June 12 is the twentieth anniversary of:
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band
Lennon/McCartney~gcotharn
It was twenty years ago today
Ronald Reagan taught the band to play
Standing at the Brandenburg Gate
Embracing his appointment with fate
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years
Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band.
We're Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band
We hope you will enjoy freedom
We're Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band
We won't sit and let the eve be glum.
Ronald Reagan's Tear Down, Ronald Reagan's Tear Down
Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band.
It's wonderful to be here,
It's certainly a thrill.
You're such a lovely audience,
We'd like to take you home with us,
We'd love to take you home.
I don't really want to stop the show,
But I thought you might like to know,
That the singer's going to sing a song,
And he wants you all to sing along.
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Ron Reagan
Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band.
Ro nald Rea gan...
A Little Help From My Friends
Lennon/McCartney~gcotharn
It was twenty years ago today
Ronald Reagan taught the band to play
Standing at the Brandenburg Gate
Embracing his appointment with fate
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years
Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band.
We're Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band
We hope you will enjoy freedom
We're Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band
We won't sit and let the eve be glum.
Ronald Reagan's Tear Down, Ronald Reagan's Tear Down
Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band.
It's wonderful to be here,
It's certainly a thrill.
You're such a lovely audience,
We'd like to take you home with us,
We'd love to take you home.
I don't really want to stop the show,
But I thought you might like to know,
That the singer's going to sing a song,
And he wants you all to sing along.
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Ron Reagan
Ronald Reagan's Tear This Wall Down Band.
Ro nald Rea gan...
A Little Help From My Friends
Lennon/McCartney~gcotharn
What would you think if I said tear down this wall
Would you stand up and walk out on me
My own State Dept. and my own NSA
have said don't provoke unnecessarily
I get by with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
I don't die with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Going to try with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
What do I do when my brother's beyond the wall
(Do you worry about his fate)
How do I feel when he can't even call
(Are you sad that he might be Stasi bait)
No, I get by with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Do you need anybody
I need a Western leader to speak up
Could it be anybody
It needs to be a Western leader to speak up
Would you believe this wall could be torn down
Yes I'm certain it can happen with a fight
What do you see when you sleep oh so sound
Myself hugging my brother in sunlight
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Do you need anybody
I just need a Western leader to speak up (backed by my friends who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Could it be anybody
It has to be a Western leader who's unafraid to speak up (backed by my friends who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
I get by with a little help from my friends
Yes, I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my freh eh eh eh eh iends.
Powerlineblog:
[Reagan's speechwriter Peter Robinson] recalls that the State Department, the National Security Council and the President's chief of staff all thought the line was too provocative and wanted it removed from the speech. That conflict was emblematic; the truth was that the foreign policy establishment thought Reagan's whole policy of trying to win the Cold War was too provocative.
In the Wall Street Journal, John Fund couples the anniversary of Reagan's speech with the opening, in Washington, of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism, which will be dedicated tomorrow. Fund notes that the dedication will be a bipartisan affair, with a Democratic Congressman, Tom Lantos, giving the keynote speech.
This is a bit of revisionist history of the sort that the Communists themselves excelled in. America's effort to resist Communist imperialism was indeed bipartisan for the first 25 years following World War II. But after the 1960s, the Republicans were on their own, much as they are today in the war against Islamic terrorism. In the later years of the Cold War, it was not unusual for the Democrats to actively side with the Communists, as in Latin America through the Boland Amendment and in Western Europe through the nuclear freeze movement. No doubt that history will be politely overlooked by the participants in tomorrow's dedication ceremony.
What would you think if I said tear down this wall
Would you stand up and walk out on me
My own State Dept. and my own NSA
have said don't provoke unnecessarily
I get by with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
I don't die with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Going to try with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
What do I do when my brother's beyond the wall
(Do you worry about his fate)
How do I feel when he can't even call
(Are you sad that he might be Stasi bait)
No, I get by with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Do you need anybody
I need a Western leader to speak up
Could it be anybody
It needs to be a Western leader to speak up
Would you believe this wall could be torn down
Yes I'm certain it can happen with a fight
What do you see when you sleep oh so sound
Myself hugging my brother in sunlight
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends (who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Do you need anybody
I just need a Western leader to speak up (backed by my friends who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
Could it be anybody
It has to be a Western leader who's unafraid to speak up (backed by my friends who drive the American economy and fund the 82nd Airborne)
I get by with a little help from my friends
Yes, I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my freh eh eh eh eh iends.
Powerlineblog:
[Reagan's speechwriter Peter Robinson] recalls that the State Department, the National Security Council and the President's chief of staff all thought the line was too provocative and wanted it removed from the speech. That conflict was emblematic; the truth was that the foreign policy establishment thought Reagan's whole policy of trying to win the Cold War was too provocative.
In the Wall Street Journal, John Fund couples the anniversary of Reagan's speech with the opening, in Washington, of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism, which will be dedicated tomorrow. Fund notes that the dedication will be a bipartisan affair, with a Democratic Congressman, Tom Lantos, giving the keynote speech.
This is a bit of revisionist history of the sort that the Communists themselves excelled in. America's effort to resist Communist imperialism was indeed bipartisan for the first 25 years following World War II. But after the 1960s, the Republicans were on their own, much as they are today in the war against Islamic terrorism. In the later years of the Cold War, it was not unusual for the Democrats to actively side with the Communists, as in Latin America through the Boland Amendment and in Western Europe through the nuclear freeze movement. No doubt that history will be politely overlooked by the participants in tomorrow's dedication ceremony.
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