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The DNREC Earth Day Top 40



Outdoor Delaware

How about some musical inspiration for Earth Day? Outdoor Delaware asked our colleagues at the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control for their Earth Day song suggestions and we created an “Earth Day Top 40.”

Here are our Top 10 Earth Day songs to help you get into the mood to plant some trees, pick up trash in your neighborhood or just enjoy nature.

  • Good Day Sunshine – The Beatles
  • What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
  • Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
  • Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Marvin Gaye
  • Have You Ever Seen the Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Earth Song – Michael Jackson
  • My City Was Gone – Pretenders
  • Colors of the Wind – Vanessa Williams
  • Wake Up America – Miley Cyrus
  • Jazz on the Autobahn – The Felice Brothers

Graphic of the earth surrounded by musical notes.

Title Artist Released
Talking Dust Bowl Blues Woody Guthrie 1940
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Bob Dylan 1962
Good Day Sunshine The Beatles 1966
What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong 1967
Mother Nature’s Son The Beatles 1968
Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell 1970
Nature’s Way Spirit 1970
Hungry Planet The Byrds 1970
After the Gold Rush Neil Young 1970
Apeman The Kinks 1970
Where Do the Children Play? Cat Stevens 1970
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Marvin Gaye 1971
Pollution Bo Diddley 1971
Sun Is Shining Bob Marley 1971
Morning Has Broken Cat Stevens 1971
Sunshine on My Shoulders John Denver 1971
Have You Ever Seen The Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival 1971
Rejoice in the Sun Joan Baez 1972
Don’t Go Near The Water Johnny Cash 1974
Earth Song Michael Jackson 1982
Landscape is Changing Depeche Mode 1983
My City Was Gone Pretenders 1984
Nothing but Flowers Talking Heads 1988
Poison in the Well 10,000 Maniacs 1989
We Can Run Grateful Dead 1989
Last Great American Whale Lou Reed 1989
Do You Want My Job Little Village 1992
Song for a Dying Planet Joe Walsh 1992
Colors of the Wind Vanessa Williams 1994
One Sweet World Dave Matthews Band 1999
Johnny Appleseed Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros 2001
Gentle Arms of Eden Dave Carter and Tracy Grammar 2001
The 3 Rs Jack Johnson 2006
Globe All Warming Niyorah 2006
Good World Martha Tilston 2007
Wake Up America Miley Cyrus 2008
Another World Antony and the Johnsons 2008
The Dream Reborn: My President is Green Markese Doo Dat Bryant 2009
Labouring and Resting Karine Polwart, Pippa Murphy 2017
Jazz on the Autobahn The Felice Brothers 2021

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