I Remember Warsaw-David Rovics

[ti:I Remember Warsaw] [ar:David Rovics] [al:Behind The Baricade: The Best Of David Rovics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.34]I Remember Warsaw - David Rovics [00:01.50]Written by：Stephen Sondheim [00:02.38] [00:04.94]First they occupied our country [00:06.24] [00:08.54]Then they spread their vicious lies [00:09.82] [00:12.49]Evil propaganda [00:13.81] [00:15.20]Filled our ranks with double dealing spies [00:17.12] [00:19.00]They cordoned off a reservation [00:20.60] [00:22.65]Built a wall all around it [00:24.17] [00:26.17]Packed us all into this ghetto [00:27.38] [00:29.21]And our city'd never be as the nazis found it [00:32.45] [00:33.77]First no one believed it [00:34.95] [00:36.70]Just what horrors lay in store [00:38.18] [00:40.22]The sound of boots upon the staircase [00:41.74] [00:43.74]Of leather gloves upon the door [00:45.16] [00:47.36]Some of us they sent to labor [00:48.99] [00:50.62]To slave for them to the last breath [00:52.65] [00:54.36]Most of us they sent to auschwitz [00:55.98] [00:57.54]Half a million people sent to a pointless early death [01:00.61] [01:01.78]There were those of us who worked with them [01:03.21] [01:05.10]A desperate effort to survive [01:06.30] [01:08.55]Even when our numbers were so few [01:10.21] [01:12.02]Maybe sixty thousand left alive [01:13.84] [01:15.82]People said we had no chances [01:17.36] [01:19.09]By then we all knew they were right [01:20.97] [01:22.78]It was 1943 [01:24.11] [01:25.67]And we the walking dead made up our minds to fight [01:28.73] [01:31.47]I remember warsaw [01:32.70] [01:34.76]We stood side by side [01:36.36] [01:38.20]The star of david flew above the ghetto [01:40.65] [01:41.72]There we lived and there we died [01:43.52] [01:47.43]We cleansed the ghetto of their agents [01:48.91] [01:50.72]Dug a maze of tunnels underground [01:52.33] [01:54.27]We begged the allies give us weapons [01:56.06] [01:57.82]But empty words were all we found [01:59.61] [02:01.42]So we saved each precious bottle [02:02.99] [02:04.75]Made bombs of rags and gasoline [02:06.44] [02:08.23]And in this script of mindless carnage [02:10.13] [02:11.22]We waited in the shadows for the final scene [02:14.70] [02:15.95]It was the month of april [02:17.04] [02:18.89]The ss came marching in [02:20.34] [02:22.47]Singing songs to praise der fuehrer [02:24.03] [02:26.26]And all his aryan kin [02:27.63] [02:29.52]To see the shock upon their faces [02:30.89] [02:32.81]We'd show the world on this day [02:34.48] [02:36.26]We'd not go like sheep off to the slaughter [02:38.29] [02:39.14]With the last blood running through our hearts we'd make the devils pay [02:42.69] [02:44.53]I remember warsaw [02:45.60] [02:48.04]We stood side by side [02:49.74] [02:50.74]The star of david flew above the ghetto [02:53.11] [02:54.27]There we lived and there we died [02:56.23] [03:13.86]We had taken our positions [03:15.09] [03:17.19]With each escape route planned [03:18.61] [03:20.74]We rained down molotovs upon them [03:22.21] [03:24.02]With each retreat another stand [03:25.55] [03:27.58]Yes we killed the nazi bastards [03:29.55] [03:31.07]They lay dying by the score [03:32.59] [03:34.33]We made each scarce bullet count [03:35.96] [03:37.22]And as the fascist demons ran we killed some more [03:39.91] [03:41.26]For one full month the battle raged [03:43.24] [03:45.10]And the word spread all around [03:46.64] [03:48.88]That it wasn't over [03:50.05] [03:51.27]'Til every building had been levelled to the ground [03:53.35] [03:55.40]I am the ghost of the apocalypse [03:57.37] [03:58.85]And these few words I have to tell [04:00.51] [04:02.28]Let it never be forgotten [04:03.84] [04:04.93]That for four long weeks we fought and we stood up before we fell [04:08.57] [04:10.47]I remember warsaw [04:11.66] [04:13.98]We stood side by side [04:15.57] [04:17.24]The star of david flew above the ghetto [04:19.60] [04:20.79]There we lived and there we died