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safam - world of our fathers lyrics

came to america in nineteen hundred four
i was fleeing persecution and the army of the tsar
reached ellis island alone and half insane
and i left there with a different name

if it wasn’t for my people
i don’t know what i’d do
and i thank the lord above me that i was born a jew
they sheltered me and fed me ‘til i got on my feet
and my mother’s words came back to me

“just don’t forget where you came from, my son
and the world of your fathers, you’ll soon leave behind
just keep the faith of your people wherever you go
there a friend you will find.”

i was just another greenh+rn looking for a job
i prevailed upon a landsman to finally take me on
worked as a peddler ten hours every day
in the evening i brought home my pay

scrimped and i saved ‘til i put enough aside
and i sent it to my father, his passage for to buy
money for the steerage and money for the bribes
it was four years since my mother died
i won’t forget where i came from, my mother;
each day in the synagogue i pray for you
i’ve built a life for us here in america
how proud you would be if you knew

chorus:
yai dai dai in america…

we worked to bring my sisters and my baby brother too
then we moved up to new england near some people that we knew
i made a bit of money in boston’s old north end
which we gradually learned how to spend

a bunch of little citizens i brought into this world
but most of them were no+goods who squandered while i toiled
sophisticate americans they very soon became
of their father they would grow ashamed

just don’t forget where we came from, my children
the world of our fathers is what made us strong
don’t sell your souls for the thrills of america
what price must you pay to belong?

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it’s been so many years my grandchildren are grown
and the one who is a doctor, even keeps me in his home
he says to me, “mein zaide, when the children learn to speak
a bissel yiddish you should teach them
there were times, so many times when i feared that all was lost;
we had come so far, so fast, that i wondered what the cost
but now i see my father’s world begin to rise
in my great grandchildren’s eyes!

chorus

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