"Train For Auschwitz" lyrics

"Train For Auschwitz"

I see a long train comin'
Across the Polish plains
The passengers it carries
Ain't comin' back again

This train is bound for Auschwitz
Like many another one
The passengers condemned to die
But no crime have they done

They are jammed into the boxcars
So tight against the wall
And in those cars the dead men stand
There is no room to fall

Now the reason they are dying
I will explain to you
Adolf Hitler has decided
To exterminate the Jew

He ships them off to Auschwitz
The train unloads them there
And standin' by the railroad track
They take their last breath of fresh air

The S.S. troopers herd them
Right down a well-worn path
Into a hall where they are told
They are to take a bath

When they're undressed, they're led inside
A giant shower room
The door is sealed behind them
And it also seals their doom

Into the room there drops a bomb
Of Nazi poison gas
And not one soul is left alive
When fifteen minutes pass

Now the men who did these awful crimes
They wished they'd murdered more
The only thing they're sorry for
Is that they lost the war

And hundreds of these murderers
Still walk the earth today
Just hoping for a chance to kill
The ones that got away


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