Key: C minor
Verse 1
A
Dm
Dsus4
D
Dm
The story's
told of how in 1942
Till he was taken by
the Germans to be shot
F
Bb
With his songs they're told
of sadness and of joy
Gm
A
And the guitar he carried
with him everywhere
his wife and son
Dm
D
This song is for those
G
D
who are cast out by history
G
D
the spurned and ignored
Whose homes have been taken,
G
D
whose dreams have been broken,
G
D
Dm
Dsus4
to be heard.
D
Dm
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
F
Bb
The German soldier checked his watch
and said, one hour
Gm
A
One hour, Martin remarked, that long
to raise the dead
G
D
who were cast out by history,
whose dreams have been broken,
G
D
Dm
Dsus4
D
demand to be heard.
D
A
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,
A
Gm
two parties and set out
and gave it wings to fly
And so it soared upon the wind
among the damned and
Dm
dispossessed
G
D
who were cast out by history
The banned and abandoned,
F
G
the spurned and ignored
G
D
whose dreams have been broken
G
Dm
Dsus4
demand to be heard
D
Dm
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
D
Dm
It is not with conquering armies I belong
Gm
C
F
Their bloody retribution I disown
Bb
Gm
Their songs of triumph I will never sing,
turns them into stone.
If any teach their children
Dm
A
how to hate and hurt,
Though they are Jews
G
D
who are cast out by history,
The banned and abandoned,
F
G
the spurned and ignored,
D
C
Who huddled on hillsides,
G
D
demand to be heard.
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