Title: Arlo Guthrie/Patriots' Dream Source:
YouTube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIEaso4Ty1M Published:Oct 14, 2006 Author:jguth3 Post Date:2011-11-06 14:26:36 by GreyLmist Ping List:*Music Club* Keywords:Patriots Views:107 Comments:2
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This is posted with the lyrics in the video description:
A great song & story for these times.
Arlo just released a NEW CD titled, "In Times Like These", with the Kentucky Orchestra. "Patriot's Dream" is stunning.
This is the Jennifer Warnes version mentioned in the first video above. Imo, it would be a better video without Abraham Lincoln, for example, but the music and most of the quotes referenced in it are moving:
Living now here but for fortune Placed by fate's mysterious schemes Who'd believe that we're the ones asked To try to rekindle the patriot's dreams
Arise sweet destiny, time runs short All of your patience has heard their retort Hear us now for alone we can't seem To try to rekindle the patriot's dreams
Can you hear the words being whispered All along the American stream Tyrants freed the just are imprisoned Try to rekindle the patriot's dreams
Ah but perhaps too much is being asked of too few You and your children with nothing to do Hear us now for alone we can't seem To try to rekindle the patriot's dreams
Who, in these cynical times, when [Edit to add: Constitutional] democracy is on the ropes and the blows of great wealth pound and pound and pound again against America’s body politic – who would dream such a radical thing?