Name: The Village Where Nothing Happend
Channel: David Rovics
Description: "The Village Where Nothing Happend" is a song by David Rovics. Based on an article by Richard Lloyd Parry that originally appeared in the Independent (UK).

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Based on an article by Richard Lloyd Parry that originally appeared in the Independent (UK).

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David Rovics

"If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics." Andy Kershaw, BBC

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #24

Peak in subgenre #3

Author

David Rovics

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Uploaded

May 24, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.0 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Based on an article by Richard Lloyd Parry that originally appeared in the Independent (UK).

Lyrics

The Army commander spooke to the media
He said, "We are a nation of laws
"We do not target civilians
"And we only bomb with cause"
And he said as he looked into the camera
With a cold, bone-chilling stare
"As for the village of Kama Ado
"Nothing happened there"

In the village where nothing happened
Most people had risen from bed
Women were preparing to cook
And make sure every mouth would be fed
Just before the beginning of Ramadan
Water was set out to boil
Little fires were heating tin kettles
Upon the dry Afghan soil

In the village where nothing happened
Children played in the street
Men were bending in prayer
Some with no shoes on their feet
It was another day like so many
That had gone down before
And nobody told Kama Ado
Just what horrors lay in store

In the village where nothing happened
Nobody knew
That this place would be changed forever
By an American B-52
The bombs fell all around them
So many a deafening blast
And the people of Kama Ado
Learned that life can end so fast

In the village where nothing happened
The houses collapsed in the morn
Not one terrorist died there
But maybe some were born
In the village of Kama Ado
There are no underground caves
There's just rubble and dust and craters
And 115 new graves

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Created January, 2002
Copyright David Rovics 2002, all rights reserved