Key: C minor
Verse 1
C#
F#m
F#sus4
F#
F#m
The story's
told of how in 1942
C#
With a band of partisans threw in his lot
Till he was taken by
the Germans to be shot
A
D
With his songs they're told
of sadness and of joy
Bm
C#
And the guitar he carried
with him everywhere
his wife and son
F#m
F#
This song is for those
B
F#
who are cast out by history
B
F#
the spurned and ignored
Whose homes have been taken,
B
F#
whose dreams have been broken,
B
F#
F#m
F#sus4
to be heard.
F#
F#m
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
A
D
The German soldier checked his watch
and said, one hour
Bm
C#
One hour, Martin remarked, that long
to raise the dead
B
F#
who were cast out by history,
whose dreams have been broken,
B
F#
F#m
F#sus4
F#
demand to be heard.
F#
C#
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,
C#
Bm
two parties and set out
and gave it wings to fly
And so it soared upon the wind
among the damned and
F#m
dispossessed
B
F#
who were cast out by history
The banned and abandoned,
A
B
the spurned and ignored
B
F#
whose dreams have been broken
B
F#m
F#sus4
demand to be heard
F#
F#m
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
F#
F#m
It is not with conquering armies I belong
Bm
E
A
Their bloody retribution I disown
D
Bm
Their songs of triumph I will never sing,
turns them into stone.
If any teach their children
F#m
C#
how to hate and hurt,
Though they are Jews
B
F#
who are cast out by history,
The banned and abandoned,
A
B
the spurned and ignored,
F#
E
Who huddled on hillsides,
B
F#
demand to be heard.
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