Baez Joan Song Of Bangladesh (4:49) (joan Baez) Lyrics

Song Of Bangladesh (4:49) (joan Baez) Lyrics

The story of Bangladesh

 Is an ancient one again made fresh

 By blind men who carry out commands

 Which flow out of the laws upon which nations stand

 Which say to sacrifice a people for a land

 

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 Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Bangladesh

 When the sun sinks in the west

 Die a million people of the Bangladesh

 

 Once again we stand aside

 And watch the families crucified

 See a teenage mothers vacant eyes

 As she watches her feeble baby try

 To fight the monsoon rains

 And the cholera flies.

 And the students at the university

 Asleep at night quite peacefully

 The soldiers came and shot them in their beds

 And terror took the dorm, awakening shrieks of dread

 And the silent frozen forms and pillows drenched in red.

 

 Chorus

 

 Did you read about the army officer's plea

 For donors' blood - it was given willingly

 By boys who took the needle in their veins

 And from their bodies every drop of blood was drained

 No time to comprehend and there was little pain.

 And so the story of Bangladesh

 Is an ancient one again made fresh

 By all who carry out commands

 Which flow out of the laws upon which nations stand

 Which say to sacrifice a people for a land.

 

 Chorus