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PASS IT ALONG - Transatlantic session

by Bob Bossin and 24 of his good friends

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25 folk musicians from six countries - among them Peggy Seeger, Leon Rosselson, Connie Kaldor, Pharis and Jason Romero, Ben Mink, Ian Robb, Veda Hille and Marie-Lynn Hammond - recorded this version of Scott Cook's "Pass It Along" for Earth Day 2021. The video has been viewed on YouTube and elsewhere by over 20,000 people and rising. Great video! Check it out and, well, pass it along. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNj7LyHqwFE

Any money raised will go to the Fairy Creek protesters fighting to protect the last stands of ancient forest in British Columbia, Canada.

lyrics

Pass It Along by Scott Cook

This guitar came from a timber, from the body of a tree
Through the workshop of a luthier, now it's on loan to me
And it's good company after dinner, and it fits my hands just fine
But some day another singer with a pair of hands like mine
Will coax out songs much prettier still hiding in its strings
And sing stronger, braver words than I could ever sing
And folks are gonna love it, of this I'm almost sure
So I'll take good care of it, ‘cause I'm borrowing it from her

Pass it along, pass it along
May it land in careful hands when we're gone
You carry it for a moment
But time won't loan it to you for long
You don't own it, pass it along

I still love this country, sometimes it's hard to recognize it
But I count myself lucky, to have been born inside it
And I'm grateful for the rights others struggled hard to win
And you can be sure I'm gonna fight when they try to take 'em back again
Oh, and everywhere are teachers, though some fell along the way
The words they said still reach us, just like you're teaching me here today
And it may not be out loud, but it's clear in what you do
And I hope to make you proud, because I borrowed it from you

Seems these days we're in a hurry, to grab up all that's left to use
Putting patents on discovery, making seeds that don't reproduce
If our vision is so narrow, seeing only bought and sold
We'll end up like the pharaohs, buried with their gold
We've all pushed this thing along, we've all been guided by our fear
But the river sings a song we've gotta be quieter to hear
It's in every child's face, new and hopeful as a stem
Best be gentle with this place, cause we're borrowing it from them

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released April 22, 2021
THE PERFORMERS: Bob Bossin, Daniel Cainer, Carole Christopher, Scott Cook, Eva H.D., Marie-Lynn Hammond, Veda Hille, Connie Kaldor, Elizabeth May & John Kidder, Ben Mink, Joe Mock, Bernadette Morris, Arnie Naiman, Rick Pollay, Shelley Posen, Qiu Xia He, Pharis and Jason Romero, Ian Robb, Leon Rosselson, Stephano Saletti, Peggy Seeger, Deborah Silverstein

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Stuart Mclean said, "Only a handful of song writers have created a body of work that constitutes a portrait of our country. Stan Rogers did that. So did Gordon Lightfoot. And so does Bob Bossin.”
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