Maralinga (Rainy Land) by Paul Kelly and the Messengers
Maralinga (Rainy Land) by Paul Kelly and the Messengers

Maralinga (Rainy Land)

Paul Kelly and the Messengers * Track #18 On Gossip

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Maralinga (Rainy Land) by Paul Kelly and the Messengers

Produced by
Alan Thorne & Paul Kelly
Writed by
Paul Kelly
About

The song Maralinga is about the injustice of the clandestine British atomic weapon tests conducted on the land of the Maralinga Tjarutja people between 1956 and 1963, which contaminated their ancestral land with radioactive fallout; and caused them maladies such as blindness, sores, and cancer.

Maralinga (Rainy Land) Lyrics

This is a rainy land
This is a rainy land
No thunder in our sky
No trees stretching high
But this is a rainy land

My name is Yami Lester
I hear I talk I touch but I am blind
My story comes from darkness
Listen to my story now unwind
This is a rainy land

First we heard two big bangs
We thought it was the great snake digging holes
Then we saw the big cloud
Then the big black mist began to roll
This is a rainy land

A strangeness on our skin
A soreness in our eyes like weeping fire
A pox upon our skin
A boulder on our backs all our lives
This is a rainy land

This is a rainy land
No thunder in our sky
No trees stretching high
But this is a rainy land

My name is Millipuddy
They captured me and roughly washed me down
Then my child stopped kicking
Then they took away my man to town
They said do you speak English?
He said
I know that Jesus loves me I know
Because the bible tells me so
I know that Jesus loves me I know
Because the bible tells me so

This is a rainy land
This is a rainy land
No thunder in our sky
No trees stretching high
But this is a rainy land

Maralinga (Rainy Land) Q&A

Who wrote Maralinga (Rainy Land)'s ?

Maralinga (Rainy Land) was written by Paul Kelly.

Who produced Maralinga (Rainy Land)'s ?

Maralinga (Rainy Land) was produced by Alan Thorne & Paul Kelly.

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