn.
This is a beautiful track. Very impressed with the music and lyrics are something else.
Roll a cheeky smoke and chill back listening to great music
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He’s a very talented musician and gifted songwriter. I had the privilege to see him a few years ago, but I’ve been listening to him since I was a tot (my dad and godfather were big fans). Lovers in a Dangerous time and If I had a rocket launcher are some of my other favorites. But, this song is my earth day anthem!
This Artist is an icon along with Joni Mitchell.....Canada Heritage at its best......rick.
What a simply beautiful song; and good poetry.
This song is boss. Happy Earth Day y'all!
Nice to listen to this yet again. Reminds me of just how talented Bruce Cockburn is, and how sincere his message was and is
Love Bruce Cockburn ❤ and most honored to have met him on several occasions 🎼🎵🎶 .
Wonderful artist been listening to for decades met him 2019 someone took our picture together ❤!
You hit the nail on the head with that one Bruce. If only people would listen. Definitely your best work.
And what solution did he offer?
Oh, I dunno, Brian. IMHO ALL of his music is too great for words!
Brilliant man who was way ahead of the curve.
Still listening in September 2020! 💖💖👍
480 million animals were wiped out during the 2019-20 Australia fires. And theyre saying wildlife such as the koala bear and other species could be extinct in several years time. Heartbreaking
We had a terrible forest fire summer last year in Canada.
Sublime made in Canada! Thanks for making sense Bruce.
Absolutely brilliant spirit that creative sir was... Hope he is still somewhere out there spreading the word !!
Just played in my hometown 2018, November. Rock on B.C.
Man we Canadians sure produce top quality tool bags.
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i admit this is my first time, but I'm glad John Branning recommended it!
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What a good song, specially for the message in it. Just discovered it by chance and I love it.
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this song is 30 years old at least. think about that!
There's some great protest singers in the world and Bruce is one of the best this song If a tree Falls, Call it Democracy, Stolen Land, and many many more from Bruce and an incredible guitar player as well been listening to some of his acoustic finger picking instrumentals he's as good as it gets the world needs to hear this incredible artist some of his lyrics will bring you to tears we're living in very dangerous times gotta make them stair down the throat of the beast they call the REVOLUTION go Bruce.🌍🌎🌏🌐♨️
Best song i have ever had the pleasure to hear