Self Preservation
Chaim Salenger
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Make way for the rumbling tractor We have a road to build Your pleas you tears A hopeless factor There are holes to dig and to be filled It's a graveyard so what's The difference We have our own work to do Your dead cannot alter Our indifference Grave marauders, we may be to you He was a boy merely seventeen An unwilling young soldier For the czar And they tried to uproot His tender heart But they hadn't yet gotten very far For though young he was firm As an oaken bough And unwilling to bend to their tries To depart from the life He had know till now And their foolish ways he despised Though the road we build Is a long one We toil in the hours of daylight You can re-bury your precious bones We'll let the tractors rest for the night And alas you residents of earth Who believed that this hole was your last Until that great day of your rebirth You can see that this has yet to pass He barely lived on hoarded bread But he never would touch their impure meat And the thought filled His noble heart with dread And survival was a hopeful feat Till they noticed his Suddenly baggy clothes And his hollow and Small shrunken frame And they said Jewish boy Hey do you suppose That the army is a game You'll learn to eat the food you get We'll stuff you till you're fat and stout And beat the devil from you yet We'll teach you what we're all about Your laws your laws They are a threat A precedent that we can't have I'll ram this down Your stubborn throat A piece of nice sweet suckling pig A piece of nice sweet suckling pig And you will wish you never lived The day is short and I'm going home To sleep with my fathers And mothers I am not the first to face A choice of this sort And I shall resist like the others I so much want to live But I don't have long to stay Though I could easily swallow And see another day But they desire that I Should succumb To prove that a Jew can be broken That we can be easily led Away from our G-d Our own road forgone and forsaken I'm choking I can't breathe But my thoughts are far away The words my heart are saying Shema Yisroel These are the bones of my people Who were decent and Kind in their lives Proudly they served their creator Living humbly as Husbands and wives Now what's this A body whole of flesh Not a sign of a worm or decay It looks like a boy about seventeen And he looks like He's buried yesterday But the stone says He died a martyr's death And it was over a century ago A soldier in the Czar's army Who starved himself midst the plenty Now the experts say That the food we eat Can prolong our lives on this earth And this is true in so many ways Take a look at how Self-preservation can work Make way for the rumbling tractor We have a road to build Make way for the rumbling tractor We have a road to build Make way for the rumbling tractor We have a road to build Make way for the rumbling tractor We have a road
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Written by: Chaim Salenger, Sheindel Weinbach
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