#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 17:29:13 EDT From: slehman@MIT.EDU (Scott A. Lehman) Subject: Cranes Over Hiroshima - Fred Small (Last message is wrong I think) CRANES OVER HIROSHIMA - Fred Small from the album "Heart of the Appaloosa" (c) 1983 Pine Barrens Music E F#m the baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky Abm Asus2 Bsus4 she feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies E A As2/E F#m some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different world Bsus4 E from the crying babe will grow a laughing girl E C#m F#m cranes over hiroshima - white and red and gold Bsus4 Asus2 E flicker in the sunlight like a million vanished souls E Asus2 As2/E i will fold these cranes of paper to a thousand - one by one C#m Bsus4 E and i'll fly away when i'm done 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 grow ever more often and the dizziness always returns and the word that she hears is leukemia and it burns 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 fourty-four till the morning her trmbling fingers can't fold any more 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: E this is our cry (no more hiroshima) Bsus4 this is our prayer (no more nagasaki) Asus2 peace in the world (peace in the world)