Why Can't We Be Friends?

About Why Can't We Be Friends?

"Why Can't We Be Friends?" is a song by the funk band War for their 1975 studio album of the same name. The song has a simple structure, with the phrase "Why can't we be friends?" being sung four times after each two-line verse amounting to over forty times in under four minutes. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1975. The song is unique as various members of the band exchange vocal duties from verse to verse. It was played in outer space when NASA beamed it to the linking of Soviet cosmonauts and U. S. astronauts for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. Billboard ranked it as the No. 23 song of that year. more »

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1996

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I seen ya around for a long long time
I really remember you when you drank my wine

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I'd seen ya walking down in Chinatown
I called ya but you could not look around

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I pay my money to the welfare line
I see ya standing in it every time

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The color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as we can live in harmony

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I'd kinda' like to be the president
So I could show you how your money's spent

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Sometimes I don't speak right
But yet I know what I'm talking about

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I know you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the mafia

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War

War (originally called Eric Burdon and War) is an American funk/rock/soul band from Long Beach, California, known for several hit songs (including "Spill the Wine", "The World Is a Ghetto", "The Cisco Kid", "Why Can't We Be Friends?", "Low Rider", and "Summer"). Formed in 1969, War is a musical crossover band that fuses elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, psychedelia, and reggae. According to music writer Colin Larkin, their "potent fusion of funk, R&B, rock and Latin styles produced a progressive soul sound", while Martin C. Strong calls them "one of the fiercest progressive soul combos of the '70s". Their album The World Is a Ghetto was Billboard… more »

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