Earth Day was founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues. Due to the current pandemic, we wonāt be able to celebrate this one in the great outdoors. Nevertheless, social-distancing has made a positive impact on the planet from cleaner beaches to less air pollution.Ā
Although we canāt pay respect to Mother Nature in person, we can honor her from our homes. In celebration, weāve gathered 32 songs to listen to on Earth Day!
1. "Earth Day Every Day"Ā by John Denver
''Celebrate Earth Day, Every Day''
2. "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
'āI see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world''
3. "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
āHey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now. Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, pleaseā
4. "Sunshine on My Shoulders" by John Denver
'āSunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry, Sunshine on the water looks so lovely''
5. "Man Walks Among Us" by Jonathan Richman
''Soon will be gone all the desert. Cities will cover each hill. Today will just be a sad memory.''
6. "Gaia" by James Taylor
'āPray for the forest, pray for the tree, pray for the fish in the deep blue seaā'
7. "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" by Marvin Gaye
''Things aināt what the used to be, no no, where did all the blue skies go?ā'
8. "We Can Run" by The Grateful Dead
'āOf all possible worlds, we only got one: we gotta ride on it whatever weāve done, weāll never get far from what we leave behindā'
9. "Paradise" by John Prine
'āAnd daddy wonāt you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River where Paradise layā'
10. "Where do the Children Play" by Cat Stevens
'āWeāre changing day to day, but tell me, where do the children play?ā'
11. "Mother Natureās Son" by The Beatles
'āFind me in my field of grass, Mother Natureās son, Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sunā'
12. "Down to Earth" by Peter Gabriel
'āWe hear the birds sing in the tree, The land will be looked after, We send the seeds out in the breezeā'
13. "(Nothing but) Flowers" by Talking Heads
'āThis was a pizza hut now itās all covered with daisesā'
14. "Donāt Go Near The Water" by Johnny Cash
''There was a time the air was clean and you could see forever ācross the plains, The wind was sweet as honey and no one had ever heard of acid rainā'
15. "Donāt Go Near The Water" by The Beach Boys
'āLetās all help the water right away, Do what we can and ought to, Letās start todayā'
16. "Quick Escape" by Pearl Jam
'āAnd we think about the old days, Of green grass, sky and red wineā'
17. "Every Age" by Jose Gonzalez
'āTake this dream of a better land, take your time, build a home, build a place where we can all belongā
18. "Saltwater" by Julian Lennon
'āwe climb the highest mountain, weāll make the desert bloom, weāre so ingenious, we can walk on the moon, but when I hear of how, the forests have died, saltwater wells in my eyesā'
19. "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth" by Sparks
'āIāll admit I was unfaithful, but from now on Iāll be more faithful, never turn your back on mother, never turn your back on mother, never turn your back on mother earthā'
20. "Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer
'āItās hard to beat the system when weāre standing at a distance, so we keep waiting, waiting on the world to changeā'
21. "Kids" by MGMT
'āControl yourself, take only what you need from itā'
22. "Out in the Country" by Three Dog Night
'āBefore the breathinā air is gone, before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime, out where the rivers like to run, I stand alone and take back somethinā worth remembering''
23. "The Landscape is Changing" by Depeche Mode
'āCause i donāt care if youāre going nowhere, just take good care of the worldā'
24. "Donāt Panic" by Coldplay
'āWe live in a beautiful world, yeah, we do, yeah, we doā'
25. "Conviction of the Heart" by Kenny Loggins
'āOne with the earth, with the sky, one with everything in life, I believe weāll survive, if only we tryā'
26. "The 3 R's" by Jack Johnson
''We've got to learn to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle''
27. "Apeman" by The Kinks
'āI look out my window, but I canāt see the sky ācause the air pollution is a-fogging up my eyes. I want to get out of this city alive and make like an Ape manā'
28. "Keep Texas Beautiful"Ā by Jerry Jeff Walker
'āKeep her wild and natural, just the way she ought to beā'
29. "Cowboy Take Me Away" by Dixie Chicks
''I said I wanna touch the earth, I wanna break it in my hands, I wanna grow something wild and unrulyā'
30. "Mother Earth" by Neil Young & Promise of the Real
'āHow long can youĀ give and not receiveĀ and feed this world ruled by greedā'
31. "Our Planet" by Ellie Goulding and Steven Price
''The sun will rise, but this time it's so bright, And all I have left is my faith that we could change''
32. "Oh, What A World" by Kacey Musgraves
''Northern lights in our skies, Plants that grow and open your mind, Things that swim with aā neonā glow, How we allā got here, nobody knows''
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