Kid Pan Alley: Music

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)
• MP3 play whole song, lo-fi (modem)
• MP3 download whole song, hi-fi

We started talking about downloading and then one of the kids said "My Daddy used to write song" and we were off and running. In the spirit of downloading, we'll give this one to you and let you download the whole thing. Buy the rest.

My daddy used to write songs
i'd hear em on the radio
Reba, martina and Johnny Cash
recorded the hits he wrote
then people stopped buying records
stopped buying the CD's
Suddenly its a virtual world
where they download it all for free

what if we could download everything
Who would that really hurt
we wouldn't need farmers and we wouldn't need preachers
we'd download our food and we'd download the teachin's
what if we could download everything
who would that really hurt
put everybody out of work

he had to take a job in a factory
makin cadillac parts all day
til people stopped going anywhere
and all the business went away
he tried working as a waiter
gave up all his dreams
livin' in a virtual world
where they download it all for free

what if we could download everything
who would that really hurt
we wouldn't need farmers and we wouldn't need preachers
we'd download our food and we'd download the teachin’
we wouldn't need the writers and we wouldn't need the singers
we could download it all by clickin' with our finger
what if we could download everything
who would that really hurt
when everybody's out of work

for the love of the music
for the love of the song
for the love of the music
for the love of us all