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Environmental Songs For Earth Day – Earth Day Music
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Top 10 Earth Day Songs – List of Green Songs
Celebrate Earth Day 2012 with the best Earth Day music. Earth Day music is perfect for Earth Day activities, Earth Day festivals and Earth Day parties. The best environmental songs combine good music with a powerful environmental message. Great environmental music with great lyrics can get people thinking and inspire change.
Pete Seeger, John Denver and Bruce Cockburn are some of the most popular environmental musicians. Earth Day music and Earth Day theme songs are an important part of celebrating Earth Day 2012. Environmental musicians utilize music to promote environmental awareness, send a green message while protecting the planet.
The best Earth Day music includes important environmental issues such as toxic pollution, urban sprawl, climate change and global warming. There is an increase of musicians going green and several environmental bands are emerging. Celebrate Earth Day 2012 with the best Green Songs and Earth Day music.
The following Top 10 Earth Day Songs inspire, promote change, and send a valuable green message. Here is an Earth Day playlist of songs to help you celebrate Earth Day 2012.
Top 10 Earth Day Songs – A Playlist for Earth Day
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Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate) – by John Denver
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Earth Song – Michael Jackson
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Calypso – John Denver
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Pollution – Tom Lehrer
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If a Tree Falls – Bruce Cockburn
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Cement Octopus – Malvina Reynolds
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Don’t Go Near The Water – The Beach Boys
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Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
“Big Yellow Taxi” is a song written and originally performed by Joni Mitchell in 1970. “Big Yellow Taxi” sends a powerful message about environment degradation, and is possibly more relevant today than when it was first written.
Favorite Lyric: That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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What Have They Done To The Rain – Malvina Reynolds
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Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Marvin Gaye
“Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)” was written by John Denver. This environmental song was written in appreciation of our planet and reminds us that every day is Earth Day.
Favorite Lyric: Celebrate earth day, every day – Celebrate land and sea – Celebrate you and me
“Earth Song” was written and composed by Michael Jackson. This socially conscious song deals with the environment and animal welfare. Michael Jackson received recognition from various animal and environmental organizations for this great environmental song.
Favorite Lyric: Did you ever stop to notice, The crying Earth the weeping shores?
Calypso was written by John Denver in 1975. Calypso is the name of Jacques Cousteau’s famous research boat that sailed around the world for oceanic conservation.
Favorite Lyric: For, though we are strangers in your silent world, To live on the land we must learn from the sea
Tom Lehrer is best known for the satirical, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 60s. Pollution was written by Tom Lehrer in 1965. Unquestionably, Tom Lehrer was well ahead of his time.
Favorite Lyric: You can get the latest toothpaste, and then rinse your mouth with with industrial waste!
If a Tree Falls was written by Tom Cockburn in 1988. Written in 1988, this environmental song speaks of the destruction under way in the Amazon rain forests. This Tom Cockburn song had a profound impact upon everyone who heard it.
Favorite Lyric: Inject a billion burgers worth of beef – Grain eaters – methane dispensers
“Cement Octopus” was written by Malvina Reynolds in 1964. Cement Octopus is about the destruction of our environment. Like many of her songs, it was sung by Pete Seeger.
Favorite Lyric: Oh, stand by me and protect that tree, From the freeway misery
“Don’t Go Near The Water” by The Beach Boys was released in 1971. This Earth Day song draws attention to water pollution and it’s potential dire consequences.
Favorite Lyric: Toothpaste and soap will make our oceans a bubble bath, So let’s avoid an ecological aftermath
“What Have They Done To The Rain” was written in 1962 by Malvina Reynolds and first entitled “Rain Song”. This environmental song was written to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, which was producing fall-out.
Favorite Lyric: Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye, What have they done to the rain?
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) was written by Marvin Gaye in 1971. This environmental song speaks of pollution, radiation and overpopulation.
Favorite Lyric: Oil wasted on the oceans and our seas, Fish full of mercury
Did I miss a great Earth Day theme song? What is your favorite Earth Day theme song? Feel free to add your own favorite Earth Day Song in the comment section below.
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