Key: C minor
Verse 1
E
Am
Asus4
A
Am
The story's
told of how in 1942
Till he was taken by
the Germans to be shot
C
F
With his songs they're told
of sadness and of joy
Dm
E
And the guitar he carried
with him everywhere
his wife and son
Am
A
This song is for those
D
A
who are cast out by history
D
A
the spurned and ignored
Whose homes have been taken,
D
A
whose dreams have been broken,
D
A
Am
Asus4
to be heard.
A
Am
The German soldier
As it happened,
And this bond, it seems,
To offer Martin one last wish
Soon my soul, Martin said,
my farewell song
C
F
The German soldier checked his watch
and said, one hour
Dm
E
One hour, Martin remarked, that long
to raise the dead
D
A
who were cast out by history,
whose dreams have been broken,
D
A
Am
Asus4
A
demand to be heard.
A
E
abract of what he'd done,
And showed it proudly
when in drink to everyone
That a song cannot take root
And then one night,
E
Dm
two parties and set out
and gave it wings to fly
And so it soared upon the wind
among the damned and
Am
dispossessed
D
A
who were cast out by history
The banned and abandoned,
C
D
the spurned and ignored
D
A
whose dreams have been broken
D
Am
Asus4
demand to be heard
A
Am
Though we resist oppression,
Theirs is the mask of hatred,
Then let not our sufferings
So that we do to strangers
what was done to us
A
Am
It is not with conquering armies I belong
Dm
G
C
Their bloody retribution I disown
F
Dm
Their songs of triumph I will never sing,
turns them into stone.
If any teach their children
Am
E
how to hate and hurt,
Though they are Jews
D
A
who are cast out by history,
The banned and abandoned,
C
D
the spurned and ignored,
A
G
Who huddled on hillsides,
D
A
demand to be heard.
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