Chords for רדיו אור בזויות - The Jew In You by Daniel Kahn

[Dm] of blue.
[Gm] All you border crossing feglich [Dm] who've been quarantined for flu.
[Gm] All you lost exilic
aliens, [Dm] you migrant mongrel stew.
[A] You needn't feel verleugen, you don't have to be blue.
Just [Gm] climb [C] aboard this ark of [F] ours and join the [Am] [Dm] soggy crew.
[Eb] It's a _ diasporic [C] politics,
[F] it's a [Dm] reconstructed you.
[Gm] With permeable borders in [A] between the old and new.
[Gm] It's a way to hide
away what they would [A] take away from you.
[Gm] Forget your god [C] and country [F] and your [Dm] revolution too.
[Gm] It's possible [C] for you to [F] leave the many for the few.
[Gm] It don't matter if your [C] daddy was from [F] Poland
or [Dm] Peru.
[G] Your blood might come from Turkey or [A] Detroit or Timbuktu.
[Gm] Your language could be Farsi,
Sanskrit, [Ab] [A] German or Zulu.
[Gm] Come on we've got [C] some [Am] wandering to [F] do.
_ _ [Bb] So bring out your Jew,
[F] _ bring out your Jew.
[C] You may have a Jew [A] inside [Dm] of you.
_ _ [Bb] A Jew, a Jew, [F] or a secret [Dm] little Jew.
_ [Gm]
A [A] secret Jew is buried [Dm] inside you.
_ _ My definition here could use some explanation, true.
You have
to ask yourself just what I mean when I say Jew.
Well the Jewishness concerning us should not be
misconstrued.
Blood and land are things with which it doesn't have to do and religion is a matter
most irrelevant here too.
So let's try to look at this anew.
To find a category underneath the ones
we knew.
A mercurial identity for people who are strewn in countries far and wide who haven't got
a home in view.
Who drag around like shackles all the roots from which they grew.
While others have
endured this gullis too.
And here I offer it all up to you.
A kosher Yiddish food for thought that
Goyim now can chew.
It's what they did with Jesus when they wrote the Bible New.
Rebranded monotheism
for wider public view.
So learn to take the rootless cosmopolitan worldview and the hidden
interstices we all normally eschew.
To schlep your gullis proudly you must learn how to make do.
And learn, [F] learn, learn is what the wise men tell us too.
[Bb] So learn to be a Jew.
_ [F] Learn to be a Jew.
[C] _
Learn to be a Jew among [Dm] the Jews.
Among the Jews.
_ Well so what about us people who are actually Jews? _
With problems all my _ _ deconstructed theories can't subdue.
You know what I'm talking about.
I don't have to tell you.
Just ask a gentle German for a history review.
_ They, they shall tell you how
they marked us with numerical tattoos.
They turned us into ashes, hair, and lamps, and soap, and glue.
And no it wasn't something that I personally knew.
But I mean they taught me all about it in my
crumpled Sunday school.
And I guess it kind of left me with some hang-ups and taboos.
But how can we
wear the mantle of the martyred ghetto Jews?
We turned our backs on so many things that brought
people through. _
Did it really work to try to make a new Hebrew?
With the enemies we slew the hatred
grew and grew.
But the [C] thing you hate in others [F] is the thing you [Dm] hate in you.
[Gm] _ Where it [Dbm] all went wrong
[Dm] nobody knew.
_ _ [G] Now [A] exile will return like deja [Dm] vu.
_ _ _ [Gm] And [C] we will have to learn it all [Dm] anew. _ _ _
[G] Not only as a victim, [A] but maybe a perpetrator too.
_ [Gm] _ To learn to take the [A] ruthless _ cosmopolitan
worldview.
_ [G] _ _
Learn to be a Jew.
[Bb] _ _ [F] Learn to be a Jew.
_ [C] Learn to be a Jew [Dm] among the Jews.
_ _ _ [Am] _ [Bb] Jew, a Jew, [F] the problem [Dm] isn't new.
[G] A homeless Jew [Db] is buried [Dm] inside you. _ _
_ Now [Gm] the hour is getting late.
Soon we'll [Dm] have to pay our dues.
_ [Gm] _ We're faced with situations where
we [Dm] all will have to choose.
_ [Gm] When the world is turning colder [Dm] and the walls are high and true
[Gm] and the cities they're turning the [Dm] skies are colored black and blue. _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] So when they ask you for
your papers [Dm] and you don't know what to do, _ _ [Gm] remember in this moment what you're [Dm] carrying with you.
_ _ _ [C] [Gm] Because [C] the day will come [Am] when all your papers [Dm] are refused [G] and then you'll find [A] yourself [F] in [Dm] exile too.
_ _ [Bb] You're living [C] in a land and [F] time that aren't [Am] made [Dm] for you.
[Gm] You're refugees [C] from wars [F] between
[C] religious points [Dm] of view.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm]
And you slept around like [A] shackles all the roots from which you grow.
_ [Gm] So I talk about the inner other hiding [Dm] inside you.
_ [Cm] And well [G] the name I give [C] this other is [F] a Jew.
_ _ But [G] by a Jew I mean you [C] can be an Arab [Am] or a German [Dm] or a Druze.
[Gm] So if you [A] have a better name
[Dm] that you would like to use, _ [Gm] well I'd love to read the [C] testament of you.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ The imaginary [F] diasporic _ [Dm] messianic you.
[Gm] Because there's only [C] one Messiah and [F] he's buried [Dm] inside you.
[G] So bring him out and [C] show the world what we all [Dm] need to do.
[Gm] These aren't just the dreams of us.
[A] These are the dreams of you.
[G] But forgive [A] the self-indulgence that [Dm] I spew.
_ I mean [Gm] it as a
question [A] not an answer to your blues.
[Gm] The question is the answer [A] and the question it is you.
_ [Gm] Anyway I just wrote this goddamn thing where every sentence just [A] rhymes with Jew. _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ So _ [Bb]
bring out your Jew.
[F] Bring out your Jew.
[C] _ You may have the Jew [Dm] inside of you.
_ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[C] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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