Cut and pasted from Moon of Alabama blog . . . .
At the start of the Ukrainian-Russian war, we recalled a poem “To the common Man” by Julian Tuwim from almost 100 years ago, which serves as an anti-war manifesto warning against the involvement of ordinary people in a war of aggression:
“(…) O my unlearned friend, my brother,
My neighbor from this land or another,
Know this: the kings and bloated masters
Ring the bells to sound the alarm;
Know this: it’s fraud, it’s a cheap trick,
When they cry out, “Grab your rifle!”
Because somewhere oil spurted from the ground,
And brought them sudden wealth in dollars;
Because something’s wrong inside their banks,
They sniffed out cash in foreign vaults,
Or greedy swindlers marked a tariff
On a fatter bale of cotton somewhere. (…)”
A few months ago, someone translated this poem into English and used AI to turn it into a blues song, with full lyrics in English in the song description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6b9bvp5T5U
Posted by: 9razyna | Jul 17 2026 18:08 utc | 11
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