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What's So Funny 'bout Peace Love & Understanding (Nick Lowe) - fingerstyle cover by Daryl Shawn

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TAB: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/what-s-so-funny-bout-peace-love-and-understanding-22655303.html?aff_id=617337 "What's So Funny 'bout Peace Love & Understanding" by Nick Lowe. Arranged and performed by Daryl Shawn (https://www.darylshawn.com) “(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding” is a 1974 song written by English singer/songwriter Nick Lowe and recorded in the best-known version by Elvis Costello. The song was originally released in 1974 on the album The New Favourites of... Brinsley Schwarz by Lowe's band Brinsley Schwarz and released as a single; this version was included on Lowe's 2002 compilation Anthology (along with the Elvis Costello version), and his 2009 compilation Quiet Please... The New Best of Nick Lowe, as well as 1991's Surrender to the Rhythm: The Best of Brinsley Schwarz, 1996’s Naughty Rhythms: The Best of Pub Rock 1970–1976, and 1998’s Pub Rock: Paving the Way for Punk. Thus far, Lowe himself has not released a solo studio version of the song, but plays it regularly in concert, and live versions have appeared as B-sides of his 1982 double 45 single My Heart Hurts, and his 1994 EP True Love Travels on a Gravel Road, on the radio compilations KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 3, Q107's Concerts in the Sky: the Campfire Versions, and Live at the World Cafe 10th Anniversary, some with solo acoustic guitar and some with different full bands. Another live Lowe version appeared on his 2004 live album Untouched Takeaway, and a live Brinsley Schwarz version was included on What IS so Funny About Peace Love and Understanding?, which featured songs played live in BBC sessions. Lowe also produced a cover version of the song as a B-side for the 1991 single See Saw by the British band the Katydids, after producing their eponymous debut album. Lyrics: As I walk on through this wicked world, Searching for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself, Is all hope lost? Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? And as I walked on through troubled times, My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes, So where are the strong?, And who are the trusted?, And where is the harmony?, Sweet harmony 'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? So where are the strong?, And who are the trusted?, And where is the harmony?, Sweet harmony 'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? what's so funny bout peace love and understanding chords what's so funny bout peace love and understanding youtube what's so funny bout peace love and understanding nick lowe peace love and understanding movie what's so funny bout peace love and understanding live what's so funny bout peace love and understanding meaning who wrote what's so funny bout peace love and understanding peace love and understanding lyrics a perfect circle watch the video: https://youtu.be/gn6P0lnFsqY

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Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television host. According to Rolling Stone, Costello "reinvigorated the literate, lyrical traditions of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison with the raw energy and sass that were principal ethics of punk", noting the "construction of his songs, which set densely layered wordplay in an ever-expanding repertoire of styles". He is the recipient of numerous acc...

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