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To introduce myself, I belong to a special tribe of what used to be called trubidors.

Sometimes they were called minstles, now we're called songwriters.

We worked for in our songs a sort of a better world, a rainbow world.

Now my generation unfortunately never succeeded in creating that rainbow world

So we can't hand it down to you, but we could hand down our songs, which still hang on to hope and laughter.

Today we pay tribute to the blacklisted Lira Cistia Harbor,

the man who put the rainbow in the Wizard of Oz, a Democracy

Now special.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.

Dotorg, the Warren Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Today we pay tribute to Yiparburg.

His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer

Abby Lincoln.

Ben Crosby sang it

I can get better played and hear Park Road

I build a railroad, made it run, made it race against, made it race against time.

Once I built a railroad,

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