My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage chords by Ani DiFranco
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was
born in Nuremberg
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And when the trials were held
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there nineteen years ago
It seemed to me ridiculous to
hold a nation all to blame
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For the horrors that the world did undergo
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A short while later when I applied
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to be a G. I. bride
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An American consular
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official questioned me
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He refused my exit permit,
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said my answers did not show
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I'd learned my lesson about
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responsibility.
Verse 2
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Thus suddenly I was forced to
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start thinking on this theme
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And when later I was permitted to emigrate
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I must have been asked a hundred
times where I was and what I did
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In those years when Hitler ruled our state
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I said I was a child or at most a teen- ager
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But that only extended
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the questioning
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They'd ask, where were my parents,
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my father, my mother
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And to this I could answer
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not a thing.
Verse 3
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The seed planted there
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at Nuremberg in 1947
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Started to sprout and to grow
Gradually I understood what that
verdict meant to me
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When there are crimes that I can
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see and I can know
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And now I also know what it is
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to be charged with mass guilt
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Once in a lifetime is enough for me
No, I could not take it
for a second time
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And that is why I am here
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today.
Verse 4
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The events of May 25th, the
day of our protest,
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Put a small balance weight
on the other side
Hopefully,
someday my contribution to peace
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Will help just a bit to turn the tide
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And perhaps I can tell my children six
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And later on their own children
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That at least in the future they
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need not be silent
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When they are asked, "Where was your mother,
Outro 1
when?"
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My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage
Ani DiFranco
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