Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie
Billy Bragg wrote and recorded a song about the murder of Rachel Corrie to the tune of Bob Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol". It's good and sad and well-written. Here's the MP3. This is my favorite part:
From The Guardian via Empire Burlesque.
Rachel Corrie had 23 years
She was born in the town of Olympia, Washington
A skinny, messy, list-making chain-smoker
Who volunteered to protect the Palestinian people
Who had become non-persons in the eyes of the media
So that people were suffering and no one was seeing
Or hearing or talking or caring or acting
And the horrible math of the awful equation
That brought Rachel Corrie into this confrontation
Is that the spilt blood of a single American
Is worth more than the blood of a hundred Palestinians
From The Guardian via Empire Burlesque.
