For the victims of Chernobyl

there was no way they could have known that morning

that they awoke upon a fateful day

the killer wind came down without a warning

and no one had the chance to get away

the firemen were brave they fought with honor

but the blaze was more than it appeared to be

and one by one they fell beside their comrades

the victims of a foe they could not see

chorus:

Mama where are you - Papa where did you go

and where are all the children who used to play here

only heaven knows

what they saw defied all explanation

someone said the trees were glowing red

they say the light came from the radiation

but maybe it’s the spirits of the dead

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gone the homes the gardens and the playgrounds

gone the souls who made their livings here

they say this place will always be a ghost town

it will be for at least six hundred years

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