Let me tell you a story, I’ll be quick as I can
Terrible news from the Holy Land
Pictures of Children etched in my mind
Buried in the rubble on the firing line
The Jews and The Arabs lived one and the same
A thousand years then the Zionists came
Came like a river, came like a flood
Al Nakba was written on the wall in blood
Talk about settlers from far away
Talk about dollars from the USA
Talk about blast bombs, the bullets and the lead
The shadow of the Jackboot hanging over your head
What can you do when they demolish your home
Olive Trees buried and gone
Do you dare to resist?
Stand on the road with a rock in your fist
In Palestine
In Palestine
They talk about peace like it’s a moral obligation
There’ll never be peace under occupation
Talk about Talks, to the beat of the drum
70 years Nakba rolls on
We need to talk about the friends that we endorse
The rockets and the tanks and the warships they disperse
No wonder it seems to be
An undemocratic version of Democracy
In Palestine
In Palestine
Let me tell you a story, I’ll be quick as I can
There’s terrible news from the Holy Land
I first met Jim Page at the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear event in 1978. He came from Seattle to support our efforts. Since then, I have covered a number of his songs. I sang “Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette” with Moving Hearts in 1981 and “Clock Winds Down” on the 2022 album “Flying into Mystery”.
When Jim heard that we were doing a fund raiser for Médecins Sans Frontiers in Gaza he sent this song to me and allowed me to make minor adjustments. That concert came about when I first heard of the acronym WCNSF (Wounded Child No Surviving Family) The same day 3 MSF doctors died in an Israeli Air Attack on a hospital in Gaza. You can hear Jim Page’s original version on Soundcloud