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. |
881. If someone is out there in the world,peace loving and concerned
Join me to make appeal..yes appeal for this dearestand peaceful name of Machinto
to appear in Japan's peace books.Yes even books of peace from all walks of life
Where is Machinto Peace Foundation..or Machinto Peace University
(Gordon Nyabade-Kenya April 23 2007)
882. If only my Peace appeal to the world must be realized.
Yes I will fast and pray to bring this appeal to great and small leaders of the world..you leaders
from war-torne Africa hear me..even the so called Super-power leaders
Please hear me.."Where is your agenda for PEACE?"
(Gordon Nyabade-Kenya April 23 2007)
883. If our African orphans are clothed with love and not war and abduction
If our African innocent children are not cleared from the surface of this world by AIDS
If our poor and non educated children are providedwith books and notebooks..
We shall overcome the hash situations of ignorance and disease
(Gordon Nyabade-Kenya April 23 2007)
884. If in our hands we could get
Water and bread instead of weapons
We could share happiness with others
And this world would be very peaceful
(N.Y Naruto Dai2 JHS 2nd grader Tokushima April 25 2007)
885. If we all lived in heaven, our memories of floods and deaths,
droughts and poverty will be rubbed from our mind!
We Kenyan young girls and boys alike
Our great desire for life is to live a poverty-free,
crime-free and peaceful world
(By Pupils,Ochok Kadongo Primary School-Kenya April 25 2007)
886. If we were presidents, prime ministers and parliaments
We would make a law of Peace,Love and Unity
Yes peace, love and unity will make us become one
family and live together as one!
(By Lower Class, Kochogo Primary School-Kenya April 25 2007)
887. If we never heard news, of war and death and pains
If our media and press make news of education and the like
Where could hurting come from,deaths and the like
War is not victory Peace is victory
(John and Mary-Kenyan students April 25 2007)
888. If in this world, men and women are filled with Peace
Schools will be built and not prisons and courts
Tears of joy and not of killings
Development will reach our poor villages
And we shall drink clean water instead of contaminated water
(Akinyi,Awuor,Anyango-Kenyan students April 25 2007)
889. Don't tell me about Bombings and Suicides
Don't tell me Mass Killings, droughts and Floods
Please tell me Peace,yes please tell me more of Love
We shall dwell in joyful life
Of Peace Hard Word and Smiles
Only if we all live a life of Peace in this world
(Gordon Nyabade-Kenya April 25 2007)
890. If we communicate with love
And the words are filled with gentleness and compassion
We can accept others without competition
And we can stop hating each other
(Heiwa de Nait Executive Committee April 30 2007)
891.
VOICE OF CHILDREN ECHOING IN THE WILDERNESS
CHORUS:
Hear the voice of your children
Echoing in the wilderness
Our eyes waste away because of grief
Our souls are greatly troubled
(FIDEL ONWUEKWE (Founder) WORLD YOUTH PEACE ORGANIZATION (WYPO) Nigeria April 30 2007).
892. What have we done, what have we done
That we deserve these sufferings?
We want PEACE; we are down on our knees
If we hold our hands together, our dreams for peace will come through.
(FIDEL ONWUEKWE (Founder) WORLD YOUTH PEACE ORGANIZATION (WYPO) Nigeria April 30 2007).
893. What can be done, what can be done
To take away these tears from our eyes?
We need your CARE; we are down on our knees.
If we hold our hands together, our dreams for peace will come through.
(FIDEL ONWUEKWE (Founder) WORLD YOUTH PEACE ORGANIZATION (WYPO) Nigeria April 30 2007).
894. If our youth didn't follow the street fashions
If our youth thought about the social issues deeply
If our youth learned discussing for solution with each other
Then they could direct the governors to the true way.
(Maryam Behnoodi Iran April 30 2007)
895 {Chorus}
Peace is nice Oh my God
Peace is nice Oh oh oh
Peace is nice Oh my peoples
I want peace I want peace
(Ibrahim Kamara 17yrs. Sierra Leone April 30 2007)
896. I don't love war I don't love war
I love peace since I was small I was struggling
So war is not good for any country
War is not good for children we want peace
(Ibrahim Kamara 17yrs. Sierra Leone April 30 2007)
897 .Killing and suffering are the course of war
I want to live in a peaceful environment
Peace is nice oh my people
I want peace I want peace
(Ibrahim Kamara 17yrs. Sierra Leone April 30 2007)
898. I want peace, Oh my God
I want peace, Oh oh oh
I want peace, Oh my people
Just let me be peace
(Ibrahim Kamara 17yrs. Sierra Leone April 30 2007)
899. We the African children are still asking
Why aren't we smiling, but always crying
We want peace oh my people
We want peace We want peace
(Ibrahim Kamara 17yrs. Sierra Leone April 30 2007)
900. I always ask my self why poverty
I always ask my self why suffering
Why not be in peace but always fighting, killing
Let us live in peace
(Ibrahim Kamara 17yrs. Sierra Leone April 30 2007)