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Sing-along Café Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Earth Day was yesterday but we had another special Earth Day today singing songs on my Earth and Peace playlist. We added a few new ones, as we often do, following our hearts and inspirations in the moment. I love how we are all generous and flexible and willing to step off a path like that. 

I’m glad we all love John Denver’s music. So many of his songs are tributes to nature! Listening to Annie’s Song, one can’t miss the fact that he’s measuring romantic love against the wonder and beauty of nature. We discovered a couple of his songs we hadn’t heard before, and they’re so good that they quickly became singable (sing-alongable?). Ian missed last week, so we had to do Calypso again, and we were happy to oblige. I especially love those la-las (yodels?). 

We didn't want to feel despair with our Earth and Peace theme. It's easy to fall into despair on this theme. I had hoped some protest songs might help us to feel powerful and hopeful. But, I couldn't introduce my Songs of Resistance playlist as planned. Calling out injustice and seeing the darkness of war were not things we wanted to do on this sunny day.  

Loving the Earth is a good start towards effecting change to protect the Earth from climate crisis. Loving people- not seeing anyone as "other"- is how we need to start working for Peace. Music inspires that kind of love. 

Our next theme will be Dreams, using my Dreams, Wishes, Hope playlist. Already today, we ended up with a number of songs mentioning dreams. Let's focus on the positive. We want to be hopeful like a sunny spring day.  

  • Earth Day Every Day by John Denver
  • Annie’s Song by John Denver 
  • Calypso by John Denver
  • Cool an’ Green an’ Shady by John Denver
  • Poems, Prayers and Promises by John Denver
  • Thank God I’m a Country Boy by John Denver
  • Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer
  • What the World Needs Now is Love by Burt Bacharach and by Jackie DeShannon
  • Dreams and Zombie by the Cranberries 
  • Dust in the Wind by Kansas
  • Fly Like an Eagle by Steve Miller Band
  • From a Distance by Bette Midler
  • Put a Little Love in Your Heart by Jackie DeShannon


 

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