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The Story is in the Song…

YouTube keeps coming up with these songs, cool, may make a C&W gal out of me yet,May be hard to learn to 2 step though.

 
This begins with the brief lead-in instrumental "Sirius" (as in the Dog Star in Orion) to set the tone. Radio often chopped it off, which sometimes prevented listeners from understanding that "Eye In The Sky" is a caution, a warning, of the electronic surveillance state that was coming.

 
This is an old time gospel song and i have heard it for years; but until I watched this video, I didn’t know when it was written or who had written it. This is the story and the song.

 
'The Living Years' by Mike and the Mechanics, about Michael Rutherford's relationship with his father.
 
'Min Farfar Gick I Taget' (My Grandfather Got On A Train) by Tomas Ledin about the Adalen marches of 1931 where sawmill workers protested about the conditions there. Tomas' paternal grandfather was one of the protesters.
 
This begins with the brief lead-in instrumental "Sirius" (as in the Dog Star in Orion) to set the tone. Radio often chopped it off, which sometimes prevented listeners from understanding that "Eye In The Sky" is a caution, a warning, of the electronic surveillance state that was coming.


I never realized this was the meaning. I should have considering all the changes in factory jobs going to robots.
 

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