Tonalidad: C minor
Verse 1
C
Fm
Fsus4
F
Fm
The story's
told of how in 1942
C
Martin Fontache, poet,
Fm
carpenter and Jew
C
With a band of partisans threw in his lot
Till he was taken by
the Germans to be shot
Fm
He was a peaceful man,
Bbm
quick to laugh and cry
Eb
At every village celebration he'd be there
Ab
Db
With his songs they're told
of sadness and of joy
Bbm
C
And the guitar he carried
with him everywhere
Fm
But when the Nazis came and killed
his wife and son
C
Martin traded his guitar in for a gun
Fm
F
This song is for those
Bb
F
who are cast out by history
Ab
The banned and abandoned,
Bb
F
the spurned and ignored
Whose homes have been taken,
Bb
F
whose dreams have been broken,
Eb
Who huddled on Hillside's demand
Bb
F
Fm
Fsus4
to be heard.
F
Fm
The German soldier
C
assigned to kill the Jew,
As it happened,
Fm
was a music lover too,
And this bond, it seems,
C
is what made him decide
To offer Martin one last wish
Fm
before he died.
Soon my soul, Martin said,
Bbm
will dance on air
Eb
Now all I ask is time to write
my farewell song
Ab
Db
The German soldier checked his watch
and said, one hour
Bbm
C
One hour, Martin remarked, that long
Fm
And so he wrote and sang full voice
to raise the dead
C
And then the German put
Fm
a bullet in his head
F
And this song is for those
Bb
F
who were cast out by history,
Ab
Abandoned, abandoned,
Bbm
the spurned and ignored,
F
Whose homes have been taken,
whose dreams have been broken,
Eb
Who huddled on a health -size
Bb
F
Fm
Fsus4
F
demand to be heard.
Fm
The German kept the song,
F
C
abract of what he'd done,
And showed it proudly
when in drink to everyone
Fm
He couldn't read the words
C
and didn't seem to see
That a song cannot take root
Fm
unless it's free
And then one night,
C
Bbm
two parties and set out
Eb
The song must be released,
Ab
the man must die
Db
They slipped into his quarters,
Bbm
slit his throat
C
Took back the song
and gave it wings to fly
And so it soared upon the wind
Fm
and came to rest
C
And found the home
among the damned and
Fm
dispossessed
F
And his song was for those
Bb
F
who were cast out by history
The banned and abandoned,
Ab
Bb
the spurned and ignored
F
Whose homes have been taken,
Bb
F
whose dreams have been broken
Eb
Who huddled on hillside's
Bb
Fm
Fsus4
demand to be heard
F
Fm
Though we resist oppression,
C
still our dream is peace
Theirs is the mask of hatred,
Fm
ours the human face
Then let not our sufferings
C
turn our souls to ice
So that we do to strangers
what was done to us
F
Fm
It is not with conquering armies I belong
Bbm
Eb
Ab
Their bloody retribution I disown
Db
Bbm
Their songs of triumph I will never sing,
C
For the God they worship
turns them into stone.
If any teach their children
Fm
C
how to hate and hurt,
Though they are Jews
Fm
they do not live inside my heart.
F
And his song is for those
Bb
F
who are cast out by history,
The banned and abandoned,
Ab
Bb
the spurned and ignored,
F
Whose homes have been taken,
Bb
whose dreams have been broken,
F
Eb
Who huddled on hillsides,
Bb
F
demand to be heard.
C
Let his song be a spark,
F
let it fly through the dark like a bird.
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