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Obama (Start Believing Again) © (P) 2008 Mark Simos/Devachan Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Guitars, vocals, Garageband™ programming, iMovie™ editing: Mark Simos (lyrics below) **** DOUBLE FLASH! As a result of your views, this video has made it into the top 10 video finalists for Air America's Obama Ad contest! PLEASE go to: http://airamerica.com/blog/2008/oct/27/obama-video-contest-top-10 and vote for the song (#3 in the list). It's a chance to get the song heard by many AirAmerica listeners! (I'll donate any prize money received.) Can you help? If you like the video, pass the word to some friends! And check out Air America at: http:/www.airamerica.com **** Greetings, friends. I'm Mark Simos: songwriter, guitarist, fiddler, tunesmith and composer, teacher, and now guerrilla Garagebandido, iMovie(On)-maven and videographer of last resort. I'm releasing this song as a tribute to Barack Obama and the remarkable campaign staffers and volunteers that are proving to the world exactly what a little bit of community organizing writ large can do. It incorporates video excerpts from a campaign speech Obama gave on October 22, 2008 in Richmond, Virginia. I currently teach songwriting at Berklee College of Music in Boston. However, the views expressed in this song are entirely my own; and I take full personal responsibility for every aspect of the song and its production and release on the Internet. Thanks to Peggy Seeger, Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries and Sandy O), Michael Merenda, Brad Powell, Audrey Molsky and others unnamed for respectively scolding, inspiring, encouraging and advising me into getting off my duff. Back in 2003, before the invasion of Iraq, I wrote a protest song which, at the last moment, I hesitated to send out in full musical form. Some of my hesitation was honorable caution, some trepidation that I now regret. In any case, I hope getting this song out there will serve as some form of restitution. If Colin Powell can work through his karma maybe I can too. This is still only a work demo—if you are inspired to learn the song and want the chord chart or sheet music (lyrics are below), email me at d e v a c h a n m u s i c @ c om c a s t . n e t. A free mp3 download of this song will be available at my website about songwriting and social activism: www.songsofconscience.com, and through my Facebook account page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Mark-Simos-Devachan-Music/44778431417 If you enjoyed this music please consider making a donation of $5 to the Obama/Biden campaign or the DSCC senate races. This song is dedicated to Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. "Obama (Start Believing Again)" © Mark Simos/Devachan Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Obama, Obama Obama—can we start believing again? Obama—the journey is long, but it's time to begin Obama—can we start believing again? Obama—time to be leaders, each woman, each man Can we change the world?—yes we can, yes we can Time to keep faith with what once made us great Join the new great debate between choosing and fate The hour is near midnight and all is not well If our will is alive, then its still not too late For the meal to be laid on the hungry childs plate For the student to walk through the future's bright gate To tell the round world we will wipe clean the slate Learn the lesson—that unjust war just fans the hate And a pause to reflect doesn't mean—hesitate Make no bargain with fear, yet fear not to negotiate Oh—can we walk the talk? Help us win back our country, Barack Obama, Obama Obama—can we start believing again? Obama—the journey is long, but it's time to begin Though the lines may stretch around the block We will win back our country, Barack Obama—can we start believing again? Obama—the journey is long, but its time to begin Obama—can we start believing again? Obama—time to be leaders, each woman, each man Can we change the world?—we can, yes we can Can we change the world?—we can, yes we can
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