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Rachel Corrie by McGrath of Harlow
(soundfile of song available here)
McGrath's Comments: March 17th 2003 -- Here's a song about Rachel Corrie, aged 23, killed on 16th March 2003 when she was crushed by an Israeli amtu bulldozer as she stood in its path as it was advancing to demolish a Palestinian house in Gaza. Here is a link to a thread about it on the Mudcat, which contains links to the story, and to moving emails whuch she had written to her family on the West Coast of America only a few days before.
Well I know her name was Rachel, and they say that she was shy,
And they say she's got a family to mourn,
And they live out on the West Coast, that's half a world away,
Only twenty three - she'd hardly yet been born,
But she was standing in the way of the war
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the path of the monster once again.
Trying to find some way to stop the killing and the pain
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the way of the hatred rolling down,
Standing up with nothing in her hands,
All the way from Washington to the Gaza strip she came,
And she died there with that nothing in her hands.
She was standing in the way of the war
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the path of the monster once again.
Trying to find some way to stop the killing and the pain
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the way as the crushing tracks came on,
"We shall not be moved, just like a tree"
All that she could do was put her body on the line
And hope that she could make the driver see.
She was standing in the way of the war
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the path of the monster once again.
Trying to find some way to stop the killing and the pain
Standing in the way of the war.