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from The Mirror Mar 12 2003 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12723149&method=full&siteid=50143 HEAR GEORGE MICHAEL'S PEACE SONG By Ros Wynne-Jones Today, George Michael appeals to Mirror readers to listen to The Grave, the song he has recorded in protest at Britain's march to war. As the build up to war intensifies, George wants as many people as possible to listen to the song - which tells the haunting story of a dead soldier - and think about the consequences of war in the Gulf. The protest song, by Don McLean, from his acclaimed American Pie album, is a lament for an American marine who died fighting for his country after seeing his colleagues slaughtered around him. George performed the song in a single take, hoping the words will speak for him. "I'm so proud to have covered this song," George said last night. "I first heard it in 1971 when I was eight years old and it made such an impact on me, even when I was so young, that I knew it was the song I had to sing now. "I want as many people as possible to watch it and think about what's happening in Iraq." George has been extremely outspoken about the prospect of war in Iraq. At the Brits he performed an anti-war version of his no1 single Faith with Ms Dynamite and he has appeared on a host of chatshows using his celebrity status to sound the alarm over war. The Grave is a emotionally affecting song that will make tough listening for anyone bent on war. It tells the story a young man in a trench fighting the "wars of our nation", containing the lyric: "The grave that they dug him had flowers / Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors / And the brown earth bleached white / At the edge of his gravestone/ He's gone." Finally it warns: "Eternity knows him and it knows what we've done." CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SONG FROM GEORGE'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.aegean.net/ SONG LYRICS The grave written by Don McLean The grave that they dug him had flowers Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors And the brown earth bleached white At the edge of his gravestone He's gone When the wars of our nation did beckon The 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 the guns and grenades Blasted sharp through the air One after another His comrades were slaughtered In the morgue of marines Alone, standing there He crouched ever lower Ever lower, with 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 colors And the brown earth bleached white At the edge of his gravestone He's gone _______________________ http://www.mirror.co.uk ===== LMNOP http://lmno4p.org "No War for Oil!" __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
