15 Oct 23 - 09:07 PM (#4191100) Subject: Lyr Add: Gaza - David Rovics From: GUEST,Rick Pollay 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 |
15 Oct 23 - 11:07 PM (#4191101) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Gaza - David Rovics From: GUEST,.gargoyle 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. |