{"id":30647,"date":"2024-10-20T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T16:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=30647"},"modified":"2024-10-20T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T16:55:50","slug":"a-thousand-doves-mille-colombes-ms-mireille-mathieus-47-year-old-song-is-sadly-still-timely-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/a-thousand-doves-mille-colombes-ms-mireille-mathieus-47-year-old-song-is-sadly-still-timely-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"“A thousand Doves” [Mille Colombes]: Ms. Mireille Mathieu’s 47-year-old song is sadly still timely in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bambi woke up this morning remembering a beautiful French song from her own childhood in Beirut during civil war times. Below you can find its English lyrics (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mw4ta467<\/a>), which are followed by a great performance of Kids United<\/em> as well as Ms. Mireille Mathieu’s original performance in both French and German. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When will the doves of peace fly over Lebanon, instead of the scary drones and shelling? When will fear, displacement, destruction, and bloodshed end? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When will the same doves fly in the neighbouring skies so all the children of the Middle East live in peace? Yes, ALL of them, from Lebanon to: Palestine, Israel, Syria, Irak, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and every country of the region as well as in the entire world, including the places of other armed conflicts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENOUGH of wars. Enough of absurdity, ideologies, and power struggles. All the Innocent people deserve to live in dignity, peace, and love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Winter is there on the village roofs
The sky is white and I hear
Children choirs
In the old church, on an organ
With the colours of time

Refrain
May peace be on the world
For hundred thousand years to come
Give us a thousand doves
To all the rising suns
Give us a thousand doves
And a million swallows
Let some day all men become
children again<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow is you, and no more war tomorrow
Tomorrow everywhere, canons
Will sleep under flowers
A beautiful world it’s a world
Where you live fearless

Refrain
May peace be on the world
For hundred thousand years to come
Give us a thousand doves
To all the rising suns
Give us a thousand doves
And a million swallows
Let some day all men become
children again

Refrain
May peace be on the world
For hundred thousand years to come
Give us a thousand doves
To all the rising suns
Give us a thousand doves
And a million swallows
Let some day all men become
children again<\/em>“.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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