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2 April 2003

Greetings:

True North Records has passed along the updateed lyrics to It's Going
Down Slow, which will be featured in the re-recording of this song
for the compilation album, Peace Songs, coming out April 15th to
benefit War Child (www.warchild.org). We recently featured the
original lyrics in a Cockburn News newletter. Once again, Bruce
seems to have captured the 'essence' of the world in this song:

It's Going Down Slow
2003 Version

written by Bruce Cockburn
1971/2003

Go tell the sergeant-major
to get that thing repaired
the lunatics rule in the asylum
chaos is in the air
oh oh oh it's going down slow (2)

They're grinding the marrow of history
the ground underneath us quakes
the board of directors is looting
what's left of the ship of state
oh oh oh it's going down slow (2)

Everybody seems to be leaving
better say your travelling prayers
it don't matter how you get it
it's where do you go from there
oh oh oh it's going down slow (4)

God, damn the hands of glory
that hold the bloody firebrand high
close the book and end the story
of how so many men have died
let the world retain in memory
that mighty tongues tell mighty lies
and if mankind must have an enemy
let it be his warlike pride
let it be his warlike pride

© 2003 Golden Mountain Music Corp.
International Copyright Secured
All Rights Reserved

According to True North, Bruce will also be doing radio
appearances/interviews/song segments at each of these stations. If
they are local to you, you might just want to tune in:

April 21  WNCS, Montpelier, VT
April 22 WXRV (The River), Boston
April 23 WBOS, Boston
April 24 WCLZ, Portland ME
April 25 WXPN (World Cafe performance), Philadelphia PA
April 28  WFUV, New York

That's it for this issue of the newsletter. Thanks so much for all
the recent mail we've received in response to recent newsletters.
I'd like to pass along another couple of links provided by readers.
I apologize if all that were sent in are not in this newsletter, I'm
not at my home computer and don't have access to the links I archived
there. I promise an update as soon as I am home again.

Editor's Picks for further reading:

Voices in the Wilderness: http://www.vitw.org
VoteNoWar: http://www.internationalanswer.org

Peace,
Suzanne Myers
editor@...