On this auspicious and hopeful day when leaders from 160 countries gather to sign the most significant climate agreement we’ve ever proposed as a species, Dancing for Change radio honors the planet we live on. Some of the songs are cautionary, some celebratory, spanning 45 years.
Happy Earth Day 2016!
| Song Title | Artist | Album | Year |
| Down to Earth (feat. The Soweto Gospel Choir) | Peter Gabriel | WALL-E Soundtrack | 2008 |
| Will There Be Enough Water? | The Dead Weather | Horehound | 2009 |
| If A Tree Falls | Bruce Cockburn | Big Circumstance | 1988 |
| Eyes Wide Open | Gotye | Making Mirrors | 2011 |
| Nature’s Way | Spirit | Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus | 1970 |
| Don’t Go Near the Water | Johnny Cash | Ragged Old Flag | 1974 |
| Mercy Mercy Me (the Ecology) | Marvin Gaye | What’s Going On | 1971 |
| Big Yellow Taxi | Joni Mitchell | Ladies of the Canyon | 1970 |
| Shapes of Things | The Yardbirds | Shapes of Things Single | 1966 |
| One World | The Police | Ghost in the Machine | 1981 |
| Earth Day | Charity and the JAMband | Earth | 2016 |
| Back To The Earth | Jason Mraz | YES! | 2014 |
Flickr photo by Kate Ter Har
…and here’s the refrain of a relevant song I wrote back in the ’90s:
’cause we’re always lyin’ on the earth,
always crawlin’ on the earth,
always sittin’ on the earth,
always standing on the earth,
always walking on the earth,
always runnin’ on the earth,
always leapin’ on the earth,
always dancin’ on the earth,
She’s the one mother we never get weaned from.