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Viewing Lyrics for Denmark 1943:
| | | Artist: | Small Fred |
| | Album: | I Will Stand Fast | | Track: | Denmark 1943 | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 1 |
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| | | Lyrics: | And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws
The Fuhrer they say grows
impatient
"How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free
After three years of kind
occupation?
We will take them like sheep in their beds as they sleep
On the second night
of their new year
Devoutly at home they'll be helpless alone
When they cry out no one will
hear
But Duckwitz the German tells Hedtoft the Dane
"My friend I have dangerous
news
In three hours the transport ships will set at anchor
You must warn them warn all the
Jews"
Soon good Rabbi Melchior stands in the synagogue
"There'll be no service
today
The raids come tomorrow, dwell not on your sorrow
By nightfall we must be
away."
And it's fire up the diesel and look out for swells
We're leaving Espergaerde
behind us
Who strike at our friends strike us a s well
We'll pray the patrol boats don't
find us
When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night
Never will you stand
alone
So it's over the O*resund
Till the day we can welcome you
home.
Sompolinski the tailor on the eve of Rosh Hashana
Gathers his family
near
"The Lord is my light and salvation
Whom on this earth shall I fear?"
When a
young Danish gentile steps into the glow
Of the candle with tears flowing down
"Good
neighbors flee -- I pray you believe me"
And as quickly the young man is
gone.
Christian policemen, shopkeepers, and teachers
Tell their friends of the
quickening storm
While students on bicycles race through the streets
Searching for Jews to
be warned
And Katlev the foreman blurts out to the trainman
"My family has no place to
hide"
"Well bring em to my house" the stranger replies
"And we'll spit in the damn Nazi's
eyes."
And it's fire up the diesel and look out for swells
We're leaving Espergaerde
behind us
Who strike at our friends strike us a s well
We'll pray the patrol boats don't
find us
When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night
Never will you stand
alone
So it's over the O*resund
Till the day we can welcome you home.
Ellen
Nielsen the fishwife in the port of Drago*r
Has no use for political views
She'll call out
the catch "Fresh salmon! Fresh cod!"
Comes a whisper "Please help. We are Jews."
"But if
you are Jews you're not safe on the street
I know a man with a sail"
Till moonrise they
sleep in the shade of her eaves
And escape on the fisherman's keel.
Rabbi Melchior
hires a young trawlerman
To ferry his family across
After twelve hours afloat in a scurfy
old boat
Morning light shows the same Danish coast
Says the skipper "I'm afraid of the
German blockade
So we've motored in circles around"
The rabbi gives a shout, with one blow
knocks him out
And steers a straight line 'cross the sound.
Frozen with fright in
the October night
Families huddle in basements and barns
Mistaking each breath for the
angel of death
The Gestapo the shot the alarm
Then down into the hold with the stench and
the cold
And drug all the babies with schnapps
Someone shouts "Valkoemmen till
Sverige
You are in Swedish waters at last!"
Seven thousands of Jews smuggled over to
Sweden
By fishermen, nurses, and priests
Hitler sends Eichmann to hunt them down
But
his quarry have vanished like mist
When the war's over the Jews return
Cheers and flowers
adorn their way home
"We're not heroes or martyrs" so say the Danes
"We were just looking
after our own."
And it's fire up the diesel and look out for swells
We're leaving
Espergaerde behind us
Who strike at our friends strike us a s well
We'll pray the patrol
boats don't find us
When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night
Never will you
stand alone
So it's over the O*resund
...And today we will welcome you home
And
today we welcome you home | | | |
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