Have you heard, or heard about, Willie Nelson’s new antiwar song? It’s called “Whatever There aren’t many performers around with Nelson’s courage, and that includes the Dixie What Ever Happened To Peace On Earth<\/B><\/I> <\/P> There’s so many things going on in the world We believe everything that they tell us (Bridge) So I guess it’s just (Repeat Bridge) Now you probably won’t hear this on your radio But don’t confuse caring for weakness (Bridge) American-Statesman reporter Michael Corcoran asked Nelson whether he was concerned that The song does not have to identify the liar. We know who he is. Nor does it have to identify Nelson’s first antiwar song, in case you’re interested, was the powerful, elegaic “Jimmy’s Have you heard, or heard about, Willie Nelson’s new antiwar song? It’s called “Whatever Happened to Peace On Earth,” and he sang it last week in Austin, Texas, at a fund-raising concert for Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. “That’s only the second protest song I’ve ever written,” Nelson told the Austin American-Stateman, “but it just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHappened to Peace On Earth,” and he sang it last week in Austin, Texas, at a fund-raising concert
\nfor Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. “That’s only the second protest song I’ve
\never written,”
\nAmerican-Stateman<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, “but it just came pouring out.” <\/P>
\n
\nChicks. It’s not just the outspoken lyrics of his new song that resonate with deep conviction; it’s
\nhis unwillingness to back away from them that evinces rare belief and even rarer bravery. Here’s
\nthe song:<\/P>
\n
\n
Babies dying
Mothers
\ncrying
How much oil is one human life worth
And what ever happened to peace on
\nearth<\/P>
\n
They’re gonna’ kill us
So we gotta’ kill them
\nfirst
But I remember a commandment
Thou shall not kill
How much is that
\nsoldier’s life worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth<\/P>
\n
And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we’ve been told from
\nour birth
Hell they won’t lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a
\nliar’s word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth<\/P>
\n
Do unto others before they do it to you
Let’s just kill em’ all and
\nlet God sort em’ out
Is this what God wants us to do<\/P>
\n
And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we’ve been
\ntold from our birth
Hell they won’t lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how
\nmuch is a liar’s word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth<\/P>
\n
Probably not on your local
\nTV
But if there’s a time, and if you’re ever so inclined
You can always hear it from
\nme
How much is one picker’s word worth
And whatever happened to peace on
\nearth<\/P>
\n
You can’t put that label on me
The truth is
\nmy weapon of mass protection
And I believe truth sets you free<\/P>
\n
And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we’ve been told from
\nour birth
Hell they won’t lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a
\nliar’s word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth<\/I> <\/P>
\n
\n“such biting questions as ‘How much oil is one human life worth?’ and ‘How much is a liar’s word
\nworth?’ might cause a backlash with conservative country music fans.” Nelson replied, “I sure
\nhope so. I don’t care if people say, ‘Who the hell does he think he is?’ I know who I am.”<\/P>
\n
\nthe guitar picker. We know him, too. And when it asks, “How much is one picker’s word worth?,”
\nwe know the answer to that: Plenty. Although I’ve heard from one correspondent that Nelson did
\nnot plan to record the song, Corcoran reports otherwise. <\/P>
\n
\nRoad,” which he sang at peace rallies during the 1991 Gulf War. It was released in 1992 on the
\nnot easily available, two-disc set
\nMemories?”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>
\nturn up the sound.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"