チリ落盤事故、全作業員無事救助

チリ北部のコピアポ郊外で8月5日に発生した鉱山落盤事故で、地下622メートルに閉じ込められていた33人の作業員全員が14日、69日ぶりに無事救助されました。当初、生存が絶望視された事故は、奇跡的な救出劇となり、砂漠の中の鉱山は大きな歓声に包まれました。
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♪Esperanza♪

Esperanza, why don't you go to your family?
You been out livin' darkness for so long now
Oh, it's been hard days
I know that you got big trouble
These things that were gnawin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you sing the anthem of nation, boy
It'll move you when it's sung
You know the anthem of Chile is always your best song

Now it seems to me, thirty-three men
Have been lifted up to the ground
But you only wait the ones that you love most

Esperanza, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And rescue, oh rescue well, that's all the people watchin'
Your capsule is rising through this mine all alone

Don't your throat get dry in the deeper mine?
The sky ain't there and the sum won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Esperanza, why don't you go to your family?
Come up from your darkness, open your gate
It may be soundin', but there's your people around you
You better let someone hear you, before it's too late


（原曲「Desperado」　作詞・作曲：Don Henley/Glenn Frey、唄：Eagles）
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