Name: Postcard from Havana
Duration: P00H03M54S
Description: Theresa Moritz' lyrics are inspired by and drawn upon the poem "A Postcard from Havana" by A. F. Moritz from The Ruined Cottage (1993, Wolsak and Wynn)

Postcard from Havana

from How I Lost It All by The New Birds of America

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Theresa Moritz' lyrics are inspired by and drawn upon the poem "A Postcard from Havana" by A. F. Moritz from The Ruined Cottage (1993, Wolsak and Wynn)

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A postcard came today from blue Havana
Already it’s set the Mounties dreaming
Of silver planes that went there in the old days.
My friend is glad to think these days are better.
Committed to the left, his songs do service
Because I write, he thinks he understands me.
If I were there, he’d ask me for a ballad
To all the brave ones prepared to die.

At fires in the hill, they’ll clean their rifles.
They’ll praise the lost ones. I am a simple measure
If only you were here, he writes, you would help them
A poet can cheat death of its great prize.

But the boy I would have been in Nicaragua
Or Panama, Beirut or Salvador
Could not be found around the rebel campfires
Or hiding with the death squads in the barracks.
He died alone last night along a quiet road
Victim of one side or the other.
He stayed up late to praise the moon at rising
He hated all the killers equally.
At fires in the hill, they’ll clean their rifles.
They’ll praise the lost ones. I am a simple measure.
And I will not be with them in their singing.
My song is for the one lost by the way.

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from How I Lost It All, released April 15, 2022
Music by Blaise Moritz, Lyrics by Theresa Moritz
Recorded in Toronto, November 23, 2018
by Jon Mychal at The Sonic Spa

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