A Dane Was A Dane

from Tell Tale Heart by Chuck Brodsky

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During WW2 the Danish people managed to save virtually all of their Jewish fellow Danes by smuggling them across the Øresund Sound to safety in Sweden.

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The gardens were tended, the animals fed Even their blankets were tucked in their beds
Nothing was broken, the walkways were swept
Everything looked like it did when they left

The government stepped down, they firmly refused
To carry out the order to round up the Jews
A Dane was a Dane, the law was the law
There’d be no Jewish Question in Denmark at all

Sweden was willing to take them all in
Until it was safe to go back home again
From the time word of the plan was leaked
They would only have ’til the end of the week

No organization or chain of command
It was everybody just lending a hand
Schools were closed and work shut down
People were moved to little harbor towns

They came for the ones who’d already gone
Two passenger ships they didn’t get on
After spending a week in the harbor waiting
Slipped away from Copenhagen

People were hidden in hospital beds
With bandages over their faces and heads
Some were hidden in homes and in schools
In backyard sheds with the garden tools

Row boats, fishing boats, dinghies, and yachts
Took them the nine or ten miles across
The German patrols, they hadn’t a clue
Right under their noses and back again too

They came for the ones who’d already gone
Two passenger ships they didn’t get on
After spending a week in the harbor waiting
Slipped away from Copenhagen

The crossings were made under cover of night
Aiming for those far away lights
Babies were drugged to keep them asleep
Nobody spoke and nobody breathed

Seven thousand Danish people were saved
Thanks to their neighbors decent and brave
When they got home the walkways were swept
Everything looked like it did when they left

They came for the ones who’d already gone
Two passenger ships they didn’t get on
After spending a week in the harbor waiting
Slipped away from Copenhagen

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from Tell Tale Heart, released March 31, 2015
Chuck Brodsky - vocal, guitar
Katianna Nardone - violin
Chris Rosser - bass, piano, octave mandolin, harmony vocal

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