Denmark 1943
Fred Small
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And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws
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The Fuhrer they say grows impatient "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free"
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After three years of kind occupation?
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We will take them like sheep in their beds as they sleep
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On the second night of their new year
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Devoutly at home they'll be helpless alone
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When they cry out no-one will hear

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But Duckwitz the German tells Hedtoft the Dane
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My friend I have dangerous news
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In three hours the transport ships will set at anchor you must warn them warn all the jews
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Soon good rabbi Melchior stands in the synagogue
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There'll be no service today
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The raids come tomorrow dwell not on your sorry
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by nightfall we must be away

CHORUS:
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And it's fire up the diesel and look out for swells
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We're leaving Espergaerde behind us
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Who strike at our friends strike us as well
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We'll pray the patrol boats don't find us
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When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night
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Never will you stand alone
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So it's over the Oresund
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Till the day we can welcome you home

Sompolinski the tailer on the evey of Rosh Hashana
Gathers his family near
The Lord is my light and salvation
Whome 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

CHORUS:

Elln Nielson the fishwife in the port of Dragor
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 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

Rabbie Melchior hires a young trawlerman
To ferry his family across
After twelve hours afloat in a scurvy old boat
Morning light shows the same Danish coast
Says the skipper "I'm afraid of the German blockade"
Sw 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

BRIDGE:
Dsus
Frozen with fright in the October night
Families huddle in basements and barns
Mistaking each breath for the angel of death
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The Gestapo the shot the alarm
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Then down into the hold with the stench and the cold
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And drug all the babies with Schnapps
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Someone shouts "Valkommen Til Sverige
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You are in Swedish waters at last!"

Seven thousands of Jews smuggled over to Sweden
By fisherman nurses and priests
Hitler sends Eichmann to hunt them down
But his quarry have fanished 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"

CHORUS:

And today we will welcome you home
and today we wilcome you home