[HANASHIR:10616] Here are the words to Leaving Mother Russia

[Joanna Selznick Dulkin <joanna...>]

...found these in the 1987 NFTY Chordster supplement.
Enjoy!
Joanna Selznick Dulkin

Leaving Mother Russia
Words and Music: Robbie Solomon

They call me Anatole in prison I do lie
My little window looks out on a Russian sky
I've been arrested here for crimes they have not named
But all my people know the charge will be a frame
See my accuser standing in the hall, he points his finger at us all
You now must pay the penalty, for the crime of daring to be free

We are leaving Mother Russia, we have waited far too long
We are leaving Mother Russia, when they come for us, we'll be gone.

For 15 centuries we've called this land our home
We loved the Russian soil as much as anyone
In countless armies our young boys have died for you
But never did you call them "Sons", you always called them "Jew"
We fell in battle for the Tzar, one hundred thousand died at Babi Yar
And yet no monument will mark their grave;
Just on our passports, the word "Yevrai"

We are leaving...

Those ancient prison walls have watched them all pass by,
And many of them were much stronger men than I
For they lived without hope alone inside their cell,
But I've a vision of my home in Yisrael,
My friends we know what silence brings:
Another Hitler waiting in the wings,
So stand up now and shout it to the sky,
They may bring us to our knees but we'll never die!

We are leaving...

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