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Published: 2017-09-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeWP6_pY5w
all sound good little louder poorly and no forty four it's so or thank you thank you very much if you could walk the dance if you can talk you can sing if you can live you can love I was born in a very very poor neighborhood infested with drugs crime and violence and sure enough love since mid angel his name was Warren Allen Smith school teacher
from Iowa and he showed me love for no reason at all but he became my surrogate father my Perry godfather you could say and through him doors opened up free theatre foreign music for Dallas for travel and so many things to embrace people from all over the world and from different races and different colors and that was the gift of gifts and I think Warren for
that who is it really really big big blessing and my family came from Porter Rico but I was born in new York's M. being a border region I might as well bring you a little taste Latin music what do you think one two three four or yeah I gave you a lot more yeah just so everybody saw a reggae outside get equal basis yeah gateway say
about well yeah as such I don't take people no longer everybody is that even those who were sitting on their products and if you feel like getting up that's alright with me let me hear you shout yeah you know some people call me the original hippie I cringe when I hear that but I was there I certainly was there right in the center of it at
sixteen I went to the California scene and I met all the beautiful crazy people Timothy Leary %HESITATION Baba ram dass wavy gravy and it was really really wonderful and amazing to meet these people and be fair right there in the center of it in the summer of love and the year after in the years after in the Haight Ashbury scene and in the village and you
know back in the sixties the youth was looking for something deeper than the status quo and some people mistakenly think that it was drugs that got us all high but it was just the catalyst big because there was also yoga meditation music the arts and all these things that helped us open up to love and be the head has love warriors and help change the world
it's still cooking right now I mean I was right there in the middle of it I remember I don't know how many Vietnam protests and then more recently I made it to what arm occupy Wall Street the activism inspired me to be just recently a few months or six months ago at standing rock with all of our native Americans and all the other events that we've
supported that I've supported in a bit so lucky and blessed to be there love always brings me to the right place at the right time and it will bring you they're too because it's brought you here right now and this is pretty cool isn't it yeah so yes let's have another song how's that from all those crazy events like Woodstock festival that I was at the
first one many burning man's all the first one's dress them very fair the first one and so many more and the rainbow gathering I was at the rainbow gatherings the first one and almost every single one since then oh my god that's a lot of time in a lot of gatherings but you know at the fires at night and you think the rainbow gatherings is small
but really in America we have twenty to forty thousand people show up and these gatherings is spread all over the world and if you go to one at night there's campfires and they're singing my song and that's my Grammy this is one of them you love mom Maza you like my father kill my lover you are my friend you would not be getting you love the
sun our dog that you are beyond the you are the colors the other thing right angle in the field winds you love the three of us you are the same as you are the sky law is and I news so you helped me see see you at all see you in me I mean you apparently you're right it all yes I you know I just gave
you I mean you you're you know notable louder you know religion they can be met but we know that love sweet love is one there are so many but the truth is one I love you so and %HESITATION of news so you help me sale and all it is to see you in the I'm with you during the say you know %HESITATION you're everywhere I see
you will so many blessings we setting the world on fire and saving the world free one song at a time so we gotta become love warriors that's what time it is to make a difference in the world the world needs it now more than ever this always call shine your light and it's important that we get out there and shine our light has spiritual or love
water here yes one to three Mahatma Gandhi said I or I makes the whole world blind dash right it peaked I full open eye leaks to whoever pass so what you going to do Sharon your blood will be smooth running back your peaceful loving like you'll pay so nothing like that here you shy of that your pistol noting that I shun draws I no peaceful loving
the some of the things we say we trust me dislike private we will break right right to doctors you know that's right Shawnna you'll pres over the other thank you guys Iraq Iraq it's time for us to shine our light and get out in the front line yeah baby I stopped for us the good book didn't go right back with if visible spice low and it's
easy to do it here I saw you all hugging each other now let's try that out ladies and gentlemen I thank you all people who don't believe that that can change your reality have never been in love why they've never had their heart broken so what we wanna do right now if you are a little bit about the therapy ID just the same with me with
why replies gathered saying do and me try out saying it you know me come on saying the good no no no you know now that should no and you although the get up I get the want to recruit he's a big guy all you need to do is no you want to two that he all we need do you saw no no you know who the
I %HESITATION we go I of and may be do the former Senate outside I wonder you all the invisible why love okay true here it we need to take it out I'd we'll grab your hand back and your possessions and your boyfriend soup would turning towards the door we're headed to the door we'll take the other side would take the other side was saying you know
