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GEORGE HARRISON:
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'd just like to say, before we start off with the concert, that, uh, to thank you all for coming here, and, uh, as you all know, it's a special benefit concert. We've got a good show lined up. I hope so, anyway. First part of the concert is gonna be an Indian music section. You're gonna hear a sitar and sarod duet. And, uh, as you realize, Indian music's a little bit more serious than our music, and I'd appreciate it if you could, uh, try and settle down and get into the Indian music section. So let me introduce, on sitar, Ravi Shankar. And the master of sarod, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Sarod. I'm sure you all know Rvi's tabla player, Alla Rakha. And this evening, the drone instrument, the tamboura, is being played by Kamala. So I hope you enjoy the concert, thank you. RAVI SHANKAR: Friends, as George told you just now, they will be participating in the second part. The first part is going to be us playing for you on the Indian instruments, the Indian music. This is a type of music which needs a little concentrated listening. And I would request you to have a little patience. I know you are very impatient to hear your favourite stars, who will be in the second part, but we are trying to set the music to this special event, this historical program, which is just not a program as usual but which has a message. And this is to just make you aware of a very serious situation that is happening. We are not trying to be politicians. We are artists, but through our music, we would like you to feel the agony and also the pain and lot of sad happenings in Bangladesh, and also the refugees who have come to India. We will play a dhun, which means an air or a melody, which is based on a folk tune of Bangladesh. And after that we'll play a gat, a fast gat in teentaal of 16 beats. Now, as usual, I would request you, my friends, to refrain or stop from smoking, while the program is on. Thank you very much. |
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(Wah-wah)
You've given me a wah-wah And I'm thinking of you And all the things that we used to do (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) You made me such a big star Being there at the right time Cheaper than a dime (Wah-wah) You're givin' me a (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) Oh, you don't see me crying Oh, you don't hear me sighing (Wah-wah) I don't need no wah-wah And I know how sweet life can be If I keep myself free (Wah-wah) I don't need no (Wah-wah) Oh, you don't see me crying Baby baby baby, you don't hear me sighing Oh, no no no no (Wah-wah) Now, I don't need no wah-wah And I know how sweet life can be If I keep myself free of (Wah-wah) I don't need no (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) (Wah-wah) |
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My sweet Lord
Mm, my Lord Mm, my Lord I really want to see you Really want to be with you Really want to see you, Lord But it takes so long, my Lord My sweet Lord Mm, my Lord Mm, my Lord I really want to know you I really want to go with you Really want to show you, Lord That it won't take long, my Lord Hallelujah My sweet Lord Hallelujah Mm, my Lord Hallelujah My sweet Lord Hallelujah I really want to see you Really want to see you Really want to see you Lord Really want to see you Lord But it takes so long, my Lord Hallelujah My sweet Lord Hallelujah Mm, my Lord Hallelujah My my my Lord Hallelujah I really want to know you Hallelujah I really want to go with you Hallelujah Really want to show you, Lord Ahh That it won't take long, my Lord Hallelujah Mm, mm Hallelujah My sweet Lord Hallelujah My my Lord Hallelujah Mm, my Lord Hare Krishna My my my Lord Hare Krishna Oh, my sweet Lord Krishna Krishna Ooh, ooh Hare Hare Now, I really wanna see you Hare Rama Really wanna be with you Hare Rama Really wanna see you, Lord Ahh But it takes so long, my Lord Hallelujah My Lord Hallelujah My my my Lord Hare Krishna My sweet Lord... Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Guru Rama, Guru Vishnu, Guru Deva, Hare Shwara, Guru Sasha, Hare Andara, Tashna Shrivi, Guri Nava, Hare Rama, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare |
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You don't need no love-in
You don't need no bed pan You don't need a horoscope or a microscope To see the mess that you're in If you open up your heart You'll know what I mean We've been polluted so long Now here's a way for you to get clean By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see Chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see You don't need no passport And you don't need no visas You don't need to designate or to emigrate Before you can see Jesus If you open up your heart You'll see he's right there Always was and will be He'll relieve you of your cares By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see Chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see You don't need no church house And you don't need no temple You don't need no rosary beads or them books to read To see that you have fallen If you open up your heart You will know what I mean We've been kept down so long Someone's thinking that we're all green And while the Pope owns fifty-one percent of General Motors And the stock exchange is the only thing he's qualified to quote us The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free |
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Why can't we be humble
Like the good lord said? He promised to exault us (...) How man be so greedy When there's so much land? All things are God give And they all have been blessed That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be Let not your heart beat trotta (...) sees Learn how to help each one another And live in perfect peace If we'd all just be humbler Like the good lord said He promised to exault us But (..) in the way That's the way God planned it That's the way he wants it to be You've got to believe me That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be I hope you get this message When you (...) You may not understand me But (...) That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be Come on, come on, come on now You've got to believe me That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be Come on, yeah, yeah, come on now That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be Yeah yeah yeah That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be Yeah yeah yeah That's the way God planned it That's the way God wants it to be |
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(It don't come easy, you know it don't come easy)
(It don't come easy, you know it don't come easy) Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues And you know it don't come easy You don't have to shout or leap about You can even play them easy Forget about the past and all your sorrow The future won't last It will soon be your tomorrow I don't ask for much, I only want your trust And you know it don't come easy And this love of mine keeps growing all the time And you know it don't come easy Open up your heart, let's come together Use a little luck, and we will make it work out better Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues And you know it don't come easy You don't have to shout or leap about You can even play them easy Please remember peace is how we make it Here withing your reach, is your freedom to take it I don't ask for much, I only want your trust And you know it don't come easy (de de de) growing all the time And you know it don't come easy (thank you) |
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Watch out now
Take care, beware of falling swingers Dropping all around you The pain that often mingles In your fingertips Beware of darkness Watch out now Take care, beware the thoughts that linger Winding up inside your head The hopelessness around you In the dead of night Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for Watch out now Take care, beware of soft shoe shufflers Dancing down the sidewalks As each unconscious sufferer Wanders aimlessly Beware of Maya Watch out now Take care, beware of greedy leaders They'll take you where you should not go While weeping Atlas Cedars They just want to grow, grow and grow Beware of darkness (Beware of darkness) |
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I’d like to introduce you to a few people up here. Everybody here came on very short notice and some people even, uh, cancelled a few gigs to try and make it and nobody is getting paid for anything. Uh. We got on drums, Ringo Starr. Also on drums, Jim Keltner. There’s somebody on bass who’ve many people have heard about, but they never actually seen him, Klaus Voorman. We’ve got a whole lot of guitarists. Uh, Mister Jesse Ed Davis, an old friend of mine, Mister Eric Clapton. And then, thank you, thank you. Somebody, I’m sure you all know by now, on piano, Leon. Stand up, Leon. I don’t know if they’re coming through on acoustic guitars, if you’re hearing them, but it’s, uh, an Apple band, Badfinger. And again, a whole lot of uh, singers out there. The singers, um, are all from all different parts of the world and different bands, uh. And just give them a big hand. I don’t know what to do. And the Hollywood horn players over there led by Jim Horn. And have we forgotten anybody? Oh, yeah? We’ve forgotten Billy Preston.
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I LOOK AT YOU ALL,
SEE THE LOVE THERE THAT'S SLEEPING, WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS. I LOOK AT THE FLOOR AND I SEE IT NEEDS SWEEPING; STILL MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY NOBODY TOLD YOU HOW TO UNFOLD YOUR LOVE, I DON'T KNOW HOW SOMEONE CONTROLLED YOU, THEY BOUGHT AND SOLD YOU. I LOOK AT THE WORLD AND I NOTICE IT'S TURNING, WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS. WITH EV´RY MISTAKE WE MUST SURELY BE LEARNING; STILL MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WERE DIVERTED, YOU WERE PERVERTED TOO. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WERE INVERTED, HOW NO ONE ALERTED YOU. I LOOK AT YOU ALL, AND I SEE THE LOVE THERE THAT'S SLEEPING, WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS. LOOK AT YOU ALL... STILL MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS. OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH. |
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Here comes the sun.
Here comes the sun. And I say it's alright. Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And I say it's alright. Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces. Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And I say it's alright. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting. Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And I say it's alright. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And I say it's alright. It's alright. |
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(George: Like to bring on a friend of us all, Mr. Bob Dylan!)
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have you been, my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains, I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways, I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests, I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans, I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard, It's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? And what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it, I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it, I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin', I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin', I saw a white ladder all covered with water, I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. What did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warnin', I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world, Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin', Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin', I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin', Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Who did you meet, my blue-eyed son? Who did you meet, my darling young one? I met a young child beside a dead pony, I met a white man who walked a black dog, I met a young woman whose body was burning, I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow, I met one man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred, It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son? And what'll you do now, my darling young one? I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin', I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest, Where the people are many and their hands are all empty, Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters, Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison, The executioner's face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten, Where black is the color and none is the number, And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, Reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it, Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin', But I'll know my song well before I start singin', And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. It's a hard rain's a gonna fall It's a hard rain's a gonna fall |
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Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,
Can't buy a thrill. I've been up all night, baby, Leanin' on the window sill. If I die On top of the hill And if I don't make it, You know my baby will. Don't the moon look good, mama, Shinin' down through the trees? Don't the brakeman look good, mama, Flagging down the "Double E"? Don't the sun look good Goin' down over the sea? Don't my gal look fine When she's comin' after me? Wintertime is coming, The windows are filled with frost. I went to tell everybody, But I could not get across. Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss. Don't say I never warned you If your train gets lost. |
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How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? How many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. How many years can a mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea? How many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? How many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. How many times can a dumb man look up Before he can see the sky? How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? How many deaths will it take till he knows Too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. |
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Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you. Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand, Vanished from my hand, Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping. My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet, I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you. Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship, My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels To be wanderin'. I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you. Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you. |
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Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain Ev'rybody knows That Baby's got new clothes But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls. She takes just like a woman And she makes love just like a woman And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl. Queen Mary, she's my friend Yes, I believe I'll go see her again Nobody has to guess That Baby can't be blessed Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls. She takes just like a woman She makes love just like a woman And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl. It was raining from the first And I was dying there of thirst So I came in here And your long-time curse hurts But what's worse Is this pain in here I can't stay in here Ain't it clear that That I just can't fit Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit But when we meet again Introduced as friends Please don't let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world. Ah, you fake just like a woman, yeah you do and You make love just like a woman, yeah and You ache just like a woman But you break just like a little girl. |
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Something in the way she moves,
attracts me like no other lover. Something in the way she woos me, I don't want to leave her now, You know I believe and how. Somewhere in her smile she knows That i don't need no other lover Something in her style that shows me, I don't want to leave her now, You know I believe and how You're asking me will my love grow I don't know, I don't know You stick around now it may show I don't want to leave her now, You know I believe and how |
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My friend came to me, with sadness in his eyes
He told me that he wanted help Before his country dies Although I couldn't feel the pain, I knew I had to try Now I'm asking all of you To help us save some lives Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh Where so many people are dying fast And it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such distress Now won't you lend your hand and understand Relieve the people of Bangla Desh Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh Such a great disaster - I don't understand But it sure looks like a mess I've never known such distress Now please don't turn away, I want to hear you say Relieve the people of Bangla Desh Relieve the people of Bangla Desh Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed We've got to relieve Bangla Desh Relieve the people of Bangla Desh We've got to relieve Bangla Desh Now won't you lend your hand and understand Relieve the people of Bangla Desh |
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