Say this city has ten million
souls,
Some are living in mansions, some
are living in holes:
Yet there's no place for us, my
dear, yet there's no place for us.
Once we had a country and we
thought it fair,
Look in the atlas and you'll find
it there:
We cannot go there now, my dear, we
cannot go there now.
In the village churchyard there
grows an old yew,
Every spring it blossoms anew:
Old passports can't do that, my
dear, old passports can't do that.
The consul banged the table and
said,
"If you've got no passport
you're officially dead":
But we are still alive, my dear,
but we are still alive.
Went to a committee; they offered
me a chair;
Asked me politely to return next
year:
But where shall we go to-day, my
dear, but where shall we go to-day?
Came to a public meeting; the
speaker got up and said;
"If we let them in, they will
steal our daily bread":
He was talking of you and me, my
dear, he was talking of you and me.
Thought I heard the thunder
rumbling in the sky;
It was Hitler over Europe, saying,
"They must die":
O we were in his mind, my dear, O
we were in his mind.
Saw a poodle in a jacket fastened
with a pin,
Saw a door opened and a cat let in:
But they weren't German Jews, my
dear, but they weren't German Jews.
Went down the harbour and stood
upon the quay,
Saw the fish swimming as if they
were free:
Only ten feet away, my dear, only
ten feet away.
Walked through a wood, saw the
birds in the trees;
They had no politicians and sang at
their ease:
They weren't the human race, my
dear, they weren't the human race.
Dreamed I saw a building with a
thousand floors,
A thousand windows and a thousand
doors:
Not one of them was ours, my dear,
not one of them was ours.
Stood on a great plain in the
falling snow;
Ten thousand soldiers marched to
and fro:
Looking for you and me, my dear,
looking for you and me.