They All Sang the Internationale - David Rovics.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:00.065]Katharina Jacob, long before she took that name
[00:04.872]Was organizing workers in Hamburg just the same
[00:10.854]Organizing beneath the flag of deepest red
[00:15.138]A new dawn of peace and freedom clearly shining in her head
[00:22.661]Katharina Jacob first was sent to jail
[00:27.807]When the trappings of democracy all began to fail
[00:32.562]She was frequently arrested, in and out of custody
[00:37.655]While her first husband was in hiding from the Nazis
[00:45.675]Katharina Jacob was acquitted of a crime
[00:50.168]But the gestapo had the last word and they weren't finished with her this time
[00:55.184]She was sent to Ravensbrück, a killing hunger at her side
[01:00.330]She heard of the execution, how her second husband died
[01:07.748]For Katharina Jacob the end was close at hand
[01:13.182]She was on a death march with a ragged, starving band
[01:18.145]Marching through a forest, being led by the SS
[01:22.821]What would happen hours later seemed impossible to guess
[01:30.606]When the sun rose the next morning, it was the first of May
[01:35.856]And they all sang the Internationale
[01:40.950]they all sang the Internationale
[01:50.302]Katharina Jacob thought about her children
[01:54.873]And the friends and comrades taking care of them
[02:00.646]Not knowing yet if any of them survived
[02:04.957]Not knowing that soon she'd see her daughters both alive
[02:12.793]Katharina Jacob watched the German soldiers fleeing
[02:17.443]Streaming from the east, that's what she was seeing
[02:22.302]Allied bombers flew above them, she thought they all might die and then
[02:27.840]Soon there was the silence of all the SS men
[02:35.102]When the sun rose the next morning, it was the first of May
[02:40.248]And they all sang the Internationale
[02:45.734]they all sang the Internationale
[02:54.929]Katharina Jacob saw red flags flapping in the breeze
[02:59.709]Above the Russian tanks and she fell upon her knees
[03:04.307]And so many different voices in so many different tongues
[03:09.975]Sang the most beautiful song that could ever have been sung
[03:16.950]In German, Lithuanian, in Polish and in Dutch
[03:22.122]A myriad of melodies as never had been such
[03:26.929]In Russian and in Yiddish, Italian and French
[03:32.049]Emerging from the forests beneath a trench
[03:39.233]When the sun rose the next morning, it was the first of May
[03:44.379]And they all sang the Internationale
[03:49.499]When the sun rose the next morning, it was the first of May
[03:54.540]And they all sang the Internationale
[03:59.791]they all sang the Internationale
[04:06.322]Völker, hört die Signale!
[04:09.561]Auf zum letzten Gefecht!
[04:12.460]Die Internationale
[04:15.334]erkämpft das Menschenrecht
[04:18.260]Völker, hört die Signale!
[04:21.264]Auf zum letzten Gefecht!
[04:23.980]Die Internationale
[04:26.958]erkämpft das Menschenrecht