December 1942 / 27.1.45
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1. It's freezing cold, the snow comes down,
there's ice on the barbed wire,
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everything
is ready, right on time another train is due.
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Now it's coming down the line
it's heading for the fire,
G Em G AD
just
another December day in 1942.
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2. The train is packed with dispossessed people from the ghetto,
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treated
worse than animals in some cruel, filthy zoo.
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Terrorised and beaten, starved
into submission,
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AD
so,
it was on that December day in 1942.
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A D
3. The train came to a stop to unload its human cargo,
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met
by demons and by devils and their
savage dogs.
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Curses, blows and whips rain
down on those exhausted people,
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but
their deadly nightmare had only just begun.
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And they cried out to the Lord, “God, Creator of the Universe,
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D
in our despair we call on you !”
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- D
But all their tears and all their prayers, they went unanswered
G Em GAD
on that God-forsaken December
Day in 1942.
D G A D
4. Women men and children in that freezing winter twilight,
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families
torn in two by thugs with sticks and guns.
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Made to undress, and driven naked
to the slaughter,
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and
then into the chamber they were
forced to run.
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5. When the doors were locked and sealed, no mercy and no pity,
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A
the
word came down the line and the orders were carried through.
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D
Just another number to add to
their statistics
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on
another God-forsaken day in 1942.
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And they cried out to the Lord, “God, Creator of the Universe,
G A D
in our despair we call on you !”
G A - D
But all their tears and all their prayers, they went unanswered
G Em GAD
on that God-forsaken December
Day in 1942.
(orig. = capo 4th) (Christy
Moore)