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During the US war against the people of North Korea in the 1950's, one in five people in North Korea were killed, and every structure was destroyed by bombs dropped by the US in the biggest bombing campaign in history up to that time.
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"If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics." Andy Kershaw, BBC
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Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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Peak #196
Peak in subgenre #24
Author
David Rovics
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David Rovics 2004 All Rights Reserved
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May 23, 2005
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During the US war against the people of North Korea in the 1950's, one in five people in North Korea were killed, and every structure was destroyed by bombs dropped by the US in the biggest bombing campaign in history up to that time.
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Korea David Rovics Fifty years ago today we stood in rubble The sun rose each morning through the smoke Your planes flew above us looking for something left to bomb Our factories, our schools lied ravaged and broke And now you wonder why there is this anger As we remember all too clearly a time that we once knew When every home and every dam and so many, many people Were flattened to the ground by the things you had to do (Chorus) When Korea was just another name For bombs falling from the sky And home was just another word For this place where people die Fifty years ago today you killed my mother I've lived my whole life and I never knew The love she might have given, the joy she might have felt To sit in the garden where her grandchildren grew And now you wonder why we might feel attacked You wonder at the stand our leaders take But it was you, I remember, who gave us this lesson Of the sound of a city when it breaks (Chorus) Fifty years ago today you killed my father He was shooting at your planes when he died Just one of how many million dead soldiers Fighting and falling side by side And now you wonder at what you call an evil axis You throw words that someday will explode We remember the last time you said these things When crater was another word for road (Chorus) Created August, 2003 Copyright David Rovics 2003, all rights reserved
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