I get to see Richie Havens tomorrow night!!!!

[ET Awful]

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[matcom]

1. DUDE!! just saw him 2 months ago!

where is he playing?

be prepared for an AWESOME SHOW!!

[ET Awful]

2. Boarding House park out here in Lowell, only $10

You should come out :) Show starts at 7:30

[matcom]

3. he played at a junior high school here in Natick

FUCKING KICKED ASS!!!

enjoy!!!

[ET Awful]

5. Last time I saw him was in 2000 I think at the Boston Folk Festival

IT's been a few years :)

He's so fun . . . he just seems like the type you'd almost lounge around your living room with a few frinds and him taking turns telling stories and singin' songs and such.

[no name no slogan]

4. DAMN!!!

He is amazing!!! Yes, I'm VERY jealous!!! :thumbsup:

[ET Awful]

6. He's one of the few that still completely fits the mold of the 60's era

folkie in a coffee house telling stories and singing songs :)

[no name no slogan]

8. Here's one of my favorite Richie tunes-- I hope he plays it

As timless today as it was when he recorded it 30 years ago...

Minstrel From Gaul
Words by Richie Havens & Mark Roth

A minstrel came down from Gaul, with scores of tales to tell.
Some of them were true and some were false and some we knew too well.
It was told in fire, it was told in ice,
It was told a million times though it need not be told twice.

A soldier came down from Diem Ben Phu, with silence in his eyes.
He told of many an evening when fire was the sky.
He told of many a morning when the bravest of men would cry,
Knowing, through Satan's earthbound magic, many more would have to die,
Many more would have to die.

A man came down from Sinai Mountain, with words of truth for us all.
How we bowed and knelt down,
How we worshipped well.
And when it came to listening,
We listened little, if at all,
If at all.

[ET Awful]

9. I always dug . . .

Hey look yonder, tell me what's that you see,
marching to the fields of Concord
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a musket in his hand
Marching to the Concord war. Hey, Marching to the concord war.

Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Gettysburg
It looks like Handsome Johnny with flintlock in his hand
Marching to the Gettysburg war, Hey marching to the Gettysburg war

Hey, it's along the hard road It's a long hard road
It's a long hard road Before we'll be free.

The second interlude hook has an added chord before resolving at the

Hey look yonder, tell me what's that you see
Marching to the fields of Dunkirk
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a carbine in his hand
Marching to the Dunkirk war, Hey marching to the Dunkirk war

Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Korea
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M1 in his hand
Marching to the Korean war, Hey marching to the Korean war

Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Viet Nam
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M15
Marching to the Viet Nam war, Hey marching to the Viet Nam war

Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Birmingham
It looks like Handsome Johnny with his hand rolled in a fist
Marching to the Birmingham war. Hey, marching to the Birmingham war

Hey what's the use of singing this song
Some of you are not even listening
Tell me what it is we've got to do
Wait for our fields to start glistening
Hey wait for the bullets to start whistling

Hey here come the hydrogen bombs
And here come the guided missile
Here come the hydrogen bombs
I can almost hear its whistle; I can almost hear its whistle

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Believe it or not, that song was actually written by none other than Lou Gossett, Jr. :). I heard Richie tell the story around it when I saw him in California back in '97 or so.

Evidently, (he tells the story and only mentions the name at the end), a young actor sent him these lyrics and asked if he'd be interested. . . well he just put them aside and didn't do much. He finally picked them up one day and started playing it, then recorded it. The actor, in the meantime, was out of work and about to be evicted from his apartment, and basically got a royalty check for the song out of the clear blue one day just in time to pay his rent . . . or so Richie tells the story :).

[no name no slogan]

10. YEAH! That's another one of my favorites!

IIRC he's added a few lines since then about more "current" wars. So sad that he has had to do that.

I hope the show was phenominal! I'm hoping he drops by my neck of the woods again soon. :hi:

[NightNurse]

11. My #1 From the Stonehenge LP

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[Jade Fox]

7. Love him!

He is such a great singer. Not a perfect type voice, but a great human
interpreter of songs.

And great politics too.