One More Time, America
by Al Montgomery and Andy Stephenson
Verse 1
There were years when people still cared
For their friends and families as well
When neighbors still helped each other
And their souls, they'd never sell
Verse 2
How long ago did we forget
The importance of friends and neighbors
When we shared each others dreams and goals
Can't we do that anymore
Chorus
Don't you think it's time to care
One more time, America
Can't we love each other now
One more time, America
We could be that place again
That the world once held up high
Join me now and we can try
One more time, America
Verse 3
So, don't let money be our god
It pretends but can not satisfy
You will always find a whole lot more
With the people who pass by
Chorus
Don't you think it's time to care
One more time, America
Can't we love each other now
One more time, America
We could be that place again
That the world once held up high
Join me now and we can try
One more time, America
One more time, America
Author notes
Hear it at:
http://putfile.com/andystephenson/media
I record under Andy Stephenson or The Stephenson Company. This was recorded as The Stephenson Company. Performed and arranged by Teresa Reprogle. I hope you like it.
In a list
A contest entry
- Random by Nut Bag.
525 points, ended February 27, 2007, 51 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
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Excellent
This is a great pledge to America, in trouble we tend to stand together then drift back to the same old past hates which seem to be our legacy , through out the ages race, culture and abortion will be an issue.
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I love the lyrics. It had a wonderful flow going here. Now that i have said that, i will have to go and have a listen. Your versus were wonderful. I like the idea behind it, and how this was a plea to your country to wake up again and smell the roses. What a great song. You did exceptional and i am sure after i have listened to it, i will think even more so. Go Al and Andy
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Thanks
I'm very glad you like this song. It's available in CD now with 20 other songs. All of the songs are written or co-written by me.
Thanks for reading, commenting, and all the applause. I appreciate it.
Andy
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I wish often that I could go back in time when people really cared and respected each other even with our many faults. It seems now we liketo think we have progressed in stature and mind that we no longer need those old time values. Material things and false faces . That is the new way.
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Hi Bob
Sorry to be replying so late, but I just noticed your comment. Thanks for reading, commenting, and applauding. I appreciate it.
This song is now available on CD with 20 other songs.
It would be nice if America was the sort of place described in the song and sometimes it is. I guess it depends on us to make it that way.
Andy
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Good Work, Andy
This needs to happen!
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Thanks Ellis
Thanks for checking out some of my songs. I appreciate it. Thanks also for all the applause. It would be good if America were to start really caring, but I think we are probably too self centered.
Hope all is well with you and Tiki.
Andy
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i wish the world was still like this
its a sad world today
this had a great message
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Thanks again
The Letterman Show wanted this song after 9/11, but I missed the opportunity. Al Montgomery and I sat down and tried to write a patriotic song that was subtle and persuasive. It turned out great. Teresa Reprogle performs it. Thanks so much for reading, commenting, and all the applause. I appreciate it.
Andy
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How long ago did we forget
The importance of friends and neighbors
When we shared each others dreams and goals
Can't we do that anymore
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rally around the flag
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Thanks
Thanks for reading and commenting. I really appreciate it. Were you able to go to the link in the Author's comments and hear the song? I'm glad that you like this song.
Andy
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Beautiful!!!
This is a beautiful song! Has wonderful lyric's and the music is just beautiful, she has a lovely voice. Very well done! I like this song a lot.
Peace
Debbera
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Thanks, Deb
Thanks for reading, listening, commenting and all the applause. I really appreciate it. Yes, Teresa performs well. The Letterman Show wanted this song. They said it was beautiful, too. I couldn't find anyone to go to New York to perform it.
Andy
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I like the chorus a lot better than the verses.
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Thanks
Thanks for reading, commenting, and applauding. Did you listen to the song? The song was wanted by the David Letterman Show.
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My speakers don't work. My screen is old. Perhaps I'll listen to it tomorrow on my son's or husband's computer.
I should find the mp3 link for "Gather Round the Baby Grand", the main song I collaborated on. It's on an indie site, under Conneticut Songwriters (CSA), on a cd called "Share the Journey".
That's great that David Letterman was interested in your song. Wow!
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Great Poem Andy. It is just but a wonderful poem. The great longing for the revival of the American dream should come true Andy. I too would like that to happen. Keep penning such excellent poems. I would be happy, if you could spare your time to stamp your views on my poems
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Thanks
Thanks for reading and commenting. I really appreciate it. This song you can hear at the link in the author's comments if you like. It is performed by Teresa Reprogle. She is quite good, I think.
Andy
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thanks for entering.
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Thanks for hosting the contest. I hope you have a lot of fun. You certainly have your work cut out for you. Lots of entries.
Andy
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I love this. Its so true. Your a very talented writer.
I love your words in all or your writings.
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Thanks, Kat
Thanks for reading, commenting, and applauding. Did you listen to the song? The link is in the author's comments. How are you doing?
Andy
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i listened to the songs at put file and it really is incredible!! you a very talented musician as well as poet!!!
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Thanks
Thanks for listening to my music. I am glad you like it. Tell all your friends about it. lol. I want to be rich and famous.
Andy
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sweet lyrics I'm not from America and this kind of makes me glad I'm not!! soorry if that sounds horrible but it just means i understand your pain right!! haha!! great job anyway!! I'm sure the song will be even more amazing!!
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Thanks
Thanks for reading, commenting, and all the applause. America is a pretty good place. This song was just written to encourage Americans to make it better.
Andy
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I listened to it, i loved it. The lyrics are so powerful.
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Thanks, Angel
Thanks for listening and thanks for the applause. Thanks also for adding me as a favorite. If you would like to hear "Have You Dreams?" I will send you that link.
Andy
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wow this is a really great poem. its very very interesting. you are an amazing poet ands ong writer. its a very vivid poem. keepup the good work and continue writing
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I am very pleased that you like this. It is actually a song. If you would like to hear it, you can click the link in the author's notes.
Andy
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Thank you for your entry.
This was one of the few flawless pieces, so I really enjoyed reading it.
I loved your background choice. This was intresting because it was more of a song.
I especially enjoyed:
"So, don't let money be our god
It pretends but can not satisfy."
This was beautiful,
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This is actually a song. If you have high speed, you can click the link in the author's notes and hear it. It almost made the Letterman Show. Hope you have a good contest and many good entries.
Andy
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Love the lyrics. It is ashame that neighbors don't help one another anymore. I too remember the good ole days. too much violence anymore. I think as a soldier it's different though.
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This is wonderful lyrics, Andy... I'd love to here it with music
And this is the first that I'm aware of you being a musician.... did I miss that in your profile? Anyway, I know now.
Your lyrics here remind me of when I was a youngster... hind site always seems to either be better or worse than the present, and I recall the days when to me, it seemed better back then. No time in history is perfect, but we never used to lock our doors, I never knew of anyone, the whole time I was growing up who was involved with drugs... a Saturday night beer party was about as bad as we got. To me, drugs were something from the movies about big cities like Chicago and New York. I remember seeing the movie, 'The Man With The Golden Arm" and that was the extent of my drug experiences...lol.
Families did seem closer, neighbors (and even families) didn't always get along but we managed to get through it without profanity and grudge holding...awww... the good old days
A super write, Andy
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Andy this is fantastic. Maybe if you could get a hold of your local radio and see if they are able to let you know of any one who could help you out. Man you have some talent -
Wow! This is a beatiful song. I could actually imagine it being sang like at concert in my head. I love the chrous you did. So poetic and pretty. The verse were well thought out and enjoyable to read.
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Good job, there are some who do make an effort, but so true, not enough. Thank you for sharing. Jeannie D Hunter
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I don't think America has ever been the ideal that the song represents and I feel in a lot of ways that things are improving. The purpose of the song is to encourage people to care more about each other. Our world image has been tainted as of recent years. Thanks for the comment.
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Some people still do care about their families, friends, and neighbors. I was born in 1947. I don't think people cared more about families, friends, and neighbors when I was young than they do now. When I was young racial segregation was still legal. I don't think America was better then. The idea that the past was better is a myth.
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I always read the rules, but apparently I missed something. No problem.
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Because you refused to read the rules, and did not follow them if they were read, I have to dq your piece. Please, next time be sure to read everything fully.
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I sent a copy of the tape to you. You should get it any day along with a CD of some other songs. I hope you like them.
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This is an awesome dream, but sadly there are far too many people out there that are too ignorant to think of this anymore.
Anyhow, great job and thanks for entering!
thanks for your patience and best of luck to you!
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I really liked it. It wasn't a very pessimistic approach, but more from a saddened angle...it seems America is becoming so indifferent to the things that really matter. Nice job!
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Wow, this is amazing!
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Hi,my dear friend you are so right, why cant we care a little more, I am rapidly turning into a hermit as the world outside leaves me cold, good write. hugs Di
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Nice job! I'm not usually that into the patriotic stuff, but this one is nice! I wish you luck in the future with your music. Good luck in the contest and thanks for entering!
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It is a dream. Something America has never been and never will be, except for a lucky few.
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I like this,it has a nice flow but I think its a little too hippie cliché and idealistic to be entirely honest.
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Very nice, I can see this being a kind of Indie song, although I see in the author comments that there's a link to listen to it, which I'll do later, as I don't want it influencing my opinion. Kind of a morality story throughout this, telling people to stop being so materialistic, or at any rate that's the message I got out of it, not sure if I managed to explain myself clearly. ~ Osarkon
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This is a very interesting write, it is very subtle, it manages to point out that change is needed without coming off feeling accusatory, difficult thing to do. it has a nice easy flow and leaves on with a feeling of hope that somewhere in the undertides there are reasons to believe, well done
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Thanks for commenting on my entries. They sound even better than they read. If you would like a cassette, let me know. I will send you a sample of twenty.
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very nice, although it seems like one of those songs you would hear some country singer sing right after nine-eleven.... nevertheless it is a solid write, and i appreciate you entering
the 3rd verse
"So, don't let money be our god
It pretends but can not satisfy
You will always find a whole lot more
With the people who pass by"
were by far the best lines in the song, very good, although i may suggest that labelling the verses and chorus only take away, and if someone can't figure that out on their own, then it really shouldn't matter to them what the content is because they'd be incompetent, anyways, good write, thanks for entering
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This song is unique, it really speaks out yet at the same time it really lifts you up. This is a song that really makes you think, hey America does need to change! I need to listen to this song.
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Patriotic and Groovy
WOW! I really love this lyric. It has a very patriotic feel without the danger of nationlistic touches. I love it a lot. By the way, I have to say that you are a great person. I like that you believe in Truism rather than a false religion (meaning all of them). Where we came from is trivial, where we are going is trivial. What we are doing now is imperative to live by. I think Denis Leary said it best, when he said, "...Live moment to moment". Anyways, I love your songwriting and your philosophies.
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this is very beautiful and I especially liked the part where you said "don't let money be our God" unfortunatly a lot of people do just that.
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This is a beautiful poem, and song. It is very sad, but with that positive outlook throughout it, makes it so true and so beautiful, I loved it!
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this is so pretty! i really wish i could hear it performed! great song!
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Teresa Reprogle performs it beautifully. I hope you are able to download it.
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It's just a dream, Catressa. America has never been a nice country. We have made a profit from wars since we were founded. I'd like to see it change.
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It's a dream, really. America has never really been like that.
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I wish I could argue. If Bush is recognized as the idiot he is, maybe we will see the fools he has made of us.
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Thanks, I am glad you like it. Did you go to the link and hear it?
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I assume then you didn't listen to it. The Letterman Show said it is beautiful. Try the link and see what you think.
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NoWay, That is an old favorite of mine, but I never fully understood the lyrics until I read them this time. Thanks. Did you listen to this song?
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Micha, I am glad you like it. Did you listen to it?
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Did you listen to the song? The Letterman Show wanted it, but the opportunity fell through. I am still trying. Thanks, Vampires.
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Thanks for the applause. Did you listen to it?
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Thanks for the praise and applause. Did you listen to it?
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nice lyrics with an even better message I have no choice but to applaud the piece nice job and keep writing i enjoy your work
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Amazing my dear friend, nice calabo pass it on to your friend please!! but I can't really say anything bad about what you create it's simply amazing
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America has to heal itself
I started to read this and then I just started to sing. I'm a singer, so...Anyway, the lyrics are just perfect. They rolled off my tongue and my mom asked me if that was a new song that had just come out. No lie. Try to get this published or something, f you haven't already, b/c I'd put it with 'Proud to be an American'. No lie, I mean it. -
you have a caring, loving message, here and at times, at times people ddo come together and care...
I guess, especially these days, not as often as one might like, but if the people stand up, take the country and make it a place of this caring for neighbors-- near and far, just think...
Oh, hopeful song, sung here and there in reality but needs to be sung much more as you ask here in your Lyrics...
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Here's a copy of the song lyrics I mentioned in my previous post and the band was the Youngbloods. as soon as I had clicked SUBMIT COMMENTS to my previous post I remembered the name of the band...
Artist: The Youngbloods Lyrics
Song: Get Together Lyrics
Love is but the song we sing,
And fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Know the dove is on the wing
And you need not know why
C'mon people now,
Smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Some will come and some will go
We shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moments sunlight
Fading in the grass
C'mon people now,
Smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try and love one another right now
If you hear the song I sing,
You must understand
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at your command
C'mon people now,
Smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Right now
Right now!
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Hmmm.... Interesting, but it's difficult to tell how you could make this into a song. The rhyme scheme is off, and there is no rythem to the poem. Also, it's way too short to be a very long song. It was a good idea, but it still needs work. Keep trying, and good luck
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again, I had left the most perfect comment to your lyrics/poem and AOL tossed me again. I'm ready to smash computers here...really!!!
it was only to say that your song lyrics here reminded me to a song from the 60's I believed called "Get Together," but not certain as to the group. if I remember, I'll certainly let you know.
really beautiful message in these lyrics and I enjoyed this read very much!
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as song lyrics this reminds me of so many songs, from the 60's...especially one, though I don't recall the title or the group offhand, but lyrics that went:
c'mon people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another
right now...
the name of the song may have been "Get Together" and the group the Young Rascals, but not sure. if I recall, i'll let you know and although there's more to these lyrics I know, your lyrics/poem immediately brought this sense of the song to mind, as well as others. really very good lyrics/poem and I'm glad I had the chance to read this.
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Whoa I Really Liked How You Used Your Words On This! It's Brilliant! I Love This Part : Don't you think it's time to care
One more time, America
Can't we love each other now
One more time, America
We could be that place again
That the world once held up high
Join me now and we can try
One more time, America
It's Great Work!!! I Love That Part..it REALLY Makes You Think! Great Work! -Rachel
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I fear you are unduly optimistic. With lunatic creationism, pro-life maniacs, aggressive imperialism and isolationism on the march, America is rapidly losing its friends throughout the civilised world. Never mind, Israel can become the 51st state.
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what a lovley little song.it would be a brillient worldif everyone would just learn to love each other instead of money and guns,
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While I know America has it's flaws it's a bit hard to trust one another with danger in our schools, kids being killed by other kids. I see to many issues in this.
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Great job! I'm having trouble downloading it though...my computer is on the under-the-weather side of winter and I might not be able to hear it.
I'm bookmarking the link for a later date, and I thank you for being thoughtful enough to provide it for us! There's nothing like reading the lyrics of a song and thinking 'oh, I'd love to hear that' and then not being able to!!! (Perhaps that's just a musicians frusteration, though?? :S)
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Thanks Sonja.
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Bravo Andy. For a very long time I wasn't on your site. Shame on me, but now I saw this great verses, and I am just downloading your MP3 from Internet. Great work.
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America has problems other nations do not have because of their policies. I liked this write, but can understand both sides to this issue. Well written.
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EXCELLENT JOB!!!!!
Andy, this song is really a true statement to the situation we have going on not just here, nor Iraq, but, around the world. As you, many people have been involved in these wars whether necesary or not, many have lost their lives in vane. Like you, my ex-spouse joined the service voluntarily, and served for 23 years, and is a retired veteran of many wars... You have touched an issue that causes many contradictions, in pro and contra... I agree with you, because together is the force, and we need to help each other in order to survive this...
Thank you for sharing with me these words if wisdom. I miss you...
Forever, your friend, Angel
Edited on Nov 18, 2:49 p.m. because 'o0o0o0oPpPpPpSsSsSssss!
Misspelled word!'.
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Waiting, there is a tape with twenty songs including this one. Remind me which song you liked and I will send you a copy if you want. It is performed by Teresa Reprogle.
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Interesting. I believe that you did a great job, and your words really speak to people. Once again, bravo, you have some brilliant talent. I hope that you continue to use it, my friend
I can't offer anything that hasn't already been said. I can just say, great job.
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Unspoken, this song is on one of the tapes I sent you. You should be able to hear it soon.
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ONE MORE TIME AMERCIA!!!!!
WOW! so true we don't do those things anymore. it's gettimg me all happy just thinking about it. both of you did a wonderful jod on this song! thanks for putting this in the contest.
~Alexia~
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I am afraid that it has already become another Viet Nam and the government keeps trying to build support. Won't work. We shouldn't have invaded in the first place. Wars improve the economy and that has a lot to do with it but people don't approve unjustified killing.
Andy
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