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by arnold the reposter
Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 3:13 AM
Please record this song, or give it to Dylan so he'll record it. Uses 'chimes of freedom' chord progression
I heard a young woman sing this song at a dinky writer’s night (open mike) in Nashville, and when she finished you coulda heard a feather drop. Nobody said a word, or clapped, or nothing. Later I got the lyrics from her and she said someone had given them to her who had gotten them off the internet. Said it was a public domain song, using the same chord progression as Bob Dylan’s song ‘Chimes of Freedom Flashing’, with more or less the same melody, however that was up to the singer. So, hearing about so many Palestinians killed in the last couple of weeks I decided to repost the lyrics around. Hope some of you singer-songwriters start singing it like she did. It gave me goose-bumps to hear it all out in public.
Song For Palestine Use Chord Progression from ‘Chimes of Freedom’ by Bob Dylan
In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn Standing with our stones of freedom waiting As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air We sang our freedom song and started throwing Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
In our city’s raging violence, undauntedly we threw Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching F-16’s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks We throw at writers justifying murder in their books, At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
Five of us together, none more than twelve years old We stood below the circling ‘copters cracking Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets’ sound We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine Is ringing from the tongues of angry children Denied a child’s necessities, we claim our right to be We claim our rights with every stone we’re throwing Throwing at Americans who pay the Butcher’s bill, Whose diplomats are Generals, they’re only trained to kill, We throw at fat politicians who’ve never missed a meal We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our fields To eliminate all trace of our existence But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land Our freedom grows with every stone we’re throwing Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying. None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror We’re throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations’ Hall, At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing We’re throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you! We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.
Occupation takes our innocence, we’re sacrificed for greed We’re sacrificed for God and Gasoline They shoot us ‘cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty Freedom is now all we have to live for We’re throwing for the future, for other children to be free While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity We’re throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so silently We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
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