18.02.81 Jacksonville, FL, intro to ´Independence Day´
´´I remember....my old man getting up at six in the morning.....to
go out back.....and start up some car he bought for 200 dollars to try and make
it to work....and then I´d never see him again until he came home at night....when
he´d sit in the kitchen....with the lights out, just drink some beer,
smoking a cigarette....and I remember that he never, it seemed like he never
had a friend, he never had nothing....nothing that ever made him happy or made
him feel like life was worth living....for some reason he couldn´t find
that thing....in my mother or in me and my sister....and I remember watching
him and thinking that if I had to live, live my life like that that I´d,
that I´d die....when I looked around and it just didn´t seem....didn´t
seem like there was anything that pointing, pointing to any way to get out of
there....like you´d go in school and in school it seemed like they´d
teach you, they wouldn´t teach you how to find your place but they would
be teaching you stuff to keep you in your place....(?) and it didn´t seem
like, like it was happening on purpose, it seemed like just something went wrong
a real long time ago and that nobody knew how to straighten it out.....and then
when I got to be about 13, I started listening to the radio....and it wasn´t
in what, and it wasn´t in what those, those guys were saying but it was
in the way that, it was like the sound in the singer´s voice ....like
the Drifters when they were singing ´Saturday Night at the Movies´
or ´Under the Boardwalk´....there was just something in those voices
that said that there´s more to life than the way that I was living and
the way that my father lives his life and my mother lives hers .....and I decided
when I was real young.....I got scared and I decided that I wasn´t gonna
miss it....and you shouldn´t let, you shouldn´t miss it either.....”
18.02.81 Jacksonville, FL, intro to ´This Land Is Your Land´
´´This song was written a long time ago....and it was written as
an answer to ´God Bless America´....and since it´s been written,
it´s been, it´s been sung all over the country and it´s been
misinterpreted a lot....´cause it was, uh....it´s a song that was
written as a fighting song, it was written ´cause when times get bad,
people look around and it seems that they always try to....try to blame the
neighbor, I guess it was written as a song....to fight all the prejudice and
hatred that gets passed off as, as nationalism or patriotism....and....(?) this
song is as, as important today than it ever was because it was meant to say
that the, that the country that you live in belongs, it don´t belong to
Exxon, it belongs to you.....and someday you´re probably gonna be called
on to....to have to fight for it so....”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi