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Hope and laughter. Amy goodman today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. The man who put the rainbow in the wizard of oz democracy now special. All that and more coming up. Now me to democracy i am amy goodman. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. Railroad, made a race against time. I built a railroad, now it is done amy goodman and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow,. They called meow al amy goodman thats al jolson, a...

[applause] gave me an m m thank you, i needed that. 2, 3, 4 [laughter] [applause] please welcome to the stage mr. Peter yarrow singersongwriter and political activist and the executive director of the Grammy Museum at l a live joining mr. Country joe mcdonald for our next panel. [applause] well, joe, on behalf of everyone here i want to thank you for exercising your freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Thank you very much. [applause] 50 years. And boy, for those of us who were alive back then and remember that song and remember those days, that was one song that could always get a resp...

Ladies and gentlemen, please songwriterger Country Joe Mcdonald. [applause] [background chatter] [indiscernible] Country Joe Mcdonald look out yonder in the skies what is that, i pray a bird, a plane, a man in the same it is lbj he is flying high way up in the sky ust like superman i got a little piece of kryptonite back toa bring him land come out linden with your hands held high reach for the sky got you surrounded and you aint got a chance, dennis and you back to texas, make you work on your ranch yeah mmm, yeah yeah superwoman andll super duck it shows him no good i found out why from a ru...

But believe me the people in Washington Square never went on the other side of sixth avenue. At 8 00 p. M. On the presidency every time i look at washington its unanimous. Unanimously commander in chief, unanimously president of the constitutional convention. Unanimously president of the united states, unanimously appointed as the Lieutenant General and commander in chief of all the armies raised or to be raised for the service in the united states. What a record. George washington scholar peter enreekz explores that even though washington was officially retired he continued to meet with polit...

But i made the mental decision, im going to beat this thing. I dont know how long, but i will go home. So i live every day every day is a great day. If you think you have a bad day, let me tell you one day as a p. O. W. I say that humbly. But after we finished this and he asked me about some propaganda material about some battles that had i been in. And i said i have to disagree with you on this one particular battle. You guys didnt win. He looks leans forward and looks at me with all seriousness, oh, no, you have been misled by that Propaganda Machine we have in this country called the free p...