Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Universal Brother/Sisterhood playlist 3 - Folk/Pop

Theosophy can be considered to have influenced the folk music revival via 
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953),
American composer and folk music specialist, who was the step-mother of Pete Seeger. She took piano lessons with Djane Lavoie-Herz, who sparked her  interest in theosophy and Scriabin, and later met Dane Rudhyar and Henry Cowell. For Canadian folk musicians, such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, and Leonard Cohen, there is the influence of the Vancouver Poetry Society. Hence, we have a confluence of Theosophical musical, poetic, and civil rights influences converging in the formation of one of the most important popular music currents of the 20th century. 
  
1-Peter Paul & Mary, Because All Men Are Brothers, (1965, See What Tomorrow Brings)
J.S. Bach, words Tom Glazer & Pete Seeger
My brother's fears are my fears yellow white or brown
My brother's tears are my tears the whole wide world around.
 
2- Trini Lopez, If I Had A Hammer (1963)
I'd hammer about the love between my brothers and my sisters
All, all over this land
 
3-New Seekers, I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (1971)
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
 
4- Carole King, You've got a friend (1971)
You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
 
5- Cat Stevens, Peace Train (1971)
Oh, I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Someday it's going to come
'Cause out on the edge of darkness
There rides the peace train
 
6- John Lennon, Imagine (1971)
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
 
7- Elvis Costello, What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? (1974)
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
 
8- Three Dog Night, The Road to Shamballa (1975)
I can tell my sister by the flowers in her eyes
On the road to Shambala
I can tell my brother by the flowers in his eyes
On the road to Shambala
 
9- ELO, All over the world (Xanadu, 1980)
All over the world
Everybody got the word
Everybody everywhere is gonna feel tonight
Everybody gonna have a good time
Everybody will shine 'til the daylight
 
10- Pat Benatar, We belong (1984)
We belong to the light,we belong to the thunder
Whatever we deny or embrace for worse or for better
we belong together
 
11- Billy Bragg, The Internationale (1990)
So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The Internationale
Unites the world in song
For this is the time and place!
The international ideal
Unites the human race
 
12-Joni Mitchell, Woodstock, Travelogue (2002)
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
 
13- A Fine Frenzy, The Minnow & the Trout (2008)
And I said, Please, I know that we're different
We were one cell in the sea in the beginning
And what we're made of was all the same once
We're not that different after all?
 
14- Regina Spektor, Human of the Year(Far, 2009)
And though they do not know it
All mankind are now your brothers
 
15- Brenda Montana, Together as One (2022)
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