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From: [email protected] (Scott A. Lehman)
CRANES OVER HIROSHIMA - Fred Small
(c) 1983 Pine Barrens Music
the Ebaby blinks her eyes as the F#msun falls from the sky
she G#mfeels the stings of a thousand fires as the Asus2city around her Bsus4dies
                                   E           AAs2/     E  F#m  
some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different world
from the Bsus4crying babe will grow a laughing Egirl
     Ecranes over hiroshima - C#mwhite and red and F#mgold
     Bsus4flicker in the sunlight like a Asus2million vanished Esouls
                                           E        Asus2As2/E  
     i will fold these cranes of paper to a thousand - one by one
     and i'll C#mfly Bsus4away when i'm Edone
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:
     Ethis is our cry (no more hiroshima)
     this is our Bsus4prayer (no more nagasaki)
     peace in the Asus2world (peace in the world)

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Cranes Over Hiroshima

by Fred Small

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F#m

G#m

Asus2

Bsus4

C#m

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From: [email protected] (Scott A. Lehman)

CRANES OVER HIROSHIMA - Fred Small

E F#m

the baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky

G#m Asus2 Bsus4

she feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies

E A E F#m

As2/

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 E

As2/

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:

this is our cry (no more hiroshima)

Bsus4

this is our prayer (no more nagasaki)

Asus2

peace in the world (peace in the world)

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