"Songs for Beginners" is Graham Nash's first solo album, released in May 1971, and one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and the single "Chicago" made it to #35 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Chicago / We Can Change the World

Graham Nash -- lead vocals, acoustic guitar, organ on "We Can Change the World", piano, tambourine
Johny Barbata -- [bad word]  tambourine on "We Can Change the World"
Rita Coolidge -- background vocals
Larry Cox -- whiskers
Chris Ethridge -- bass
Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews, Clydie King, Dorothy Morrison -- background vocals

Lyrics

So your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you [bad word] to chicago just to sing
In a land that's known as freedom how can such a thing be fair

Won't you [bad word] to chicago for the help that we can bring
We can change the world rearrange the world
It's dying - to get better

Politicians sit yourselves down, there's nothing for you here
Won't you [bad word] to chicago for a ride
Don't ask jack to help you `cause he'll turn the other ear
Won't you [bad word] to chicago or else join the other side

We can change the world rearrange the world
It's dying - if you believe in justice
Dying - and if you believe in freedom
Dying - let a man live his own life
Dying [bad word] and regulations, who needs them open up the door

Somehow people must be free I hope the [bad word] soon
Won't you [bad word] to chicago show your face
From the bottom of the ocean to the mountains of the moon
Won't you [bad word] to chicago no one else can take your place

We can change the world rearrange the world
It's dying - if you believe in justice
Dying - and if you believe in freedom
Dying - let a man live his own life
Dying [bad word] and regulations, who needs them open up the door