It's Too Darn Hot

Greetings, fellow music lovers and concerned citizens. Those of you who regularly keep tabs here are aware of my passionate concern about global warming. I recently wrote a song called "Tomorrow Is Today" on this subject and am still trying to find ways to let it be of service to the cause. Barbra Streisand is apparently still considering recording the piece from what I've been told. I've sent the song to Bill Clinton and Al Gore who have been working tirelessly on trying to create true positive change on this issue. I've also sent it to President Bush who I pray will take a much more active role in acknowledging this threat and finding effective ways to arrest further damage.

The title of the song is taken from a quote by Martin Luther King. You can listen to my recording of it, arranged by my friend Irwin Fisch, with this link: http://www.annhamptoncallaway.com/news.html#anthem

Here are the words:

TOMORROW IS TODAY

Words and music
By Ann Hampton Callaway

1. Now in this moment
The corners of the Earth are melting away
How can we stand here
And watch the end begin with nothing to say?
So many signs
Of a planet in distress
Still, we close our eyes pretending not to see
Ev’ry hurricane, ev’ry storm
Grows worse as Earth grows warm
When nature warns her children
We must need the call
Let us heed the call

CHORUS
Tomorrow is today
Tomorrow is today
Our only home might slip away
Tomorrow is today

2. Come, ev’ry nation
All keepers of the earth- man, woman and child
Heal and protect her
Her forests, oceans, glaciers and creatures wild
All things that live
Have a purpose and a place
Lose the balance and we’ve lost each other
But we have the chance we need
If we, the people, lead
There still is time to change
If we don’t hesitate
We cannot wait

CHORUS
Tomorrow is today
Tomorrow is today
Our only home might slip away
Tomorrow is today

3. INSTRUMENTAL 1st half with spoken word:
“After the first picture of earth was taken from space, the poet Archibald MacLeish wrote: ‘To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold-brothers who know now that they are truly brothers.’”

Let us lay down our arms
And raise our hearts up high
We can be the heroes that our children need
So their fam’lies live to see
Nature’s majesty
Let us honor life
As ev’ry day we strive
To help the Earth survive

CHORUS
Tomorrow is today
Tomorrow is today
Our only home can’t slip away
Tomorrow is today
Today

© 2006 Works of Heart Publishing
Administered by Williamson Music

On a more practical note, I want to share with you an invitation today from Barbara Boxer to take part in prioritizing possible global warming solutions. No matter where you are in the world at this moment, please take a few minutes to participate and help make this a bipartisan and international effort. The magnitude of our climate control crisis is universal. Here is the link to Global Warming- Stop It:
http://ga4.org/pacforachange/gw_agenda.html

And here are some other links to explore to become a part of the solution:
Environmental Defense- http://fightglobalwarming.com/?source=searchg_200701
An Inconvenient Truth- http://www.climatecrisis.net/
EPA Kid's Site- http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/
Union of Concerned Scientists- http://www.ucsusa.org/
Spectra Fund- http://www.spectrafund.com/sf/appmanager/spectraportal/welcome

Thanks so much for caring and thinking of generations to come and their welfare.
Each of us can play a vital role in safeguarding our future and the future of our children.