[Paddlewise] Followup to my earlier request

I have been blessed with dozens of private email responses to my request
regarding that Tom Paxton song Pete Seeger sang for a small Shorewalkers
group after Thanksgiving near Ground Zero.  I am not sure which listserves
got info on where to find the song; so I am posting info to all three that I
sent the request to.  The Tom Paxton song is called "The Bravest" and is
available on the web as indicated below:

One is the version of "The Bravest" as sung by Garrison Keillor on his radio
show. The site below has both the words and a download of the song:

http://prairiehome.org/performances/20011013/bravest.html

I later found a link to the song as sung by Tom Paxton himself.  He said of
the song. "As I watched the events of September 11 like everyone else,
writing a song about it didn't occur to me for hours. When it did, my
instinctive reaction was, 'No way. This is over my head. This is too
overwhelming for me. No way.' And then, as I kept thinking about those
firemen trapped inside the towers, a phrase kept running through my head.
Finally, I surrendered and thought I'd better try to write something and the
phrase in my head became the chorus of The Bravest. Now, I'll never be able
to look at another fireman or -woman without realizing that I'm looking at
someone who would lay down his or her life for me without ever knowing my
name."

Here is a downloadable version of his singing it:

 http://www.efolkmusic.com/sounds/paxton_bravest.mp3

There is a mention somewhere that Pete Seeger has also sung it for
distribution somewhere but I have no further info on this.

Again, I like to thank all who were of enormous help.  I know my story of
how I heard it from Pete Seeger touched many of you as it did we who huddled
around him in the rain a hundred feet from Ground Zero as he touchingly sang
it privately for us.

feliz navidad y un prospero ano nuevo,

ralph diaz

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