It Could Happen

I wrote the lyrics in the fall of 1996 for my son. The music was added in 2001. This recording was made in July 2009 with Henry Conley on guitar; Doug Conley on bass; John Phillips on drums; Riley Yielding on trumpet and me, Gene Woolfolk, Jr. on my Alesis Fusion Workstation (synth). This was the video I had in mind when I wrote song.



There is a story behind how this song was written. My son was given a selection of topics to write on back when he was in middle school. It was late in the evening, when he brought it to my attention and too late for him to work on a 20 line poem. So, I know I did the wrong thing, I sent him to bed and I stayed up writing on the topic that appealed to me, It Could Happen. While trying to think of what to write and the tv running on late night network stations, I started to hear all the public service announcements for child abuse, saw Sally Struthers with the starving kids in Africa, Aids, the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma, and more. And, I had to try to write from a 12 yr old's idealist point of view. So, this is how this song came about






It Could Happen


What if all God's children had food to eat?
What if all good children never got beat?
What if ignorance would stop and listen?
It could happen, it really could happen.

What if all wars stopped and we lived in peace?
What if all the bombs would suddenly cease?
What if terrorism stopped and we lived as kin?
It could happen, it really could happen.

What if the homeless had a place to sleep,
A roof over head and a place to keep?
What if disease left not to come again?
It could happen, it really could happen.

What if people stopped hurting each other,
And did honor their father and mother?
And what if there was no more crime or sin?
It could happen, It really could happen.

When the different nations make amends,
When all the wars end and we live as friends,
We can never go back that way again.
It could happen, it really could happen.



Charlton Woolfolk, Jr.



Copyright 2006 Charlton Woolfolk, Jr.