Carrying on from the theme of looking at how music shares messages is a classic NZ song from The Herbs. It is called French Letter and it is a song that was written about nuclear testing.
The French wanted to test their Nuclear bombs around NZ in a place called Morurua in the 1970s and 80s. In 1985 a greenpeace boat called the 'Rainbow Warrior' that went to protest against the French nuclear testing was bombed in Auckland Harbour killing 1 person who was aboard, all the others managed to escape. On 28 January 1996 then-President Jacques Chirac said the French military would not conduct any more nuclear tests - Wikipedia.
This song is shared the dislike that many NZers had towards Nuclear testing happening around them. The lyrics are underneath.
The French wanted to test their Nuclear bombs around NZ in a place called Morurua in the 1970s and 80s. In 1985 a greenpeace boat called the 'Rainbow Warrior' that went to protest against the French nuclear testing was bombed in Auckland Harbour killing 1 person who was aboard, all the others managed to escape. On 28 January 1996 then-President Jacques Chirac said the French military would not conduct any more nuclear tests - Wikipedia.
This song is shared the dislike that many NZers had towards Nuclear testing happening around them. The lyrics are underneath.
Lyrics:
Lyrics from Muzic.Net.Nz
Can you see yourself, under a coconut tree
Wanting for nothing, or maybe a cooler breeze
Where all things romantic, in the south pacific
And the only peace is the spit on a feast, your feast yeah
Do you know what makes the ocean glow
Do you know what makes the ocean glow
When unwelcome guests, are making nuclear tests
are making nuclear tests, are making nuclear tests,
are making nuclear tests
Oh yes, no nukes hah ahhhhhhh
Nuclear mis energy, nuclear, nuclear, free yo yo yo yo yo
Is there nothing at all who can appease your greed,
Could you please leave the air we breath
Why is it something we’ve done
You all seem to forget
About nuclear fallout and the long term effects
Is there anything gained when you hide the plane
Anything gained when you hide the plane
Let me be more specific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific
Oh yes, no nukes hah ahhhhhhh
Nuclear mis energy, nuclear, nuclear,
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
Nuclear free yeah
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3 comments:
The French acted disgracefully. It was an act of terrorism and the culprits ended up on an island paradise for a while, one of them later to become a political figure.
I saw the Rainbow warrior at dock and have photos of it somewhere from when I was a teenager.
The fact that the superpowers could poison our part of the world and then attack us for protesting was stunning at the time.
The outrage was balanced by the sense of pride experienced when viewing David Lange's anti-nuclear speech at the Oxford debate.
Join us on our blog to discuss/debate the merits of considering nuclear power as an alternative today. I have input from experts on both sides of the story if you follow the threads to a blog discussion held three years ago in my class of the time.
Fight the POwer!
;-)
This song has a very strong message to the French about going into other peoples space.
This song has a message to Freanch about not going into other people's countrys. I'm sure that the FRENCH will NOT come back into NEW ZEALAND...
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