CD of Think with Courage album in a four panel sleeve
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Featuring Gretchen Janzow on vocals. Smedley Butler is the gentleman featured on the album cover, appropriately under the title "Think with Courage". He is the two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner US Marine Corp Major General who wrote War is a Racket. Please look him up and read his book.
lyrics
Think with Courage copyright 1999 Kent Scheffler
Absolutely certain feels exactly the same,
whether you’re wrong or you’re right.
And God knows we all need something certain
to take us through the night.
Hope and Love will take you far.
But solid ground is not guaranteed.
Count your blessings, but know where you are -
Get comfortable with uncertainty.
So take this message with a grain of salt.
I just want you to think about it.
All I’m asking you is to think with courage.
All I’m asking you is to think with courage.
All I’m asking you is to think with courage.
Now there are liars bold and audacious.
They’ll lie right through their teeth; they’ll lie with both their faces.
But the dangerous liars mostly lie to themselves.
And that shoe always fits everybody else.
We almost never bring to trial
the dark and tangled webs we weave.
Rationalizations and denial -
It’s ourselves we practice to deceive!
The pen is stronger than the sword,
But Truth is the first casualty of war.
Lawyers, preachers, politicians love the Word!
You’re the one they want to do the thinking for!
The patriotic high ground gets claimed with a tear.
Our sons and daughters come home maimed, or burned.
Someone’s lobby bought your government’s ear.
How many times before we’ve learned?
So take this message with a grain of salt.
I just want you to think about it.
Things may not be as simple as you thought.
God gave you a brain, He won’t mind if you use it.
All I’m asking you is to think with courage.
All I’m asking you is to think with courage.
All I’m asking you is to think with courage.
credits
from Think with Courage,
released April 29, 2017
Gretchen Janzow – main vocals and support vocals
Jimmy George – piano, organ, bass, claps, background vocals
Matt Moore – alto, tenor and baritone sax & horn arrangements
Kent Scheffler – acoustic guitar & solo
Nick Chambers - drums
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