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    Music video by Bruce Cockburn performing If A Tree Falls.

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  • @skeena59
    @skeena59 5 років тому +125

    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.

    • @brandybaybutt1228
      @brandybaybutt1228 4 роки тому +9

      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.

    • @kevinguyan522
      @kevinguyan522 4 роки тому +6

      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...

    • @davidpate3859
      @davidpate3859 4 роки тому +3

      The wrong Amazon is on fire, pity the fool who doesn't remedy same!

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 3 роки тому

      Very well-stated.

    • @johnguadagni9320
      @johnguadagni9320 3 роки тому

      They mAy listen to our reply or we .must sing a new song. Bruce?

  • @markallan5484
    @markallan5484 Рік тому +98

    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.

    • @jamescheddar4896
      @jamescheddar4896 Рік тому +5

      he should get that last name checked out though, i think they have creams for that now

    • @markallan5484
      @markallan5484 Рік тому +8

      @@jamescheddar4896 Haha. He has one of the most-mispronounced surnames in history.

    • @allisonhayes9529
      @allisonhayes9529 Рік тому +4

      ​@@jamescheddar4896 😂

    • @kevinlarson9111
      @kevinlarson9111 6 місяців тому

      Bruce Springsteen and I will meet in Heaven one day. I just want to salute him. ❤

    • @godfreymccammon4531
      @godfreymccammon4531 2 місяці тому +3

      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!

  • @KOSMICKEN09
    @KOSMICKEN09 12 років тому +240

    this guy is so criminally underrated in america.

    • @2uconner
      @2uconner 4 роки тому +4

      really

    • @Nwmguy
      @Nwmguy 4 роки тому +25

      In Canada too actually

    • @brookef3011
      @brookef3011 3 роки тому +13

      And around the world my friend

    • @gracehaymes
      @gracehaymes 3 роки тому +19

      But those of us who rate him highly put him WAY WAY WAY up high on our list.

    • @brookef3011
      @brookef3011 3 роки тому +10

      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

  • @theholidaylady1
    @theholidaylady1 Рік тому +28

    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! 🥰

  • @mikemahin
    @mikemahin 2 місяці тому +5

    He made Canada proud. He is a human treasure.

  • @Meandgenevieve
    @Meandgenevieve 6 років тому +89

    Bruce Cockburn is THE BEST political songwriter.

    • @Rex69Rutherford
      @Rex69Rutherford 4 роки тому +8

      Sounds like hyperbole at first, but if you think about it, you are right

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 3 роки тому

      @Peter A. I disagree. We especially need more political songwriters (of the progressive kind, of course).

    • @googlechicken
      @googlechicken 2 місяці тому

      Really! Better than Dylan? Joni Mitchell? Joe Strummer? I don’t know about that.

  • @jansilverthorn777
    @jansilverthorn777 2 роки тому +7

    August ‘21: I would imagine Bruce takes little satisfaction in saying “I told you so.”

  • @philippemetois6491
    @philippemetois6491 4 роки тому +181

    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.

    • @stevedeacon1647
      @stevedeacon1647 4 роки тому +8

      Philippe Metois why haven’t a thousand people people given a thumbs up to this? I think think this song is an achingly beautiful

    • @bobobrien8968
      @bobobrien8968 4 роки тому +9

      My deepest feelings to ,my brother in pain and life. We can still save the world. For our lost loved ones.

    • @Bimfirestarter
      @Bimfirestarter 4 роки тому +7

      😟😢😢😢💔💔💔 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.

    • @Kieran84ire
      @Kieran84ire 4 роки тому +6

      Very sorry to hear of your loss Philppe, I hope you are doing well and living a life she would be proud of

    • @philippemetois6491
      @philippemetois6491 4 роки тому +5

      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

  • @joelreid6114
    @joelreid6114 2 роки тому +24

    Maybe the best Canadian music video of all time.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 2 роки тому

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛🎷🎷🎷✨💯💯......

    • @kevinlarson9111
      @kevinlarson9111 6 місяців тому +1

      💯

    • @angusbull9685
      @angusbull9685 4 місяці тому +1

      Brian Adams is pretty cool though!

    • @elizabethmcleod246
      @elizabethmcleod246 3 місяці тому +1

      It’s a fave of mine and I’m Canadian.

  • @withershin
    @withershin Рік тому +8

    "Anybody hear the forest fall?" is a golden lyric. Majestic perhaps.

  • @jodystockfish7573
    @jodystockfish7573 3 роки тому +11

    There should be no thumbs down option for this song.

  • @channelinfinity7084
    @channelinfinity7084 Рік тому +7

    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.

  • @johncooper7663
    @johncooper7663 2 роки тому +5

    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

  • @rexgaub1229
    @rexgaub1229 3 роки тому +7

    Would've never known about this guy if it weren't for college radio in Amarillo, TX.

    • @ShrinkiesWife
      @ShrinkiesWife 4 місяці тому +2

      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.

    • @jansilverthorn777
      @jansilverthorn777 3 місяці тому +1

      One of our most gifted songwriters. He was decades ahead of the rest of us.

  • @seanmackenzie8726
    @seanmackenzie8726 2 місяці тому +2

    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.!!!

  • @MrJaseg1971
    @MrJaseg1971 6 років тому +126

    This song was released in 1988, Bruce was way ahead of his time. We are the epitome of our own demise.

    • @anitataylor4287
      @anitataylor4287 5 років тому +6

      Yep.

    • @shilohaapala284
      @shilohaapala284 5 років тому +5

      Agreed! A fantastic song by a great Human Being! And a Canadian!

    •  5 років тому +2

      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.

    • @davedruid7427
      @davedruid7427 4 роки тому +3

      Our David Suzuki was saying such things in his Nature of Things Show in the late 70s - early 80s.

    • @lindadote
      @lindadote 4 роки тому +4

      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.

  • @kathyanderson1341
    @kathyanderson1341 5 місяців тому +3

    YES, I , heard them fall AND the cry was deafening!!!!

  • @SocalHashman
    @SocalHashman Рік тому +4

    The trailer park boys introduced me to your music 👍👍🎸🎶🎶

  • @brucestapley9703
    @brucestapley9703 Місяць тому +1

    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

  • @davidyoung8875
    @davidyoung8875 Рік тому +31

    Everyone should listen to the whole album. It's just Amazing!!

  • @butchssurvivorranch360
    @butchssurvivorranch360 Місяць тому +1

    THE WORLD DIDN'T 🌎 LISTEN TO BRUCE... WHAT A SHAME 😢HE WAS SO RIGHT ON EVERY POINT
    👉 ❤ 👈

  • @solodolotrevino
    @solodolotrevino 4 роки тому +25

    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.

  • @Darkasknightfall
    @Darkasknightfall Рік тому +18

    This man stands for many things. What a great artist 🌍🌎🌏

  • @traces2807
    @traces2807 11 місяців тому +6

    The talent and depth of this humanitarian...

  • @kevinlarson1522
    @kevinlarson1522 8 років тому +142

    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

    • @rathert3
      @rathert3 8 років тому +6

      Totally agree with you Kevin Larson.

    • @kevinlarson1522
      @kevinlarson1522 8 років тому +6

      Cheers

    • @Vacuumscam
      @Vacuumscam 8 років тому +18

      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

    • @weatheranddarkness
      @weatheranddarkness 7 років тому +1

      it's not the only instance that's been on youtube

    • @julianjames1971
      @julianjames1971 6 років тому +7

      Too many Trump supporters.....

  • @aliciasabourin1268
    @aliciasabourin1268 7 років тому +101

    I remember this song when I was about 4 years old. I cried everytime I heard it... still do

    • @arouse6140
      @arouse6140 5 років тому +3

      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 👍😎🌎😎👍

    • @arrow-lo7jf
      @arrow-lo7jf 4 роки тому

      The human race committing suicide, " problem solved " but no one will help...

    • @priscillahudson3625
      @priscillahudson3625 4 роки тому +1

      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?

    • @arrow-lo7jf
      @arrow-lo7jf 4 роки тому

      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.

    • @priscillahudson3625
      @priscillahudson3625 4 роки тому +3

      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”.

  • @helenaeriksson506
    @helenaeriksson506 4 роки тому +5

    Truer than ever. Could have been written today. Made me cry.

  • @Josh7510
    @Josh7510 3 роки тому +6

    At the time this guy was spot on......since then the world has sold itself....for what!

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @johnnycrash3270
    @johnnycrash3270 Рік тому +6

    Canada loves YA Bruce ❤🙏 for the 🌎 it's all we got

  • @ronaldconlin9701
    @ronaldconlin9701 Рік тому +3

    Many moons ago at the Catalyst, Santa Cruz..he was there and I saw him😁

  • @fastorange6463
    @fastorange6463 2 роки тому +7

    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.

  • @TheMedicineMan_29
    @TheMedicineMan_29 2 роки тому +4

    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!!

  • @MrRedwing90
    @MrRedwing90 3 роки тому +22

    Another masterpiece from Bruce. What a stellar song!

  • @paulchittenden6112
    @paulchittenden6112 5 років тому +9

    1988 but where have we gone from here with this songs message? We are still destroying the planet 🌍

  • @loggerbomb
    @loggerbomb 3 роки тому +6

    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.

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @kcgilford518
    @kcgilford518 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @davidpate3859
    @davidpate3859 7 років тому +16

    Grrr, wish I'd written this SMFH, thanks Bruce Cockburn for being a global conscience for the masses!

  • @TheJamesOutlaw
    @TheJamesOutlaw 8 місяців тому +3

    I saw this on much music in the 80s and loved it then. Love it now

  • @Wizardofgosz
    @Wizardofgosz 7 років тому +38

    Never heard this track before til today. It's almost Lou Reed meets Zappa or something. This is strong.

    • @bobthebear1246
      @bobthebear1246 3 роки тому +1

      First time for me now, too. I would say Lou Reed set to Country-Rock. It is very strong.

    • @eliotpenaloza2863
      @eliotpenaloza2863 3 роки тому +2

      First time here too.

    • @sergeparadis1
      @sergeparadis1 Рік тому

      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

  • @danielr8566
    @danielr8566 4 місяці тому

    This makes me cry..everytime.

  • @tdirgins
    @tdirgins 3 роки тому +3

    “Forever” gets me every time. 😢

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @JANITOROFHISTORY
    @JANITOROFHISTORY 11 років тому +13

    “ 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

    • @lizr473
      @lizr473 3 роки тому

      which is exactly why man-unkind is slowly going insane.

  • @johnkauppi7078
    @johnkauppi7078 6 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @Johnny-ty1dg
    @Johnny-ty1dg 2 роки тому +4

    I LOVE Bruce Cockburn. But I also love hamburgers. I feel so torn.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 2 роки тому +1

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛🎷🎷🎷✨💯💯......

  • @EdwardGatey
    @EdwardGatey Рік тому +1

    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!

  • @elanyacoleman9862
    @elanyacoleman9862 4 місяці тому

    Love Bruce Cockburn ❤ and most honored to have met him on several occasions 🎼🎵🎶 .

  • @4score7
    @4score7 2 роки тому +1

    Can not wait to see you tonight in Flagstaff, Bruce. Right On! Power To The People!!

  • @taylor-ruth.
    @taylor-ruth. Рік тому +9

    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.

  • @madbuddha2077
    @madbuddha2077 5 років тому +8

    why does some of the best music on youtube have the least hits

  • @kevinlarson9111
    @kevinlarson9111 6 місяців тому +4

    Absolutely incredibly true song ❤

  • @JBinOtown
    @JBinOtown 6 років тому +25

    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

    • @anitataylor4287
      @anitataylor4287 3 роки тому +1

      And now sinkholes happening!!!

    • @lizr473
      @lizr473 3 роки тому

      welcome to southwest Florida...
      outrageous down here.
      and nobody gives a shit.

  • @dwaynesbadchemicals
    @dwaynesbadchemicals Рік тому +5

    As a Canadian singer songwriter, he’s up there with Joni, Leonard and Neil.

  • @MickLoud999
    @MickLoud999 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @peterp4319
    @peterp4319 5 місяців тому +1

    I so wish this was re-mastered in HD

  • @westerstill2119
    @westerstill2119 2 місяці тому +2

    Bruce is a living legend. Inspiration for me becoming a vegetarian

    • @seanmackenzie8726
      @seanmackenzie8726 Місяць тому

      He Bruce should inspire yourself to be a Beautiful Human Being and Respecting Humanity as well as Nature.!!!

  • @kathyanderson1341
    @kathyanderson1341 5 місяців тому +2

    Beautiful MOTHER EARTH forgive us😭😭😭

  • @philbishop7936
    @philbishop7936 2 роки тому +3

    He's making a lot of sense now isn't he, our planet is finished with us, very soon!!

  • @freelancer8822
    @freelancer8822 3 роки тому +3

    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!

  • @mbaronson7836
    @mbaronson7836 6 років тому +21

    Love this song. Bruce is so in touch with our world.

    • @EdwardGatey
      @EdwardGatey Рік тому

      Yes. If I had a rocket launcher, some SOB WOULD die. I would retaliate, not hesitate!

  • @rommulus
    @rommulus 3 роки тому +4

    can we have a minute of silence for this dying earth that we are all responsible for

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому +1

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

    • @nathanhill2044
      @nathanhill2044 5 місяців тому

      Are you still alive?

  • @stephenross6944
    @stephenross6944 Рік тому +2

    Jerry springer look alike but what a beat ,and then he sings absolutely brilliant lovvvvvvvvve it

  • @sh230968
    @sh230968 Рік тому +2

    Most well meaning lyrics and earnest musician. True gentle soul.

  • @HerbalTreasuresinOntario
    @HerbalTreasuresinOntario 4 місяці тому

    He is playing here in Ontario (Toronto) in April I think. Never seen him live. He's an amazing artist. There are so many trees falling in the forests if you look as you go by. They are in trouble. We need the carbon!

  • @melaniecossey1508
    @melaniecossey1508 5 років тому +10

    I remember when this song came out over thirty years ago. Thirty years! Why was nothing done? Now are we facing the end?

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏

    • @xeonic84
      @xeonic84 3 роки тому

      @@jamesc4812 What now Bruce? We trashed our home.

    • @spudfrommars
      @spudfrommars 3 роки тому

      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.

    • @jacobfinder7476
      @jacobfinder7476 6 місяців тому

      Yes

  • @anitataylor4287
    @anitataylor4287 5 років тому +7

    This song needs way more views!!

  • @davidburne9477
    @davidburne9477 8 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @RobertLindblad
    @RobertLindblad Рік тому +3

    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!

  • @interqward1
    @interqward1 8 років тому +16

    What a simply beautiful song; and good poetry.

  • @Socooomfy
    @Socooomfy 4 роки тому +11

    Holy shit this is magic. How can anything modern ever hold a candle to this? This man knows how to whammy bar.

  • @bctreehunter7396
    @bctreehunter7396 4 роки тому +5

    Nice to listen to this yet again. Reminds me of just how talented Bruce Cockburn is, and how sincere his message was and is

  • @publicdomain1103
    @publicdomain1103 6 років тому +4

    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

  • @wernersteiner4325
    @wernersteiner4325 4 роки тому +4

    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........(:

    • @jamesc4812
      @jamesc4812 3 роки тому

      Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏

  • @rubencura1112
    @rubencura1112 3 роки тому +2

    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

  • @icelandicat68
    @icelandicat68 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @nicolenicky8980
    @nicolenicky8980 3 місяці тому

    childhood song hihi🥰i love it and im now 40

  • @robdavidson1876
    @robdavidson1876 7 років тому +16

    Wonderful artist been listening to for decades met him 2019 someone took our picture together ❤!

  • @fab60s64
    @fab60s64 7 років тому +7

    Gosh , memory lane , its been a long time since i heard this

  • @bronsonpoutine7357
    @bronsonpoutine7357 3 роки тому +1

    Brilliant man who was way ahead of the curve.

  • @susannahsears3041
    @susannahsears3041 3 роки тому +1

    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!!! :/

  • @ramrod2314
    @ramrod2314 5 років тому +21

    Even today in 2019 we still don't get the message...we are still in denial

    • @lizr473
      @lizr473 3 роки тому

      GREED
      GREED
      GREED
      and MORE GREED

  • @kerriesciberras5229
    @kerriesciberras5229 7 років тому +11

    Best song i have ever had the pleasure to hear

  • @daverussellmusic
    @daverussellmusic 8 років тому +17

    This song is boss. Happy Earth Day y'all!

  • @davidpate3859
    @davidpate3859 3 роки тому +1

    'This is the world that we have set on fire.' - Wendell Berry

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому +1

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

  • @lonewolf5896
    @lonewolf5896 2 роки тому +1

    A voice for the trees......listen......

  • @peterchiasson7530
    @peterchiasson7530 2 роки тому +3

    Still love this great track!

  • @paulchittenden6112
    @paulchittenden6112 5 років тому +15

    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.

  • @richarddrolet7746
    @richarddrolet7746 2 роки тому +2

    This Artist is an icon along with Joni Mitchell.....Canada Heritage at its best......rick.

  • @actontreadway1168
    @actontreadway1168 5 років тому +2

    I remember when this song came out. I was living far away and this was on TV in the hotel I was staying in. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away...

  • @andrewwatitsch3327
    @andrewwatitsch3327 Рік тому +1

    Great song!

  • @gregs6312
    @gregs6312 Рік тому +1

    We all need to wake up here before were not🤔

  • @jamie1carlisle
    @jamie1carlisle 6 років тому +6

    Sublime made in Canada! Thanks for making sense Bruce.

  • @joemark1289
    @joemark1289 3 роки тому

    Man we Canadians sure produce top quality tool bags.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯

  • @jill-sandwichsince9698
    @jill-sandwichsince9698 Рік тому +14

    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
    ☮️❤️

    • @heidihilgendorf748
      @heidihilgendorf748 Рік тому +2

      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!

  • @briandennis4695
    @briandennis4695 6 років тому +6

    You hit the nail on the head with that one Bruce. If only people would listen. Definitely your best work.

    •  5 років тому

      And what solution did he offer?

    • @loranelizabeth9148
      @loranelizabeth9148 2 роки тому +1

      Oh, I dunno, Brian. IMHO ALL of his music is too great for words!

  • @mattaird4660
    @mattaird4660 3 роки тому +1

    I love this song ,,i hope people listen

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

  • @danielfarje8857
    @danielfarje8857 3 роки тому +6

    What a good song, specially for the message in it. Just discovered it by chance and I love it.

    • @brucecockburn5025
      @brucecockburn5025 3 роки тому

      Hi
      thanks for watching and commenting on my UA-cam channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛...🎷🎷🎷✨.... 💯💯

  • @jansilverthorn777
    @jansilverthorn777 3 місяці тому

    Brings me to tears every time. We have such a beautiful planet, why not save it in favor of colonizing some rock after it is destroyed?

  • @5tar5z
    @5tar5z 4 роки тому +3

    Solid tune. Canadian Legend

  • @RenigadeCineTrax
    @RenigadeCineTrax 4 роки тому +1

    I used to jam this on Much Music out of Canada on the old K Band Satalite. I live in Texas. I still have the cd.

  • @EdwardGatey
    @EdwardGatey Рік тому +1

    Love local Lightfoot!
    Love Global Bruce.