Lyr Add: Gaza - David Rovics

Subject: Lyr Add: Gaza - David Rovics
From: GUEST,Rick Pollay
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 09:07 PM

Written in 2014, with 2023 adaptation by Ben Grosscup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2pTVLvs3oo

Two point two million people surrounded on all sides
Refugees since ’48. Since ‘67 occupied
The only reason they’re not starving is because of the UN
Most have never left there stuck in the lion’s den

The most crowded place on Earth and there they’ll stay
They can’t visit cousins a half hour’s drive away
Drones overhead …constantly.
Who will die tomorrow? A daily mystery
. . . In Gaza

The settlers moved out. The fighter jets moved in
In Gaza there’s just no way that you can win
You can’t take out a ‘copter with an antiquated gun
You’re just a sitting target - sitting in the sun

Waiting for your death to come raining from the sky
Watching as the wells steadily run dry
You can hear a sonic boom and see a flashing light
Every hour of the day. Every hour of the night
. . . In Gaza

There is no shelter. Nowhere you can hide
Life is nothing like it is on the other side
There’s nowhere to escape from the killing and the stress
The pilots bomb the hospitals, where people convalesce

Yet still some people wonder. They insist on asking why
Anyone could give such a ghastly reply
They wonder how anyone could respond to it all
By killing people just over the wall
. . . Around Gaza
The wall around Gaza

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Gaza - David Rovics
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 11:07 PM

REPLY

HATIKVA (The Hope)

Verse - Nephtali Herz Imber 1878
Music by Samuel Cohen

In the DT -

http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2531

National song of the nation of Israel.

As long as deep within the heart
The soul of Judea is turbulent and strong,
As long as to the East, forwardly,
The eye toward Zion constantly is turned,
Then our hope it is not dead,
The ancient longing will be fulfilled,
To return to the land -- the land of our fathers,
The city of Jerusalem, where David encamped.

From Fireside Book of Folk Songs (mudcat)

TUNE: good midi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatikvah


Sincerely,
Gargoyle
Marching to Zion



WIKI
Some people compare the first line of the refrain, "Our hope is not yet lost" ("??? ?? ???? ???????"), to the opening of the Polish national anthem, "Poland Is Not Yet Lost" ("Jeszcze Polska nie zginela") or the Ukrainian national anthem, "Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished" ("?? ?? ?????? ???????; Šce ne vmerla Ukrajina"). This line may also be a Biblical allusion to Ezekiel's "Vision of the Dried Bones" (Ezekiel 37: God's promise to redeem them and lead them back to the Land of Israel.