Pennsylvania Wind ©Mook and Shanto   Please be patient, it takes 5 to 10 seconds for streaming to start from the tape "Era"  by Bahloo Second Track:  "Leave It In The Ground" Performed by Mook and Shanto

John Seed: "Mook wrote this powerful, moving song after the nuclear melt-down at Three-Mile Island in Pennsylvania shook the world and made us realise that radioactive poisons don't recognise national boundaries."

Lisa Yeates:"Hearing Mook and Shanto sing this song at an anti-uranium Hiroshima Day rally in Lismore back in 1980 first illustrated to me the power of music to convey a message. We had been listening to an address by Dr Helen Caldicott (famous Australian anti-uranium activist). During which she was outlining all the truly awful things that were happening on this planet or could happen due to the terrible properties of plutonium and uranium. After a while I realised that my mind, like others I observed around me, had shut down as I couldn’t absorb any more of the distressing the information Helen was giving us.

Immediately afterwards Mook and Shanto sang "Pennsylvania Winds". Every word of that song went in, even though they had the same message Helen was giving us, the music helped carry it into my consciousness."

 

                                                                

Hanley/Oliver (c)1979

See the windmill turn little sister
See it turn turn turn
See it in the wind just spinnin', watch it and you learn
See it turn, watch it and you learn
See it turn, watch it and you learn

See the pretty clouds little brother
In the sky again
Driven in the wind from the badlands, then fallin' in the rain
In the rain, fallin' in the rain
In the rain, fallin' in the rain

CHORUS

And the wind blows all the way from Pennsylvania
And the wind blows all the way from Pennsylvania

See the pretty birds oh mother
See them in the sky
See the pretty feathers fallin' watch the eagle die

See the pretty girl with baby
Walkin' through the tress
Nothin' you can see gonna harm you
Danger in the breeze
In the breeze, danger in the breeze
In the breeze, danger in the breeze

CHORUS

Mook:" When the Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor in Pennsylvania USA was leaking toxic radiation into the air in 1979 I was walking in the cow paddocks at Tyagarah near Byron Bay with my little daughter Nuro when we came upon an old Aussie windmill which was turning noisily in the stiff breeze blowing inland from the coast ... and I wondered about the possibility of microscopic deadly Plutonium particles being scattered across the planet from 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl and the many other mishaps at Nuclear Reactors that we are never told about ... more