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Joan Baez: Havel

Praha, říjen 2006 (v době konference Forum 2.000). Snímek archiv

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Havel

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A hotel in Bratislava

On a concert day.

The evening will be televised,

Live!

Vaclav Havel and his fellow dissidents will come tonight.

They are driving down from Prague.

The hotel phone rings at last and I jump

Only a little jump, but the chair falls over

Me, Hello?

A voice, Hyello. Hmmm. Dis is Havel. I am in Lobby. Hmmm. Very myenny police.

My room fills with dissidents

All wrapped in cigarette smoke

Havel looks like a kid

He is smiling a humorous, pleased smile.

Live Television?

We agree to make mischief.

Havel speaks syllables into my cassette recorder.

I write them out in phonetics on scratch paper.

The words say

I’d like to welcome to this evening’s concert

my good friend Vaclav Havel!

In Czech.

I with an earpiece in my ear

And my notes

I will slowly repeat the syllables into the microphone.

But first

More mischief? I ask

Yes, yes. More mischief!

We decide he will carry my guitar to the entrance of the hall

And we will tell the police he is my road manager.

He will hand it to someone else and we will all lock arms to get him to the relative safety of the balcony, in the middle of the crowd..

More?

– More mischyef. Hmmmmm. Dere is guy, hmmmm singer. Ivan Hoffman

He lives here in Bratislava hmmmm

Can not sing in public for several years

Wonderful!

Tell him to bring his guitar,

You can feel it in the air

The unrest,

The undaunting feeling of

„change is gonna come“

The people will be unstoppable now.

They wade forward

Into the tide

As it sucks itself out to sea

Gathering strength

For the coming storm

While the spotlights beam and dance on the crowd

I say my little piece and gesture in a tall wide arc to the balcony.

… to my good friend Vaclav Havel!

And the crowd explodes.

The officials cut the sound off.

So I stand there facing upwards and sing

Over the crowd

Swing Low, Sweet Charriot

Without a microphone,

And the hall goes silent

As that song soars up and seeps into his soul

And stays there forever.

That’s what he’s told me anyway,

Over the years when I have gone back to visit and chat,

In the theatre where the new constitution was written

By poets and writers and mathematicians,

All wrapped in cigarette smoke

Or in the palace

In your office

Heavily decorated with grand gifts

From grand people of the world

And where the statue of the Golden Lady

Looks on when you perform your presidential duties

Signing things and answering the phone…

And you are both

all wrapped in cigarette smoke.

There is one room in the palace

Cloaked in gloom.

Exactly the way the Communists left it.

Dismal

Ugly

All wrapped in meanness.

After the storm,

After the victory,

After the lights of the fireworks dim,

No one has slept

When the dawn comes in

There is a shiver of disbelief as the sun comes up on a new world

The silent ones, like moles, come up from their pitch black warren

Squinting at the sun

You see there? They say, pointing, The risk takers!

You knew there would be no real change

Without the risks,

And you took them all.

I’m so glad you went on smoking

After the doctors told you to quit,

You loved it so!

The Dali Llama will agree

You’d had the ten thousand sorrows

It is time for the ten thousand joys

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Joan Baez, December 22, 2011

Národní třída, 17. listopad  2009. Snímek archiv

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  • Publikováno: 27. prosince 2011

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