There's a hole in your fence
dear Major, dear Major
There's a hole in your fence
dear Major, a hole.
Then fix it dear Private, dear Private, dear Private.
Then fix it dear Private, that hole in the fence.
But the women are cutting it dear Major, dear Major.
But the women are cutting it, they are cutting the fence.
Then arrest them dear Private, dear Private, dear Private.
Then arrest them dear Private, for breaking defence.
But that doesn't stop them dear Major, dear Major.
The women keep cutting, keep cutting that fence.
Then shoot them dear Private, dear Private, dear Private.
Then shoot them dear Private, for breaking the peace.
But the women are singing, dear Major, dear Major.
But the women are singing, dear Major, these women for peace.
dear Major, dear Major
There's a hole in your fence
dear Major, a hole.
Then fix it dear Private, dear Private, dear Private.
Then fix it dear Private, that hole in the fence.
But the women are cutting it dear Major, dear Major.
But the women are cutting it, they are cutting the fence.
Then arrest them dear Private, dear Private, dear Private.
Then arrest them dear Private, for breaking defence.
But that doesn't stop them dear Major, dear Major.
The women keep cutting, keep cutting that fence.
Then shoot them dear Private, dear Private, dear Private.
Then shoot them dear Private, for breaking the peace.
But the women are singing, dear Major, dear Major.
But the women are singing, dear Major, these women for peace.
inviata da CCG/AWS Staff - 19/12/2007 - 13:04
Lingua: Italiano
GREENHAM IN ITALIANO
A cura dello staff delle CCG/AWS
A cura dello staff delle CCG/AWS
CI HA UN BUCO NELLA RETE
Ci ha un buco nella rete,
caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
ci ha un buco nella rete
caro Sindaco, un buco.
E allora raccomodalo, caro Soldato Semplice, caro Soldato,
e allora raccomodalo, caro Soldato, quel buco nella rete.
Ma le donne la stanno tagliando, caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
ma le donne la stanno tagliando, stanno tagliando la rete.
E allora arrestale, caro Soldato Semplice, caro Soldato,
e allora arrestale, caro Soldato, per aver violato le difese.
Ma questo non le fermerà, caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
le donne continuano a tagliare, continuano a tagliare la rete.
E allora sparagli addosso, caro Soldato Semplice, caro Soldato,
e allora sparagli addosso, perché stanno violando la pace.
Ma le donne stanno cantando, caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
ma le donne stanno cantando, caro Sindaco, queste donne per la pace.
Ci ha un buco nella rete,
caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
ci ha un buco nella rete
caro Sindaco, un buco.
E allora raccomodalo, caro Soldato Semplice, caro Soldato,
e allora raccomodalo, caro Soldato, quel buco nella rete.
Ma le donne la stanno tagliando, caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
ma le donne la stanno tagliando, stanno tagliando la rete.
E allora arrestale, caro Soldato Semplice, caro Soldato,
e allora arrestale, caro Soldato, per aver violato le difese.
Ma questo non le fermerà, caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
le donne continuano a tagliare, continuano a tagliare la rete.
E allora sparagli addosso, caro Soldato Semplice, caro Soldato,
e allora sparagli addosso, perché stanno violando la pace.
Ma le donne stanno cantando, caro Sindaco, caro Sindaco,
ma le donne stanno cantando, caro Sindaco, queste donne per la pace.
inviata da CCG/AWS Staff - 21/12/2007 - 15:25
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On 1 April 1983, tens of thousands of protestors formed a 14 mile human chain from Greenham to the Aldermaston nuclear power station and the ordnance factory at Burghfield.
On 4 April 1984, the women were evicted from the Common by Newbury District Council. However by nightfall the women all returned to reform the camp.
The last missiles left the camp in 1991 but the camp remained in place until 2000 after protestors won the right to house a memorial on the site.
en.wikipedia
Il Campo della Pace delle Donne di Greenham Common era un Campo della Pace formato in segno di protesta contro le armi nucleari in corso di installazione presso la base aerea della RAF di Greenham Common, nel Berkshire, in Inghilterra. Il Campo ebbe inizio nel settembre del 1981 dopo che un gruppo gallese, chiamato "Women for Life on Earth", era arrivato a Greenham per protestare contro la decisione del governo britannico di consentire l'installazione dei missili Cruise.
Il 1° aprile 1983, decine di migliaia di manifestanti formarono una catena umana lunga quasi 20 chilometri da Greenham fino alla centrale nucleare di Aldermaston ed alla fabbrica di pezzi di artiglieria di Burghfield.
Il 4 aprile 1984 il campo fu fatto sgomberare dal Consiglio Comunale di Newbury; ma, la sera stessa, tornarono tutte quante per riformarlo.
Gli ultimi missili lasciarono la base nel 1991, ma il Campo delle Donne per la Pace rimase sul luogo fino al 2000, quando le sue promotrici e partecipanti ottennero il diritto di erigervi un monumento commemorativo.
This song book is a reprint ... of a reprint, beginning its life with us in Manchester over a year ago! Remember the little yellow flip-over? We began with a copy of one of the many personal collections kept by Greenham women around the world. Other songs were added. It was completed in time for the last December 12th.
Later, came the comments: why not an index? no music? no guitar chords?
Prompted by a need to challenge the invitation and sponsorship of a MAN to represent women's experiences in a musical narration - 'Gates of Greenham' at Manchester Free Trade Hall, we began re-working Greenham's song book: The intention was to present at least a part-record through song and graphics, a women's experience of Greenham, BY WOMEN, to sell before and after the performance. Unlike Tony Biggin, we had NO sponsorship then, the 100 copies soon ran-out. There were requests for more. And reminders ... weren't there still some songs missing ?! So ... here's the next edition!!
There's been lots of women involved one way, or another: women writing songs (and adapting well known 'men's songs); women inspiring songs, listening, joining in, collecting songs, singing for music- writing, writing-out words, collecting graphics from old leaflets and newsletters, pasting-up and collating ...funding other women to pay a Manchester Women's press. All round, lots and lots of us!! And none of us named: We had many discussion about this. Finally, we felt, because it would be impossible to name all women, many unknown to us, and the fact that the book is not a money-making venture, no 'credits' list should be added. All we can say is ...haven't we all done well!
SONG BOOKS AVAILABLE BY POST
from Greenham Song Book,
c/o 411 Manchester Road, Leigh, Lancs.
or 42 St. Hilda's Road, Old Trafford, Manchester 16.
Please send enough to cover cost price £1.50 and postage. Donations welcome.
Because sponsorship has been received, all monies received will go to Greenham.
[No information about editors.
Picture source: The Greenham factor, December 1982.]
[Some of the songs in the songbook from Greenham Common had appeared in the Anti-nuclear songbook published by Mushroom Bookshop and Peace News in Nottingham and in the A Greenham Song Patchwork.
Others Greenham songs were published in the undated Chant down Greenham songbook produced by the Greenham Umbrella. The rare Chant down Greenham has some songs not included in the Greenham Common songbook: Stand Up, The Universal Soldier, Masters of War, Rebecca's Song, Hard Days Night, After The Bombs Have Fallen, Power To The People, Down By The Riverside and Picket For Peace.]
Greenham songs are growing and changing all the time. This collection is got together by Hackney Greenham Drummers affinity group as a contribution to 'Sound Around the Base' December 11 1983[.]
Please make copies and give them to others.
(Printed by Calverts North Star Press)
The Danish Peace Academy
INDICE DELLE CANZONI
3. The Chief Of Police
4. There's A Hole In Your Fence
5. Trident Trident
6. You Can't Kill The Spirit
7. Out Of The Darkness
8. Lilly Of The Arc Lights
9. The Vine And The Fig Tree
10. Here At Greenham On A Spree [Layabout Song]
11. A Little Help From My Friends
12. That's What Gets Us By
13. Bella Ciao
14. We Are The Daughters Of Amazon
15. We Work For The Russians
16. Building Bridges
17. Under the Full Moonlight We Dance [Full Moonlight Dance]
18. Lies
19. I Am A Witness To Your War Crimes
20. Carry Greenham Home
21. Swift As The Wind My Sisters Are
22. Da Do Ron Ron
23. With Our Lovely Feathers We Shall Fly
24. Which Side Are You On?
25. Reclaim The Night
26. The River Is Flowing
27. Four Minutes to Midnight
28. You Say Our Earth is Out of Bounds (A Song For Molesworth)
29. Our Digger's Song
30. Digger's Song (The World Turned Upside Down)
31. Chant Down Greenham
32. At the Peace Camp
33. We are Gentle Angry Women (Singing For Our Lives)
34. We Like the Flowers
35. Mothers, Daughters, Wives
36. Sarah's Song
37. Bridget Evans
38. Elsie's Song (Chat and Nuke You Talks)
39. Holloway Song
40. Lonely Holloway Prison
41. Oh Holloway
42. We are the Witches
43. Silo Song
44. Silo Action Song
45. Cosmie Green with Envy Song
46. Greenham Lullaby
47. Womanly Times
48. Smash the System
49. Stand Up
50. Peace Camp Newbury, Berkshire
51. Rainbow Ditty
52. Take the Toys away from the Boys
53. We don't torture
54. Who are the Witches?
55. Yesterday's Children
55. Linking Arms Circling Round
56. Leave us Alone
57. Muncher Song
58. Strangest Dream
59. Just a Little While to Stay Here
60. We are the Flow and we are the Ebb
61. Nightmare Song (Nagasaki Day '82)
62. Tomorrow
63. The Waters of Babylon
64. Your Children are not yours
65. Breaths
66. Bye Bye Blackbird
67. Now I'm a happy Dyke
68. Leah's Song
69. Non-Monogamy Song
70. Feet on Solid Ground
71. Don't Think Twice
72. It Ain't Me Judge
73. She Changes Everything
74. Women for Peace
75. I have dreamed
76. Silver's Dragon Song
77. On This Mountain
78. The Earth is our Mother
79. Bent Ladies
80. Revolution Talk
81. We'll Come Back
82. For the Police
83. There's A Sentry
84. Festival of Light - words but no music
85. Bailiffs Song - words but no music
86. Grenham Common (Oklahoma) - words but no music
About the song:
No information about author.
Also published in the Chant Down Greenham songbook.
Music: There's a Hole in the Bucket. Unidentified Pennsylvania Singer. Korson, George (ed.) / Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, Univ. of Penna., Bk (1949), p252 (Dear Henry [Liewer Heindrich])
Peggy Seeger wrote the song Woman on Wheeels about fence cutting Jennifer Jones, suffering from MS. Woman on Wheeels is not inluded in this songbook and is recorded on Seeger's CD Period Pieces.
Nuke For Free
This week, [Friday 5th September 1997] four Greenham women were found not guilty of criminal damage by Reading Crown Court. Jean Hutchinson, Mary Wilson, Yolanda Kreik and Katrina Howse were accused of fence cutting - causing an estimated [sterling]37,000 of damage, at AWE Aldermaston. The Crown Prosecution Service retreated from the case in disarray after realising that the evidence of nuclear crime perpetrated by AWE Aldermaston was overwhelming. A Greenham peace campaigner told SchNEWS, "This trial would have revealed that the Trident weapons do not serve the present deterrent policy of this country, and that both the policy and the weapons are illegal under national and international law. This case is part of an on-going challenge of non-violent direct action against nuclear weapons in Britain by the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp- which celebrates it's sixteenth birthday on 5th September." Happy Birthday to YOU!
On 5th Jan, three more women will find themselves in court on a charge of fence cutting, this time at AWE Burghfield. These court cases form part of the Greenham Women's Millennium initiative to outlaw all nuclear weapons by the year 2000.
SchNEWS 133, Friday 5th September 1997. Justice? - Brighton's Direct Action collective.
http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news133.htm