Our Wish
("NEGAI"
in Japanese)
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Song by Yasuko Yamaoka Guitar by Yoshio Shine Original lyricist (verse 1 to 4):Ohzu Junior High School Students in Hiroshima Lyric Arrangement:Takashi Yamanoki Composer:Ryuji Takada Translation:Suwako Nagata, Yvonne Burke, Yasuko Yamaoka |
* The verses after 5th are English versions or original language versions, collected from NEGAI Connection members and their students from the world. If it is a translation , sometimes it may not harmonize with the melody. |
1361. If people held bunch of flowers
Instead of weapons and knives
People would have hearts full of tenderness
And the world would be filled with love
(Tanaka MaiYosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1362. You could hear the voices of all people
From all the world but they are disappeard soon
If more people would hear and understand them
They would be able to get out of their pain
(Hasegawa YuriYosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1363. If our wish could be realized
We never need war but peace
If it is realized
People would never have to be killed
(Gorilla4 Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1364. If war were eliminated from this world
All the people in the world
Would be able to smile
I'm sure peace will visit us
(K Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1365. If people sang songs
People's voices would spread
Instead of the sound of guns
This world would be peaceful
(Omori Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1366. If the world were to cease fires immediately
And peace would visit tomorrow
We would be able to build the world
Where no one would be hurt and all be friendly
(Purple Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1367. If we could see in the future
People would be walking toward the future
Instead of evacuating from war
I'm sure people's faces would shine with smile
(Kazumi Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1368. If we had not had this song
A lot of smmiles would have been gone
And only me would have left
(Ichida Umi Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1369. If all the people had compassion
No one would shed blood
If all the people could join hands
We would share joy
(Chise Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1370. If the people in the world
Were full of gentle hearts
Their faces would full of smiles
And they all would feel happiness
(Misaki Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1371. If on that morning, you had not had sadness
But you had had cheerfulness as the sun
You would not have had to look for hope
Which had been taken away from all the people
(Ogura Ayaka Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1372. There is a child who doesn't know war
There is a child who doesn't know peace
They look at the same shooting stars
One from the window but one with a gun
Both of them should be born to be happy and to know peace
(Ogura Ayaka Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1373. If we love one another
From the bottom of our hearts
We would be pure and never be guilty
And we would keep something beautiful
(President Oba Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1374. If you had been invited by a small happiness
Instead of a piece of a mobilization order
The people who were killed, would not have buried
In a cold tomb but they would have been covered with love
(Chu Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1375. If one wish could be realized Not guns in your hands but your beloved one's hand
To someone who lost hands, smiles of the beloved
One again once again
(Chu Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1376. On that day something in the sky
Were not an atomic bomb but a shooting star
People would have wished for peace
And they would have smiles
(Konishi Mai Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1377. If all the people in the world
Tried to realize World Peace
War would be eliminated
And peaceful days would come
(Komaki Miho Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1378. If fighter jets in the sky, were a lot of white doves
We would never see missiles drop
We would never hear people scream
Peaceful light would visit us
(San no san Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1379. If you held people's hands
Instead of guns and weapons
You would understand others
And you would get courage from them
(Fushiki Shiori Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)
1380. If you held your kind friends' hands
Instead of weapons and ammunition
All the people in the world would join hands
And we would make a world without war
(Jin Yosano Municipal Kaya JHS 3rd grader April 8 2008)