Gernika Live - Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club

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Gernika performed live by Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club

http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/12/31/gernika-2

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[andyrobertsmusic]

Gernika Lyrics by Andy Roberts:

It was nineteen thirty seven, the revolution already betrayed

But in Catalan and Basque lands,they struggled on, in their seperate ways

Now Franco was in with the Luftwaffe, Von Richthoven had an idea

If we send in enough of our new heavy aircraft,

we can create, mayhem and fear ( blizkrieg, shock and awe )

[andyrobertsmusic]

in Gernika, Gernika untested strategy

to bring down a nation in just a few ho-urs

lets just try it and see ( just watch us and see)

The first act of modern warfare, where death and destruction

come raining down from the air

With god and his church backing both sides, they like their bread buttered that way

it was decided to saturate Gernica, and they chose to do it on market day

more bangs per buck, thats the market way

[andyrobertsmusic]

Gernika Gernika firestorm technology,

how much would you need to destroy the whole town

lets just try it and see

So you say the General was a monster, and the little Austrian mad

but how to explain Sarejevo, and now, what about Bagdhad?

Weve bombs with onboard computers, to liberate the looters

Gernika, Gernika, New angle new technology (new precedent, new strategy)

What happens after regime change, lets just suck it and see

[andyrobertsmusic]

I just happened to be in Gernika It wasnt far out of my way

I heard the air raid warning siren, I didnt know it was Gernika day

I sang John Lennons Imagine, that optimist atheist hymn

When I started the Internationale every woman and man, stood up and joined in

In English and Spanish and Basque barely legal,

Outside the parliament you had to be there,

On Gernika day, in Gernika square

in Gernika, Gernika, assembled under the tree

making plans for Gernika, lets just try it and see

[andyrobertsmusic]

Well the day after the fascists bombed Gernika the marketplace covered with meat

the architects of war looked down and they saw

a successful experiment

with broken hearts and body parts, strewn all over the streets

So they continued with Warsaw and Coventry, Then Dresden was razed to the ground

In just one night with a blanket of fire, by the RAF bomber command

not the last place, to hear that air raid warning sound

[andyrobertsmusic]

Then the Germans blitzed East London and the Americans bombed Japan

gone nuclear, to increase the fear, Civilian targets They proved that they can,

ever since Gernika, Gernika, new precedent, new strategy,

what happens after regime change Just watch them and see.

Gernika, Gernika, Gathered under the tree,

to remind the world about Gernika, in April 2003

With survivors decendents in Gernika, the last fight let us face,

For the internationale unites the human race.

[FRLN90]

congratulations from Gernika!!thats an amazing song