"If It Can't Be Reduced" lyrics - PETE SEEGER
[Words printed in lower case are sung by the song leader. Words printed in capital letters are repeated or sung by the audience.]
If it can't be reduced - IF IT CAN'T BE REDUCED
Reused, repaired - REUSED REPAIRED
Rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted - OR COMPOSTED
Then it should be - THEN IT SHOULD BE
Restricted, redesigned - RESTRICTED, REDESIGNED
Or removed - REMOVED!
From production - FROM PRODUCTION
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
AND ITS ZERO WASTE COMMISSION
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
AND ITS ZERO WASTE COMMISSION
[repeat first verse]
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
AND ITS ZERO WASTE COMMISSION
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
HOORAY FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
AND ITS ZERO WASTE COMMISSION
At 89 (2008)
- Nameless Banjo Riff
- False From True
- Now We Sit Us Down
- Pete's Greeting (At 89)
- Visions Of Children
- Wonderful Friends
- The Water Is Wide
- Pete Talks About Clearwater (At 89)
- It's A Long Haul
- Throw Away That Shad Net (How Are We Gonna Save Tomorrow?)
- The Song Of The World's Last Whale
- The First Settlers (At 89)
- The D Minor Flourish / Cindy
- Pete's Intro To If It Can't Be Reduced (At 89)
- If It Can't Be Reduced
- Spring Fever
- Pete Speaks About WWII (At 89)
- When I Was Most Beautiful
- Bach At Treblinka (Ode To A Composer)
- We Will Love Or We Will Perish
- The Story Of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (At 89)
- Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
- One Percent Phosphorous Banjo Riff
- Pete Speaks About Involvement (At 89)
- Or Else! (One-A These Days)
- Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
- Little Fat Baby
- Arrange And Re-Arrange
- Alleluya
- Pete's Extroduction (At 89)
- If This World Survives
- How Soon?