Pete Seeger - Throw Away That Shad Net (How Are We Gonna Save Tomorrow?) lyrics

Throw away that shad net, get rid of hook and line There's no more Hudson fishing, not for a long, long time The poison's in the riverbed, no matter whose the crime But how are we gonna save tomorrow? One thousand honest workers need that paycheck every week Way up in Fort Edward where the PCBs did leak And the GE Corporation knows the profits it must seek But how are we gonna save tomorrow? PCB was a clever thing, 'way back in twenty-nine Transformers and capacitors got turned out on the line Nobody suspected what they'd do to us in time And now we got to worry 'bout tomorrow Well, the purpose of technology is to take a different turn We'll test each new thing carefully, that's one thing we have learned We need a clean world for all to share, and all to work and earn Then, maybe, we can save tomorrow Well, the experts knew about it, so why not you and me Who controls the information in this land of the free? The laws didn't seem to help in stopping PCB So how are we gonna save tomorrow? The longest journey taken needs a first step to begin This cleanup's gonna take a while, but now we must begin Clearwater says to lend a hand, a claw, a paw, a fin 'Cause now we got to work to save tomorrow [Spoken:] "This song's too sad." Here's to the lowly blue crab, because he has no fat And so he's got no PCB (hardly) we can say, hooray for that So I'll not quit my crabbing, you can stick that in your hat Somehow, we're gonna save tomorrow [Spoken:] "In the old days, coal miners took a canary down to test the air." Here's to the canary we took down in the mine Here's to the Hudson stripers, may their warning be in time Here's to all the young folks singing, "This land is yours and mine." That's how we're gonna save tomorrow Oh, the glory's on the river, and the struggle's on the shore Next year is 1976; let's start a little war Anyone who thinks we're quitting better take just one think more And that's how we're gonna save tomorrow So don't throw away that shad net, don't junk that hook and line We're gonna make some changes, we're gonna start in time Clearwater sings to all of us, "This land is yours and mine" And that's how we're gonna save tomorrow And that's how we're gonna save tomorrow