This is sad song about young Japanese girl Sadako Sasaki. She was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 near her home in Hiroshima.At the time of the explosion Sadako was at home, about one mile from Ground Zero. By November 1954, chicken pox had developed on her neck and behind her ears. Then on January 1955, purple spots had started to form on her legs. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with leukemia, which her mother referred to as an atom bomb disease.[1] She was hospitalized on February 21, 1955 and given, at the most, a year to live. On August 3, 1955, Sadakos best friend Chizuko Hamamoto came to the hospital to visit and cut a golden piece of paper into a square and folded it into a paper crane. At first Sadako didnt understand why Chizuko was doing this but then Chizuko retold the story about the paper cranes. Inspired by the crane, she started folding them herself, spurred on by the Japanese saying that one who folded 1,000 cranes was granted a wish... The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies Some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different world From the crying babe will grow a laughing girl Ten summers fade to autumn, ten winters snows have passed Shes a child of dreams and dances, shes a racer strong and fast But the headaches come ever more often and the dizziness always returns And the word that she hears is leukemia and it burns {Refrain} Cranes over Hiroshima, white and red and gold Flicker in the sunlight like a million vanished souls I will fold these cranes of paper to a thousand one by one And Ill fly away when Im done Her ancestors knew the legend - if you make a thousand cranes From squares of colored paper, it will take the pain away With loving hands she folds them, six hundred forty-four Till the morning her stumbling fingers cant fold anymore {Refrain} Her friends did not forget her - crane after crane they made Until they reached a thousand and laid them upon her grave People from everywhere gathered, together a prayer they said And they wrote the words in granite so none can forget This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world (3x) This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world Sing a song of peace, dream a dream of peace in the world This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world This is our cry https://youtube/watch?v=AjcErdte4W0
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