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Woody Guthrie
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Intro 1
C
Am
C


Verse 1
C

My name is King Cyrus,

my order I give,
Am

You Jews can go back to your home
C

To build your holy temple again
Am
C

In the land of Palestine.
Verse 2
C

We've sung and danced
Am

o'er the hot rocky roads
C
Am

Back to Eretz Yisroel's land
C

We worked with plow and rake and hoe
Am
C

And we blessed the works

of our hands
Verse 3
C

My name is Ezra the Teacher man
Am

I brought my scroll book along
C

I brought my flock to Yisroel

From that land called Babylon
Verse 4
C

I'll read you my Talmud Torah

book
Am

And the prophet's dreams to you
C

And you'll be fertile and multiply
G
C

If you keep your Torah true
Verse 5
C

My name is Alexander the Great

More than half of this wide world
Am

is mine
C

Come stand around,
Am

my servants all
C

I'm wrapped on my bed here to die
Verse 6
C

As the King of Syria and Palestine
Am

Antiochus the Fourth, you'll stand
C
Am

To kill the Jews if they refuse
C

To worship our idols and gods
Verse 7
C

My name is Hannah, my first born son
Am

Now stands before this king
C
Am

Guilty of keeping the Sabbath laws
C

By the soldiers I see him slain
Verse 8
C

It's one by one my seven sons
Am

In front of my eyes cut down
C
Am

For keeping to the Torah laws
C

I pay with my warm blood now
Verse 9
C

My name is Mattathias, I've

got five sons
Am

In Modin City we dwell
C

They tried to make me bow

down to their gods
Am

Two of the King's flun
C

keys I killed
Verse 10
C

A hundred or more who'll fight

to be Jews
Am

Did come to these hills with me
C

On my death bed your leader
Am

I'll name
C

'Tis Judah, the Macabee
Verse 11
C

My name is Judah, the Macabee

By the name of the hammer
Am

I'm called
C
Am

We'll pray to God before every fight
C

Till all of our enemies fall

Appolonius, the Governor, this day I killed
Verse 12
C

And his
Am

army we did bust
C

Some few of his soldiers
Am

run away in the wind

But most we've dropped dead
C

in the dust
Verse 13
C


Syron is my name, from Syria came
Am

To destroy that fool Macabee
C

My army was great, his army was small
Am
C

But he somehow did win over me
Verse 14
C

To deliver the many to the hands of his few
Am

For God this is no trick at all
C

In a few short hours my army did break
Am
C

And we flooded this valley with blood
Verse 15
C

My name is Lysias, I dreamed up a plan
Am

To burn the Jews tents as they slept
C

When I got there, their tents were all bare
Am
C

And the Macabee's army had left
Verse 16
C

He stormed my own camp as

my soldiers did sleep
Am

And he killed several thousand in fear
C

My elephants,
Am

my horsemen, my footsoldiers, all
C

Judah hammered them down from the rear
Verse 17
C


My name is Jerusalem

where Judah came back
Am

To build up my Temple once more
C

To cut down the weeds and thorny brush
Am

That grows 'round
C

my windows and doors
Verse 18
C

Whole stones, whole stones,

we'll build and pray
Am

To God as a wholehearted Jew
C

God's love the hateful many did place
Am
C

In the hands of a God loving few
Verse 19
C

We found in our temple

a little oil jug
Am

Just enough for the lamps for one night
C

That one little jug burned Eight whole

days

And it kept our new

temple in light
Verse 20
C

Eight candles we'll burn and
Am

a Ninth one too
C
Am
C

Every New Year that comes and goes

We'll think of the many in the hands

of the few
C

And thank God we are seeds of the Jews
C

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