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Small Fred

Cranes Over Hiroshima Lyrics - Small Fred

The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky 

She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies 

Some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different world 

From the crying babe will grow a laughing girl. 

Ten summers fade to autumn, ten winters' snows have passed 

She's a child of dreams and dances, she's a racer strong and fast 

But the headaches come ever more often and the dizziness always returns 

And the word that she hears is leukemia, and it burns. 

CHORUS: 

Cranes over Hiroshima, white and red and gold 

Flicker in the sunlight like a million vanished souls 

I will fold these cranes of paper to a thousand one by one 

And I'll fly away when I am done. 

Her ancestors knew the legend--if you make a thousand cranes 

From squares of colored paper, it will take the pain away 

With loving hands she folds them, six hundred forty-four 

Till the morning her trembling fingers can't fold anymore. 

CHORUS 

Her friends did not forget her--crane after crane they made 

Until they reached a thousand and laid them upon her grave 

People from everywhere gathered, together a prayer they said 

And they wrote the words in granite so none can forget: 

FINAL CHORUS: 

This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world. 

Writer:

Copyright: A Pine Barrens Music, B, Frederick E. Small D