Songs for Earth Day

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At the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Earth Day lasts an entire month. To celebrate, we put together a playlist of songs related to the environment. Check it out, or just view our list of songs below. And if you’re wondering why so many of the songs are from the early 1970s, visit Outdoor Delaware’s article on the history of Earth Day.

Title	Artist	Released
“This Land Is Your Land”	Woody Guthrie	1940
“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”	Bob Dylan	1962
“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
“Where Do The Children Play?”	Cat Stevens	1970
“Apeman”	The Kinks	1970
“Take Me Home, Country Roads”	John Denver	1971
“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)”	Marvin Gaye	1971
“Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”	Creedence Clearwater Revival	1971
“Sun is Shining”	Bob Marley & The Wailers	1971
“Pollution”	Bo Diddley	1971
“Burn On”	Randy Newman	1972
“Before the Deluge”	Jackson Browne	1974
“Don’t Go Near the Water”	Johnny Cash	1974
“Landslide”	Fleetwood Mac	1975
“Here Comes the Flood”	Peter Gabriel	1977
“The Trees”	Rush	1978
“Earth Song”	Michael Jackson	1982
“The Landscape is Changing”	Depeche Mode	1983
“My City Was Gone”	Pretenders	1984
“(Nothing But) Flowers”	Talking Heads	1988
“We Can Run”	Grateful Dead	1989
“Do You Want My Job”	Little Village	1992
“Over the Rainbow”	Israel Kamakawiwo’ole	1993
“Colors of the Wind”	Judy Kuhn	1995
“One Sweet World”	Dave Matthews Band	1999
“Johnny Appleseed”	Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	2001
“Gentle Arms of Eden”	Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer	2001
“The 3 R’s”	Jack Johnson	2006
“Good World”	Martha Tilston	2007
“Go to the Woods”	Dar Williams	2008
“Wake Up America”	Miley Cyrus	2008
“Another World”	Anohni and the Johnsons	2008
“Oh, What A World 2.0 (Earth Day Edition)”	Kacey Musgraves	2018
“In This Together”	Ellie Goulding & Steven Price	2019
“Summertime”	Eilen Jewell	2020
“Jazz on the Autobahn”	The Felice Brothers	2021
“Sun and Moon”	anees	2022
“A Time Like This”	Audrey Pearl	2024
“World O World”	Jacob Collier	2024

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