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mdlbearI meant to post this yesterday, but I got distracted by another project. So here it is, a little late. I couldn't let the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki pass without invoking Fred Small's "Cranes Over Hiroshima". This version is mostly a montage of pictures of Sadako Sasaki.
You can find the lyrics several different places on the web; this one is what the Wikipedia article links to.
ARTIST: Fred Small TITLE: Cranes Over Hiroshima The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies Some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different world From the crying babe will grow a laughing girl / E - F#m - / G#m - A B / E - AE F#m / B - E - / Ten summers fade to autumn, ten winters' snows have passed She's a child of dreams and dances, she's a racer strong and fast But the headaches come ever more often and the dizziness always returns And the word that she hears is leukemia and it burns {Refrain} Cranes over Hiroshima, white and red and gold Flicker in the sunlight like a million vanished souls I will fold these cranes of paper to a thousand one by one And I'll fly away when I'm done / E - C#m F#m / B - A E / - - AE F#m / C#m B E - / Her ancestors knew the legend - if you make a thousand cranes From squares of colored paper, it will take the pain away With loving hands she folds them, six hundred forty-four Till the morning her stumbling fingers can't fold anymore {Refrain} Her friends did not forget her - crane after crane they made Until they reached a thousand and laid them upon her grave People from everywhere gathered, together a prayer they said And they wrote the words in granite so none can forget This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world (3x) This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world Sing a song of peace, dream a dream of peace in the world This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world This is our cry / E - B - A - / : / E - /
Under the following cut you'll find most of the links I collected last week. I remember reading Hiroshima by John Hersey years ago; the link is to the original version published in the New Yorker. Do I need to add a content warning? Consider yourself warned. It's well worth reading if you can handle it, though.
@ The Enola Gay and the secret history behind the Hiroshima mission - Wash. Post Hiroshima anniversary: 75 years on, nuclear testing killed untold thousands @ Writer John Hersey exposed U.S. lies about Hiroshima’s human suffering in New Yorker - The Washington Post I read this, in book form, over 50 years ago Hiroshima (book) - Wikipedia @ Hiroshima | By John Hersey August 24, 1946 | The New Yorker harrowing. Hiroshima: Hersey, John: Amazon.com: Books @ Cranes Over Hiroshima - YouTube % tears listening to that @ Amethyst Rose: Memorial Postings - 1995/8/5 - But not yet quite forgotten... (written 25 years ago)
