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20 Aug 97 - 06:10 PM (#10894) Subject: Wanted: Fred Small's Denmark 1941 From: Player (jlavoy@lakers.lssu.edu) Hey folks. I am totally new here, but I am told you may be of assistance I am searching for the lyrics to Fred Small's "Denmark 1941" I may even have the title wrong. can anybody lend a hand? Player |
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10 Jul 00 - 05:35 PM (#255319) Subject: RE: Wanted: Fred Small's Denmark 1941 From: GUEST,emily It's Denmark 1943. That's all i got for now. |
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10 Jul 00 - 05:40 PM (#255326) Subject: RE: Wanted: Fred Small's Denmark 1941 From: wysiwyg What a coinkydink, I was just there the other day... Try here: http://www.jg.org/folk/artists/fredsmall/fred_small.html Go for it!!! ~S~ |
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10 Jul 00 - 05:57 PM (#255345) Subject: Lyr Add: DENMARK 1943 (Fred Small) From: Joe Offer Links have a habit of expiring, so I'll post the lyrics here. -Joe Offer- DENMARK 1943 (Fred Small) 1. And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws. The Führer, they say, grows impatient. "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free After three years of kind occupation? We will take them like sheep in their beds as they sleep On the second night of their new year. Devoutly at home they'll be helpless alone. When they cry out, no one will hear."
2. But Duckwitz the German tells Hedtoft the Dane:
CHORUS: And it's fire up the diesel and look out for swells.
3. Sompolinski the tailor on the eve of Rosh Hashanah
4. Christian policemen, shopkeepers, and teachers CHORUS
5. Ellen Nielsen the fishwife in the port of Dragør
6. Rabbi Melchior hires a young trawlerman
7. Frozen with fright in the October night
8. Seven thousands of Jews smuggled over to Sweden
CHORUS [with last line:] © Fred Small |
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10 Jul 00 - 06:04 PM (#255354) Subject: RE: Wanted: Fred Small's Denmark 1941 From: wysiwyg Joe!!!!! For shame! A missed line break, oy! ~S~ Thank heaven (and Max) for my "edit" button... |
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14 Oct 13 - 11:14 PM (#3566937) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Denmark 1943 (Fred Small) From: cetmst Denmark 1943 - Fred Small And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws. The Fuhrer they say grows impatient. "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free After three years of kind occupation? We will take them like sheep in their beds where they sleep On the second night of their new year. Devoutly at home they'll be helpless alone When they cry out no one will hear". But Duckwitz the German tells Hedtoft the Dane, "My friend I have dangerous news. In three hours the transport ships will set at anchor You must warn them, warn all the Jews. Soon good Rabbi Melchior stands in the synagogue" "There'll be no service today The raids come tomorrow, dwell not on your sorrow By"nightfall we must be away. And its fire up the diesel and look out for swells We're leaving Espergaerde behind us Who strike at our friends strike us as well We;ll pray the patrol boats don't find us When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night Never will you stand alone So its over the O*resund Till the day we can welcome you home. Sompolinski the tailor on the eve of Rosh Hashana Gathers his family near "The Lord is my light and salvation Whom on the earth shall I Fear?" When a young Danish gentile steps into the glow Of the candle with tears flowing down "Good neighbors flee - I pray you believe me." And as quickly the young man is gone. Christian policemen, shopkeepers and teachers Tell their friends of the quickening storm While students on bicycles race through the streets Searching for Jews to be warned. And Katley the foreman blurts out to trainman "My family has no place to hide." "Well bring em to my house" the stranger replies Änd we'll spit in the damn Nazi's eyes." And its fire up the diesel and look out fos swells We're leaving Espergaerde behind us Who strike at our friends strike us as well We'll pray the patrol boats don't find us Wen the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night Never will you stand alone And it's over the O*resund Till the day we can welcome you home. Ellen Nielsen the fishwife in the port of Drago*r Has no use for political views She'll call out the catch ""Fresh salmon. Fresh cod!" Comes a whisper, "Please help, We are Jews." "But if you're Jews you're not safe on the street I know a man with a sail." Till moonrise they sleep in the shade of her eaves And escape on the fisherman's keel. Rabbi Melchior hires a young trawlerman To ferry the family across After twelve hours afloat on a scurly old boat Morning light shows the same Danish coast. Says the skipper "I'm afraid of the German blockade So we've motored in circles around." The Rabbi gives a shout, with one blow knocks him out And steers a straight line 'cross the cove. Frozen with fright in the October night Families huddle in basements and barns Mistaking each breath for the angel of death The Gestapo, the shot, the alarm. Then down into the hold with the stench and the cold And drug all the babies with schnapps Someone shouts ""Valkoemmen till Sverige You are in Swedish waters at last." Seven thousand of Jews smuggled over to Sweden By fishermen, nurses and priests. Hitler sends Eichmann to hunt them down But his quarry have vanished like mist. When the war's over the Jews return Cheers and flowers adorn their way home. "We're not heroes or martyrs" so say the Danes "We were just looking after our own." And it fire up the diesel and look out for swells We're leaving Espergaede behind us Who strike at our friends strike us as well We'll pray the patrol boats don't find us When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night Never will you stand alone So it's over the O*resund ...And today we will welcome you home And today we welcome you home. |
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19 Feb 18 - 01:39 AM (#3906593) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Denmark 1943 (Fred Small) From: Joe Offer Here's a recording of this powerful song: |
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19 Feb 18 - 02:36 AM (#3906597) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Denmark 1943 (Fred Small) From: GUEST,Observer Great song - thanks Joe. |