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13th homemade video (June 28, 2020)

Let Them in

On June 28, 2020 John wrote: "Based on a WWII era poem by Elma Dean, this is a song that goes out to all the ones who didn’t come home, and to those who remember - Let Them In"

  




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- Unblind The Referee (July 5, 2020)
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- The Streets of Laredo (December 6, 2020)
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John Gorka - Let them in

 

 


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"Let Them In" was made into song by John Gorka from a poem found in a hospital in the Philippines during World War II. The nurse that found the poem kept it all these years until the recent war brought out all the memorabilia. Luckily, her daughter sent a copy to John".
In 1991 David Wilcox made a great version of "Let them in" for his Home Again CD.


Let them in, Peter,
They are very tired
Give them couches where the angels sleep
And light those fires

Let them wake whole again
To brand new dawns
Fired with the sun
Not wartime's bloody guns

May their peace be deep
Remember where the broken bodies lie
God knows how young they were
To have to die
God knows how young they were to have to die

Give them things they like
Let them make some noise
Give roadhouse bands, not golden harps
To these our boys

And let them love,
Peter Cause they've had no time
They should have trees…

 




Let them in appeared on the 2001 'Red House records' release "The Company You Keep" (RHR 151).
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John Gorka played this live version of "Let them in" with Ricky Koole (She is a Dutch singer and film actress) in 2009. It is the best viewed Let them in version on youtube (75.000 times)

 



John Gorka - Let them in
2016 live version in the Netherlands

John Gorka played a wonderful live version of "Let them in" also in the Nutshuis, the Hague on February 5, 2016 on a benefit concert for his friend Willem Leeuwenhoek. Willem passed away in November 2014.


On June 28, 2020 John wrote: Home Video # 13 - Based on a WWII era poem by Elma Dean, this is a song that goes out to all the ones who didn’t come

 

 



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