Peace Park is often a festive place -- a place to sing a heart-song or let loose in dance. Many musicians come down to the park to play by themselves. In the late 1980's, they came to jam with vigiling musicians Sunrise, Philip, and Song. Other folks drop by to enjoy the easy vibes and festive spirit. When these moments occur, the Ragtag Band is in session. These are a few of their songs.

Mighty works, mighty trees
both start out as little seeds,
different forms from different fruits.
Everything has its roots - like a tree.
Grows for many, many years,
not always strong and without fears,
striving toward its perfect form
yet not uprooted in the storm - like strong trees.
Carefully expends its leaves,
reaching out to catch a breeze.
How can you ever think it's wrong
when a bird sings its song - in the tree.
The form might seem not always right,
but ever-growing towards the light
with no illusion to cloud the eye.
Broken branches drop and die - from a tree.
Living tree.
Giving place of shade and rest
for all life to build a nest.
But a tree with casual mind
will cause void and not divine - fruit of a tree.


SPIRIT OF LOVE
by Conny

Spirit of love
that flows in our blood
Spirit that hears
singing from every heart,
this is a prayer I sing,
this is a prayer I sing:
save our perishing earth.
Save our perishing earth.

We can hear it in water, in wood and in stone.
We are the earth of this earth and bone of its bone.
This is a prayer I sing, for we have forgotten to sing.

(Pray, this earth....)

Teach us again to listen and talk.
Teach us again to smell and to walk.
Teach us again to laugh and to sing.
Teach us again to pray and to see.

Spirit of love, you show us your face.
Spirit of love, every new day.
Spirit of love, show us the way.
Spirit of love, each one of us.
Inspire us now, inspire us now.
This is a prayer I sing

... for us.

A REFLECTION OF OUR MINDS
by Conny

One day ahead we gonna wake up and be free.
We're all gonna realize where we wanna be.
Living on our earth - creatively.
It's gonna be a reflection of our minds.

(repeat four times)

Trying to enjoy life and grabbing white sand.
Words of love and action of dissatisfaction.
Waiting for somebody who is bringing your share.
It's gotta be a reflection of my mind.

(repeat four times)

Deep down in your hearts we know what's right and wrong.
Don't tell me what it should do.
People are ruling to look for the bad.
You better watch out cause it comes right back.
It's gotta be a reflection of your mind.

(repeat four times)

Think about the time to come.

(repeat)

(back to beginning)

Verse 1:

D A
It's the 6th of August. The sky is overcast.
D A
Each breath is a gift I pray won't be the last.
E A
I'm counting breaths since l945.
E A
I wonder if we'll let us stay alive.

Verse 2 (first refrain)

D A
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima,
E A
When, oh when will Mother Earth be free? Will Mother Earth be free?
D A
Chernobyl, Nevada, Carolina too,
E A
All suffering from the radiation blues.

Verse 3:

D A
Evolution seems impossibly slow.
D A
Peace through war is not the way to grow.
E A
Some build a better bomb for judgment day,
E A
Some hide and hope the Rapture's on its way.

Verse 4 (second refrain)

D A
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima,
E A
When, oh when will Mother Earth be free? Will Mother Earth be free?
D A
Africa, Australia, Asia too,
E A
We're suffering from the radiation blues.

Verse 5

D A
Missiles own the ground, sea, air, and skies.
D A
Babes are born, no limbs, no hearts, no eyes.
E A
"Who will save our future?" they lament.
E A
(And what about computer accidents?)

Verse 6 (third refrain)

D A
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima,
E A
When, oh when will Mother Earth be free? Will Mother Earth be free?
D A
Chernobyl, Kansas City, Massachusetts too,
E A
All suffering from the radiation blues.

Verse 7

D A
MYou don’t want the radiation blues.
D A
Listen closely now to what you’ve got to do:
E A
Clean up the nuclear waste, abolish nuclear bombs
E A
Get rid of nuclear power. Shut it all down

Verse 8 (fourth refrain)

D A
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima,
E A
When, oh when will Mother Earth be free? Will Mother Earth be free?
D A
Chernobyl, Nevada, Carolina too,
E A
All suffering from the radiation blues.

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a MONEY song

A E
When is bread / not really bread?
A E
(Use your head / use your God-given head.)
D E
When it's green / you know what I mean:
A
When it's money.

A E
It eats up your days / and worries your nights.
A E
It's the number one reason / we get into fights.
D E
It's the human race / at a suicide pace
A
After money.

G D
Money, honey, what an awful thought!
G D
How can you stand to be sold or bought
E A
By money ... for money?

A E
In seeking our Fortune / we're trapped in its chains,
A E
Fears oozing off us / like sweat in the rain.
D E
We die for our toys / our drugs, and our pain ...
A
All for money.

A E
One day, on a whim, I thought / give it a try,
A E
Stretch out your wings / and learn how to fly!
D E
Now I live without bills / without worries, without lies ...
A
Without money.

G D
Money, honey, what a silly device!
G D
When will we learn how to bury the dice?
E
No more money.
A
Funny.
E A
Funny ... funny, funny, funny, funny ... money.


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