Communication

from A Picture by Allan Thomas

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A simlpistic but earnest plea for us all to reach out and try to communicate better with children. The tune was written in jail just before my release after sixteen months in upstate NY. I was worried that if we don't reach out to young kids they might end up where I had just been.

I loved Jack Lee's Fender electric guitar played through a leslie Hammond B 3 speaker cabinet on the left, and Eliie's backing vocals.

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Communication

words & music -Allan Thomas

See the playground over there
Children playing unaware
Singing and laughing through the day
Well those kids won't always be that way

You see their gonna grow up
Into a world not often kind
Some of those kids will make it
But the others will be left behind

We've got to reach out and offer them all we can
Reach out and lend the young a helping hand
I'm singing about communication

Pick a child who'll play life's games
And that child will never never fail
Then pick a child who'll spend his life
Dying behind the bars of jail

These are the paths
The paths of each child's unchosen fate
People all we can do is try
We've got to try to guide them towards the right gate

We've got to reach out and offer them all that we can
Before it's too late
Reach out and lend the young a healing hand

Offer them understanding
Give them some kindness too
We've all traveled that lonely road before
Our experience should tell us how to help them through

People we've got to reach out
And offer them all that we can
Tomorrow it's their turn to reach on out
And lend the young a helping hand
I'm singing about communication

© 1971 Bleu Disque Music - ASCAP

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from A Picture, track released January 1, 1971
Allan Thomas - vocals & acoustic rhythm guitar
Jack Lee - lead electric guitar - piano
Steve Edelman - electric and bowed upright bass
Bill "Fuzz" Weicht - drums
Ellie Greenwich - backing vocals

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