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