Refugee Children chords by Chip Taylor

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Verse 1
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See them on TV
Through barbed wire fences
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Strangers and  families
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Looking  for safety
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Crossing old borders
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Not knowing who'll greet them
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Some will accept them
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Some turn them away
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Refugee children, I saw them fishin'
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In a forest in Sweden,
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near a place where
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Smiling and dancing, lines in the wall
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Hoping to catch something,
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here's hoping they
Now, the Human Rights Convention
says that no refugee should
be penalized for an illegal entry
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and  no refugee should be penalized
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for an illegal stay.
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And it also says that no one should expel or
return a refugee against his or her will.
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Obviously some adhere to that
and some do not.
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It's     not an easy question.
These are tough times.
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Refugee children, I saw them fishin'
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In a forest in Sweden,
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near a place where we played,
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smiling and dancing,
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lines in the water,
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hoping to catch something,
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here's hoping
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They do
Come on girls
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Refugee children
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That's on fish in a forest in sweet
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Near     a place where we played
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Smiling and Lines in the water
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Hopin' to catch somethin'
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Here's hopin' that he do