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If It Were Up To Me appears on Cheryl's Rounder Records CD entitled Sylvia Hotel.

"If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns" Cheryl Wheeler released a single this past January called "If It Were Up to Me," a song she recorded several years ago that is particularly relevant today. In response to the never ending media analysis of the reasons for violence in our young people, Cheryl's song lists every imaginable reason why kids are resorting to violence and ends with the line "If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns." Cheryl has been a long-standing and vocal advocate of keeping guns out of the hands of kids. In January Rounder Records launched a campaign donating $5 to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (CPHV) every time the song was played on adult-album alternative radio. Rounder has decided to reinstate the gun control gift campaign, with the proceeds again going to the CPHV. Rounder has also made the song available on its Web site courtesy of LiquidAudio at http://www.rounder.com. Lyrics to "If It Were Up to Me" by Cheryl Wheeler Maybe it's the movies, maybe it's the books Maybe it's the bullets, maybe it's the real crooks Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the parents Maybe it's the colors everybody's wearin' Maybe it's the president, maybe it's the last one Maybe it's the one before that, what he done Maybe it's the high schools, maybe it's the teachers Maybe it's the tattooed children in the bleachers Maybe it's the Bible, maybe it's the lack Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the crack Maybe it's the hairdos, maybe it's the TV Maybe it's the cigarettes, maybe it's the family Maybe it's the fast food, maybe it's the news Maybe it's divorce, maybe it's abuse Maybe it's the lawyers, maybe it's the prisons Maybe it's the Senators, maybe it's the system Maybe it's the fathers, maybe it's the sons Maybe it's the sisters, maybe it's the moms Maybe it's the radio, maybe it's road rage Maybe El Nino, or UV rays Maybe it's the army, maybe it's the liquor Maybe it's the papers, maybe the militia Maybe it's the athletes, maybe it's the ads Maybe it's the sports fans, maybe it's a fad Maybe it's the magazines, maybe it's the Internet Maybe it's the lottery, maybe it's the immigrants Maybe it's taxes, big business Maybe it's the KKK and the skinheads Maybe it's the communists, maybe it's the Catholics Maybe it's the hippies, maybe it's the addicts Maybe it's the art, maybe it's the sex Maybe it's the homeless, maybe it's the banks Maybe it's the clearcut, maybe it's the ozone Maybe it's the chemicals, maybe it's the car phone Maybe it's the fertilizer, maybe it's the nose rings Maybe it's the end, but I know one thing. If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns. Internet Services provided by Innovio Office