Songs about ecology

And then there's the Talking Heads "(Nothing but) Flowers."
Sorry couldn't resist.

"Big Yellow Taxi", by Joni Mitchell - they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Marty

Interesting Project:

A song that is not in the mainstream, but is worth checking out is "The Planet" by Hans Theessink. THe song is on his CD "Call Me" from circa 1992 I believe. It also showed up on one of Burmeister's Sampler CDs.

Here's a link to the lyrics:

http://www.ildb.info/Hans+Theessink-The+Planet,lid219773-a6580.html

and a link to the CD:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/hanstheessink

Cheers,
Coffee_nudge

Dylan's "Hard Rain". This song has other geopolitical messages, but there is definitely an environmental component to it.

John Prine's "Paradise." How could I have forgotten that great song?! It's all about coal mining companies ravaging the landscape. Here's one verse in particular:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

And the song's chorus:

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away