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. |
961. If all the people in the world
Could realize how nonsense all the wars are!
Sadness would vanish from people's hearts
And peace songs would echo on the earth
(Ohtsuki Shinobu Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
962. If there were no wars
Everyone would hold happiness in his hand
No one would hurt nor grieve each other
Everyone would live in happiness
(Kuribayashi Haruka Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
963. If there were God
Please make this world peaceful
Please build a bridge called peace
Over the sky above this earth
(Itoh Marino Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
964. If we had had no atomic bombs
We would no have had stupid wars
If all of us wished a world peace
Innocent people would survive without fear
(Fukuzawa Tomoki Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
965. If we had not had any nukes
More people could have survived
They would have lived happily
Without losing freedom and peace
(Ichikawa Makoto Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
966. If everyone wishes for peace
Not the victory of wars
we can see beautiful eyes and pure smiles
of all the children on the earth
(Inoguchi Minako Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
967. If we could pass our wishes for peace
Instead of wars, to teh forever future
We would forget fighting
And we would spend days with smiles
(Itoh Mika Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
968. If we had people-loving hearts
Instead of fighting spirits
We would not change someone's destiny
But we would spend our own days toward tomorrow
(Ikeda Hirari Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
969. If we could get back our own time
We would not escaped from then
We coulod not have separated from my beloved ones
But we would have lived happily
(Komori Azusa Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
970. If we had got a peaceful light
Instead of radioactive ray
Many people would not have suffered from pains
But they could have lived with smiles
(Nakamura Naoya Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
971. If the thing given by others
Were not fame or weapons
People would live in peace
(Fijisawa Kunpei Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
972. If the thing which shines in the sky
Were not bombs but ratherthe light of hope
We would not lose anybody
But we would spend days happily
(Kitahara Yosuke Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
973. If we had no war in this world
How many peopla could live peacefully!
And how happily they could live
(Shibamiya Takuro Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
974. If we could live one more time
We would live a happily life with my family and friends
We would play and play
Not to regret
(Shiori Uchibori Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano AUg 1 2007)
975. If there were no war on the earth
People would have not suffered and felt sad
The earth would not become peaceful
Until all thepeople of the whole world could smile
(Mizaki Kurihara Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
976. There would not be such stupid wars
if people knew importance of life
The world would be surrounded by happy smiles and peace
We will continue praying for peace till such a day comes
(Ogawa Shina Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
977. If the war dissapeared from this world
Many people could live happily
because everybody could live with smiles
All people will pray for it.
(Minoru Nakatsubo Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
978. If there is no war in this world
Many people are saved and
a suffering person will dissapear
(Kei Kojima Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1 2007)
979. If the thing which spread in this blue sky
Were not bombing clouds, but white and big clouds
The bird would fly in the sky and we would look up at the sky
and would continue singing dreams
(Sayaka Shiba Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug 1, 2007)
980. If the shings which was lost at that time
Were not people but all weapons
War continuing in a foreign country would disappear
And this world would become peaceful.
(Shouichi Tachiki Minowa JHS 3-4 Nagano Aug1 2007)