Key: C minor
Verse 1
F#
Bm
Bsus4
B
Bm
The story's
told of how in 1942
F#
With a band of partisans threw in his lot
Till he was taken by
the Germans to be shot
D
G
With his songs they're told
of sadness and of joy
Em
F#
And the guitar he carried
with him everywhere
his wife and son
Bm
B
This song is for those
E
B
who are cast out by history
E
B
the spurned and ignored
Whose homes have been taken,
E
B
whose dreams have been broken,
E
B
Bm
Bsus4
to be heard.
B
Bm
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
D
G
The German soldier checked his watch
and said, one hour
Em
F#
One hour, Martin remarked, that long
to raise the dead
E
B
who were cast out by history,
whose dreams have been broken,
E
B
Bm
Bsus4
B
demand to be heard.
B
F#
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,
F#
Em
two parties and set out
and gave it wings to fly
And so it soared upon the wind
among the damned and
Bm
dispossessed
E
B
who were cast out by history
The banned and abandoned,
D
E
the spurned and ignored
E
B
whose dreams have been broken
E
Bm
Bsus4
demand to be heard
B
Bm
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
B
Bm
It is not with conquering armies I belong
Em
A
D
Their bloody retribution I disown
G
Em
Their songs of triumph I will never sing,
turns them into stone.
If any teach their children
Bm
F#
how to hate and hurt,
Though they are Jews
E
B
who are cast out by history,
The banned and abandoned,
D
E
the spurned and ignored,
B
A
Who huddled on hillsides,
E
B
demand to be heard.
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