Biography:
The Klezmatics are an American klezmer band based in New York City.
Formed in New York's East Village in 1986, the band plays an updated form of the music, mixing it with other musical traditions, singing in English and Yiddish. They have also participated in cross-cultural collaborations, most notably with the Palestinian musician Simon Shaheen.
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
Em Am G D Em G Em
[Verse 1]
Em Am G D
By the time we're done with dancinge elsewhere darling you'll be glancing
Em Am D G
And the night's a river-torrent tearing us apart
Em Am G D
Merely melody entwined us easily the ties that bind us
Em G Em
Break in fibrillations of the heart
[Verse 2]
Em Am G D
Don't cry out or cling in terror, darling that's a fatal error
Em Am D G
Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours
Em Am G D
Dispossession by attrition is a permanent condition
Em G Em
That the wretched modern world endures
[Chorus 1]
D G
You drift away, you're carried by a stream
D Em
Refugee a wanderer you roam;
D G
You lose your way, so it will come to seem:
B Em
No Place in Particular is home
D G
You glance away, your house has disappeared
D Em
The sweater you've been knitting has unpurled
D G
You live adrift, and everything you feared
B Em
Comes to you in this undoing world
[Verse 3]
Em Am G D
Copper-plated, nailed together, buffeted by ocean weather
Em Am D G
Stands the Queen of Exiles and our mother she may be
Em Am G D
Hollow-breasted broken-hearted watching for her dear departed
Em G Em
For her children cast upon the sea
[Verse 4]
Em Am G D
At her back the great idyllic land of justice for exilic
Em Am D G
Peoples ponders making justice private property
Em Am G D
Darling never dream another woman might have been your mother
Em G Em
Someday you may be a refugee
[Chorus 2]
D G
A refugee, who's running from the wars
D Em
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
D G
Eternally a person out-of-doors
B Em
Desperate in this undoing world
[Interlude]
Em Am G D
Em Am D G
Em Am G D
Em G Em
(x2)
[Chorus 2]
D G
A refugee, who's running from the wars
D Em
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
D G
Eternally a person out-of-doors
B Em
Desperate in this undoing world
[Verse 5]
Em Am G D
Mother for your derelicted, children from your womb evicted
Em Am D G
Grant us shelter harbor solcae safety, let us in!
Em Am G D
Let us tell you where we traveled, how our hopes our lives unraveled
Em G Em
How unwelcome everywhere we've been
Em Am G D Em G Em
[Verse 1]
Em Am G D
By the time we're done with dancinge elsewhere darling you'll be glancing
Em Am D G
And the night's a river-torrent tearing us apart
Em Am G D
Merely melody entwined us easily the ties that bind us
Em G Em
Break in fibrillations of the heart
[Verse 2]
Em Am G D
Don't cry out or cling in terror, darling that's a fatal error
Em Am D G
Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours
Em Am G D
Dispossession by attrition is a permanent condition
Em G Em
That the wretched modern world endures
[Chorus 1]
D G
You drift away, you're carried by a stream
D Em
Refugee a wanderer you roam;
D G
You lose your way, so it will come to seem:
B Em
No Place in Particular is home
D G
You glance away, your house has disappeared
D Em
The sweater you've been knitting has unpurled
D G
You live adrift, and everything you feared
B Em
Comes to you in this undoing world
[Verse 3]
Em Am G D
Copper-plated, nailed together, buffeted by ocean weather
Em Am D G
Stands the Queen of Exiles and our mother she may be
Em Am G D
Hollow-breasted broken-hearted watching for her dear departed
Em G Em
For her children cast upon the sea
[Verse 4]
Em Am G D
At her back the great idyllic land of justice for exilic
Em Am D G
Peoples ponders making justice private property
Em Am G D
Darling never dream another woman might have been your mother
Em G Em
Someday you may be a refugee
[Chorus 2]
D G
A refugee, who's running from the wars
D Em
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
D G
Eternally a person out-of-doors
B Em
Desperate in this undoing world
[Interlude]
Em Am G D
Em Am D G
Em Am G D
Em G Em
(x2)
[Chorus 2]
D G
A refugee, who's running from the wars
D Em
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
D G
Eternally a person out-of-doors
B Em
Desperate in this undoing world
[Verse 5]
Em Am G D
Mother for your derelicted, children from your womb evicted
Em Am D G
Grant us shelter harbor solcae safety, let us in!
Em Am G D
Let us tell you where we traveled, how our hopes our lives unraveled
Em G Em
How unwelcome everywhere we've been
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