이라크 어린이들을 위한 자선앨범 ‘Hope’중에서
지난 4월 21일 폴 매카트니, 데이비드 보위, 트래비스 등 세계적 가수 18명이 이라크 어린이들을 돕기 위해 자선 앨범을 발표했다. ‘Hope’라는 타이틀이 붙은 이 앨범의 판매 수익은 모두 War Child 라는 자선단체에 전달될 예정이다. 이 앨범 중에서, 영국의 반전가수 돈 맥클레인이 71년에 발표한 곡을 조지 마이클이 다시 부른 ‘The Grave’를 소개한다.
*War Child와 이 단체에 참여하고 있는 음악인들에 대해서는 다음 편 ‘반전평화문화기행’에서 소개할 예정입니다.
THE GRAVE
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in the bright summer colours
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone
He’s gone
When the wars of our nation did beckon
A man barely twenty did answer the calling
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation
He’s gone
But eternity knows him and it knows what we’ve done
And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown muddy clay where the earth had been dry
And deep in the trench he waited for hours
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die
But the silence of night was shattered by fire
As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air
One after another his comrades were slaughtered
A morgue of marines alone standing there
He crouched ever lower, ever lower, in fear
They can’t let me die, they can’t let me die here
I’ll cover myself with the mud and the earth
I’ll cover myself I know I’m not brave
The earth, the earth, the earth is my grave
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colours
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone
He’s gone
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