Tonalidad: C minor
Verse 1
C#
F#m
F#sus4
F#
F#m
The story's
told of how in 1942
C#
Martin Fontache, poet,
F#m
carpenter and Jew
C#
With a band of partisans threw in his lot
Till he was taken by
the Germans to be shot
F#m
He was a peaceful man,
Bm
quick to laugh and cry
E
At every village celebration he'd be there
A
D
With his songs they're told
of sadness and of joy
Bm
C#
And the guitar he carried
with him everywhere
F#m
But when the Nazis came and killed
his wife and son
C#
Martin traded his guitar in for a gun
F#m
F#
This song is for those
B
F#
who are cast out by history
A
The banned and abandoned,
B
F#
the spurned and ignored
Whose homes have been taken,
B
F#
whose dreams have been broken,
E
Who huddled on Hillside's demand
B
F#
F#m
F#sus4
to be heard.
F#
F#m
The German soldier
C#
assigned to kill the Jew ,
As it happened,
F#m
was a music lover too,
And this bond, it seems,
C#
is what made him decide
To offer Martin one last wish
F#m
before he died.
Soon my soul, Martin said,
Bm
will dance on air
E
Now all I ask is time to write
my farewell song
A
D
The German soldier checked his watch
and said, one hour
Bm
C#
One hour, Martin remarked, that long
F#m
And so he wrote and sang full voice
to raise the dead
C#
And then the German put
F#m
a bullet in his head
F#
And this song is for those
B
F#
who were cast out by history,
A
Abandoned, abandoned,
Bm
the spurned and ignored,
F#
Whose homes have been taken,
whose dreams have been broken,
E
Who huddled on a health -size
B
F#
F#m
F#sus4
F#
demand to be heard.
F#m
The German kept the song,
F#
C#
abract of what he'd done,
And showed it proudly
when in drink to everyone
F#m
He couldn't read the words
C#
and didn't seem to see
That a song cannot take root
F#m
unless it's free
And then one night,
C#
Bm
two parties and set out
E
The song must be released,
A
the man must die
D
They slipped into his quarters,
Bm
slit his throat
C#
Took back the song
and gave it wings to fly
And so it soared upon the wind
F#m
and came to rest
C#
And found the home
among the damned and
F#m
dispossessed
F#
And his song was for those
B
F#
who were cast out by history
The banned and abandoned,
A
B
the spurned and ignored
F#
Whose homes have been taken,
B
F#
whose dreams have been broken
E
Who huddled on hillside's
B
F#m
F#sus4
demand to be heard
F#
F#m
Though we resist oppression,
C#
still our dream is peace
Theirs is the mask of hatred,
F#m
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#
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,
C#
For the God they worship
turns them into stone.
If any teach their children
F#m
C#
how to hate and hurt,
Though they are Jews
F#m
they do not live inside my heart.
F#
And his song is for those
B
F#
who are cast out by history,
The banned and abandoned,
A
B
the spurned and ignored,
F#
Whose homes have been taken,
B
whose dreams have been broken,
F#
E
Who huddled on hillsides,
B
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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