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riversedge

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Tue Mar 20, 2018, 03:35 PM Mar 2018

Garth Brooks tearfully debuts a new song ahead of #MarchForOurLives & sends a message to @Emma4Chang




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Garth Brooks tearfully debuts a new song ahead of #MarchForOurLives & sends a message to @Emma4Change: "Do not let hate win" http://blbrd.cm/fUb9Td




Garth Brooks tearfully debuts a new song ahead of #MarchForOurLives & sends a message to @Emma4Change:





















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Garth Brooks tearfully debuts a new song ahead of #MarchForOurLives & sends a message to @Emma4Chang (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2018 OP
Important to remember there are plenty of country music stars who... hlthe2b Mar 2018 #1
good point. I tend to lumb them all as repugs also. riversedge Mar 2018 #5
Not a student .... BigOleDummy Mar 2018 #2
there are going to be a lot of baby boomers and Gen Xers joining in with these kids too... hlthe2b Mar 2018 #4
Brook's song can be seen here hlthe2b Mar 2018 #3

hlthe2b

(101,698 posts)
1. Important to remember there are plenty of country music stars who...
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:09 PM
Mar 2018

are not part of that far RW pro-NRA, pro-War cabal.

I'm glad they are stepping up. Good on Brooks.

BigOleDummy

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2. Not a student ....
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:11 PM
Mar 2018

.... and definitely not a teenager but I'll be at the one in Louisville, Ky. Hope everyone else is too.

hlthe2b

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4. there are going to be a lot of baby boomers and Gen Xers joining in with these kids too...
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:22 PM
Mar 2018

Not to lead, but to support these brave, determined kids.

hlthe2b

(101,698 posts)
3. Brook's song can be seen here
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:21 PM
Mar 2018
http://blbrd.cm/fUb9Td
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It comes in the last 3 1/2 or 4 minutes of that video. Very touching:

Brooks, who normally stays away from political issues, then grabbed his acoustic guitar to sing a song that he wrote with Tony Arata (who wrote Brooks’ classic “The Dance”), which Brooks hasn’t yet recorded. The song, which features a father singing to his children, includes the lines “To my children I make this vow: to matter then, it must matter now/ If we’re ever going to take a step beyond the road from here to gone/ Because there’s an endless stream I see walking in my dreams/ So many different voices, so many different wings/ Those without are those with plenty and the meekest are the strong/ All are one among the many marching on the road from here to gone/ We’re all one among the many marching on the road from here to gone.”

Wiping away a tear, Brooks, the father of three daughters, then reiterated his message to Gonzalez: "Miss Emma, everybody who will be marching: Love. Do not let hate win. Love.” He closed with another shout-out for the march, saying, “Be a part of it.”
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