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song: Get Together
artist: The Youngbloods
album: Elephant Mountain
released: 1969length: 4:32
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Love is but a song we sing
Fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Some may come and some may go
He will surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

If you hear the song I sing
You will understand, listen
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at your command

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

I said come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Right now
Right now
The Youngbloods

The Youngbloods were an American rock band consisting of Jesse Colin Young (vocals, bass, guitar), Jerry Corbitt (vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica), Lowell "Banana" Levinger (guitar and electric piano), and Joe Bauer (drums). Despite receiving critical acclaim, they never achieved widespread popularity. Their only U.S. Top 40 entry was Chet Powers' "Get Together".

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Comments ( 837 )
Posted 5 years ago by Laptopdog:
This song came out 50 years ago, and in many ways our country was more advanced than it is now as far as "getting together". Political division is destroying our society, and we need more young people to start putting out music like this all over again, since we obviously didn't get the message the first time.
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Posted 4 years ago by RazzCat:
Monday, August 18, 1969:

Midday on NY 87, heading back north to the Canadian border and home in Montreal after spending the craziest weekend of my then-23 years!

Inside that big-ass '68 Ford four-door sedan: Bob at the wheel of this, his company car (oh man, how's he gonna explain that mileage to his boss?); Rod (pretty sure Dennis Hopper copied his look in Easy Rider) riding shotgun; me leaning back against the right rear door, eyes closed, still buzzed, and grinning ear-to-ear from the three-day vibe; Pierre snoring, back to the left rear door in that wide, cushy back seat (they sure don't make 'em like that anymore); sun's streaming in, blue sky, cotton candy clouds floating lazily by....

... and on the car radio, The Youngbloods singing 'Get Together'. It was in heavy rotation that golden post-Woodstock day, so much so that in each hearing today, I close my eyes and I'm back in the light and sound and smells inside that big old V-8 Ford thrumming homeward that Monday afternoon.

Music-melded memory's a wondrous thing... :-)
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Posted 5 years ago by Emwolb:
This is one of those you had to be there to appreciate just how powerful a song it it was / is....between the politics and the Vietnam war it was a very “interesting “ time to grow in - thank God for the great music that came out during those tumultuous years
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Posted 5 years ago by unclehud:
Message is pertinent today, and will probably be pertinent in 2050.

Come on, people, now
Smile on your brother,
Everybody get together,
Try to love one another
Right now.
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Posted 5 years ago by Clark_Novato:
I've always felt this song incorporates the "Summer of Love" ethos of the late '60s better than any other.
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Posted 2 years ago by chinacat:
 Stetsonman wrote:

hippy bullshit



1969. Height of the war.  I'm 16 years old praying that my  brother and 4 cousins will come home  from those friggen rice patty patrols or similar and wondering if I'll be next. 1 year later, 4 students are killed at Kent State during a peaceful protest (never forget). So you sum up this song as hippy bullshit?  It just makes me feel sad to read something like this. But perhaps even more sad  but not surprised  to read it in 2023.
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Posted 6 years ago by dflee:
Never gets old. Along with Darkness Darkness some of the best from a really good groupaguys
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Posted 4 years ago by jimtyrrell:
I've heard this songs so many times I could scream but I sing along at every listen. For those of us who protested the Vietnam War and Racism, this was our anthem. I'm still singing.....
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Posted 3 years ago by deadheadmark:
 Stetsonman wrote:

hippy bullshit



Hummm... this song came on I had to stop what I was doing, sit back and reflect on this song.  Thanks Bill and Rebecca... ok...back to Tie-dyeing. 
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Posted 7 years ago by Mackmoney3000:
Something that has bothered me since I first saw this album art:

What is that "pile of red stuff" in the foreground of the album cover? Is it a pile of natural-casing hot dogs? What is it supposed to represent?
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Posted 2 years ago by ¥√€$:
Heard this wonderful song in RP for the first time and immediately liked it. I thought it was a song from the 2000's. 

How big was my surprise when I found it was released  over 50 years ago ...

This must be the definition of a timeless masterpiece.
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Posted 4 years ago by osteoboon:
In such a deeply divided nation as the USA is now, we all really do need to try to find a way to smile on our brothers and sisters, try to love one another right now. We all have much more in common than than we have differences. But that certainly needs to start with truth based on evidence rather than deliberate deception based on wild-eyed paranoia & speculation.
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Posted 2 years ago by unclehud:
 ImaOldman wrote:
Dude, you must have lived in a different 1969 than I did. The country was totally divided over the War in Vietnam, the Weathermen were blowing up buildings and robbing banks, the Black Panthers, Altamont happened, the Chicago 7, etc. It was a great time to be alive but the country was pretty fucking divided. At least one political party hadn't lost it's fucking mind yet...

I am also an old man, and remember the bad things you list because I had a drivers license in 1969.  But how could you have forgotten the good?  Have you become so jaded and cynical that this song doesn't make you stop and think about what humans can achieve if we smile on our brother, get together, and love one another?

I weep for lost optimism.
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Posted 5 years ago by dsr6092:
So appropriate during this time of the terrible virus. Be safe everybody!
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Posted 3 years ago by mjaded:
Keep it coming Bill.  We need it today!
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Posted 6 years ago by William:
mrselfdestruct wrote:
Listening with headphones and I hear some kind of talking low in the mix? What the hell is that?
 
I don't know. Always been there, though.
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Posted 7 years ago by DuranAir:
In 1968 when this song came out I was just a little kid, about 7 or 8.  My brother joined the army and went away forever.  It just came over me like a wave, watching him walk out the door in his uniform on his way to Vietnam.  I was just a little kid.
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Posted 2 years ago by Typesbad:
 Laptopdog wrote:

This song came out 50 years ago, and in many ways our country was more advanced than it is now as far as "getting together". Political division is destroying our society, and we need more young people to start putting out music like this all over again, since we obviously didn't get the message the first time.



Sadly as with most forms of communication now, the people who need to hear it the most, never will.
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Posted 4 years ago by cinzia1026:
I worked for the NPS right out of college at Point Reyes Nat'l Seashore (1979).  Jesse lived nearby in Inverness and I had the pleasure of attending one of his concerts in a small music venue in Point Reyes Station.
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Posted 2 years ago by ray_killeen:
Yes hope in a thousand years from now people are still making comments for this song
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