Once again I suggest that arguing about the rights and wrongs of the war is more appropriately carried on in one of the BS threads. Talking specifically about the song and what it's trying to say, is another matter.

Sometimes tragedies are manmade, sometimes they are natural disaster, sometimes they are both - but the suffering caused is common to all those. And that is what this song is about. Suffering in one small country, and how people in other countries can respond to it in a human and compassionate way. It's not about all the reasons this particular tragedy hapened, nor other terrible thinngs that happen in other countries. Why should it be? - there is always room for other songs that can be about that.

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"very spontaneous, jacqui.c." Roberto for some idiosyncratic reason seems to find something to sneer at in jacqui saying that she intends to sing this song when the occasion arises (because that is what her words implied). I think most people in singarounds do have a few songs freshened up and ready to sing, rather than a blank slate in their mind, and an open mouth out of which anything might come.

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Anyway I'm off for two weeks, so I can't carry on this discussion now. If it does carry on I hope it avoids spiralling into bigotry and hate.