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From: ee171ael@sdcc3.UUCP (GEOFFREY KIM)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re:  Add a new verse -- Harry Chapin
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 23:08:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 23:08:56 1985
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Summary: I HATE THE USA FOR AFRICA SONG.

I haven't listened to music for a while, and when I finally
turned on the radio, I heard the most awful song in the whole
universe.  It went something like this.
"We are the world, we are the children.
 We are the ones who make better hay for
 those unfortunates" (or something like that).

And to top it all off, there were a variety of singers
contributing to a sense of mismatch and incoherency to
the song.   I like the fact that it is making money for
starving people in ethiopia, but did they have to make the
song so cornballish.  I mean, come on.  Actually, the people
who sing it are probably just doing it because they want to
be more popular, or at least to be invited to Michael Jackson's
society ball for upcoming androgenists.  Heck, you can't tell the
gender of some of the music stars today.

Here is how the lyrics should have been:

"We are the stars
 You are the public.
 We are the ones who fake and take
 Your hard earned money!!!

 We are the stars
 You are the masses.
 We make this bad song which you 
 will buy 'cuz you're all asses"

 (Or something like that)

 Send flames.  I love 'em.

 Larry G. Kimanski