Community
from Apples & Cheese by Tom Smith
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lyrics
Community
This is a little song about community
It’s really just a very simple thing
A community’s a group of individuals
Who have a common song to sing
It takes all kinds of voices, some can reach the high notes
Other voices sing the notes down low
We keep the rhythm with our feet
Walking forward to the beat
Participation is the key that makes it go!
A family’s a kind of a community
No two families are really quite the same
Some are large and some are small
They’ll pick/help you up if you should fall
And I’ve been told that mine is kind of strange
We tell jokes, and laugh a lot
Sometimes we argue round the clock
But we figured out - how to get along
Love is what it’s all about
In the end there is no doubt
That everybody in our family belongs
A neighborhood’s a kind of community
Many families - some you may not know
If they’re unknown to you
I’ll tell you what to do
When you see them on the street, say hello!
If they say “hello” to you it may sound different
This may be how they say it in their homes
Kon'nichiwa, jambo
Marha’baa, Nǐ hǎo,
Hola, bonjour, shalom!
The world is a kind of a community
Maybe that is why we call it “Mother Earth”
It’s just a bigger song to sing
With every living thing
And we sing on - through life, and death and birth
We don’t inherit this planet from our parents
We borrow it from our kids
Let’s make sure that we take care
Where it’s broken we’ll repair
So they receive a better planet than we did
[Repeat Verse 1, and the last line twice]
This is a little song about community
It’s really just a very simple thing
A community’s a group of individuals
Who have a common song to sing
It takes all kinds of voices, some can reach the high notes
Other voices sing the notes down low
We keep the rhythm with our feet
Walking forward to the beat
Participation is the key that makes it go!
A family’s a kind of a community
No two families are really quite the same
Some are large and some are small
They’ll pick/help you up if you should fall
And I’ve been told that mine is kind of strange
We tell jokes, and laugh a lot
Sometimes we argue round the clock
But we figured out - how to get along
Love is what it’s all about
In the end there is no doubt
That everybody in our family belongs
A neighborhood’s a kind of community
Many families - some you may not know
If they’re unknown to you
I’ll tell you what to do
When you see them on the street, say hello!
If they say “hello” to you it may sound different
This may be how they say it in their homes
Kon'nichiwa, jambo
Marha’baa, Nǐ hǎo,
Hola, bonjour, shalom!
The world is a kind of a community
Maybe that is why we call it “Mother Earth”
It’s just a bigger song to sing
With every living thing
And we sing on - through life, and death and birth
We don’t inherit this planet from our parents
We borrow it from our kids
Let’s make sure that we take care
Where it’s broken we’ll repair
So they receive a better planet than we did
[Repeat Verse 1, and the last line twice]
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from Apples & Cheese,
released December 4, 2020
by Tom Smith, © 2021 Peabody Hill Publishing
by Tom Smith, © 2021 Peabody Hill Publishing
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Tom Smith Boston, Massachusetts
“Folk music is still a living tradition that feeds on new songs that speak of people’s wants, needs, struggles and triumphs. Tom Smith is a man who writes songs that seem like they’ve always been there. There are very few songwriters working today that I would call folksingers, but I would call Tom Smith a true folksinger.” – Dave Palmeter, WUMB-FM Boston ... more
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