Throw Away That Shad Net (How Are We Gonna Save Tomorrow?)
Pete Seeger

Throw away that shad net, get rid of hook and line
There's no more Hudson fishing, not for a long, long time
The poison's in the riverbed, no matter whose the crime
But how are we gonna save tomorrow?

One thousand honest workers need that paycheck every week
Way up in Fort Edward where the PCBs did leak
And the GE Corporation knows the profits it must seek
But how are we gonna save tomorrow?

PCB was a clever thing, way back in twenty-nine
Transformers and capacitors got turned out on the line
Nobody suspected what they'd do to us in time
Now we got to worry 'bout tomorrow

Well, the purpose of technology is gonna take a different turn
We'll test each new thing carefully, that's one thing we have learned
We need a clean world for all to share and all to work and earn
Then maybe we can save tomorrow

Well, the experts knew about it, so why not you and me
Who controls the information in this land of the free?
The laws didn't seem to help in stopping PCB
So how are we gonna save tomorrow?

The longest journey taken needs a first step to begin
This cleanup's gonna take a while but now we must begin
Clearwater says to lend a hand, a claw, a paw, a fin
'Cause now we got to work to save tomorrow

This song's too sad

Here's to the lowly blue crab, because he has no fat
And so he's got no PCB hardly, we can say, hooray for that
So I'll not quit my crabbing, you can stick that in your hat
Somehow, we're gonna save tomorrow

In the old days, coal miners took a canary down to test the air

Here's to the canary, we took down in the mine
Here's to the Hudson Stripers, may their warning be in time
Here's to all the young folks singing, This land is yours and mine
That's how we're gonna save tomorrow

Oh, the glory's on the river and the struggle's on the shore
Next year is 1976, well, let's start a little war
Anyone who thinks we're quitting better take just one think more
And that's how we're gonna save tomorrow

So don't throw away that shad net, don't junk that hook and line
We're gonna make some changes, we're gonna start in time
Clearwater sings to all of us, This land is yours and mine
And that's how we're gonna save tomorrow, sing it again
And that's how we're gonna save tomorrow


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Lyrics by Pete Seeger

  Abiyoyo [#]   Adam The Inventor   All My Children Of The Sun   All My Trials   Alleluya   America, The Beautiful   Arrange And Re-Arrange   Ballad Of The Fort Hood Three   Banks Of Marble   Banks of the Ohio   Barbara Allen [Live]   Battle Of New Orleans   Be Kind to Your Parents   Belle Starr   Billy Barlow   Blow The Man Down   Both Sides Now   Bring Them Home   Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)   Business   Camptown Races   Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]   Cement Octopus   De Colores   Die Gedanken Sind Frei   Down By The River   Down by the Riverside [African American Spiritual]   Draft Dodger Rag   English Is Cuh-ray-zee   False From True   Foggy Dew   From Way Up Here   Go Tell Aunt Rhodie   God Bless The Grass   Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight]   Guantanamera (Live)   Henry My Son   Hobo's Lullaby   Hobo's Lullaby   House Of The Rising Sun   How Can I Keep From Singing   I Ride An Old Paint   I've Been Working On The Railroad   I’ve Been Working On The Railroad   If I Had A Hammer (Album Version)   If This World Survives   It Really Isn't Garbage   Jackaro   Jacob's Ladder   Jarama Valley   John Brown's Body   John Henry   John Riley   John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [...   King Henry   Last Train To Nuremberg   Letter To Eve   Little Boxes   Little Fat Baby   Living In The Country   Mastinchele Wachipi Olewan   Michael Row The Boat Ashore   Michael Row The Boat Ashore (Live)   Michael, Row the Boat Ashore   Molly Malone   My Dentist Has Tattooed Legs   My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms   My Name Is Liza Kalvelage   My Rainbow Race   No Irish Need Apply   Now We Sit Us Down   Ode To A Composer Bach At Treblinka   Oh Susanna [#]   Oh What A Beautiful City   Oh, I Had A Golden Thread   Oh, What a Beautiful City!   Old Devil Time   Old Joe Clark [#]   One Grain Of Sand   Or Else   Our Generation   Peg And Awl   Preicious Friend   Queen Anne Front   Quite Early Morning   Quite Early Morning [*]   River   River Song   Roll On, Columbia   Shenandoah   Skip to My Lou   Snow Snow   Solartopia   Song Of The World's Last Whale   Summertime   Take It From DrKing   Talking Ben Tre   Talking Union   Teacher Uncle Ho   The Ballad of Ira Hayes   The Bells of Rhymney   The Bells of Rhymney [#]   The Dying Miner   The Fox   The House of the Rising Sun   The River That Flows Both Ways   The Torn Flag   The Water Is Wide   The Wreck of the Old 97   The Wreck of the Old 97   There'll Come A Day   Throw Away That Shad Net   Tomorrow's Children   Turn, Turn, Turn   Tzena Tzena Tzena   Tzena, Tzena, Tzena   Uncle Ho   Union Maid   Waist Deep In The Big Muddy   Walking Down Death Row   Walking Down Death Row [*]   Water Is Wide (O Waly Waly)   We Shall Not Be Moved   We Shall Overcome   We Will Love Or We Will Perish   When Johnny Comes Marching Home   Where Have All The Flowers Gone   Where Have All The Flowers Gone?   Which Side Are You On?   Wimoweh (Mbube)   Wimoweh (Mbube) [Live]   Wonderful Friends   Words Words Words

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