The Partisan
/ Song of the French Partisan
(Esther Ofarim, 1969
/ 1972)
(based on Anna Marly's Chant des Partisans, famous by Leonard Cohen († 2016))
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When they poured
across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.
I have changed my name so often,
I've lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.
Oh, the wind, the
wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.
An old woman gave
us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.
There were three
of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
but I wonder on;
the frontiers are my prison.
Oh, the wind, the
wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.
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