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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel)
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Subject: Re: We Are the World
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 05:49:40 EST
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In article <1393@akgua.UUCP> rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) writes:
>I recently bought a copy of the Album "We Are the World"    ...
>I noticed the lyric that Willy Nelson sings
>
>"God has shown us by turning stone to bread..."
>
>The first time I heard WATW the words kind of half registered
>and I thought "Yeah.. that's right He did.....uh wait a minute"
>Then I realized that "turning stone to bread" was one of the
>things that satan tempted Jesus with when He was in the wilderness.

Last months _Life_ Magazine has a feature on how the song came about and
how the words were written.  It was all thrown together so fast that I
can see how such a goof could have occured.

Once such incident was a line which originally was

	 "There's a life we're taking, were giving our own lives"

(at least thats how I remember it - I have since disposed of the issue) -
and while singing it some thought that that could be hinting at suicide.
So on the fly the words were changed.  Other ruckesses occured when Stevie
Wonder wanted to sing some words in an African toungue and a good ole country
boy singer left in disgust (not Willie Nelson.)

Regards