Key: F major•
Verse 1
C
F
was born in Nuremberg
It seemed to me ridiculous to
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hold a nation all to blame
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For the horrors that the world did undergo
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C
A short while later when I
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I'd learned my lesson about responsibility.
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Verse 2
C
F
start thinking on this theme
Bb
And when later I was permitted to emigrate
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F
times where I was and what I did
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F
In those years when Hitler ruled our state
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F
I said I was a child or at most a teen-ager
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But But that only extended the questioning
F
C
They'd ask, where were my parents,
not a thing.
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Verse 3
The seed planted there at
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Nuremberg in 1947
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F
Started to sprout and to grow
Gradually I understood what that
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verdict meant to me
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F
Once in a lifetime is enough for me
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No, I could not take it for a second time
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Verse 4
The events of May 25th, the
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day of our protest,
Hopefully,
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someday my contribution to peace
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F
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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F
And later on their own children
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That at least in the future they
need not be silent
"Where was your mother, when?"
F
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF C Bb
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