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Fred Small - Cranes Over Hiroshima Lyrics

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  • The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky
  • She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies
  • Some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different world
  • From the crying babe will grow a laughing girl.
  • 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 come ever more often and the dizziness always returns
  • And the word that she hears is leukemia, and it burns.
  • CHORUS:
  • Cranes over Hiroshima, white and red and gold
  • Flicker in the sunlight like a million vanished souls
  • I will fold these cranes of paper to a thousand one by one
  • And I'll fly away when I am done.
  • 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 forty-four
  • Till the morning her trembling fingers can't fold anymore.
  • CHORUS
  • 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:
  • FINAL CHORUS:
  • This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world

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