In One World

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In 1948 I fled my village
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The Stern Gang drove my family from
     Am
 the lands
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We ran into the desert
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Where I've spent these decades 
              Am
living by my hands
        F            C
Life in Haifa wasn't easy
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But so much better than this 
hellhole with the soldiers and 
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barbed wire
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And the closures, and the hunger
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The humiliation and the 
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checkpoints, the machine gun fire
               F            C
And each day I wonder after Haifa
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The home that we abandoned when the
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 Zionists had won
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Is there a family with a child
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Does it's father love it as I loved
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 my only son
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Before the soldiers shot him down
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Riddled him with bullets in his 
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back and in his head
        F            C
Home in Haifa, in my house
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Does someone's father know the pain
                      Am
 there is in an empty bed

[Chorus]
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In one world
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In one village
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In one Home
            Am
Let us live together
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In one world
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In one village
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In one Home

[Verse]
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In 1960 I fled my country
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Left the Tigris River for this 
          Am
foreign place
         F                    C
I had to leave home, I didn't want 
to
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But they were rounding up the 
                                Am
leftists and the papers had my face
       F              C
And my son, a student leader
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On the streets of Baghdad was 
               Am
nowhere to be found
     F                  C
So I walked through the mountains
         G                         
Just the shirt upon my back, 
                  Am
knowing not where I was bound
           F                C
Now here I am, this town of Haifa
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In this little house, but at least
           Am
 I'm still alive
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And each night I wonder how is 
 C
Baghdad
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Would I recognize my friends if any
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 did indeed survive
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It took a long time, but I made a 
C
home here
      G                            
And I wished my son could be here 
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in this town upon the shore
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I was with my wife, it was the 
 C
Sabbath
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When an old Arab couple knocked 
      Am
upon our door

[Bridge]
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[Verse]
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We asked them in, gave them tea
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For that's what you do with 
strangers, and we could see they 
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meant no harm
                F              C
They told their story, we told ours
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Us of our life in Baghdad, them of 
             Am
their family farm
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And of this house, which they once 
C
lived in
      G                         
Where once they raised a family, 
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long before their hair turned grey
         F            C
Of their son, and the troopers
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And of ours, who we cry for every 
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day
           F                    C
So much in common, so much gone bad
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So much running, and never coming 
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home
                 F             C
You can hear the cards falling down
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See the faces of the children, 
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forever forced to roam
            F             C
And here we were, in this house
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Fearing that tomorrow would be 
             Am
just like yesterday
        F                      C
So much resentment, so much at stake
      G                            
And I really don't remember who was
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 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