I Remember Warsaw-David Rovics

I Remember Warsaw - David Rovics Written by：Stephen Sondheim First they occupied our country Then they spread their vicious lies Evil propaganda Filled our ranks with double dealing spies They cordoned off a reservation Built a wall all around it Packed us all into this ghetto And our city'd never be as the nazis found it First no one believed it Just what horrors lay in store The sound of boots upon the staircase Of leather gloves upon the door Some of us they sent to labor To slave for them to the last breath Most of us they sent to auschwitz Half a million people sent to a pointless early death There were those of us who worked with them A desperate effort to survive Even when our numbers were so few Maybe sixty thousand left alive People said we had no chances By then we all knew they were right It was 1943 And we the walking dead made up our minds to fight I remember warsaw We stood side by side The star of david flew above the ghetto There we lived and there we died We cleansed the ghetto of their agents Dug a maze of tunnels underground We begged the allies give us weapons But empty words were all we found So we saved each precious bottle Made bombs of rags and gasoline And in this script of mindless carnage We waited in the shadows for the final scene It was the month of april The ss came marching in Singing songs to praise der fuehrer And all his aryan kin To see the shock upon their faces We'd show the world on this day We'd not go like sheep off to the slaughter With the last blood running through our hearts we'd make the devils pay I remember warsaw We stood side by side The star of david flew above the ghetto There we lived and there we died We had taken our positions With each escape route planned We rained down molotovs upon them With each retreat another stand Yes we killed the nazi bastards They lay dying by the score We made each scarce bullet count And as the fascist demons ran we killed some more For one full month the battle raged And the word spread all around That it wasn't over 'Til every building had been levelled to the ground I am the ghost of the apocalypse And these few words I have to tell Let it never be forgotten That for four long weeks we fought and we stood up before we fell I remember warsaw We stood side by side The star of david flew above the ghetto There we lived and there we died