Throw Away That Shad Net (How Are We Gonna Save Tomorrow?) - Pete Seeger

Throw away that shad net, get rid of hook and line

There’s no more Hudson fishing, not for a long, long time

The poison’s in the riverbed, no matter whose the crime

But how are we gonna save tomorrow?

One thousand honest workers need that paycheck every week

Way up in Fort Edward where the PCBs did leak

And the GE Corporation knows the profits it must seek

But how are we gonna save tomorrow?

PCB was a clever thing, 'way back in twenty-nine

Transformers and capacitors got turned out on the line

Nobody suspected what they’d do to us in time

And now we got to worry 'bout tomorrow

Well, the purpose of technology is to take a different turn

We’ll test each new thing carefully, that’s one thing we have learned

We need a clean world for all to share, and all to work and earn

Then, maybe, we can save tomorrow

Well, the experts knew about it, so why not you and me

Who controls the information in this land of the free?

The laws didn’t seem to help in stopping PCB

So how are we gonna save tomorrow?

The longest journey taken needs a first step to begin

This cleanup’s gonna take a while, but now we must begin

Clearwater says to lend a hand, a claw, a paw, a fin

'Cause now we got to work to save tomorrow

«This song’s too sad.»

Here’s to the lowly blue crab, because he has no fat

And so he’s got no PCB (hardly) we can say, hooray for that

So I’ll not quit my crabbing, you can stick that in your hat

Somehow, we’re gonna save tomorrow

«In the old days, coal miners took a canary down to test the air.»

Here’s to the canary we took down in the mine

Here’s to the Hudson stripers, may their warning be in time

Here’s to all the young folks singing, «This land is yours and mine.»

That’s how we’re gonna save tomorrow

Oh, the glory’s on the river, and the struggle’s on the shore

Next year is 1976;

let’s start a little war

Anyone who thinks we’re quitting better take just one think more

And that’s how we’re gonna save tomorrow

So don’t throw away that shad net, don’t junk that hook and line

We’re gonna make some changes, we’re gonna start in time

Clearwater sings to all of us, «This land is yours and mine»

And that’s how we’re gonna save tomorrow

And that’s how we’re gonna save tomorrow