Jenin

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Child, what will you remember
C                              F
When you recall your sixteenth year
    F               C         
The horrid sound of helicopter 
Dm
gunships
    C                              
The rumble of the tanks as they 
  F
drew near
Bb                         
As the world went about it’s 
  F
business
      F              C     
And I burned another tank of 
      Dm
gasoline
    F         C             Dm
The Dow Jones lost a couple points 
that day
               Bb            C    
While you were crying in the City 
     F
of Jenin

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F             C                 
Did they even give your parents 
Dm
warning
C                              
Before they blew the windows out 
       F
with shells
F               C                
While you hid inside the high 
    Dm
school basement
C                            F
Amidst the ringing of church bells
Bb                                
As you watched your teacher 
         F
crumble by the doorway
       F                 C        
And in England they were toasting 
       Dm
to the Queen
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F           C            Dm
You were so far from the thoughts of
 so many
Bb             C         F
Huddled in the City of Jenin

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         F               C        
Were you thinking of the taunting 
       Dm
of the soldiers
          C                        
Or of the shit they smeared upon 
  F
the walls
         F                C    
Were you thinking of your cousin 
        Dm
after torture
        C                      
Or Tel Aviv and it’s glittering 
          F
shopping malls
         Bb                        
When the fat men in their mansions 
         F
say that you don’t want peace
F       C                Dm
Did you wonder what they mean
       F              C           
As you sat amidst the stench 
      Dm
inside the darkness
Bb               C         F
In the shattered City of Jenin

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F         C            Dm
What went through your mind on that 
day
       C                           
At the sight of your mother’s 
  F
vacant eyes
F          C               Dm
As she lay still among the rubble
C                             
Beneath the blue Middle Eastern 
  F
skies
       Bb                       
As you stood upon this bulldozed 
 F
building
           F                    
Beside the settlements and their 
 C        Dm
hills so green
        F                 C  
As your tears gave way to grim 
          Dm
determination
          Bb           C         F
Among the ruins of the City of Jenin

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    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                          
And you reached inside your jacket 
        F
for the cord
         Bb                        
Were you thinking of your neighbors
        F
 buried bodies
F               C              Dm
As you made the stage for this scene
       F           C              
As you set off the explosives that
      Dm
 were strapped around your waist
         Bb              C     
Were you thinking of the City of 
    F
Jenin