Testo Kiri's Piano - James Keelaghan
Testo della canzone Kiri's Piano (James Keelaghan), tratta dall'album FestivaLink presents An Artists' Tribute to Roz and Howard Larman's Folkscene at Folk Alliance, Memphis, TN 2/18/10
Of all of Kiri Ito's joys
The thing she loved the best
Was to play her prized piano
When the sun had gone to rest
I used to hear the notes drift down
Along the silent water
As Kiri played the notes and scales
For her dear sons and daughters
Now me, I played piano
But not as good as Kiri
She went in for that long-haired stuff
But my, she played it pretty
The old piano had a tone
Could set my heart to aching
It always sounded sweetest though
When it was Kiri playing
In December when the Seventh Fleet
Was turned to smoke and ashes
The order came to confiscate
Their fishing boats and caches
And Kiri's husband forced to go
And work in labor camps
And Kiri left alone to fend
And hold the fort as best she can
But the music did not drift as often
From up the cove at Kiri's house
And when it did it sounded haunted
Played with worry, played with doubt
For Kiri knew that soon she too
Would be compelled to leave
And the old upright would stay behind
And Kiri, she would grieve
I loaded Kiri on the bus
With stoic internees
The crime that they were guilty of
Was that they were not like me
And if I was ashamed
I didn't know it at the time
They were flotsam on the wave of war
They were no friends of mine
And I went up to Kiri's house
To tag all their belongings
And set them out for auctioneers
Who'd claim them in the morning
One piece that I thought I'd keep
And hold back for myself
Was that haunting ivory upright
That Kiri played so well
Kiri had not left it there
For me to take as plunder
She'd rolled it down onto the dock
And on into the harbor
The old upright in strangers' hands
Was a thought she couldn't bear
So she consigned it to the sea
To settle the affair
So many years have come and gone
Since Kiri's relocation
I look back now upon that time
With shame and resignation
For Kiri knew what I did not
That if we must be free
Then sometimes we must sacrifice
To gain our dignity
Yes, Kiri knew what I did not
That if we must be free
Then sometimes we must sacrifice
To gain our dignity
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Writer(s): Keelaghan
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