Niilo, as a thanks to you for all you\u2019ve helped us stand for, I\u2019d like to send along these lyrics of Tommy Sands, the great Northern Irish singer and peacemaker. If anyone deserves to have them dedicated to them it\u2019s you.
\nI hope they bring some comfort to those of you who are spending these days with Niilo as well.<\/p>\n
YOUR DAUGHTERS AND YOUR SONS.<\/p>\n
They wouldn\u2019t hear your music
\nAnd they pulled your paintings down
\nThey wouldn\u2019t read your writing
\nAnd they banned you from the town
\nBut they couldn\u2019t stop you dreaming
\nAnd the victory you have won
\nFor you sowed the seeds of freedom
\nIn your daughters and your sons<\/p>\n
In your daughters and your sons
\nIn your daughters and your sons
\nYou sowed the seeds of freedom
\nIn your daughters and your sons<\/p>\n
Well your weary smile it proudly hides
\nThe chain marks on your hands
\nAs you bravely strive to realise
\nThe rights of every man
\nAnd though your body\u2019s bent and low
\nA victory you have won
\nFor you sowed the seeds of justice
\nIn your daughters and your sons<\/p>\n
Well, I don\u2019t know your religion
\nBut one day I heard you pray
\nFor a world where everyone can work
\nAnd children can play
\nAnd though you never got your share
\nOf the fruits that you have won
\nYou sowed the seeds of equality
\nIn your daughters and your sons<\/p>\n
Well, they taunted you in Belfast
\nAnd they tortured you in Spain
\nAnd in that Warsaw ghetto
\nWhere they tied you up in chains
\nIn Vietnam and in Chili
\nWhere they came with tanks and guns
\nIt\u2019s there you sowed the seeds of peace
\nIn your daughters and your sons<\/p>\n
And now your music\u2019s playing
\nAnd the writings on the wall
\nAnd all the dreams you painted
\nCan be seen by one and all
\nAnd now you\u2019ve got them thinking
\nAnd the future\u2019s just begun
\nFor you sowed the seeds of freedom
\nIn your daughters and your sons<\/p>\n
–Ken Burch, 2008\/05\/13 at 1:28 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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