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Dear Haiti

from Dear Haiti by KimberLiana

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AYITI CHERIE translates "Dear Haiti"
GE ESPWA means "There's Hope"

lyrics

VERSE1
Another sunset - Please don't forget
Another sunset - Please don't forget

The earthquake
When the ground shake
And the grave take
Too many people too many

Let your tears fall for them all
Let your heart quake when a nation breaks
Let your voice be heard there's so much at stake
Different colors, different countries but we all the same

CHORUS
Ayiti Cherie Oh, Oh, Oh (X4)

VERSE2
Under blue tarps with broken hearts
The rain is yet to fall
Building, churches schools and homes
And people forced to leave it all
Scattered hillsides and valleys
Down city streets and alleys
Hungry tired and alone
Surviving far away from home
Memories of tragedy
Haunting their beds when they asleep
The sounds of screams and weeping
Mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, lovers
Buildings crumble to the ground
Many lives lost, some never found
Bodies piled in the street
So many others trapped beneath
The rubble everywhere you see
Fear in every face you meet
So come on people gather round
Ayiti needs to hear the sound
(hear the sound, hear the sound X2)
(Ge Espwa Ge Espwa)

Shaken not forsaken
Devastated but still strong
There is beauty in your broken
HO O O OPE, this is your song
Sing along, sing along

CHORUS [WITH CHOIR]
Ayiti Cherie Oh, Oh, Oh (X4)

CHOIR:
Ge Espwa (repeated during rap)

RAP (in Creole):

Ayiti Cheri
nou pop janmi bliye
sa ki te pase
anpil ti moun mouiri
anpil gran moun mouri,
anpil kay kaze,
anpil moui nap monde
bon die di you mo pou nou.
ou se pil Bon die se ou
menwe ki kapab ede nou
Di you mo pou nou sun an (bis).
Di you mo pou nou uh uh

CHORUS
Ayiti Cherie Oh, Oh, Oh

credits

from Dear Haiti, track released April 10, 2011
Music and lyrics, vocals and guitar : KimberLiana
Percussion: Chris Narcisi
Vocals by Sebatien Lucien and the children at Pasteur & Madam Oguend Dor’s orphanage in Mountrouis, Haiti.

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KimberLiana Lancaster, Pennsylvania

KimberLiana is a singer, songwriter and poet living in Lancaster, PA. Weaving poetry through melodies both thoughtful and haunting she delivers a soulful dreamy variety of folk rock. She released Into The White in August of 2008. Dear Haiti, written and recorded in Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake of 2010, was released as a single in April 2011. A full length album is next. ... more

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