Songs:1000 Candles, 1000 Cranes (12262)
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Lyrics
my grandmother had three sons
she dreamed about her children's children
but then came 1941
only one son would see the war end
joseph died marching in bataan
frank on the sands of iwo jima
the day the bomb destroyed Japan
she thanked God and Harry Truman
she blamed the godless Japanese
for having crushed her sweetest dreams
one thousand candles for my sons
every day i will remember
in illinois, far from her past
miss nakamura still remembers
she was six when she saw the flash
that turned the world to smoke and ashes
her mother taught her daughter well
run from the fire to the green river
and there she found a living hell
but not a mother or a father
though she survived with just a scrape
her family vanished into space
One thousand suns, a thousand cranes
every day i will remember.
(bridge) My grandmother had three sons.
She never dreamed she'd have a daughter.
But at the age of eighty-one,
she met a nurse named Nakamura.
and it was a question only meant
to make some talk and pass the hours
about her picture by the bed,
a photograph of two young soldiers.
hatred and anger stored for years
slowly melted into tears
one thousand candles, a thousand cranes
every day I will remember.
now i've a picture in my mind
of two women slowly walking
august 6, 1985
walking to church to light a candle.
and they once asked me to explain
why grown men play such foolish games
one thousand candles a thousand cranes
every day I will remember.
Listener comments about this song
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 | Ballad 180 items |
 | Folk 6,084 items |
 | Storytelling 160 items |
 | Acoustic Guitar 10,140 items |
 | Flute 366 items |
 | Vocal Duo 795 items |
 | Hopeful 99 items |
 | Thought Provoking 205 items |
 | Mellow 1,946 items |
 | Pretty 2,109 items |
 | Reflective 310 items |
 | Japanese 3 items |
 | Slow 1,457 items |
 | Hiroshima 2 items |
 | War 168 items |
 | World War II 5 items |
 | Ft Superfav 79 items |
 | Band 7,176 items |
 | Nuclear 3 items |
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Categories: Ballad | Folk | Storytelling | Acoustic guitar | Flute | Vocal duo | Hopeful | Thought provoking | Mellow | Pretty | Reflective | Japanese | Slow | Hiroshima | War | World war ii | Ft superfav | Band | Nuclear
