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Leonard Cohen - The Partisan Lyrics

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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.
  • 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 must go 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.
  • Les Allemands e'taient chez moi,
  • ils me dirent,

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