I see you, and hear your words: "I'm not really in good form these days." I am experiencing this moment differently. Your voice rings loud and clear. The power of your noticing, in your persistence and of your heart, is palpable. We met many years ago, in Kerrville. Thank you, Tom, for singing your way back in to my life. I believe nothing can stop your love for noticing where we are right now. Sing on.
I didn't know George and don't know you Tom but I will never forget you or George. Thank you for sharing your heart and your gifts--you are helping us all heal.
We heard you perform when you opened up for Richie Havens many years ago in NY. We have listened to your music countless times and always will.Thank you for sharing your gifts.
Epic song. Heard Mary Gauthier play it and just had to go straight to the source. Gut wrenching in its brutal honesty. Your form, singin', playin', and everything, weren't only proper, they were perfect.
Your playing, writing and singing voice is absolutely beautiful mr. Prasado-Rao. I cried all of the way through it, however, THANK YOU for honoring Mr. Floyd and sharing your soul with us.
I have just heard, for the first time, “$20 Bill.” I am deeply moved by the beauty you have created out of the horror we have been and are presently experiencing with this fitting honor wrought from the execution of George Floyd. Thank you for your moving memorial. Darryl
Thank you Tom for your pure honest beautiful spirit. You have poured it all out here and we can feel it. Real medicine. May God bless you and all of us in our healing time.
Dear Tom, as one who has been in the audience for you and in the recording studio with you, I can say you're in fine, fine form. You've still got it, brother. Still leading in love, still turning hearts with music. Strength in the fight to you. Thank you for this gift to the world. 🙏🏻🎶💙
Some years back i watched Tom open 2 shows for Richie Havens in New York City. He was vibrant, funny. Very engaging. Played and sang great songs of his own design. One of 2 "unknowns" ive ever seen open for a prominent artist who was worth remembering. I still enjoy his cd's i brought home with me that night and told a lot of folks along the way since to check him out. Life takes us all or most anyway on strange paths, divergent routes. Yours, and mine. So very glad to see you again. Illness may say otherwise but in the scheme of it all, you haven't lost a step.
Tom Prasado-Rao, You are amazing! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽This song, Twenty Dollar Bill, written for George Floyd, 😢touched my very core. I am full of empathy. 💛Thank you for sharing your beautiful gift. 🌸
Oh man. Thank you so much for putting this in words. I heard your song yesterday for the first time. David Wilcox played it as the closer in his Facebook Live concert.
Tom, I have listened to this song at least a dozen times by you and others and it's power never diminishes. Your love and caring gives me strength to make any change that I can. Thank you for years of you.
Thank you for sharing your heart in a most proper way. Some songs make me stop everything to learn them. This is certainly one. Again gratitude, brother.
As part of program commemorating MLK Day, your song was played on KPFA radio yesterday. This song exemplifies the miraculous power of art - to create a thing of beauty out of something so ugly. Thank you!
I am so touched. Shivers running up and down my spine. Brutal. Thank you for your love. I pray you recover completely and get back your full health, my friend.
all i can say is that i cried and that tears were not enough to express how deeply moved i was by you, the song, and all we are going through. I send my love. Paul
Tom, this is the real thing - an anthem for George Floyd and for the world. Brilliantly written , performed and sung...I hope the world hears this song.
Thank you, Tom. This song is beautiful beyond words, but so deeply sad. I saved your chord chart and I’ll try to get Lisa and Dana to do it. I hope they have better luck than I. I’ve tried to sing along with your recording multiple times now and I just can’t get through it. Peace.
RIP Tom. I was a fan of yours when you were starting out, having lived next to your sister Patty. I was privileged to hear you in concert a bunch of times in Takoma Park and I still play your CDs in my car. I didn't know you had written this great song. I was saddened to hear about your passing. Best to your family.
Dear Tom, what a beautiful beautiful song. It's rare that a song gives me chills and goosebumps, but this one did. In a world of savagery and insensitivity where a man can still put a knee on another's man neck, to make beauty out of it as you have done is an exultation of the best in us. Yes, Rest in Peace, George Floyd. And Tom, I wish you a speedy recovery to full Health.
Thank you Tom for sharing your heart so poignantly. I love you, your voice, your insight, and your connection to all that allows you to create such beautiful music.
My Dearest Tom, I so miss you my Dear Friend! I think of you often and your own Battles and of course your Tribute song to the late George Floyd! I hope you have both now met in heaven and have been playing your song’s with he and the Love ❤️ of his Family by your side! I miss you my Brother you that I know and George whom I never met!! Love ❤️, Always, Neal Braverman, Boston, Ma. 😢
Thank you so much! I heard Shelley King and Carolyn Wonderland sing this today, and I see in the comments that Mary Gauthier also sang it; and others, I'm sure, that I haven't heard yet. Your words are spreading, they're making a difference.
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“Tom Prasada-Rao is one of the best songwriters in this country,” - Jonathan Byrd
here, here!
This is an amazing song.
I see you, and hear your words: "I'm not really in good form these days." I am experiencing this moment differently. Your voice rings loud and clear. The power of your noticing, in your persistence and of your heart, is palpable. We met many years ago, in Kerrville. Thank you, Tom, for singing your way back in to my life. I believe nothing can stop your love for noticing where we are right now. Sing on.
RIP Tom Prosada-Rio. Thank you for the music
I didn't know George and don't know you Tom but I will never forget you or George. Thank you for sharing your heart and your gifts--you are helping us all heal.
We heard you perform when you opened up for Richie Havens many years ago in NY. We have listened to your music countless times and always will.Thank you for sharing your gifts.
Epic song. Heard Mary Gauthier play it and just had to go straight to the source. Gut wrenching in its brutal honesty. Your form, singin', playin', and everything, weren't only proper, they were perfect.
Is Mary's performance taped?
Your playing, writing and singing voice is absolutely beautiful mr. Prasado-Rao. I cried all of the way through it, however, THANK YOU for honoring Mr. Floyd and sharing your soul with us.
Thank you, Tom.
As a white woman, I grieve for all those that are not treated in the way I - or a white man - would be treated.
Take care, Tom.
Heard on Democracy Now! this morning. What can I say. You have given voice the anguish of the moment. Hope to see you in Bel Air again.
I have just heard, for the first time, “$20 Bill.” I am deeply moved by the beauty you have created out of the horror we have been and are presently experiencing with this fitting honor wrought from the execution of George Floyd. Thank you for your moving memorial.
Darryl
Powerfully written and performed. I'm incredulous that this doesn't have millions of views yet.
Tom, dear Tom, your love and your grief jump right through the screen and into my heart. Thank you. God bless you, friend.
Lovely, Tom. Thank you for listening to your muse -- and for inspiring us to listen to ours. Be well...
Oh man Tom...Jonathan Byrd sent me here. What a hauntingly beautiful song. Thank you - thank you.
Oh my. How georgeous. I, too, had tears the whole way through. Thank you, thank you.
Still the master songwriter performer. Thank you for this heartfelt rendering.
My God, Tom!! A more perfect tribute and statement has never been written. Love, health and peace be with brother. You are a treasure. Thank you.
Over 10 months later, here I am again, crying again. I'll never get over the beauty and the heartbreak of this song. Thank you forever, Tom.
Done "properly" and beautifully; listened with tears flowing.
beautiful Tom! thank you so much for writing this song! HUGS from afar!
So beautiful. So heartbreaking. ❤️💔
Beautiful song, sir!
Beautiful, powerful and haunting, thank you, Tom. Sharing to Facebook, hope many others do as well.
Thank you Tom for your pure honest beautiful spirit. You have poured it all out here and we can feel it. Real medicine. May God bless you and all of us in our healing time.
So beautiful and sad, made my eyes sad. Thank you.🌹
So moving. Thank you. Added to the "Songs from and for the COVID-19 Crisis" playlist.
Tom, I can't think of a more perfect tribute. Fantastic lyrics. Thank you.
Thank you, Tom. Thank you, George Floyd. May your sacrifice open our eyes and our hearts.
Thank you so much for this beautiful and heartbreaking work of art.
A remarkably great song Mr. Prasado-Rao. Authenticity cuts like razor. Thanks for writing/posting/sharing.
Dear Tom, as one who has been in the audience for you and in the recording studio with you, I can say you're in fine, fine form. You've still got it, brother. Still leading in love, still turning hearts with music. Strength in the fight to you. Thank you for this gift to the world.
🙏🏻🎶💙
Some years back i watched Tom open 2 shows for Richie Havens in New York City. He was vibrant, funny. Very engaging. Played and sang great songs of his own design. One of 2 "unknowns" ive ever seen open for a prominent artist who was worth remembering. I still enjoy his cd's i brought home with me that night and told a lot of folks along the way since to check him out. Life takes us all or most anyway on strange paths, divergent routes. Yours, and mine. So very glad to see you again. Illness may say otherwise but in the scheme of it all, you haven't lost a step.
Tom Prasado-Rao, You are amazing! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽This song, Twenty Dollar Bill, written for George Floyd, 😢touched my very core. I am full of empathy. 💛Thank you for sharing your beautiful gift. 🌸
I'm crying on my couch. Sending you strength and healing. Thank you.
This isn’t just a song. It’s a movement. 🎶❤️🎶
This song is important. Thank you TPR. ❤️💔
I keep watching this everyday...thankful for your passion and words of truth here. God bless you in your recovery.
Thank you for this beautiful, poetic gift, Tom. Thank you.
THIS is painful, beautiful. SO Worthy. Shared. Thank you.
Oh man. Thank you so much for putting this in words. I heard your song yesterday for the first time. David Wilcox played it as the closer in his Facebook Live concert.
Tom, this is such a beautiful and monumental tune. Thank you for writing it. Thank you for sharing it. I want to learn it and play it, a lot.
Thank you so much for this brilliant song and all of your brilliance in music and lyrics and performance and perspective. You are amazing Tom!
Tom, I have listened to this song at least a dozen times by you and others and it's power never diminishes. Your love and caring gives me strength to make any change that I can. Thank you for years of you.
Thank you for sharing your heart in a most proper way. Some songs make me stop everything to learn them. This is certainly one. Again gratitude, brother.
Beautiful composition and such an incredibly heartfelt performance! Awesome job, Tom!👍👍👍
Thank you, Tom. That is pure truth in a way that anyone with a soul should hear. And thank you RUclips for bringing this to me.
Had to listen to this again this week Tom. Sending love and thanks.
Thank you!
Heavy music 🎶medicine for George Floyd.
You’re a hero Tom. Mary Gauthier sent me to listen.
...so good. Thank you.
That was the most beautiful song. My eyes leaked the entire time. Thank you for this message. God bless you!
Beautiful, poignant, brilliant. Thank you, Mr. Prasada-Rao. I am sharing it with everyone I know.
I watched this a gazillion times I just wish that I could give more likes. I really need to learn this piece. Thank you Tom!!
Tom, that's a brilliant track and performance. Wishing you better health and strength. Bless you xx
Beautiful, Beautiful piece brother! Thanks for listening to that still small voice & prayers for your healing!
Love this song Tom, and love you✌🏽
Incredible, Tom. Thanks for being the vehicle for this. Much love to you and visions for your healing. 💚
Simply stunning. Thank you.
Beautiful, dear brother Tom. Thank you.
Stay on the healing path.
This song will live forever in my heart. Rest in peace Tom Prasada-Rao.
As part of program commemorating MLK Day, your song was played on KPFA radio yesterday. This song exemplifies the miraculous power of art - to create a thing of beauty out of something so ugly. Thank you!
I am so touched. Shivers running up and down my spine. Brutal. Thank you for your love. I pray you recover completely and get back your full health, my friend.
all i can say is that i cried and that tears were not enough to express how deeply moved i was by you, the song, and all we are going through. I send my love. Paul
One of my favorite songwriters and musicians and singers in the world. What a beautiful soul. I miss you already, man.
Tom, this is the real thing - an anthem for George Floyd and for the world. Brilliantly written , performed and sung...I hope the world hears this song.
Thank you, Tom. This song is beautiful beyond words, but so deeply sad. I saved your chord chart and I’ll try to get Lisa and Dana to do it. I hope they have better luck than I. I’ve tried to sing along with your recording multiple times now and I just can’t get through it. Peace.
Absolutely haunting. Tom, thank you for writing this powerful song.
Brought on all the damn tears I've been holding back.
Tom, this is beautiful and heart-wrenching. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world.
How can a person listen to this and not cry?
RIP Tom. I was a fan of yours when you were starting out, having lived next to your sister Patty. I was privileged to hear you in concert a bunch of times in Takoma Park and I still play your CDs in my car. I didn't know you had written this great song. I was saddened to hear about your passing. Best to your family.
Beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Moving. I will be honored to cover this along with the updated lyrics and note about bridge chords. Thank you.
I love this song so much and am going to cover it. Beautiful ❤️❤️
Beautiful comment. Thank you Tom. Wow.
Beautiful song Tom! Heartfelt and honest words. God bless you Tom.
Awesomeness ‼️ Your form is good proper and perfect for you and it has touched my heart today‼️thx for this thoughtful expression!!
Beautiful song. Thank you.
Just brilliant, Tom. So clear and simple, and well--put.
Beautiful song, I hope millions hear it and give it some thought.
Such a deep ache and pain. Thank you for taking our pain and turning it into such beautifully painful art.
Dear Tom, what a beautiful beautiful song. It's rare that a song gives me chills and goosebumps, but this one did. In a world of savagery and insensitivity where a man can still put a knee on another's man neck, to make beauty out of it as you have done is an exultation of the best in us. Yes, Rest in Peace, George Floyd. And Tom, I wish you a speedy recovery to full Health.
Wow, what a powerful and beautiful song. Thank you for sharing it.
@Tom Prasada-Rao Thank you for this haunting song. I hope you'll rerecord it for us when you have completed your chemo and are feeling better-soon!
Beautiful. A heartbreaker. A beautiful man with a song of the heart.
Wonderfully done! Continued blessings to you and yours.
This is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. What a way to honor him. Your singing and your delivery of this song is really beautiful. Thank you.
I will share on my radio show in Bethlehem, PA.
Thank you Tom for sharing your heart so poignantly. I love you, your voice, your insight, and your connection to all that allows you to create such beautiful music.
Tom your lyrics are beautiful and poignant. Thank you for sharing your craft with the world..
A very powerful song. You nailed it! Thank you. 🙏❤️
This is so beautiful and powerful. Thank you for your amazing work!!
Thank you, Tom Prasada-Rao!
Thank you so much for writing this and sharing it. Beautiful, meaningful, touching and true 💜
Harriet Tubman for the 20$ bill NOW!!!
Brings tears to my eyes... yes, rest in peace.
Words fall short... just, Thank you. Thank you.
My Dearest Tom, I so miss you my Dear Friend! I think of you often and your own Battles and of course your Tribute song to the late George Floyd! I hope you have both now met in heaven and have been playing your song’s with he and the Love ❤️ of his Family by your side! I miss you my Brother you that I know and George whom I never met!! Love ❤️, Always, Neal Braverman, Boston, Ma. 😢
This is such a beautifully written and heartbreaking song. Thank you Tom.
Thank you so much! I heard Shelley King and Carolyn Wonderland sing this today, and I see in the comments that Mary Gauthier also sang it; and others, I'm sure, that I haven't heard yet. Your words are spreading, they're making a difference.
Peace to you sir! Wonderful lyrics.