Our thanks to Robbie Casey for sending us this moving song written by Grace Eliot.

Jabiluka Blues

by Grace Eliot

Jabiluka Blues (Leave it in the Ground)  
		
Hiroshima
Maralinga
Moruroa
Where's it going?
Step right up and take your chances!
See the Himalayas flat as Kansas!
Leave it in the ground.
Leave it in the ground.

There's Chernobyl
Three Mile Island
India 
and Pakistan 
Bundle up for the long eclipse.
They spin the wheel and we're the chips.
Leave it in the ground. 
Leave it in the ground.

Australian Version...			
At Kakadu they're mining sorrow
Digging like there's no tomorrow 

International Version
The Fat Boys with their Broken Arrows
Fighting like there's no tomorrow

Put your head between your thighs			 
And kiss your yas yas yas goodbye.
Leave it in the ground. 
Leave it in the ground.

The breeze blows by.
The kids get cancer. 
We ask "Why?". 
And get no answer
To the caste that sells the future-
GIT YOUR MITS OFF JABILUKA !
Leave it in the ground. 
Leave it in the ground.

Copyright 1998 Grace Eliot

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