《Give A Damn》歌词

[00:00:00] Give A Damn - Noel Paul Stookey

[00:00:09] You remember the song called give a damn

[00:00:11] Some group sang last summer

[00:00:13] About people livin' with rats and things

[00:00:16] The paper couldn't cover

[00:00:18] Well it wasn't very popular

[00:00:21] Nobody wanted to hear

[00:00:23] And that's a shame 'cause a pretty tune

[00:00:25] Was just what we needed that year

[00:00:28] The first thing nobody wanted to hear

[00:00:30] Was damn that was on the label

[00:00:33] I mean it's okay if you just read it there

[00:00:35] But you didn't bring it up at the table

[00:00:37] So the radio didn't play the song

[00:00:40] Except on the FM stations

[00:00:42] Until some looter worked his way

[00:00:44] Down to the united nations

[00:00:49] Then word got around that there's this song

[00:00:51] All about the riots and stuff

[00:00:53] So they played give a damn on the noon report

[00:00:56] Just once but that was enough

[00:00:58] Some cameraman with groovy footage

[00:01:00] Of glowing embers and charred remains

[00:01:03] Put the pictures with the song on the six o'clock news

[00:01:05] Following the baseball game

[00:01:11] Then everybody said it was a real fine song

[00:01:13] Why didn't we hear it before

[00:01:15] Let's all blame the radio stations

[00:01:17] For bringing on the domestic war

[00:01:22] Oh sure we'd seen some articles

[00:01:24] We knew some people needed help

[00:01:26] But social workers take care of that

[00:01:28] I mean why give a damn yourself

[00:01:34] Well the reason that you didn't

[00:01:37] Reason that you won't

[00:01:39] Is you think you got a lot to lose

[00:01:41] And the other fella don't

[00:01:43] Oh you give a damn well so does he

[00:01:46] You think the rest of us are just fakin'

[00:01:48] I mean what do you need that you got to give

[00:01:51] Less than what you're takin'

[00:01:53] Where could you go

[00:01:54] Who could you see

[00:01:55] What could you do the best

[00:01:58] The book is in your left hand

[00:02:01] Your right hand knows the address

[00:02:03] Address your questions address your money

[00:02:05] Address your telephone number

[00:02:08] But above all else please address yourself

[00:02:10] To give a damn this summer