I wrote and recorded the title track of my album Good Fair World in 2008. This was long before covid, proud boys, or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
My thinking was, world problems seem simple enough to solve, so why don’t we? Is that naive? We never seem to have enough facts to be sure of anything. This was true then and now that trust in the news and our leadership seems to be a trending problem all over, I feel like this little song is sadly gaining in relevance. But am I being sarcastic or optimistic? Both, obviously.
Good Fair World
Music and Lyrics- Jan Randall
All we need is a good world
Good world’s all we need
All we need is a good world
Good world’s all we need
Read your book on the beach
Drink not too far outa reach
A good world is really all we need.
All we need is a fair world
A fair world’s all we need
All we need is a fair world
Fair world is really all we need
Where night is night
And day is day
Do your work and Collect your pay
A fair fair world is really all we need
So let an inch be an inch
And a pound be a pound
Let Up be up
And Down be down
When you join the game
And ya pay your dues
Let the winners win
Let the losers lose
All we need is a nice world
Nice world’s all we need
All we need is a nice world
Nice world’s all we need
We’ll keep square as square
And round as round
Keep our heads in the air
And our feet on the ground
We’ll never never let the good guys fail
Make all the bad guys go to jail
We could heal the sick
We could feed the poor
Tie dye our shirts
Make love not war
A fair world is really all we need
A nice world is really all we need
A good good fair fair world is really all we need.
The fine line between naive optimism and an endless eternal cloud of doom
Jan Randall 
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