I was seven year old the first time I heard this song. We had just moved across the country and I had come to realize the world was a bigger place than I could have ever imagined. It inspired me to travel both within the U.S., the Caribbean, throughout a good deal of Western Europe and Northern Africa and as far east as Turkey. I discovered early on that regardless of their circumstances, the color of their skin, their religious convictions or where they live that underneath the trappings what people need and want are all the same. I still have some mileage left to go, but it's been a good ride thanks to this song.