AmF
In 1948 I fled my village
GAm
The Stern Gang drove my family from the lands
FC
We ran into the desert
GAm
Where I've spent these decades living by my hands
FC
Life in Haifa wasn't easy
GAm
But so much better than this hellhole with the soldiers and barbed wire
FC
And the closures, and the hunger
GAm
The humiliation and the checkpoints, the machine gun fire
FC
And each day I wonder after Haifa
GAm
The home that we abandoned when the Zionists had won
FC
Is there a family with a child
GC
Does it's father love it as I loved my only son
FC
Before the soldiers shot him down
GAm
Riddled him with bullets in his back and in his head
FC
Home in Haifa, in my house
GAm
Does someone's father know the pain there is in an empty bed
[Chorus]
F
In one world
C
In one village
G
In one Home
Am
Let us live together
F
In one world
C
In one village
G
In one Home
[Verse]
AmF
In 1960 I fled my country
GAm
Left the Tigris River for this foreign place
FC
I had to leave home, I didn't want to
GAm
But they were rounding up the leftists and the papers had my face
FC
And my son, a student leader
GAm
On the streets of Baghdad was nowhere to be found
FC
So I walked through the mountains
GAm
Just the shirt upon my back, knowing not where I was bound
FC
Now here I am, this town of Haifa
GAm
In this little house, but at least I'm still alive
FC
And each night I wonder how is Baghdad
GAm
Would I recognize my friends if any did indeed survive
FC
It took a long time, but I made a home here
GAm
And I wished my son could be here in this town upon the shore
FC
I was with my wife, it was the Sabbath
GAm
When an old Arab couple knocked upon our door
[Bridge]
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[Verse]
AmF
We asked them in, gave them tea
GAm
For that's what you do with strangers, and we could see they meant no harm
FC
They told their story, we told ours
GAm
Us of our life in Baghdad, them of their family farm
FC
And of this house, which they once lived in
GAm
Where once they raised a family, long before their hair turned grey
FC
Of their son, and the troopers
GAm
And of ours, who we cry for every day
FC
So much in common, so much gone bad
GAm
So much running, and never coming home
FC
You can hear the cards falling down
GAm
See the faces of the children, forever forced to roam
FC
And here we were, in this house
GAm
Fearing that tomorrow would be just like yesterday
FC
So much resentment, so much at stake
GAm
And I really don't remember who was the first to say
[Chorus]
F
In one world
C
In one village
G
In one Home
Am
Let us live together
F
In one world
C
In one village
G
In one Home