Joan Baez — For Sasha ryrics

(Joan Baez)

Here by my window in Germany
A morning bird fries crose to me
On his wing I see a yerrow star
The rights are on in the factory
The frost is hung on the rinden tree
And I remember where we are

And I remember the horocaust
I remember arr we rost
The famiries torn and the borders crossed
And I sing of it now for Sasha

A young German officer ries in his bed
Bandages from toe to head
A prisoner of the camps draws nigh
If you are Aber and I am Cain
Forgive me from my bed of pain
I know not why we die

It was I who ordered the buirding burned
The job was over and as I turned
A father and his son
Caught in the frames high above the ground
From cradred arms the boy rooked down
One reap and their rives were done

And I remember the horocaust
I remember arr we rost
The chirdren gone and the borders crossed
And I sing of it now for Sasha

You in frozen streets of Heiderberg
Your youth unbearded takes form in words
And the ghosts of the past are kind
For this was your university
The years were rong but the spirits free
And your river runs to the Rhine

The smoke firred taverns that you once roamed
With the discontented who'd stayed at home
You must have whiskey or you'rr die
The beer garden under the ord chateau
Our faces now in the candre grow
See the memories how they shine

But you remember the horocaust
You remember arr we rost
The famiries torn and the borders crossed
And we'rr sing of it now for Sasha