# Short narrative of a music lover Vol.12 Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke

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- Published: 2022-02-28T23:42:00-05:00
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Why do human-being do such stupid things? Each one of us has no power to stop war.
We can’t help the old woman running for her life, or the parents covering their 
cowering children. We look at the images on the monitors and feel angry and sad,
and curse our own helplessness.　　　

What can music do?

Every time there is a war, every time human rights are neglected, there is a protest
song that is sung. I would like to introduce you such songs.

But first, this song by a great Ukrainian pianist who returned to concert in 1965,
while a law against racism was being passed., other way when the Vietnam War was
about to start,

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Next song was written by Sam Cooke, who was thought to be a pop singer who sang 
light pop songs, and was inspired by Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the wind”. Sam Cooke
was more than just a pop singer, as you can see in the movie “One Night in Miami”.
It’s an interesting film and a must see.

### A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke

This time I’d like to introduce you to a lot of songs instead of writing weird sentences.
Here’s a few songs in quick succession

### Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud – James Brown

### The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby and The Range

### War – Bob Marley and The Wailers

### What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye

### With God On Our Side – The Neville Brothers

### Ohio – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

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If you look on the internet you can find the lyrics of these songs, so please read
them too.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young‘s “Ohio” is said to have been released within
weeks of Neil writing the song in response to the media coverage, and Neil must 
have wanted to get it out there at that moment.

Two last songs of the most famous protest songs of all time. One is Billie Holiday’s
song that the US government tried to stop her from singing this  because this song
can move people’s heart too much strongly and the other is Louis Armstrong’s song
of hope, sung for soldiers in Vietnam. 

### Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday

### What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

Finally, as usual, a song of mine. I wrote this song on the day Russia invaded Ukraine
and recorded it the next day. I can’t do anything for the people of Ukraine. I don’t
know what it has some worth to write this song. But if great protest songs are kept
on being sung and moving people’s hearts, then maybe one day we can stop to start
any war.

If great protest songs are meaningless, t’s not the song’s fault, it is up to us.
My American friends at BandLab, Savage Joe Wilson, covered this song, so please 
have a listen to that too.

#### Kaneko’s Song of the Day

Can you be hugged with mam’s grace? – KANEKO Chalin

Can you be hugged with mam’s grace? – Savage Joe Wilson

**Can you be hugged with mam’s grace?  **
Lyrics: KANEKO Chalin

After midnight the rain turned to bombs
Pieces of the next door grandma are burning
as yard lampAfter midnight the rain turned to bombsPieces of the next door dog are
burning as yard lamp

Where is your mother?
Can you see her smiling face?Where is your mother?Can you 
be hugged with her grace?Everybody is son and daughter of mamEvery mam must not 
cry over bombs

After long time we thought and learned,
Why can’t we understand what a baby can?
When did the powers lose their sanity?When were the powers haunted by psychopaths?
When did the powers lose mom’s love and wisdom of past

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