{"id":108344,"date":"2021-02-08T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=108344"},"modified":"2022-11-06T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:41:29","slug":"q442-transcript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=108344","title":{"rendered":"Q442 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To return to the Tape Index, click here.<\/a>
\nTo read the Tape Summary, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Song 1<\/strong>: \u201cBe Glad You\u2019ve Got Communism In Your Life,\u201d which is repeated over and again as its only lyric.<\/p>\n

Song 2: <\/strong>
\nMarx and Lenin led the way
\nTo a brighter communist day
\nAnd this truth we will uphold
\nTill this old body has grown cold<\/p>\n

Oh yeah!
\nCommunism is the way
\nAnd we gonna fight for it every day
\nCommunism is the way
\nWe gonna fight for it every day<\/p>\n

Join us, comrades, and you\u2019ll see
\nThis mighty revolution\u2019s for you and me
\nAnd we love this socialist land
\nFor our leader has made a stand<\/p>\n

Communism is the way
\nWe gonna fight for it every day
\n(calls out) Clap your hands!
\nCommunism is the way
\nYeah, yeah, yeah
\nWe gonna fight for it every day<\/p>\n

Join us, comrades, and you\u2019ll see
\nThis revolution\u2019s for you and me
\nAnd we love this socialist land
\nFor our leader has made a stand<\/p>\n

Communism is the way
\nWe gonna fight for it every day
\nCommunism is the way
\nWe gonna fight for it every day<\/p>\n

(calls out) One more time!
\nCommunism is the way
\nAnd we\u2019ll fight for it every day<\/p>\n

Song 3:<\/strong>
\n(Instrumental)<\/p>\n

Song 4:<\/strong>
\nGood morn or evening, friends
\nI\u2019m your friendly announcer
\nI\u2019ve serious news to pass on to everybody
\nWhat I\u2019m about to say
\nCould mean the world\u2019s disaster
\n(unintelligible line)
\nDon\u2019t delay, send it in right away
\n(unintelligible line)
\nStart (unintelligible word) before it\u2019s gone too far
\nThe force of evil plans
\nTo make you a (unintelligible word)
\nAnd it will if we let it
\nDestroy everybody
\nWe all must take
\nPrecautionary measures
\nIf love (unintelligible phrase)
\nCan you hear me say
\nThat love (unintelligible phrase)
\nDon\u2019t delay, send it in right away
\nYou know that hate\u2019s going round, hate\u2019s going round
\nHate\u2019s going round, and it\u2019s trying to destroy,
\nBut you\u2019ve got to, I\u2019ve got to, we\u2019ve got to, yeah
\nGet it together
\nIt\u2019s up to us (unintelligible word)
\n(unintelligible line)
\nDon\u2019t delay, send it in right away
\nYou know that hate\u2019s going round, hate\u2019s going round
\nHate\u2019s going round, and it\u2019s trying to destroy,
\nBut you\u2019ve got to, I\u2019ve got to, we\u2019ve got to, yeah
\nTeach communism, teach communism
\nOh, love (unintelligible phrase)
\nDon\u2019t delay, send yours in right away
\nIt\u2019s up to you, \u2018cause hate\u2013
\nYeah, (unintelligible fade)<\/p>\n

Tape silence for one minute<\/p>\n

Song 5:<\/strong>
\nRun to the sunset, hand in hand
\nA lonely beach
\nThe warmth of her laughter
\nThis is the place and time of levity
\nIf not for now, forever after
\nWhen you think of the beginning
\nWhen your love was true
\nThe joy and the sorrow
\nOf feelings that are true
\nToday we\u2019ll be together
\nForever gold
\nLove becomes impressions in the diary of your mind
\nLove becomes a precious gem that’s so hard to find
\nAnd when you think of feeling
\nAll the places in your life
\nLonely places in your life
\nYou think of her, yeah, yeah, yeah
\nOh yeah
\nPeople who (unintelligible phrase)
\nAnd when you stand to the firelit invitation
\nOf her eyes
\n(unintelligible phrase) to moods of love
\nWhen the sun begins to rise
\nWe think of the beginning
\nWhen her love was true
\nOh, and the sun begins to rise<\/p>\n

Tape silence for one minute<\/p>\n

Song 6:<\/strong>
\nOh, yeah, people are running
\nThrough your mind
\nThrough your mind
\nYeah, yeah, yeah
\nYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
\npeople are running,
\nRunning around in circles every day
\nRunning around in circles in the morning (unintelligible word)
\nGot on my travelin\u2019 shoes, I gotta spread the news
\nRunning around in circles every day
\nRunning around in circles in the morning (unintelligible word)
\nRunning around in circles in the morning (unintelligible word)
\nGot on my travelin\u2019 shoes, I gotta spread the news
\nRunning around in circles in the morning (unintelligible word)
\nOh (unintelligible line)
\nLet his spirit take us all
\n(2 unintelligible lines)<\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: With slight variations, the lyrics them repeat themselves several times]<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

There follow numerous short, unintelligible bursts of conversation, punctuating lengthy silences. Eventually, the tape becomes faint, with singing voices barely discernible.<\/p>\n

At one point, an unidentified male sings \u201cThe Greatest Love\u201d. Word for word transcription cannot be done due to faintness of recording, but the lyrics \u2013 from the transcript of tape Q 408 \u2013 are below. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greatest Love\u201d:<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe that children are our future
\nTeach them well and let them lead the way
\nShow them all the beauty they possess inside
\nGive them a sense of pride to make it easier
\nLet the children\u2019s laughter remind us how it used to be<\/p>\n

Everybody searching for a hero
\nPeople need someone to look up to
\nI never found anyone who fulfilled my needs
\nA lonely place to be
\nSo I learned to depend on me<\/p>\n

I decided long ago
\nNever to walk in anyone\u2019s shadows
\nIf I fail, if I succeed
\nAt least I lived as I believe
\nNo matter what they take from me
\nThey can\u2019t take away my dignity<\/p>\n

Because the greatest love of all
\nWhat\u2019s happening to me
\nI found that greatest love of all
\nInside of me
\nThe greatest love of all
\nIs easy to achieve
\nLearning to love yourself
\nIt is the greatest love of all<\/p>\n

I believe the children are our future
\nTeach them well and let them lead the way
\nShow them all the beauty they possess inside
\nIf you give them a sense of pride
\n(speaks rapidly) You maybe gotta give them a sense of pride
\n(sings) make it easier
\nLet the children\u2019s laughter remind us how it used to be<\/p>\n

I decided long ago
\nNever to walk in anyone\u2019s shadow
\nIf I fail, if I succeed
\nAt least I lived as I believe
\nNo matter what they take from us
\nThey can\u2019t take away our dignity<\/p>\n

Because the greatest love of all
\nWas happening to me
\nI found that greatest love of all
\nInside of me
\nThe greatest love of all
\nOh, it\u2019s easy to achieve
\nLearning to love yourself
\nIt\u2019s the greatest love of all<\/p>\n

And if by chance, that special place
\nThat you\u2019ve been dreaming of
\nLeads you to a lonely place
\nFind your strength in love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3. Song 1: \u201cBe Glad You\u2019ve Got Communism In Your Life,\u201d which is repeated over and again as its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":27291,"menu_order":253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118680,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108344\/revisions\/118680"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}