Hi Joe,

Thanks for sharing Peggy's words. I suppose had I grown up with the Internet I might have thought to have searched for her own words about it.

I hadn't realized she had written it to sing in court but in fact, when Susan Crane and I were on trial for our Hiroshima action at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Labs, in 1993, I sang this at my sentencing statement as there was nothing I could think to say which would express my feelings but Peggy had captured my thoughts and feelings most perfectly.

Apparently it hit the judge hard as by the 4th verse, You know where your pleasures lie, Will you have time to use them...., he was literally foaming at the mouth as he tore through the pages of the sentencing guidelines book. His statement to me, in response, was,
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions... 2 months!"

Of course, had my intention been to avoid further jailtime at all costs, surely I would not have sung that song, but the courtroom was the next part of our action to expose the reality of a government wedded to nuclear weaponry. 67 years later, here we are now with a nuclear disaster of such magnitude most people cannot even imagine the truth of what we face. Here in CA where so many have been affected since March of 2011, when all three of my children and I lost a lot of hair, my then-9 year old losing a patch of hair 1 inch wide by 3-1/2 inches long, today I heard two women in a store talking about nodes on their thyroids. Will we learn?

Max