Safam - Leaving Mother Russia

      [Verse]
Bm
They called me Anatole
A                  Em
In prison I did lie,
G            D
My little window looked out
C                Bm
On a Russian sky.
A   Bm
For nearly nine long years
A               Em   G
Secluded and in pain
Bm  G                D
But all my people know
    C                Bm
The charges were a frame.
A                                 Bm
See my accuser standing in the hall,
A                            Bm
He points his finger at us all.
G                          D
You now must pay the penalty
C                               Bm
For the crime of daring to be free.

[Chorus]
           Em               Bm
We are leaving Mother Russia,
              Em  A D      Bm
We have waited far too long.
            Em A Bm
We are leaving Mother Russia,
Bm                  A  G            Bm
When they come for us we’ll be gone.

[Verse]
Bm
For all those centuries
A                            Em
We called this land our home,
G                         D
We loved the Russian soil
C                 Bm
As much as anyone.
Bm
In countless armies
A                              Em
Our young boys have died for you,
  G       D                    C
But never did you call them “sons,”
                             Bm
You always called them “Jew”!
A                             Bm
We fell in battle for the Tsar,
A                                  Bm
One hundred thousand died at Babi Yar,
G                                    D    G
And yet no monument will mark their grave,
D                   C                  Bm
Just on our passports the word “yevrai”.
Bm
I send my song of hope
A                     Em
To those I left behind
G              D
I pray that they may know
C                      Bm
The freedom that is mine
Bm
For in my darkest hour
A                   Em
Alone inside my cell
G               D
I kept the vision
      C              Bm
Of my home in Yisrael.
A                                 Bm
My friends we know what silence brings,
A                               Bm
Another Hitler waiting in the wings,
             G                        D
So stand up now and shout it to the sky,
            C                                      Bm
They may bring us to our knees but we’ll never die!

[Chorus]
           Em               Bm
We are leaving Mother Russia,
              Em  A D      Bm
We have waited far too long.
            Em A Bm
We are leaving Mother Russia,
Bm                  A  G            Bm
When they come for us we’ll be gone.