Tonalidad: C minor
Verse 1
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Am
Asus4
A
Am
The story's
told of how in 1942
E
Martin Fontache, poet,
Am
carpenter and Jew
E
With a band of partisans threw in his lot
Till he was taken by
the Germans to be shot
Am
He was a peaceful man,
Dm
quick to laugh and cry
G
At every village celebration he'd be there
C
F
With his songs they're told
of sadness and of joy
Dm
E
And the guitar he carried
with him everywhere
Am
But when the Nazis came and killed
his wife and son
E
Martin traded his guitar in for a gun
Am
A
This song is for those
D
A
who are cast out by history
C
The banned and abandoned,
D
A
the spurned and ignored
Whose homes have been taken,
D
A
whose dreams have been broken,
G
Who huddled on Hillside's demand
D
A
Am
Asus4
to be heard.
A
Am
The German soldier
E
assigned to kill the Jew,
As it happened,
Am
was a music lover too,
And this bond, it seems,
E
is what made him decide
To offer Martin one last wish
Am
before he died.
Soon my soul, Martin said,
Dm
will dance on air
G
Now all I ask is time to write
my farewell song
C
F
The German soldier checked his watch
and said, one hour
Dm
E
One hour, Martin remarked, that long
Am
And so he wrote and sang full voice
to raise the dead
E
And then the German put
Am
a bullet in his head
A
And this song is for those
D
A
who were cast out by history,
C
Abandoned, abandoned,
Dm
the spurned and ignored,
A
Whose homes have been taken,
whose dreams have been broken,
G
Who huddled on a health -size
D
A
Am
Asus4
A
demand to be heard.
Am
The German kept the song,
A
E
abract of what he'd done,
And showed it proudly
when in drink to everyone
Am
He couldn't read the words
E
and didn't seem to see
That a song cannot take root
Am
unless it's free
And then one night,
E
Dm
two parties and set out
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The song must be released,
C
the man must die
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They slipped into his quarters,
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slit his throat
E
Took back the song
and gave it wings to fly
And so it soared upon the wind
Am
and came to rest
E
And found the home
among the damned and
Am
dispossessed
A
And his song was for those
D
A
who were cast out by history
The banned and abandoned,
C
D
the spurned and ignored
A
Whose homes have been taken,
D
A
whose dreams have been broken
G
Who huddled on hillside's
D
Am
Asus4
demand to be heard
A
Am
Though we resist oppression,
E
still our dream is peace
Theirs is the mask of hatred,
Am
ours the human face
Then let not our sufferings
E
turn our souls to ice
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,
E
For the God they worship
turns them into stone.
If any teach their children
Am
E
how to hate and hurt,
Though they are Jews
Am
they do not live inside my heart.
A
And his song is for those
D
A
who are cast out by history,
The banned and abandoned,
C
D
the spurned and ignored,
A
Whose homes have been taken,
D
whose dreams have been broken,
A
G
Who huddled on hillsides,
D
A
demand to be heard.
E
Let his song be a spark,
A
let it fly through the dark like a bird.
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