In One World chords by David Rovics

Chords with lyrics

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

Chorus:
    FF
In one world
    C majorC
In one village
    G+G
In one Home
      A minorAm
Let us live together
    FF
In one world
    C majorC
In one village
    G+G
In one Home

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

Bridge:
FF C majorC G+G A minorAm FF C majorC G+G

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

Chorus:
    FF
In one world
    C majorC
In one village
    G+G
In one Home
      A minorAm
Let us live together
    FF
In one world
    C majorC
In one village
    G+G