My Name Is Liza Kalvelage chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I
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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
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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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A short while later when I
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applied 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 responsibility.
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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
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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 But that only extended 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
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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Started to sprout and to grow
Gradually I understood what that
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verdict meant to me
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When there are crimes that I
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can see and I can know
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And now I also know what it is to
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be charged with mass guilt
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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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And that is why I am here today.
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Verse 4
The events of May 25th, the
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day of our protest,
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Put a small balance weight
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on the other side
Hopefully,
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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
need not be silent
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When they are asked,
"Where was your mother, when?"
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