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Sunday, February 25, 2007
This Sunday February 2007 as I walked leisurely towards Bois-Cerf, to pray, Joan Baez' voice didn’t leave me as some thirty, forty years back when she was singing  Just a little Boy… Just a little rain falling all around, The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound, Just a little rain, just a little rain, What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain, The gentle rain that falls for years. And the grass is gone, The boy disappears, And rain keeps falling like helpless tears, And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky, The leaves pat their hands as the breeze blows by, Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye, What have they done to the rain?  Just a little boy standing in the rain, The gentle rain that falls for years. And the grass is gone, The boy disappears, And rain keeps falling like helpless tears, And what have they done to the rain? Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds ... "Just a Little Rain." People now think of this as a song about acid rain, but it was originally written as part of a campaign to stop aboveground nuclear testing, which was putting strontium-90 in the air, where it was washed down by the rain, got into the soil and thence to the grass, which was eaten by cows. When children drank the cows’ milk the strontium-90, chemically similar to calcium but radioactive, was deposited in their bones. Mothers saved their children’s baby teeth and sent them in to be tested by scientists who indeed found elevated levels of strontium-90 in their teeth. A year after this song was written, President Kennedy signed the treaty against aboveground testing. |