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Song For The YPJ

from Songs for Rojava by Lee Brickley

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I wrote Song For The YPJ weeks before any other track on this album. After watching a documentary about the revolution in Rojava and the role of women, I sat for half an hour with my guitar and came up with some lyrics. Half an hour after that, I uploaded a rough video to Facebook that went viral within another half an hour and essentially led to this entire project. The YPJ is an all-female military organisation at the forefront of the revolution in Rojava, and those ISIS fascists are terrified of them! The Rojava revolution is about equality, and the YPJ is a beautiful outcome of that. Women in the Middle East are traditionally some of the most oppressed people in the world. In the YPJ, women fight to create a new reality.

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Have you heard about a people and their occupied homelands
They fought alongside allies in the war against Saddam
The liberators of Rojava, those brave women and men
Some gave their lives for freedom and they'd do it all again

So I sing today for the YPJ in solidarity for those in Kurdistan
There's martyrs there from almost everywhere

They come from far and wide to lend a hand
If only everyone could understand
The revolution rests in their loving hands

Those guerrillas fought islamic state and all that they stood for
Put an end to the caliphate a bolt across the door
And the women's protection unit was the first of its kind
The jihadis ran when they saw ladies behind the gun sights

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There's something strange happening, Turkey has intervened
And pushed our freedom fighters right out of Afrin
The government is sanctioning a pillage by the state
and murdering the very people they vow to protect

Chorus

Have you heard about a people and their occupied homelands
They fought alongside allies in the war against Saddam
The liberators of Rojava, those brave women and men
Some gave their lives for freedom and they'd do it all again


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from Songs for Rojava, released August 30, 2018

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Lee Brickley is a political songwriter from the UK. Please download a song or two and help support independent music!

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