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David Rovics
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Ten thousand children played in the playground
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Swingin' on swings, didn't hear the sound
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Of the single plane that flew overhead
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The third shift workers were just goin' to bed
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There was a flash of light and a rumbling noise
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Gone in a instant, parents, girls and boys
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Ten thousand mothers were boiling rice
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A thousand prisoners of war were rolling their dice
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Hoping they'd survive this terrible storm
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When each young man in his uniform
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Vanished in the air in the blink of an eye
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One moment they lived, in the next they all died
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Hiroshima, Hiroshima
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Ten thousand chickens were sittin' on eggs
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Beaks in their wings, restin' their legs
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Ten thousand farmers were lookin' at their fields
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Planning the harvest, guessin' at yields,
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Dreaming of life after the war,
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An the next second they weren't living no more
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Hiroshima, Hiroshima
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Ten thousand lovers made love to each other,
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Each one of them thinkin' there might not be another
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Living so long with death everywhere
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Much more than one person alone can bear
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But there wasn't time for a final kiss
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Who could've known it would end like this?
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Hiroshima, Hiroshima
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A hundred thousand people were living their lives
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Grandparents, children, fathers and wives
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Now they're just shadows on the street
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In such a quick burst of incredible heat
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Now listen to them talk about doing it again
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From whence came the souls of these terrible men?
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Hiroshima, Hiroshima
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Hiroshima, Hiroshima
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