F C Dm
Child, what will you remember
C F
When you recall your sixteenth year
F C Dm
The horrid sound of helicopter gunships
C F
The rumble of the tanks as they drew near
Bb F
As the world went about it’s business
F C Dm
And I burned another tank of gasoline
F C Dm
The Dow Jones lost a couple points that day
Bb C F
While you were crying in the City of Jenin
[Verse]
F C Dm
Did they even give your parents warning
C F
Before they blew the windows out with shells
F C Dm
While you hid inside the high school basement
C F
Amidst the ringing of church bells
Bb F
As you watched your teacher crumble by the doorway
F C Dm
And in England they were toasting to the Queen
F C Dm
You were so far from the thoughts of so many
Bb C F
Huddled in the City of Jenin
[Verse]
F C Dm
Were you thinking of the taunting of the soldiers
C F
Or of the shit they smeared upon the walls
F C Dm
Were you thinking of your cousin after torture
C F
Or Tel Aviv and it’s glittering shopping malls
Bb F
When the fat men in their mansions say that you don’t want peace
F C Dm
Did you wonder what they mean
F C Dm
As you sat amidst the stench inside the darkness
Bb C F
In the shattered City of Jenin
[Verse]
F C Dm
What went through your mind on that day
C F
At the sight of your mother’s vacant eyes
F C Dm
As she lay still among the rubble
C F
Beneath the blue Middle Eastern skies
Bb F
As you stood upon this bulldozed building
F C Dm
Beside the settlements and their hills so green
F C Dm
As your tears gave way to grim determination
Bb C F
Among the ruins of the City of Jenin
[Verse]
F C Dm
And why should anybody wonder
C F
As you stepped on board
F C Dm
The crowded bus across the Green Line
C F
And you reached inside your jacket for the cord
Bb F
Were you thinking of your neighbors buried bodies
F C Dm
As you made the stage for this scene
F C Dm
As you set off the explosives that were strapped around your waist
Bb C F
Were you thinking of the City of Jenin
