99 and a half just won't do

(Traditional with additional lyrics by Ry Cooder & Mavis Staples)
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Well, I'm runnin' 
I'm tryin' to make 100
99 and 1/2, it won't do
I'm runnin', runnin' for freedom y'all 
Cause 99 and 1/2 just won't do
Now, if your God won't help you
You better try mine
My God is a freedom God
He'll make a way for you,
In a weary land, 
He'll give you rest, 
When you're tired,
Protect you on a danger zone
He'll guide you down a rugged road
And bring you out on the bright side
I'm runnin' 
Tryin' to make 100
99 and a half, it just won't do
It's a rough and uphill journey
Lord, I'm tryin to make 100
99 and 1/2, it won't do, no, no
Down in Mississippi
It just won't do
Brothers in jail
It just won't do 
Uneducated children
It just won't do
It's the 21st century
It just won't do 
It feels like it's 1960
It just won't do
Broken levies
It just won't do
Lyin' politicians
It just won't do
Runnin' through hatred
It just won't do
Homeless babies
It just won't do
Freedom now
Lord, I'm runnin' 
I'm tryin' to make 100
Cause 99 and 1/2 just won't do
Aha, my God's a freedom God,
My God is a peaceful God
He's a livin' God
And He's a merciful God
He has a kingdom, you know
And a city called Heaven
12 gates to that city 
24 elders in the city 
48 angels in the city 
The streets are paved with gold
Have you heard of a city?
And don't you wanna go? 
The address is 100, I gotta make 100
You see, I got 99 and 1/2 
But it just ain't quite enough
I wanna go to that city 
City called Heaven 
No more cryin', no more hatred 
Always Howdy, howdy, howdy, 
And never Goodbye
Oh, that city 
Come on, don't you wanna go?
I tell ya, the address is 100, 100, 100
See, 99 and 1/2, it just won't do
No, no, no, no, no
99 and 1/2, it just won't do
I'm here to tell ya that 99 and 1/2,
99 and 1/2,
99 and 1/2, it just won't do
I can't use it

I Was Born in a Small Town by John Mellencamp

Where is the Love? Black Eyed Peas

I Know it's True ; Cause I Saw it On TV John Fogerty

They sent us home to watch the show comin’ on the little screen;

A man named ike was in the white house, big black limousine;
There were many shows to follow, from ’hooter’ to ’doodyville’,
Though I saw them all, I can’t recall which cartoon was real.

The coon-skin caps, Yankee bats, the "hound dog" man’s big start;
The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.
A young man from Boston set sail the New Frontier,
And we watched the dream dead-end in Dallas,
They buried innocence that year.

I know it’s true, oh so true, ’cause I saw it on tv.

We gathered round to hear the sound comin’ on the little screen,
The grief had passed, the old men laughed, and all the girls screamed
’cause four guys from England took us all by the hand,
It was time to laugh, time to sing, time to join the band.

But all too soon, we hit the moon, and covered up the sky;
They built their bombs, and aimed their guns, and still I don’t know why
The dominoes tumbled and big business roared;
Every night at six, they showed the pictures and counted up the score.

I know it’s true, oh so true, ’cause I saw it on tv.

The old man rocks among his dreams, a prisoner of the porch;
"the light," he says "at the end of the tunnel,
Was nothin’ but a burglar’s torch."
And them that was caught in the cover are all rich and free,
But they chained my mind to an endless tomb
When they took my only son from me.

I know it’s true, oh so true, ’cause I saw it on tv.
I know it’s true, oh so true, ’cause I saw it on tv.

Paradise by John Prine

John Fogerty's Version
My Polluted Kentucky Home by Silas House
Kentucky Coal Association Website

When I was a child my family would travel

down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

and there's a backwards old town that's often remembered

So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus:

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land

Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Repeat Chorus:

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River

Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam

I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'

Just five miles away from wherever I am.

John Fogerty Nobody's here Anymore

He got the latest software

He got the latest hardware too

He got the latest gizmo

Up in his room

He's feeling so connected

But he don't talk to a soul

He got a stash of Twinkies

Up in his room

[Chorus:]

Nobody here anymore

Nobody mindin' the store

They've all gone

To another dimension

Nobody here anymore

She comin' 'round the corner

Ah in a SUV

She got the latest cell phone

Up in her ear

I'm running 'gainst the traffic

But she don't see me

One hand on the cell phone

One hand on the mirror

[Chorus]

He's sittin' back at the classroom

A million miles away

He's listenin' to the rock star on a CD

Up front the old teacher

She's too tired to snag his mind

He's lookin' at the future, she's looking way behind

John Prine

John Prine

Bob Dylan

Neil Young

Jackson Browne

Joni Mitchell

Steve Goodman       Van Morrison

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

CSNY

Simon and Garfunkel

Arlo Guthrie     The Byrds

Beatles Songs

Beatles Songs

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique

And a swinging hot SPOT

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees

And put them in a tree museum

Then they charged the people

A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go,

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer

Put away that DDT now

Give me spots on my apples

But LEAVE me the birds and the bees

Please!

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til its gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Late last night

I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Come and took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

I said

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

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