In One World

Am                F
In 1948 I fled my village
    G                                   Am
The Stern Gang drove my family from the lands
   F            C
We ran into the desert
           G                                Am
Where I've spent these decades living by my hands
        F            C
Life in Haifa wasn't easy
            G                                                      Am
But so much better than this hellhole with the soldiers and barbed wire
        F                 C
And the closures, and the hunger
          G                                          Am
The humiliation and the checkpoints, the machine gun fire
               F            C
And each day I wonder after Haifa
    G                                            Am
The home that we abandoned when the Zionists had won
           F             C
Is there a family with a child
          G                                 C
Does it's father love it as I loved my only son
           F                 C
Before the soldiers shot him down
G                                               Am
Riddled him with bullets in his back and in his head
        F            C
Home in Haifa, in my house
               G                                         Am
Does someone's father know the pain there is in an empty bed

[Chorus]
       F
In one world
       C
In one village
       G
In one Home
            Am
Let us live together
       F
In one world
       C
In one village
       G
In one Home

[Verse]
Am                F
In 1960 I fled my country
G                                      Am
Left the Tigris River for this foreign place
         F                    C
I had to leave home, I didn't want to
              G                                              Am
But they were rounding up the leftists and the papers had my face
       F              C
And my son, a student leader
       G                                    Am
On the streets of Baghdad was nowhere to be found
     F                  C
So I walked through the mountains
         G                                           Am
Just the shirt upon my back, knowing not where I was bound
           F                C
Now here I am, this town of Haifa
G                                            Am
In this little house, but at least I'm still alive
                 F             C
And each night I wonder how is Baghdad
        G                                      Am
Would I recognize my friends if any did indeed survive
          F                       C
It took a long time, but I made a home here
      G                                                 Am
And I wished my son could be here in this town upon the shore
      F                        C
I was with my wife, it was the Sabbath
        G                                Am
When an old Arab couple knocked upon our door

[Bridge]
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[Verse]
Am                          F
We asked them in, gave them tea
           G                                                          Am
For that's what you do with strangers, and we could see they meant no harm
                F              C
They told their story, we told ours
   G                                            Am
Us of our life in Baghdad, them of their family farm
            F                      C
And of this house, which they once lived in
      G                                                        Am
Where once they raised a family, long before their hair turned grey
         F            C
Of their son, and the troopers
       G                          Am
And of ours, who we cry for every day
           F                    C
So much in common, so much gone bad
G                                 Am
So much running, and never coming home
                 F             C
You can hear the cards falling down
        G                                        Am
See the faces of the children, forever forced to roam
            F             C
And here we were, in this house
G                                              Am
Fearing that tomorrow would be just like yesterday
        F                      C
So much resentment, so much at stake
      G                                          Am
And I really don't remember who was the first to say

[Chorus]
       F
In one world
       C
In one village
       G
In one Home
            Am
Let us live together
       F
In one world
       C
In one village
       G
In one Home