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ジョーン・バエズがシンディ・シーハンの反戦泊まり込みに参加
ヴェトナム戦争で、ギターを弾きつつ、死に向かう若い米兵を、売られた牛にたとえたフォークソング、ドナ、ドナを歌い、反戦運動の先頭に立ったジョーン・バエズが、ブッシュのクロウフォード牧場に向かい、そこで歌う。
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Donna Donna
> (Zeitlin/Secunda)
>
> On a wagon bound for market
> There's a calf with a mournful eye
> High above him there's a swallow
> Winging swiftly through the sky
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> CHORUS:
> All the winds are laughing
> They laugh with all their might
> Laugh & laugh the whole day through &
> Half the summer's night
> Donna Donna Donna Donna
> Donna Donna Donna Don
> Donna Donna Donna Donna
> Donna Donna Donna Don
>
> "Stop complaining," said the farmer
> "Who told you a calf to be?
> Why don't you have wings to fly with
> Like the swallow so proud & free?"
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> (chorus)
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> Calves are easily bound & slaughtered
> Never knowing the reason why
> But whoever treasures freedom
> Like the swallow has learned to fly?
>
> (chorus)
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Folk Singer And Peace Activist, Joan Baez, Joins Cindy Sheehan's War Protest In Crawford
http://www.arcticbeacon.citymaker.com/articles/article/1518131/32059.htm
Folk Singer And Peace Activist, Joan Baez, Joins Cindy Sheehan's War Protest In Crawford
Iraqi War protest takes on flavor of the 1960's when folk singers and activists united to bring the Vietnam War to an end.
August 21, 2005
By Greg Szymanski
Joan Baez has arrived in Crawford TX and will be singing Sunday night in support of the anti-war movement centered around Cindy Sheehan, the mother who lost her son in Iraq and set-up a protest vigil near President Bush’s ranch two weeks ago.
Sheehan’s movement, catching the eye of the nation and drawing heavy media coverage, is headed for a showdown next weekend, the final weekend of the Crawford protest vigil since Sheehan has vowed to remain camped-out until President Bush gives her a personal meeting or until the end of August.
And like war protests back in the Hippie 60’s, Baez arrived to lend her support to Sheehan, offering up her music as a symbol of peace, offering up a message that lessons learned about needless killing in Vietnam have once again been ignored in Iraq.
“I waited for the right time to come to Crawford, a time when I felt I could be of some use,” said Baez right after she arrived in Crawford.
Baez, famous for her anti-establishment brand of folk music, arrived Sunday afternoon with guitar in hand bringing back memories when singers like Bob Dylan led the opposition to the VietnamWar, a movement which eventually brought the government to its knees and the war to an end.
But what’s different today is that the youth of America has failed to strongly pick up the anti-war message, seemingly content to voice their opinions quietly on campus instead of rallying in the streets like the millions of students and others during the Vietnam period.
Although forgotten by many today, the opposition to the Vietnam War started slowly but quickly picked up steam when dissent on college campuses and rebellion among the youth explode, taking their war protest to the streets and forcing the government to address their concerns.
“Joan arrived and will be singing for a group that looks to be about 300 or 400,” said Hadi Jawad, spokesman for the Crawford Peace House, a group lending both moral and logistical support to the protestors.
Regarding the return of Sheehan who left several days ago to be by her mother’s side in California after suffering a stroke, Jawad said she is expected to return to Texas later in the week.
“We are remaining hopeful, but Cindy’s return is dependent on her mother’s condition. If she continues improving, Cindy said she’d be back this week,” said Jawad.
He added that in Cindy’s absence the mood in what has been called “Camp Casey” in honor of Sheehan’s 24-year-old fallen son killed in Iraq in 2004 five days after he arrived in Baghdad.
Further, Jawad said the protestors are camping out in two locations, one four miles from the President’s ranch and the other, called Camp Casey II, located about a mile from the ranch where the President is spending the month of August vacationing.
Sheehan made the trip to Crawford last two weeks ago, setting up camp and saying she wouldn’t leave until the President answered her questions personally after being angered by Bush’s recent public statements, saying the “fallen died for a noble cause.”
“I am not going to let him get away with lying to the American people any longer,” said Sheehan earlier in the week, adding she would remain until she is carried away or arrested.
Sheehan claims Bush lied to the American people about the “noble cause,” saying he really means the fallen soldiers died in order to get the President’s friends rich from war profits, a war Sheehan claims is based on lies and distortions about Iraq’s WMD threat.
To gain further support and lift public awareness, Sheehan organized nationwide candlelight vigils, started last Wednesday, and running nightly. Sheehan’s idea was just picking up steam when her mother fell ill, as reports surfaced that hundreds of local groups began holding nightly prayer vigils to bring an end to the Iraqi occupation.
“I encourage people to keep organizing the local nightly prayer vigils in Cindy’s absence and also to say an extra prayer for her mother,” said Jawad.
Throughout the protest, Bush has refused to meet with Sheehan, only referring to her by name once in a recent press conference on his ranch last Thursday while he took time from his month-long vacation to address reporters.
Last week in the press conference, Bush said: “Listen, now, I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan but I strongly disagree with her that we need to pull the troops out right now. She feels strongly about her position, and she has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America.”
For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com.
Greg Szymanski
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