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FOR SASHA
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(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
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Here by my window in Germany
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A morning bird flies close to me
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On his wing I see a yellow star
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The lights are on in the factory
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The frost is hung on the linden tree
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And I remember where we are
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And I remember the holocaust
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I remember all we lost
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The families torn and the borders crossed
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And I sing of it now for Sasha
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A young German officer lies in his bed
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Bandages from toe to head
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A prisoner of the camps draws nigh
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If you are Abel and I am Cain
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Forgive me from my bed of pain
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I know not why we die
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It was I who ordered the building burned
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The job was over and as I turned
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A father and his son
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Caught in the flames high above the ground
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From cradled arms the boy looked down
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One leap and their lives were done
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And I remember the holocaust
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I remember all we lost
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The children gone and the borders crossed
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And I sing of it now for Sasha
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You in frozen streets of Heidelberg
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Your youth unbearded takes form in words
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And the ghosts of the past are kind
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For this was your university
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The years were long but the spirits free
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And your river runs to the Rhine
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The smoke filled taverns that you once roamed
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With the discontented who'd stayed at home
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You must have whiskey or you'll die
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The beer garden under the old chateau
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Our faces now in the candle glow
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See the memories how they shine
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But you remember the holocaust
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You remember all we lost
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The families torn and the borders crossed
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And we'll sing of it now for Sasha
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¨Ï 1979 Gabriel Earl Music (ASCAP)
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FOR SASHA
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| joan baez |
