* 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.

201. Even if you watch TV, you cannot be the victims themselves
But I want you not to forget this in your life
Don't finish it because it is just a tragedy
Please continue to think what the true help is.
(Sugii Yuichi Kobe Municipal Minato JHS from Japan 14 yrs. Nov. 9, 2004)

202. The lost people and things will never come back
But we have to treasure the people and the things now we have
People throw things from what they think unnecessary
But please don't throw your own true hearts.
(Sugii Yuichi Kobe Municipal Minato JHS from Japan 14 yrs. Nov. 9, 2004)

203. You cannot beat mother nature, can you?
So let's live together with this nature
Don't you think we have teased it too much
I hope we'll take hands in hands with our mother nature
(Sugii Yuichi Kobe Municipal Minato JHS from Japan 14 yrs. Nov. 9, 2004)

-For Tomorrow-

204. If this world is full of love
All the people will take hands in hands
And we will be all friends and we will be one
Let's get starting to make our dreams come true.
(Kure Municipal Showa-Nishi Elementary School 6th graders Nov.10, 2004)

205. MY DREAM FOR PEACE!
I,Gordon Ondiek,an ambassodor for Peace
I have a Dream,this Dream must be fulfilled!
Presidents,Kings and all authorities
Where is your stand on Peace?
I will raise up my heart-cry
To the toppest of my voice!!
Peace is my agenda,yes Peace is my heartfelt Dream!
(Gordon O.Nyabade Kenya Nov.19 2004)

206. GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE:
If from above the skies,Our prayers for Peace is heard
God of Love and Peace,please God have mercy to our world!
We need a united world of Peace
Our brothers and sisters as one
Blacks,brown and the white all racesLets live together in Peace!
(Nancy Ojwang -Kolunga Primary School Kenya Nov. 19 2004)

207. JOURNEY FOR PEACE:

If in this life on earth,We drive towards great Peace
Beginnng must be rough,and tough and difficult
But we shall never loose heart
Yes,we shall never faint
Untill Our Wish is accomplished
Negai for Peace in the world
(Gordon O.Nyabade Kenya Nov.19 2004)

208. We have communicated 1000 times, my friends
For peace and solidarity all over the world
Let's continue to talk more and spread NEGAI
And we'll make a difference for the future.
(Suwako Nagata Japan Nov. 22 2004)

209. If we can blow the wind as we wish
The wind will blow away war, destruction and the arrogant
I will never escape from this hopeful struggle
I will always continue to sing peace songs as ever
(Translated from Korean, Kim Wonjoong Korean professional singer Nov. 25 2004)
[Original Korean version is here]

210. CUOC DOI NAY TUYET BOM ROI KHONG CON
MA DANH DE YEU THUONG CAC DAN TOC
MOI MUON PHIEN CUNG SE LIA XA
MOT NGAY MAI TUONG LAI TUOI SANG MOI NGUOI MO UOC
CO ANH NANG VOI ANH TRANG NHIEM MAU
CHIEU LAP LANH SANG MAI TU DO
CO TIENG HAT AM NO KHUC CA VANG TUYET VOI
CHO THE GIAN LUON HOA BINH
(In Vietnamese, Bich Hong, Vietnamese professional singer Nov. 25, 2004)

210. IN THIS WORLD THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO MORE BOMBS
INSTEAD, IT WILL BE OUR LOVE FOR ALL THE PEOPLES
ALL THE SORROWS AND ANXIETY WILL DISAPPEAR
TOMORROW WILL BE OUR BRILLIANT FUTURE, WHICH IS EVERYBODY'S DREAM
FILLED WITH THE WONDERFUL SUN-LIGHT AND MOON-LIGHT
WHICH SHINE FOREVER WITH OUR FREEDOM
HOW WONDERFUL ARE OUR SONGS RESOUNDING WITH HAPPINESS!
FOR THE EVER-LASTING PEACE ON OUR EARTH!
(Translated from Vietnamese by Mr. Dieu N Q, Bich Hong, Vietnamese professional singer Nov. 25, 2004)
[Original Vietnamese version is here]

211. If the history we can give to the next generation
is not the one full of fighting but the one of love and peace,
this world will be full of gentleness
and full of smiles of everybody on the earth.
(Kitami Hakuyo Senior High Students in Hokkaido Dec. 15, 2004)

POEM ON TSUNAMI
212. Oh Tsunami..oh Tsunami!
You have shaken the foundations of earth in the great waters of Asia.
You have made us all tremble at the scene of your devastations!
We are speechless, tongue-tide, in tears, sorrow and anxiety!!
(Gordon Ondiek Nyabade Kenya Jan.19, 2005)

213. Negai brothers and sisters, let us use our hands to hold others hands!
Let us go down on our knees in prayers for the victims of Tsunami!
Let us bring bread to the hungry and cover them with blankets of love and concern!!
Let us open our homes and hearts to the hurting victims.
(Gordon Ondiek Nyabade Kenya Jan.19, 2005)

214. If you and all the people from the world,
can think much more about other peolple on the earth
there might not be any wars nor any violence
I'd like to believe in the gentleness of you all
(Kodama Tooru from Operetta Group Tomoshibi in Tokyo Jan. 25, 2005)

215. Now what we can do is
to join hands with world friends
Folding paper cranes one by one from our hearts
We hope we can make peace from our actions
And we will send kindness and smiles to you
(6th graders in Kodera Municipal Korominami Elementary School in Hyogo Prefecture Feb. 10, 2005)

216. "Never send our students to the battlefield again!"
Our union has kept this slogan and it is shining NOW.
Save the Japanese Constitution and the Fundamental Law of Education
Please don't change Japan to the war-loving country.
(Zenkyo Kobe City Teachers' Union Feb. 23, 2005)

217. If we have peace in this world
there will not be suffering, fighting and starvation
We can play together happily and we can study together without any fear
And we can make our lives very lively.
(Higaki Ayaka, Minato JHS 14 yrs Mar. 7, 2005)

218. If we can make the world withouot war, prejudice nor discrimination
We would be very happy
I want to see such a world by myself
I want to show such a world to my children
(Hisamatsu Emi, Minato JHS 14 yrs Mar. 7, 2005)

219. Do you ever know Nuclear Free Kobe Formula?
In 1975 all the city members agreed this bill.
No warships can enter without the certificate
that will show nuclear free
and Kobe has kept peace.
(Nagata Suwako, Kobe, Japan Mar. 10, 2005)

220. On that day, the earth trembled and tsunami struck
Houses were flowed away and children burst into tears
But love was sent from all over the world
We hope all the children can smile again!
(Yamagami Shigenori, Hiroshima City, Japan Mar.13, 2005)