F                   (Bb)  F    F  Bb F                           (Six million Germans!) You might say it wasn't right                  
In nineteen hundred forty five                                   (Six million Germans!) That an eye for an eye leaves all without sight
F                                  F Bb F                        (Six million Germans!) They didn't want to make amends
Among the Jews who were left alive                               (Six million Germans!) They wanted one thing: nakam - revenge!
There came a visionary man                                       
Who turned his wrath into a plan                                 So Abba Kovner headed back
                                                                 With vials of poison in his sack
Abba Kovner was his name                                         Upon an English navy ship
As a partisan he earned his fame                                 But to his plan the Brits were tipped
He once was a Vilna rebel Jew                                    
A poet warrior through and through                               They took him into custody
                                                                 And the poison fell into the sea
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He met some surviving ghetto fighters                            And so plan A did not prevail
Zionists and socialists conspired                                
They gathered in a Lublin flat                                   The rest of the group was all dispersed
And round the kitchen table sat                                  And all their backup plans were cursed
                                                                 But an agent in a bakery
C                                                                Secured some poison from Paris
They gave themselves a Hebrew name                               
And with this word they did proclaim                             And As soon as the poison bread had risen
That vengeance is what God would will                            He took it to an Allied prison
Were there a God, and so they'd kill                             And various reports have said
                                                                 There were 100's of SS prisoners dead
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(Six million Germans!) You might say it was insane               (Six million Germans!) You might say that it was wrong
(Six million Germans!) That it was misdirected pain              (Six million Germans!) But were their actions weak or strong?
(Six million Germans!) They didn't want the war to end           (Six million Germans!) And who are we to judge and condemn?
(Six million Germans!) They wanted one thing: nakam - revenge!   (Six million Germans!) They wanted one thing: nakam - revenge!
                                                                 
For every Jew the Nazis gassed                                   So Nakam was all disbanded
For every racist law they passed                                 On Palestina's shore they landed
For every wrong that wasn't right                                And Abba Kovner and his crew
For all the dead Nakam would fight                               Became like many other Jews
                                                                 
They formed a band of forty strong                               They put aside their rage and hate
To straighten out what had been wrong                            And worked to build a Jewish state
They chose to poison water mains                                 With Jewish towns and Jewish farms
Just as the Jews of old were blamed                              Jewish guns and nuclear arms
                                                                 
In Nuremberg and Hamburg town                                    Now can vengeance put upon the shelf
Their agents worked the underground                              Be taken out later on someone else?
They took up jobs by the riverside                               Be careful how you read this tale
And waited for the poison to arrive                              Lest your own prejudice prevail
                                                                 
And Kovner went to Tel Aviv                                      Look around the world today
To see what help he could receive                                And consider the role that vengeance plays
But the Haganah did not agree                                    For History has its unpaid debts
To join in his conspiracy                                        And is it better if we forget?
                                                                 
                                                                 (Six million Germans!) You might say it was absurd
                                                                 (Six million Germans!) But what becomes of a dream deferred?
This one can be a real pain on the hand to play all the          (Six million Germans!) How could they just start again?
barre chords in the verse                                        They wanted one thing: nakam - revenge!