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