They All Sang The Internationale
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Verse]
D A G A D
Katharina Jacob, long before she took that name
Em A G A
Was organizing workers in Hamburg just the same
D A G A D
Organizing beneath the flag of deepest red
Em G A
A new dawn of peace and freedom clearly shining in her head
D A G A D
Katharina Jacob first was sent to jail
Em A G A
When the trappings of democracy all began to fail
D A G A D
She was frequently arrested, in and out of custody
Em G A
While her first husband was in hiding from the Nazis
D A G A D
Katharina Jacob was acquitted of a crime
D Em A G A
But the gestapo had the last word and they weren't finished with her this time
D A G A D
She was sent to Ravensbrück, a killing hunger at her side
Em G A
She heard of the execution, how her second husband died
D A G A D
For Katharina Jacob the end was close at hand
Em G A
She was on a death march with a ragged, starving band
D A G A D
Marching through a forest, being led by the SS
Em G A
What would happen hours later seemed impossible to guess
[Chorus]
D A G A D
When the sun came the next morning, it was the first of May
Em A G D
And they all sang the Internationale
Em A G D
And they all sang the Internationale
[Verse]
D A G A D
Katharina Jacob thought about her children
D Em A G A
And the friends and comrades taking care of them
D A G A D
Not knowing yet if any of them survived
D Em G A
Not knowing that soon she'd see her daughters both alive
D A G A D
Katharina Jacob watched the German soldiers fleeing
D Em A G A
Streaming from the east, that's what she was seeing
D A G A D
Allied bombers flew above them, she thought they all might die and then
D Em G A
Soon there was the silence of all the SS men
[Chorus]
D A G A D
When the sun came the next morning, it was the first of May
Em A G D
And they all sang the Internationale
Em A G D
And they all sang the Internationale
[Verse]
D A G A D
Katharina Jacob saw red flags flapping in the breeze
D Em A G A
Above the Russian tanks and she fell upon her knees
D A G A D
And so many different voices in so many different tongues
D Em G A
Sang the most beautiful song that could ever have been sung
D A G A D
In German, Lithuanian, in Polish and in Dutch
D Em A G A
A myriad of melodies as never had been such
D A G A D
In Russian and in Yiddish, Italian and French
D Em G A
Emerging from the forests beneath a trench
[Chorus]
D A G A D
When the sun came the next morning, it was the first of May
Em A G D
And they all sang the Internationale
D A G A D
When the sun came the next morning, it was the first of May
Em A G D
And they all sang the Internationale
Em A G D
And they all sang the Internationale
D A G A D
Völker, hört die Signale! Auf zum letzten Gefecht!
D Em A G D
Die Internationale erkämpft das Menschenrecht
D A G A D
Völker, hört die Signale! Auf zum letzten Gefecht!
D Em A G D
Die Internationale erkämpft das Menschenrecht
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The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
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