Vasili - David Rovics.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:07.537]The Beach Boys were playing on the radio
[00:11.612]The Beatles were singing “Love Me Do
[00:15.373]Lolita was playing in the cinemas
[00:18.952]It was October 1962
[00:23.367]Ken Kesey published One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
[00:27.520]John Glenn orbited the Earth
[00:31.230]Australia had just won the most gold medals
[00:34.939]At the Commonwealth Games in Perth
[00:39.040]The boomers were just getting into high school
[00:43.037]Dylan first sang “Blowin’ In the Wind
[00:47.530]The US Army had just started their war
[00:50.978]Against the Viet Minh
[00:54.792]On the day Vasili saved the world
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[01:07.331]“If I Had A Hammer” was in the Billboard charts《
[01:11.014]An Air Force jet crashed into the sea
[01:14.933]The first Black student had been admitted
[01:18.747]To Ole Miss University
[01:22.299]Hewlett-Packard sold a Personal Computer
[01:26.191]But it wouldn’t really take off for a while
[01:30.371]Jackie had just come back from a trip to India
[01:34.133]Plunging necklines were the latest summer style
[01:38.103]Algeria had just won their independence
[01:42.100]Korea was rebuilding from the war
[01:46.149]The Russian River had just flooded
[01:50.877]A couple of weeks before
[01:54.273]On the day Vasili saved the world
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[02:06.080]The CIA was running Operation Mongoose
[02:09.738]Killing Cubans in their factories and streets
[02:13.760]The US was giving up for an invasion
[02:17.365]Still smarting from the Bay of Pigs defeat
[02:21.597]The Soviets had sent missiles to Havana
[02:25.019]To protect themselves and their Cuban friends
[02:28.807]Then the US Navy blockaded Cuba’s harbors
[02:32.647]And there was no telling how this thing would end
[02:37.453]Khruschev got on TV to make it very clear
[02:41.267]Cuba is a sovereign state
[02:45.708]And if our ships are attacked
[02:49.418]We will retaliate
[02:53.284]On the day Vasili saved the world
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[03:05.744]Vice Admiral Vasili Arkhipov was standing at his post
[03:09.427]On a Soviet Navy submarine
[03:13.267]They were on patrol in international waters
[03:17.473]One actor in a terrifying scene
[03:21.470]They were out of radio contact, deep beneath the water
[03:25.336]When the sub began to shake and crack
[03:29.777]The Captain said “arm the nuclear torpedoes
[03:34.348]We’re under attack”
[03:37.483]The Americans were bombing them, but in order to respond
[03:41.375]Three officers had to say “go”
[03:46.443]Two were in agreement
[03:49.212]But for some reason the Vice Admiral said “no”
[03:56.004]On the day Vasili saved the world
[04:04.304]On the day Vasili saved the world