Tonight is one of those nights when the only thing that’s going to do for me is some Stevie Wonder. Yes, I know I just played this one last June, but folks … I want you to listen, really listen to the words and tell me we couldn’t use a whole lot more of this today! Now, I just love seeing Stevie, and throwing in Paul McCartney is an added bonus, but when I listened to this one tonight, it brought me to tears — literally. We have lawmakers being threatened with violence, a 12-year-old child shot and killed a man with an AR-15, an 18-year-old went on a neighborhood shooting rampage and killed three, injured nine more, members of Congress are playing Russian roulette with our lives, and states are robbing women of their rights while robbing children of an education. And that’s only some of what weighs heavily on my mind tonight. Listen to Stevie and Paul, listen to the words … this song should be our national anthem!!! We could be so much better than we are, if only we all listened to Stevie and Paul sing this song …
Paul McCartney wrote this song, saying that the message was “that people of all types could live together.” He liked the piano analogy, since you can play using just the white keys or just the black keys, but to make great music, you have to combine them. So true.
McCartney started recording this as a solo effort, but then got the idea to do it as a duet with Stevie Wonder. A demo made its way to Wonder, and he agreed to record it, standing wholeheartedly behind the message in the song. It was issued as a single and appeared on McCartney’s 1982 album Tug Of War.
This was Stevie Wonder’s first #1 single in the UK. His only other was I Just Called To Say I Love You in 1984.
Listen to the words, feel the camaraderie between these two men, feel the love … share the love, spread the love. Love knows no colour boundaries, and neither should we.
Ebony & Ivory
Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder
Ebony and ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don’t we?
We all know
That people are the same wherever you go
There is good and bad in everyone
When we learn to live, we learn to give each other
What we need to survive
Together alive
Ebony and ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don’t we?
We all know
That people are the same wherever you go
There is good and bad, mmm, in everyone
We learn to live when we learn to give each other
What we need to survive
Together alive
Ebony and ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don’t we?
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don’t we?
Songwriters: Mccartney Paul James
Ebony & Ivory lyrics © MPL COMMUNICATIONS INC
Filosofa's Word 
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Thanks, Michael!!!
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I’m with David. Macca is a smug Liverpudlian who needs to know how to grow old gracefully. Love Stevie though, but not this one. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Macca before! Sorry you weren’t crazy about this one, but hopefully you’ll like today’s a bit better!
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He is known here as ‘Macca’, and not as popular as you might imagine. 🙂
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Wait … now I’m confused … is “Macca” a nickname for Paul McCartney? If so, why don’t you guys like Paul? I thought The Beatles were so popular over there?
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Yes, it is a Liverpudlian (Scouse) nickname for him that was widely adopted.
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Southerners like me don’t like him, becuase he thinks he is ‘special’. He dyes his hair, and tries to pretend it is still the early 1960s. He thinks he is something above us, and that is unacceptable. (Like Bono, and Bob Geldof). It’s a very Bristish thing, Jill. Lots of us actually hate him! (Including me)
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Wow! That’s news to me, for I thought that nearly all Brits loved all of the Beatles! Well … I had a huge crush on Paul when I was a teen, and I still enjoy watching him, but then, I’m not a Brit!
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Their music is still very popular, and they still have a huge fan base. But Paul can be very annoying. I suppose it’s a lot like Trump, kind of 50-50 for and against. 🙂
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AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! No, please don’t compare him to Trump!!! That is the worst insult one could dish out, and surely even if you hate Paul, you cannot compare him to that pocky monster!
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l love the sentiment and of course i love Stevie but this came from a time when I think Macca thought everything he produced was a work of art. He looked smug and self satisfied and he turnrd many people off. Cwtch
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Yeah, probably so, but I still love this one … love watching both Stevie and Paul … and I especially love the message. Why is it so hard for some people to understand? Sigh.
Cwtch
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Ah, I loved this song since it was released!!!
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Me too!!! Now if people would only listen and learn from their words, eh?
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Right, right, right!!!!
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Jill, great song, message and story. Now you have given me an ear worm. Keith
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YAY!!!! It’s been a while since I’ve been able to give you an earworm! Your turn …
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Thank you, Ned!!!
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I stand by what I said last year when you played this. How two such great artists could produce something like this mystifies me.
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🤷 Ah well … no accounting for taste, is there? I wonder if you’ll like today’s any better? We shall see …
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Indeed we will 🤣
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